Sentences with phrase «rights laws apply»

Proponents maintain that civil rights laws apply under this bill, but they fail to explain that many of the private schools that are eligible to take vouchers are exempt from key provisions in civil rights laws.

Proponents claim that civil rights laws apply under this bill, but they fail to explain that many of the private schools that are eligible to take vouchers are exempt from key provisions in civil rights laws.

The second bill would make it explicit that the city's human rights laws apply to independent contractors.

Some state civil rights laws apply to commercial property, but there are exemptions for religious groups — and anyway, these cases don't involve commercial property, either.

Accordingly, the tribunal dismissed the case confirming that these issues about how human rights law applies to newspapers have already been settled in law.

Human Rights law applies to all employees, but is governed by specific or federal human rights legislation.

There was acknowledgment that international humanitarian and human rights law applies to all new weapons but views were divided as to whether the weapons would be illegal under existing law or permitted in certain circumstances.

Amnesty International Ireland's executive director Colm O'Gorman cautioned that the use of fully autonomous weapons «would result in unlawful killings and injuries both in situations of armed conflict, where both international humanitarian law and international human rights law apply, and in law enforcement operations, where international human rights law applies.»

Not exact matches

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

These laws define the kinds of inventions that are patentable and the procedures that must be followed to apply for, receive and maintain patent rights for the duration of the patent.

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

If USA rights do not extend beyond the USA then why does your government pass laws that explicitly (at least in the minds of USA politicians) apply in the USA * and * all other countries?

Much the same problem arises when Arkes argues that certain principles of the Bill of Rights essential to the idea of law could have been applied to the states even though the Bill of Rights was clearly intended only to bind the federal government.

And yet, some of the quotes about the law remaining and the law not applying today appear right next to one another (Romans is such an example).

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dignity.

Maybe it's time to END all of your special rights, and make the law apply equally to the churches, and treat religious people like everyone else.

In particular it notes General Recommendation No. 24 which «established that the criminalization of medical practices which only apply to women, like abortion, constitute a violation of equal rights,» (6.5.2) and the Committee's 1999 comments to Colombia calling their abortion laws a violation of Article 12.

To the degree to which the principle of identification with the oppressed applies here, the church must stand with homosexuals against those sociopolitical structures that deprive them of the protection of the law and the rights and privileges of full members of society.

And I would propose that from slavery to women's suffrage to civil rights the accepted «proper discrimination» is to apply the law equally to all people where ever it is possible.

The court found that the plaintiff had a private right of action under Illinois state law and the identical federal law did not apply to preempt the state law claim.

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Thus, fourthly, some Member States raise point that while the burden - sharing is both legally and morally acceptable (IOW: we will take refugees, of course), the fact is that every country has every right to apply laws as laid down in treaties and can not be bound by their interpretation or suspension by other Member States (IOW: but we will decide who is a refugee and who is not).

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

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...

The news comes as the British Humanist Association (BHA) has announced that it is applying to intervene in an appeal to Tony Nicklinson's right - to - die case, and a day after the BHA released the results of a new survey showing 81 % of adults support a change in the law.

But until they decide to, the courts will continue to apply the old English law of confidence, modified by the right to a private life from the European Convention on Human Rights, as is their duty.

Chris Grayling has pledged to go court to make sure the EU's charter of fundamental rights does not apply to the UK, following reports that Britain has been «duped» into coming under new human rights law.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

Thus, while there are legitimate and important questions to be asked about which body of law applies in the area of counter-terrorism, U.S. lawyers are likely to continue to contest the application of human rights principles to what they contend is a «war context.»

Also: The ethics laws that we proposed do apply to the executive, right... but the executive does not have many of the liberties that the Legislature does.

Recent attacks on women's rights around the county remind us that we need to be vigilant in ensuring our laws apply to all New Yorkers equally.

But a review into the Human Rights Act (HRA) launched earlier this summer revealed the law was «widely misunderstood by the public», and sometimes applied wrongly.

The right to organize, though apparently enshrined in the state constitution, does not apply to farmworkers Espada showed up at the farm on Friday and cell phoned the owner to berate him for the conditions on the farm and to tell him that the state was going to pass a law making his life more difficult.

Right - to - work laws have been characterized as clubs that business executives can use on workers, but 300 private contractors have joined a coalition in Wisconsin arguing that such perceptions do not apply to the trades.

«At the worst, he was right in the middle of this for his own political future and his political program, just not paying attention to the law in raising money and applying it, and trying to get control of the state Senate for his own purposes, for his own purposes: downstate purposes.

Labour will uphold the principles of equality for all Palestinians and Israelis by respecting human rights and applying international law in all relations and dealings with Israel and the Palestinians.

As we sit here right now under the law — that is the law on the bond resolution that we passed earlier this year that was given to us by County Executive Ed Day — the premium must be applied toward the payment of interest.

For the opportunity to apply to be a Visiting Scholar with the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program, please contact Jessica Wyndham.

Alternatively, for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing contractual remedies apply in addition and not in substitution of any rights and remedies for breach available in the law, such as the right to terminate the License, the right to claim damages, and disgorging of any profits generated by activities prohibited under this ANNEX A.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

Jessica Wyndham, interim director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program, noted the world's largest general scientific organization has a long history of applying science and technology to address human rights conRights and Law Program, noted the world's largest general scientific organization has a long history of applying science and technology to address human rights conrights concerns.

The Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights & Law Program works with volunteer scientists and human rights organizations to apply knowledge toward global challenges and contributes to multiple activities to ensure the free pursuit, access and application of science is used to uphold human rRights & Law Program works with volunteer scientists and human rights organizations to apply knowledge toward global challenges and contributes to multiple activities to ensure the free pursuit, access and application of science is used to uphold human rrights organizations to apply knowledge toward global challenges and contributes to multiple activities to ensure the free pursuit, access and application of science is used to uphold human rightsrights.

Curtis Bell calls for a pledge from neuroscientists that they will not apply their knowledge to activities that violate international law and human rights (6 February, p 24).

Jessica Wyndham, associate director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program, said that ultimately the new grant will permit them to build on previous projects and test new methods that have not been previously tested or applied to human rights conRights and Law Program, said that ultimately the new grant will permit them to build on previous projects and test new methods that have not been previously tested or applied to human rights conrights contexts.

If these laws apply to you, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions, or limitations may not apply to you, and you might have additional rights.

«It was Thursday, June 16, 1966... Less than a year before, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act... Stokely Carmichael was now in Mississippi to ensure that the federal laws... would apply to black sharecroppers living in plantation communities...

Ruling in Grove City College v. Bell last year, the Court held that the civil - rights statute — whose language is similar to laws barring discrimination on the basis of race, handicap, and age — applies only to programs and activities that receive federal aid, and not to the entire institution.

If every one of us applied the true values of the Human Rights, without imposing a particular law, the world would be happier place and we could declare a «smile» as the universal an them.

Second question is relevant from the point of view of constitutional rights and laws is the question of the legitimacy of the judge as the balancer, especially when the judge doesn't have sufficient constitutional standing to apply principles from this standpoint, and that when he does so, he unduly restricts and even usurps other powers enshrined in the constitution.