Sentences with phrase «than human rights»

The «legitimation» of the validation provisions by the majority of the PJC is a political justification for discriminatory acts rather than a human rights approach to differential treatment.

It is a tour de force of international (rather than human rights) law, because therein lay the key issue.

The Criminal Code provisions were brought in only a little earlier than the Human Rights provisions so we really haven't seen them at work long enough to judge.

When constructing his test for who is an «employee», which is built on criteria such as dependency and control, Davidov stressed that his focus was on «the appropriate scope of employment standards and collective bargaining laws», rather than human rights and health and safety regulations which are quite different.

There is nothing more central to the administration of justice than human rights.

In this way the company strives to present themselves as benefactors of the arts, rather than the human rights violators and desecrators of the planet that they in fact are.

«Cost - benefit calculation is the highest art form in the realm of persuasion by information — and the most deceitful... In essence, property rights (and profit) are being assigned a higher value than human rights.

The «Sexual Orientations Regulations» currently being pushed through parliament could mean that teaching that homosexual practises are «a sin crying out to heaven», rather than a human right, becomes a criminal offence.

Not exact matches

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.

The Internet makes it easier than ever to distribute text and video, which can be a big help for human rights activists trying to get the word out about horrific conditions in war zones or repressive regimes.

He declined to give further details but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain - based monitor of the war, said the handover had happened on Monday and involved fewer than 10 villages.

Generally, China and Russia are more willing than the US to send weapons to countries with spotty human rights records.

Analyzing more than 36,000 job ads from the last five years, Human Rights Watch released a new report on Monday detailing the extent of discriminatory job ads in China.

«Given there has been no let - up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013,» UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.

In fact, as the boot camp was wrapping up, China was throwing more than 100 human rights lawyers and activists into prison on allegations of organizing illegal paid protests.

Nevertheless, Khosrowshahi remains optimistic about the future of the program, asserting that «ultimately, self - driving cars will be safer than humans,» but that right now, they're more like «student drivers.»

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Now, let me ask you: What gives you the right to make fun of a human who is less fortunate, physically, than you are?»»

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

The 10 principles, which concern human rights, labor standards, environmental stewardship and fighting corruption, now count more than 8900 company signatories.

Another Canadian also thought it was important to build the Museum - none other than the late Israel Asper, who established the Asper Foundation in 1983, the foundation that also sponsors the Holocaust and Human Rights Studies Program.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also «pay attention to education,» because right now we're teaching children the wrong thing: that machines are better than humans.

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.

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As a yearly poll conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada shows, only 39 % of Canadians think the human rights situation in China today is better than 10 years ago, down from 47 % in 2010.

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If the government is to honour its commitment to a progressive trade agenda, a Canada - China FTA must ensure that human rights, labour rights, Indigenous sovereignty and environmental sustainability are protected (and prioritized) rather than jeopardized by the expansion of investor rights.

-- Secondly, no one disputes his a «ssertions about human s «exuality, and the rights of everyone to their own, (although his former, and many Christian sects, including many in his present one, DO exactly that with respect to anyone other than what they define as «straight»).

That's why the Pope John Paul II said that any program of «equal rights» has to include the proper ranking of human goods that owes more to the personal realism of women than vanity of men.

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.

Humans killing each other would be no more right or wrong than being kind to each other.

It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.

Human rights lawyers are extremely concerned about Pakistan's new crackdown, and it's even more terrifying than you might think.

Conservatism pairs God and country, observes the legendary Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., while cosmopolitan liberalism chooses «universal empathy rather than patriotism and human rights or humanity rather than God.»

The holy book of your respective religion is always true, always right, and always accurate, being inspired of a higher source than human knowledge.

If elected, I would deny rights to: a) gays b) atheists c) immigrants d) anyone with a median infcome less than $ 100,000 e) human rights are a privilege, not a right

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

It really shouldn't affect all humans any more than something your great, great, great, great, great grandfather did should affect your life, but who ever said that God's sense of «justice» was ever fair, right?

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kurdish officials say more than 40 of the ISIS fighters were killed as Kurdish forces reclaimed the city over the weekend.

«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.

Yesterday, a U.S. air strike aimed at ISIS fighters killed more than 85 civilians, including children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

And she «really likes gays more than Republicans» and she designed humans 14 billion years ago to have free choice so what they do «is up to them» and others have NO right to judge them..

Nothing less than that is required of those who are the heirs and guardians of the historic achievement that is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The right to life, the foremost of human rights, is more than mere breath or tactile sense of touch.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

Education today in the industrial environment and in the political and cultural environments consists of how to ensure that the human resources (since both you and I are now reduced to being human resources rather than human beings) can be trained on a continuing basis, throughout our lives, to be recycled at the right moment, to be a profitable human resource?