Sentences with phrase «rights against the executive»

It demonstrates that the decisions of international courts can embolden domestic courts to uphold individual rights against the executive.

Not exact matches

Organised by the newly - formed Right to Food Coalition, whose members include the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Foodbank NSW, Red Cross, SecondBite, Blacktown City Council, NSW Department of Health (South Western Sydney District), Liverpool City Council and others, the centrepiece of this conference is the presentation by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger.

Since joining Open Rights Group as its Executive Director in January 2009, Jim Killock has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive government Internet surveillance.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children.

State Assemblyman Ron Kim (D - Flushing) stood with Emily Kadar of the Committee for a Pro-Choice New York PAC and Eleanor's Legacy Executive Director Brette McSweeeney Tuesday to endorse state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Flushing) for re-election, as well as to denounce her rival in the Democratic primary, S.J. Jung for recent remarks against a woman's right -LSB-...]

Cuomo, who has spoken out strongly for immigrants and against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim - majority countries, is not committing right now to support a bill to designate New York as a sanctuary state for immigrants.

But unless Conservative MPs turned out en masse to vote against the Party's right - an unlikely course of action, given the»22 Executive results - Liberal and Labour support for less spiky candidates provides the only comprehensible explanation of the results.

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

Kurland, a civil rights attorney called on Corey Johnson, a real estate executive «to put your money where your mouth is» regarding his repeated demands that Kurland sign a pledge against Independent Expenditures.

Activist and Author David Mixner Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Jarrett Barrios Board Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda Frank Selvaggi Human Rights Campaign New York Marriage Director Brian Ellner Former Chief of Staff to Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Deputy Campaign Manager to John Kerry for President Steve Elmendorf Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for American Progress Winnie Stachelberg Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andy Tobias Former Clinton White House Advisor Richard Socarides Academy Award Winning Producer and AFER Board Member Bruce Cohen Gill Action Fund Executive Director Patrick Guerrero Gill Action Fund Deputy Executive Director Bill Smith

«When the law makes a decision and it goes against party executives or party officials, the very political parties who are calling for rules of order and law to be put in place so that they will have a fair playing field are the very ones who go and support these recalcitrant young persons as if what they did was right so it sets the tone that there is a conflict and it throws both parties at each other,» he added.

«The one hundred and three achievements are evident to suggest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is on a right path to win any polls against National Democratic Congress (NDC)», aspiring Municipal Chief Executive for Ejuisu, Kwaku Ntim - Twumasi said on Ultimate FM's Factfile.

In a statement on Wednesday, Ozekhome said, «The Code of conduct tribunal headed by Mr Danladi Umar (not Justice Umar, as always erroneously reported), was bold, courageous and right, in spite of visible executive interference and manipulation, to have discharged and acquitted Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on all the counts of false declaration of assets levelled against him.

Rather than put your «Fuji House of Commotion» in order, you always shamelessly declare that «corruption is fighting back» and that the courts are against the anti corruption fight, as if the courts owe the executive a sacred duty and obligation to help it trample on citizens» rights and win badly prepared and lousily prosecuted cases at all cost.

«The longer things lay out there and people don't close ranks — just ask Mitt Romney about this — and when you're going through a primary where the appeal is to the hard right to win, there's the potential for more mischief,» said Rick Lazio, a former Republican congressman and U.S. Senate nominee who struggled through a 2010 gubernatorial bid against challenges by then - Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy (who he beat) and Paladino (who he did not).

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has subpoenaed the Weinstein Company as it probes any potential violations of state civil rights law or New York City human rights law in the wake of sexual harassment and assault allegations against former executive Harvey Weinstein.

Governor Cuomo, who has spoken out strongly for immigrants and against President Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries, is not committing right now to support a bill to designate New York as a sanctuary state for immigrants.

Cuomo's struggles against the unknown Fordham professor for the WFP nomination turned out to characterize the difficulties he'd have right through the primary — difficulties which seemed to take him and his campaign by surprise, and which forced them to expend political capital they wanted to save for the general election against Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

The executive order could strengthen de Blasio's position against potential lawsuits from developers, who could argue the Council does not have the right to regulate the E.D.C.

«There is no doubt the governor is the right leader at the right time with the right plan,» Clinton said to the predominantly female crowd rallying under the banner of the Woman's Equality Party, a political organization founded by Cuomo in his race against Republican Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive.

Mr. President, you will remember that in December 2011 the White House released a presidential memorandum directing executive officers and agencies that deal in foreign affairs to address human rights abuses against LGBT people abroad and to pressure foreign governments to decriminalize homosexuality.

Governor Ambode, who led a symbolic walk against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Alausa, Ikeja, with top government functionaries including the Deputy Governor, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olufunmilayo Oke, wife of the Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, Attorney General, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, members of the State Executive Council, members of the House of Assembly, stakeholders in the justice sector, celebrities, students, among others, said it was time to walk the talk and ensure that all hands are on deck towards safeguarding the rights of every citizen and the most vulnerable in the society.

In a statement on Wednesday, Ozekhome said, «The CCT was bold, courageous and right, in spite of visible executive interference and manipulation, to have discharged and acquitted Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on all the counts of false declaration of assets levelled against him.

However I believe the County Executive's heart is in the right place; he is not against the poor as his first priority was budgetary and staying within the 2 % total property tax Cap which he and the County legislature did.

The statement signed by SERAP's Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, said, «Against the background of allegations of budget padding and abuse of public trust by the leadership of the House of Representatives, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has told the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara that, «There is absolutely no constitutional provisions that grant to members or leaders of the House of Representatives the power to insert projects in the budget.»

He pointed out that as President Donald Trump is set to announce executive action against Muslims and immigrants, on top of other executive actions restricting women's reproductive rights and the plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the way to stand up to Trump «can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime.»

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director Michel Sidibe says discrimination against MSM is a human rights issue and unacceptable.

Bond: Marai Larasi, (right) arrived as a guest of Tessa Thompson (left) and she is the executive director of Imkaan, a British black feminist organisation which campaigns against violence towards black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls

«People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children,» said Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson.

In the event of the latter (like ruling against a citizen simply because of race, thereby violating the Civil Rights Act), the recourse is to appeal to a higher - level executive to levy a charge (a city judge must be charged by a county commissioner, for example, and then appear in that court since they couldn't rule over their own case, obviously).

The video lecture Canada's Duty to Protect Human Rights: the case of Omar Khadr below was given to Pasifik.ca on October 9, 2008 by Gail Davidson, LLB Chair of Lawyers Against the War, and Founder and Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada.

In December 2009, McCormick, who previously sat on the firm's executive committee, complained to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal that the partnership agreement discriminated against him based on age.

Since the executive officer was not acting in an employment - related capacity, the employee retained her right of action against the executive officer.

Because the incident happened to the worker in the course of work, they argued, she had no right of action against the employer or executive officer of the employer.

This case sets a standard for determination of whether a worker's right of action is taken away against an executive officer of the worker's employer.

The practice's recent representations include: (i) CONMEBOL in connection with U.S. criminal investigations and prosecutions into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world; (ii) the Special Committee of Banco BTG Pactual S.A. («BTG Pactual») in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its former CEO and other bank executives, in which we found no basis to support the allegations against the Bank and its employees; (iii) two of the largest construction companies in Brazil in potential civil and criminal investigations and litigation involving the Petrobras bribery scandal (Lava Jato), the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history, involving allegations of over $ 2.5 billion in bribes and kickbacks; (iv) the Government of Brazil in a corruption matter involving former senior government officials and multiple jurisdictions; (v) the General Manager of one of the largest energy companies in Central America in connection with allegations of bribery in Guatemala; (vi) a Mexican high - ranking executive for Wal - Mart Stores, Inc. in connection with DOJ and SEC FCPA investigations against Wal - Mart; (vii) a large Argentinean oil company and its owner, one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, in connection with high - profile DOJ and SEC investigations involving alleged FCPA violations to secure an extension of oil rights in an Argentinean oilfield; (viii) the United State's largest chemical and industrial products companies in an internal investigation of alleged corruption involving its Mexican subsidiary; (ix) the Rosenthal family, one of the most prominent families in Central America, in a number of related criminal matters; and (x) a senior executive of one of Venezuela's largest engineering companies in DOJ investigations into corruption and money laundering involving PdVSA.

EGYPT: Mr. Ayman Sorour, Human Rights and Mine Action Foundation / Protection Mr. Sorour is founding executive director of Protection Against Armaments and Consequences, a NGO that works to address Egypt's mine and unexploded ordnance problem.

Facebook won't welcome the news of a former executive turning against it, but the company is facing bigger problems right now.

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The Chief Executive of PTUK may suspend the rights of membership of the Member Complained Against, pending the finalisation of the Professional Conduct Procedure when, having regard to the nature of the complaint, it appears appropriate and just to do so in all the circumstances.

The Chief Executive will notify the Member Complained Against of the suspension of membership or of any rights of membership.