Sentences with phrase «social rights»

Critics blamed Conservative government, which they say wants to roll back social rights such as gay marriage and abortion.
Let her take it all in and slowly she'll progress toward being social right along with the other children.
But you can detect how New Labour wished to change the nature of social rights in, say, Jack Straw's speech on rights and responsibilities back in ’95 or» 96.
«Participatory Approaches in the Right to Health: Promise and Pitfalls for Human Rights Engagement with the Distribution of Health Resources in Canada» in Martha Jackman & Bruce Porter, eds, Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014) 309 - 341.
It would seek to replace current protections that come as part of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which sets out a range of civil, political and social rights for EU and UK citizens.
In 2008, Teachers Unite and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative released the Teachers Talk: School Culture, Safety and Human Rights report.
Ulrike Mascher, president of VdK, an interest group focusing on social justice, uses terms such as «fuel poverty» and a «blatant violation of fundamental social rights,» when talking about the issue.
In his most recent State of the Union address, on 13 September 2017, the President confirmed the Commission's commitment to move forward with the Pillar as an essential means to create a deeper, fairer and more social internal market: «If we want to avoid social fragmentation and social dumping in Europe, then Member States should agree on the European Pillar of Social Rights as soon as possible and at the latest at the Gothenburg summit in November.
Prescinding from the conventional debate over the relative importance of civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic and social rights on the other, we ought to be able to agree on those elementary rights that have priority over any political or economic program, regardless of that program's ideological label.
Rights - Based Strategies to Address Homelessness and Poverty in Canada: the Constitutional Framework Martha Jackman and Bruce Porter Social Rights Advocacy Centre Working Paper, November 2012
Based on long - standing opposition of some past UK Governments to certain EU social rights, one independent legal opinion commissioned by the TUC in the run - up to the referendum vote, identified a number of EU - derived employment laws which would be especially vulnerable to repeal and / or amendment.
«We will not accept from the other side regulatory competition against social rights, against environmental rights, against consumer rights and against fiscal regulations... Or against financial stability,» The Guardian quoted him as saying.
In the longer term, there are fears that campaigns for wider social rights, which have often drawn on EU law, might find that this avenue is curtailed.
Many UK social rights preceded and provide stronger protections than the EU directives.
«Despite having strong legal claims to remain in the country and being long - term residents of our communities, in practice they are left in a precarious situation without access to basic social rights
As it stands, any citizens have to either forgo hard - won social rights or bear a greater burden of taxation to finance infrastructure.
Liberal Democrats should press the government to propose substantial reforms in Europe: a smaller European commission whose members are individually accountable to the European parliament for their conduct of their office; a council that meets openly whenever it debates legislative matters; a core of human and social rights embodied in the next amended treaty.
Mumuni said, «This is my professional opinion as a lawyer and social rights campaigner.
3rd) Investigations, transversal studies, innovative and creative ideas for improving social rights, education and environment (international relations, role of states, globalization consequences, inclusive education, curriculum reforms, teacher training, etc..)
First, while vouchers are a means favored by conservatives to diminish publicly guaranteed social rights, and to advance principles of privatization and marketization, they are among the few remaining means that offer the inner - city poor the possibility of a decent education.
The Rider event is something I hope the MMO community — and especially developers — take notice of, because right now a game with a reputation as a «single player MMO» is schooling the industry on how to make games more social the right way.
For exactly these reasons the challenge of silence and the demand for visibility has long been a key component of social right campaigns - against racism, sexism, child abuse and campaigns for gay rights and marriage.
This is made clear in the blog entry, which argued that there was a need to «balance [e] the rights under these articles [social rights which would be secured through tax collection] and the accused's individual rights guaranteed by the legality principle».
Aspirational Constitutionalism, Social Rights Prolixity and Judicial Activism: Trilogy or Trinity
Human Rights Organization: National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) Scientist: Patrick Mason, Florida State University Expertise: Economics
The Commission presented the European Pillar of Social Rights as a Commission Recommendation, which became effective as of 26 April 2017, and as a proposal for a joint proclamation by the Parliament, the Council and the Commission.
Canadian investments in Asia can, for example, support human rights through the protection of economic rights such as safe labour conditions, social rights such as healthcare, and cultural rights such as protection of local languages and customs.
There is widespread opposition to any scaling back of employment and social rights in the EU reform negotiations.
Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
Today on 17 November 2017 the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission will proclaim the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR).
The social rights issue is a new turn for Jana, which is known for pushing companies it invests in to make financial changes.
What I mean is, we are the generation that have helped make massive strides in social rights, self - reflection, a broader understanding for people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and more.
Perspectives on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Social Rights, The Canada Round 9, by Havi Echenberg et al..
The social right's embrace of war while opposing not just equal rights but basic environmental protections and science did not bode well.
For almost fifty years, the influence of collectivist and totalitarian regimes created a confusing moral symmetry between civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic and social rights, on the other.
I am suggesting that human and social rights must be limited by an explicit recognition of the rights of the natural environment itself.
The situation is so bad in Sweden that a collective complaint has been launched against Sweden with the European Committee of Social Rights.
First, there is little or no evidence that regimes that have denied civil and political rights have done a better job of advancing economic and social rights, or that there is a causal connection between the denial of one and the advancement of the other.
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