Sentences with phrase «right government withdrew»

However, in 2015 the centre - right government withdrew Iceland's application, restarted a fight between pro-EU and Eurosceptic parties.

Not exact matches

Several years ago Liberal MP John Mckay introduced a private member's bill known as C - 300, which would have compelled the federal government to determine whether Canadian companies were upholding certain environmental and human rights standards when operating abroad — and withdraw federal support from offenders.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

Condemning the lack of religious tolerance in the country Thomas added: «We call on the government of Sri Lanka to uphold his right freedom of expression and to withdraw the threats against him.

If a future Tory government carries out its plan, and withdraws from the European Convention, the UK government would be embracing pariah status; the first worldwide to introduce a new bill of rights with the aim of providing fewer rights to its citizens.Without the protection of European human rights law, UK citizens will be left systematically vulnerable.

As Latin American governments face fiscal crises, and Europe withdraws funding, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is likely to come under increasing pressure.

If the election goes ahead and Sepp Blatter is re-elected, unbelievably, as president of Fifa, will my right honourable friend encourage the home nations to withdraw from Fifa to make a stand on this particular issue... and would the Government support them in that decision?»

• Ken Clarke, the former justice secretary who left the government yesterday, has said that it would be «unthinkable» for Britain to withdraw from the European convention on human right.

Ministers» plans to withdraw the UK from the European court of human rights (ECHR) are encouraging the government of Ukraine to trample on the liberties of its people, the shadow justice minister has claimed.

The coalition Government do not intend to withdraw from the European convention on human rights, which was imposed by the victorious British on the rest of Europe after the war in order to establish British values across the countries that were recovering from fascism and was drafted largely by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who put what he thought were the best principles of British justice into it.»

«The job of the opposition is to help the government to get its priorities right so I want to please urge this government to withdraw this budget and go back to the drawing board.

The revelations last night prompted calls for the Government to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights so that the foreign offenders can be sent home.

«Withdrawing Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination is the right thing to do, and I believe it is past time for this administration to nominate a thoughtful environmental and public health champion to lead this critical office in the federal government,» Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said after hearing reports of White's plan to withdraw.

A severely right wing culture electing a severely right wing government who withdrew support for education and has now given it away essentially to private for - profit organisations who instead of seeing children as people to be educated, they see them as a resource to be mined.

You will notice that with CST when children start post secondary education YOU the contributor can withdraw all of the principal minus the fees right away and children get the fees back over the 4 years together with the government grant money and the interest from CST and any surplus from investments.

Among other criticism, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who had seen the work in the catalogue but not in the show, called it «sick stuff» and threatened to withdraw the annual $ 7 million City Hall grant from the Brooklyn Museum hosting the show, because «You don't have a right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else's religion.»

Two Attorneys General charged that the Bush White House conspired with a private right - wing group to have it sue the government to withdraw a major, scientifically peer - reviewed document on climate impacts in the United States.

With the UK government withdrawing support for public EV charging, potential buyers are seeing mixed signals right now.

The absurdity of this was recognised as early as June 2013 by the Human Rights Joint Committee who urged the government to «pay attention to the impact of withdrawing legal aid for non asylum immigration matters» and «consider the cost - benefit case for providing legal aid to all unaccompanied migrant children».

The link between workers» rights and support for the EU amongst the British labour movement is not new and dates back to the 1980s when the TUC — faced with a domestic Conservative government hostile to trade unions and following Jacques Delors» speech advocating a social dimension to European integration — withdrew its support for the UK's withdrawal from the (then) EEC and instead adopted a positive approach to UK membership.

Jack Williams and Practical Law: Miller and the Human Rights Act 1998: can the Government withdraw the UK from the ECHR by the royal prerogative?