Sentences with phrase «racial issues before»

That morning our conversation landed on racial issues before we made it to the interstate.

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Back in the 1990s, before Brenda Salter McNeil was a professor and ordained pastor, she founded Salter McNeil & Associates to speak and consult on issues of racial reconciliation in the church.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

Payzant hasn't gotten deeply involved in community issues, and in fact admits that the racial divide that long dominated Boston school politics before his arrival was one of the main considerations he had before taking the job.

The main issue before the Supreme Court, and the nation's citizens, is whether we will continue to accept these inequities or move forward in fulfilling the promise of Brown and the moral and educational imperatives of racial integration.

-- As a white artist, Neel was invested in discussion of unjust policies and racial discrimination before these issues entered so - called mainstream representation in art.

David Hammons raised the awareness of racial and stereotypical issues of the United States like only a few artists managed to do before or after him.

For instance, a decade before the Declaration was adopted the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued an authoritative interpretation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, that called on states to respect Indigenous peoples» right of free, prior and informed consent.

For example, the BC Court of Appeal found that while a disciplinary panel of the BC Veterinary Medical Association (now the College of Veterinarians of BC) had jurisdiction to address asserted racial discrimination by the panel as a matter of bias, the tribunal could decline to address that issue as it was already before the Human Rights Tribunal.

Below I explore two issues — the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) and the criminal justice system — and show that equality and fairness before the law remains a problem in this country for Indigenous Australians.

The next chapter examines Australia's appearance before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in March 2000, which provides a guide to Australia's human rights performance on Indigenous issues.

[11] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, «Correspondence to the Australian Government following up on the Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure on the issues raised before the Committee in relation to the Northern Territory Emergency Response», 28 September 2009.