Sentences with phrase «relation to human rights»

As set out in the affidavit of William Jonas filed 8 December 2000, the Commission, its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and its Race Discrimination Commissioner have statutory functions in relation to human rights, the human rights of Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders, and racial discrimination.

As set out in the affidavit of William Jonas filed 1 May 2002, the Commission, its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and its Race Discrimination Commissioner have statutory functions in relation to human rights, the human rights of Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders, and racial discrimination.

Terra nullius is out of step with modern international law, particularly in relation to the human rights of equality and self - determination.

The Commonwealth passed the Racial Discrimination Act to implement some of Australia's international obligations in relation to human rights.

The first annual report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights has criticised the government for allowing «a catalogue of myths» to build up in relation to the Human Rights Act 1998.

Within his employment law practice, Chris has successfully represented numerous corporations in relation to human rights applications filed by employees and clients.

It also faced legal fees of $ 67,518 in relation to a human rights case over discrimination against an employee on the basis of disability.

He has extensive experience advising governments, international organisations and private sector clients in the area of public international law, including in relation to human rights, State and diplomatic immunity, sanctions and embargoes, recognition of States and governments, treaty law and international economic law.

Whilst the contribution of Konstadinides pre-dates the annulment decision of the CJEU, his analysis of the main challenges that the Directive posed to fundamental rights provides a thoughtful analysis not only in relation to human rights, but also with regards to national standards of privacy protection compared to those of the EU.

Friends of the Earth Europe calls on policy - makers in Europe to hold European companies legally accountable for any harm they do around the world, and to participate in the UN process for a binding treaty for businesses in relation to human rights.

In addition to the exhibition, two symposia were held on the topics of artistic responses to self - sustainability and climate change and art in relation to human rights and the freedom of expression.

«We are united in believing that there needs to be respect for the existence of different intellectually coherent viewpoints in relation to the human rights debate, and in believing that the debate needs to be well informed and not distorted by the stereotypes and caricatures that have all too often characterised it in recent years.»

The trees and soil, the rivers, lakes and estuaries, the populations of birds and mammals, also have a right to life — not an absolute right, but a right that must be considered in relation to human rights.

A Task Force of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition has looked at global obligations of states and international agencies in relation to the human right to adequate food.

Not exact matches

Restoration of relations would be the latest phase in a normalization process, which is expected to move slowly because of lingering problems over issues such as Cuba's human rights record.

The Prime Minister should encourage an integrated approach to trade and human rights to further human rights protection while also promoting economic and trade relations.

Although maintaining that the concept of rights applies only to human relations and that therefore animals have none.

Britain was there at the forefront of dealing with international human rights in relation to torture, and to try and prevent genocide.

When Pope John Paul II spoke on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of the UDHR in 1998, he warned, «Certain shadows however hover over the anniversary, consisting in the reservations being expressed in relation to two essential characteristics of the very idea of human rights: their universality and their indivisibility.»

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

While it seems tedious, the U.S. State Department constantly calls out and pressures China to crackdown on Human Rights violations in exchange for normal trade relations.

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

Since it maybe difficult to agree on any single concept or code of human rights, valid and binding on all, we shall reflect on the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD) in relation to globalizahuman rights, valid and binding on all, we shall reflect on the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD) in relation to globalizrights, valid and binding on all, we shall reflect on the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD) in relation to globalizaHuman Rights (UD) in relation to globalizRights (UD) in relation to globalization.

While appreciating the immense value of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights we must work for its amplification to include global racial justice, in relation to population and land and resources.

In Conscience and Obedience, William Stringfellow has it right, I think: «The principalities (governments, institutions, and even the church) are autonomous in relation to humans; they are created beings in their own right, not simply projections of human life, and their demonic character as fallen powers is no mere consequence of human sin either personal or corporate.»

The ecological basis of life, rights of people and persons, of peoplehood and personhood are the concerns which have brought us to fight against the present pattern of development because it exploits and destroys nature and does injustice to nature and human's organic relation to nature.

A consideration of various claims about «Asian values» made in relation to the East Asian human rights debate.

When are they going to start rioting and demanding equal rights for human - insects relations?

Gustafson argues for the extension of the meaning of justice from «the right relations between persons to the right relations between human activity and the rest of the world» (Gustafson, 1983, 503).

The Western countries are increasingly using their view of human rights concept as a yardstick to judge developing countries and to deal with economic and trade relations to extend development assistance.

If we want to apply human rights standards to relations in cyberspace this requires the active responsibility on behalf of those who are concerned.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

Close cooperation to promote human dignity — a dignity understood in expressly Christian terms — is not what most Western human rights advocates envision when they think about church - state relations.

generally the US, and other westen powers, chose political relations over human rights... hmm, why is that so surprising to me?

More worrisome, is that Chinese consumers» may shun American products in general as a nationalist response to the two countries» growing frictions over issues ranging from human rights to trade spats, as seen before when relations with Japan and South Korea became strained.

The case of Michelle Poirier versus the BC government is the first case to test the human rights code on workplace policies in relation to breastfeeding women and discrimination on the basis of sex.

One of the first places to look for information on your rights when returning to work as a new mom is to talk to your Human Relations representative.

I am currently in the process of editing another book, China Across the Divide: Domestic Politics and Society & China's Global Relations, which focuses on the intersection between international and local issues, such as growing Chinese consumerism and its affect on global markets, recent waves of immigration to China, and human rights.

-- which invites answers measuring how well non-western countries fare in relation to a presumed model of western secularism — I start from liberal democratic ideals and assume that they are not ethnocentric: human rights, freedom, equality and democracy are universal aspirations.

Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome applied to the court arguing that his human rights were being trampled upon by Ghana in relation to the case in which he sued Ghana for abrogating a financial engineering services contract and was paid Gh?

But — just as our human rights underdetermine our rights as citizens of a particular country — the «human rights» of animals (grounded in intrinsic moral status) under - determine rights (and duties) owed to (and by) individual animals on the basis of their relations with other human and animal community members.

It is prohibited to commit acts leading to disorder and division, affecting the security of the state and its public relations, or undermining human dignity and rights.

Shao Jiang, one of the organisers of the Tiananmen Square demonstration and a now a London - based human rights activist, talks to politics.co.uk about Sino - UK relations, personal freedom, and what it's like to be imprisoned in China.

During speech about US - Cuba relations in Miami last July, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Internet access a «basic human right,» adding that the US should «do more to extend that freedom to more and more Cubans.»

Particularly as the Minister with responsibility for the United Nations, The International Criminal Court and Human Rights I believe our approach in relation to the current conflict is neither consistent with our values, specifically our commitment to the rule of law and our long history of support for International Justice.

818 - A, in relation to the provision of attorney's fees under the New York City Human Rights Law; Intro.

In a major new report out today assessing equality and human rights law in relation to religion or belief, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has concluded that there should be little change in the law, which is broadly worhuman rights law in relation to religion or belief, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has concluded that there should be little change in the law, which is broadly worights law in relation to religion or belief, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has concluded that there should be little change in the law, which is broadly worHuman Rights Commission (EHRC) has concluded that there should be little change in the law, which is broadly woRights Commission (EHRC) has concluded that there should be little change in the law, which is broadly working.

North Korea, which has been criticised for its human rights record, has previously used detained Americans to extract high - profile visits from the US, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.