Sentences with phrase «uphold human»

Thus, irrespective of the cause of a threat to human rights, Australia still has positive obligations to use all the means within its disposal to uphold the human rights affected.

Fifth, Gove placed emphasis upon what he considered to be the inherent authority of British judges applying the common law to uphold human rights.

In addition, they are required, in any steps they take and agreements they make, to uphold human rights and freedoms and observe other public order rules.»

This week, Lord Neuberger implied that even if the Human Rights Act were to be abolished, the court would continue to uphold human rights, perhaps foreshadowing the Supreme Court's decision in Osborn.

Photographers and curators have long been interested in capturing political and social issues and often create series and exhibitions based on the desire to uphold human rights.

The award is given annually by the Nobel Committee to individuals or organizations that work to promote peace, resolve conflict, or uphold human rights.

Reinforcing the frustration felt by all, the words of Marina Parvin, from the Indigenous Mundas community in Bangladesh and representing the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) were read by Carmen Capriles of Bolivia to bleary - eyed delegates around 3:00 AM in the closing moments of the extended negotiating session, «I have travelled all the way from Bangladesh, leaving my home and family, hoping to see a commitment to an effective and equitable new agreement that is binding, ambitious and transformative; a commitment to uphold human rights, gender equality, and the rights of future generations.»

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 rights.

«Under a Tory government we would become the only Europeans without the right to go to our own courts to uphold the human rights accorded to every European,» he added.

Rather than insisting that the current form of Western - type liberal democracy is the ultimate form of governance for all societies, we need to envisage other governance models that go one step beyond freedom and incorporate and uphold human dignity needs.

I think what would give flight attendants more power to do the right thing in these situations is if their employers provided them with a policy that stated that they will uphold human rights legislation, which includes not discriminating against mothers and babies, and therefore breastfeeding is allowed and mothers are free to breastfeed their babies in the manner that they feel is appropriate.

What vigilant and beneficial response can uphold the human right to be religiously different in India?

Benedict Rogers from CSW said: «We hope she will raise these cases and urge China that if it wants to be a global superpower, which it clearly is in the running for, it needs to uphold human rights for its own people.»

On the social front, companies are looking to uphold human rights in their supply chains, combating such horrors as human trafficking and child labor.

If the «vision» statement of organizations can include a commitment aimed at upholding human values it would be great.

The West considers the Special Court of Sierra Leone as upholding human rights and bringing justice to bear on a brutal dictator.

He was appointed by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond as a member of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a 47 - nation body - separate to the EU - which upholds human rights, democracy and the rule of law, from 2014 - 17.

Unlike other manifestos which he said are a collection of promises and scholarly work to impress, Mr Kufuor said that of the NPP is a commitment to upholding human dignity and development, good governance and rule of law.

Millions of marchers around the world will send a strong message to politicians and other organizations that women's rights are human rights, that sexual and reproductive rights are human rights, and that the world will be watching and holding the government accountable to upholding human rights standards.

In the recent decision of Hamilton - Wentworth District School Board v. Fair, 2016 ONCA 421, the Ontario Court of Appeal («ONCA») upheld the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario's 2013 decision to reinstate an employee, more than 10 years after her employment was terminated.

This 8:1 decision the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a Human Rights Tribunal decision that a cocaine addict in a safety - sensitive job, who was fired for violating the employer's policy by failing to report his addiction and then being involved in an accident, was not fired (on the facts of the particular case) because of his disability but rather because he violated the policy under circumstances where it was entirely within his capacity to comply with it.

Many say that tribunals have consistently upheld human rights legislation as a valid restriction on our fundamental freedoms, meaning human rights override fundamental freedoms.

Good policy always upholds human rights.

Not exact matches

Several years ago Liberal MP John Mckay introduced a private member's bill known as C - 300, which would have compelled the federal government to determine whether Canadian companies were upholding certain environmental and human rights standards when operating abroad — and withdraw federal support from offenders.

«The Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

The organization said the men did not meet its standards of conduct, and added that it requires its members to «uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity.»

As we look to the 150th anniversary of our Confederation, we are reminded that ours is a rich inheritance: a legacy of freedom; the birthright of all humanity and the courage to uphold it; the rule of law, and the institutions to protect it; respect for human dignity and diversity.

Its board of governors «continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity,» the group said in a statement.

If this is correct, then humans are hardwired to cooperate and uphold moral norms.

In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.

Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.

Positively, his aim is to uphold the imperiled human verities against the nihilist conviction that life is gibberish.

According to Quakers in Britain, the hearing at Stratford Magistrates Court this week was told that their rights must be upheld under the European Convention of Human Rights.

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.

They don't agree on the convention of human sexuality that is upheld in this group,...»

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

President Trump deserves our prayers, but not our blind loyalty or trust, because one can never be too careful in protecting and preserving human life — and monitoring politicians who pledge to uphold it.

Just this: that, far from being unconcerned about the human plight, the Church Fathers were motivated by their theology of salvation in upholding doctrines of divine immutability and impassibility (God's transcendence of human suffering and passions).

Anselm was clearly seeking to uphold the balance of analogy between Infinite and finite because he did not want to refer all human meaning to nothingness.

Most of all, of course, it is the sanctity of the human person which we are to uphold at every stage of development, at all times of vulnerability and of suffering, but this must be accompanied by love, care and the relief of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual.

[27] The material evidence itself is ambivalent because it is offered to human freedom, but only those who find design in creation, a providential design surpassing all human reconstructions, can uphold the final meaningfulness of human reason.

[9] The Church's social vision, built on principles of justice, peace, freedom and solidarity, [10] presents, this writer would submit, values which serve much better if we want to uphold the dignity of the human person.

All of history, in Martin Luther's words, is «a demonstration, recollection, and sign of divine action and judgment, how God upholds, rules, obstructs, rewards, punishes, and honors the world, especially the human world.»

Amazing how humans use religion to justify their own personal beliefs rather than providing a stage for examining whether your their thoughts are upheld by their religion on not.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

g) In this sense, it is right to speak of a struggle against an economic system, if the latter is understood as a method of upholding the absolute predominance of capital, the possession of the means of production and of the land, in contrast to the free and personal nature of human work.

Human dignity is «to be found in the kind of life that honors and upholds the peculiar nature that is ours.»

As one they rightly uphold the reality of the supra - material self - conscious human subject.