Sentences with phrase «rights institution for»

AR is a human rights institution for visual artists and a platform dedicated to persecuted art practitioners.

If your parent wants to cosign a loan, NFCU may be the right institution for it.

It explains which independent human rights institutions for children exist in Canada, as well as information about what a child rights impact assessment is.

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Silverstein: And when you sell — when you're talking about of a software for an institution, because when we look at bitcoin and all these currencies, every person that's involved in the network has a copy of the database right?

No democracy in the world has been sustained over time without some independent institution that stands up for and advances worker rights, interests and economic welfare.

«By taking charge of their earning power, rather than waiting for governments, financial institutions and employers to «right themselves,» the baby boomer generation now has the power and access to put their skills and abilities on the global market regardless of where they live or work now,» he says.

Indeed, the World Economic Forum in its recent competitiveness ranking lists the UK among the top three countries in the world for «the most technologically - ready» economy, quality of scientific research institutions and management schools, strong intellectual property rights, and at the very top for foreign ownership of companies.

«The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is the right institution with which to develop this transformative new opportunity for Canada.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

In particular, laws and domestic institutions based on the rule of law and human rights are indispensable for justice.

It goes without saying that I agree with Pete's center - right agenda below, with its mend them, don't end them approach to our minimalist entitlements and its due concern for doing everything that can be done to sustain our nongovernmental intermediary institutions (which, of course can be choked by too much or the wrong kind of government).

I am no enemy of right - to - work laws; I do not despise the institution of private property; I do not trust the capacity of public bureaucracies to substitute for the fruit of private initiative.

The Hon. Bernard Drainville, Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship, has finally announced the government's intention to produce a Charter of Quebec Values, with attendant alterations to the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

If progressive evangelicals want more free exchange and less institutional solidarity, perhaps they should lobby a bit more aggressively for the conscience rights of beleaguered institutions like Biola University and groups like Bowdoin Christian Fellowship.

«The World Conference on Human Rights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&rRights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&rrights of women and the girl - child».

For this had been possible in the early Church and exists even today at least in very rudimentary form in the institution of the so - called patronates and in certain rights of the congregations in some Swiss cantons regarding the appointment of their parish priests.

«But,» responds the critic, «with all this talk about individuals having their rights and «doing their thing,» is there any place for the family as an institution?

I am now ready to argue that the Christian belief in a God who acts in history entails the belief that God has aims for institutions and that a nation or a church, or even a garden club, is in right relationship to God only when its aims are identical with his.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Thus, the Court claims, there is precedent for the view that the procreative potential once thought essential to marriage is in fact no more central to the institution than the race, precedents embodied in the Court's previous affirmation of liberty rights to contraception and sodomy in Griswold and Lawrence.

Some would even call a film like The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg, a piece of light propaganda for the free press, while others would celebrate it as a necessary gut check for how fragile our institutions and constitutional rights truly are.

«Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution,» says St. Peter, «whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right» (1 Peter 2: 13 - 14).

Although they overlap and are all termed «rights,» the international institutions and processes for implementing them require that they receive separate consideration on their own merits.

... Much of the ongoing debate will focus on claims that same - sex marriage will intrude on the religious rights of those whose faith tells them that the institution should be open only for opposite - sex couples.

It is the Church and Church alone which can witness to the reality that man belongs to God in Christ with a higher right than that of any earthly institution which may claim his supreme allegiance... We may and we should doubt whether the churches as they are do truly express the mind of Christ, but we may never doubt that Christ has a will for His Church, and that His promises to it holds good.

Becky, those of us who believe that «it is for freedom that Christ has set us free» would defend the right of religious institutions to refuse to marry same - sex couples as passionately as we defend the right of same - sex couples, as equal citizens, to have their spousal committments recognized by the secular State.

Advocates of the Fairness for All approach argue that evangelicals and other faith groups end up with greater protections when actively involved in crafting legislation; if left up to the courts to weigh the rights of either side, Christian - run institutions and businesses — from churches to bakers — risk more severe restrictions.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

Since the end of World War II, Christian leaders have strongly endorsed human rights and called for greater commitment to international institutions.

In this historical context, one can appreciate the struggle of the educational institutions for the right of freedom of inquiry.

An attempt was made to secure the adoption of a clear - cut statement that the church has no rights for which it can properly demand recognition by the state except such as can be stated in terms of the rights of citizens to freedom of thought, expression, assembly and organization; but the idea of special rights for the church as a divine institution was too strongly entrenched.

For indigenous institutions to work, however, the constitutional fundamentals of democracy, human rights and the rule of law must be in place.

Constitutional judicial review has become the premier institution for securing human rights.

And if you're a service user (or service provider or caterer) to any of the institutions below just click for specific advice about the rights of vegans.

Non-discrimination Statement: In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.

2 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recognises the right of mothers to breastfeed, to appropriate assistance in the performance of child - rearing responsibilities and the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children.

«Starting to be cool» was right: As the battle for gay marriage headed to the Supreme Court, the hidebound and battered institution was looking newly hip.

Going by what is happening at the global stage, there is again, a telling proof that «for democracy to succeed, a relative level of literacy, a growing middle class, and political institutions that support free speech and human rights is desirable.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Further, even if we were to grant that Pettit is right to characterise the republican tradition as united by freedom as non-domination, the case for his preferred counter-majoritarian institutions would remain weak.

This rights - based development is closely tied to the development of social security — disabled people were not properly considered during the initial forming of the welfare state because a paternalistic society believed them to be cared for in institutions and so there was no such thing as a «disability benefit».

To be allowed to apply to join the EU, Catalonia as an independent nation must be able to demonstrate they meet the Copenhagen Criteria which are defined as follows Political criteria: Stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities; Economic criteria: A functioning market...

However, the Chairperson believes that EOCO is the right institution being a fact finding body, to investigate the issue of what the endowment fund contributions of staff, which were not paid into the Fund for eight months in 2014 were used for.

It's not a single thing obviously, it's a complicated set of relations and institutions, but it is a public thing that took a certain shape as a result of histories of democratic political struggles, decolonisation efforts and international resolutions, and it has become a target for those on both the left and the right for different reasons.

Refugees can only indirectly participate in democratic institutions through citizens who push for policies that safeguard refugee rights.

A non-material account of empowerment might therefore consider the increased democratisation of societal institutions, the creation of legal protection for bargaining positions (loosely construed), and the development of a conception of individual rights that restores a communal, relational component that has lately been lost to neoliberal atomism.

Describing the Commission as the executive branch is a bit misleading (for starters, it's actually the only institution with the right of legislative initiative) and there are separate decision processes for foreign policy matters.

«The Government is right to challenge employers and institutions to address these disparities, but it must also take responsibility for having created a system which has failed to ensure that employers act responsibly and lawfully in tackling discrimination and advancing equality for all groups.