Sentences with phrase «rights commissions»

Meetings with the National Assembly and Senate Human Rights Commissions offered a ray of hope to the international delegation as parliamentarians pledged to highlight violations of human rights and address the impunity of officials who are not brought to justice.

The contributors to this volume explain how information systems and data analysis were developed to assist human rights commissions in El Salvador, Haiti, and South Africa.

Firstly, by bearing witness, journalists could hold the state accountable, often by publishing the recommendations of the human rights commissions.

ONE MORE THING: The New York Human Rights Commission is inquiring into The Wing, the women - only club and co-working space that recently raised $ 32 million in funding from WeWork and New Enterprise Associates.

Rosemary Bennett, senior communications officer for the Ontario Human Rights Commission, says that even though the store's new program is voluntary, Whole Foods should tread lightly.

The New York Human Rights Commission is inquiring into The Wing, the women - only club and co-working space that recently raised $ 32 million in funding from WeWork and New Enterprise Associates.

The Ohio civil rights commission administers compliance with this law.

The Ohio Civil Rights Commission administers compliance with this law.

This was supported by findings in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report in 2008 which said that at the current rate of change, it would take more than 70 years to achieve a gender balance in the boardrooms in the UK's largest 100 companies.

Before the election was called, Ms. Notley's unveiled her party's plans to create a Resource Owners» Rights Commission.

Over the last few years Canadian HR Reporter webinars have been recognized as an industry standard and include partnerships with a number of leading organizations including the Human Resources Professionals Association, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta, the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Police said protesters burnt 25 houses but Dr Ahmad Raza, in - charge of local rescue operations, and the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) put the number at more than 100.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and will decide whether businesses run by religious objectors to gay marriage may refuse to cater a gay wedding.

At present, the Equality and Human Rights Commission isn't helping.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the grounds that such books were «sexist».

(It is important that we are fair, and hope Prof that you also highlight Afriforum's decision to rpeort a middle management official Tshwane to the Human Rights Commission, the official utilised his work email to send his ANC branch correspondence.

11th April THE MULTI-CULTURAL TENSION DEVELOPS The Canadian Human Rights Commission has been investigating the publication of Catholic teaching concerning homosexuality by Catholic Insight as possibly «homophobic».

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

And yet that is precisely what the Civil Rights Commission report does.

We hope that you find this a worthy cause and join the efforts in creating awareness about the struggle to have human rights defenders partake in the OIC's Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission.

The board of the Human Rights Commission will decide whether to ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to hear the case after reviewing the opinion, Ray Sexton, the agency's executive director, told the Lexington Herald - Leader.

In a two to one decision, a panel of appeals judges affirmed an earlier decision by Judge James Ishmael, who reversed the Lexington Human Rights Commission's 2014 decision that the company violated the city's fairness ordinance.

For readers of this journal, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is likely to be the most prominent case, one about the freedom of a Christian baker to decline to design a custom cake for a same - sex wedding celebration.

During my time in El Salvador, Central America (1983 - 86), I was always thunderstruck when, after a group of U.S. visitors had spent a couple of hours listening to the stories of the Mothers of the Disappeared or to officials of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission, at least one earnest soul would take me aside to ask whether «we're going to get a chance to hear the other side of the story.»

He was told in 2014 by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission that it was illegal to refuse the work and that he should re-educate his staff.

From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.

Representing the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), which initiated the proceedings, Nathalie Lievan QC told a seven - judge panel that existing laws subject women to «inhuman and degrading» treatment.

According to the Kenya National Human Rights Commission, the violence led to more than 600,000 people being made homeless; and more than 1,100 killed.

Mark Movsesian and senior editor Mark Bauerlein discuss the Supreme Court's oral argument session regarding «Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.»

Civil liberties campaigners have said the scans represent an invasion of privacy and their introduction may yet be challenged by the Human Rights Commission.

The couple sued, and the New Mexico Human Rights Commission found the photographer guilty of discrimination.

When the UN Human Rights Commission was established the next year, Eleanor Roosevelt became its first chair, and the U.S. promptly asked the commission to draft an international bill of rights.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission, told The Telegraph that Christians do face discrimination but that politically motivated faith groups often blow it out of proportion.

Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton (disability rights activist, and former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission), Baroness Grey - Thompson (former Gold - medal paralympian), Lady Finlay of Llandaff (leading palliative care specialist and President of the British Medical Association), and Lord Carlisle of Berriew (one of the UK's top QCs and legal experts) are all either atheist or agnostic, and tend to be in favour of legalised abortion.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has already called for a counter-order.

A modest middle - class home had been converted for use as offices for the Human Rights Commission.

The same month the offices of the Mothers of the Disappeared were bombed and several members of the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission received death threats.

On a hot, steamy day in June 1987 I made my way to the office of El Salvador's Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission.

Herbert Anaya, president of the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission, spoke to me that June day about the U.S. war against the poor in his country, about low - intensity conflict, human rights, and human hope.

The document from the Equality and Human Rights Commission follows the European Court of Human Rights judgment in four cases about religious rights in the workplace, one of which found that an employee suffered a breach of her right to religious freedom for being told not to wear a cross at work.

The cake maker from Masterpiece Cakeshop was told in 2014 by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission that it was unlawful to refuse the work and that he should re-educate his staff.

The UN Human Rights Commission is a permanent body of the ECOSOC.

On Monday, the US Supreme Court announced it will take on the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which involves a Christian baker defending his decision to turn down wedding cake orders for same - sex couples.

Campaigners say that India's National Human Rights Commission has been «sitting for years» on the plea for better compensation.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, as well as the lower rulings in its favor, instead argue that for - profit businesses remain subject to antidiscrimination rules designed to protect race, sex, and sexuality.

(Arguing this, an actively homosexual man recently went to the Human Rights Commission and won the right to donate blood.)

Jack Phillips from Masterpiece Cakeshop was told in 2014 by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission that it was unlawful to refuse the work and that he should re-educate his staff.

Chief executive Dr David Staples said he had written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about concerns its members are the victims of gross misrepresentation and discrimination.

He was told in 2014 by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission that it was unlawful to refuse the work and that he should re-educate his staff.

Equality and Human Rights Commission (2010) Working Better: Childcare Matters: improving choices and chances for parents and children.