Sentences with phrase «upon human rights»

However, it is clear that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory have an ongoing vulnerability to laws infringing upon their human rights, and that constitutional rights protection mechanisms should not be left to the benevolence of a particular government.

There are four aspects of the NTA that impact upon the human rights of Indigenous people and their relationship to sea country.

For me as Social Justice Commissioner, specifically charged by statute to report on the effect of the Native Title Act upon the human rights of Indigenous Australians, the challenge is to develop a framework that recognises the distinctiveness of Indigenous identity as it is shaped by our adherence to traditional laws and customs, while at the same time seeking to maximise the capacity of native title to contribute to the economic and social development of traditional owner groups and the communities they live in.

There is no doubt that random testing policies can infringe upon human rights and raise privacy issues, but the evidence put forward in these cases suggests that, if the threshold tests for safety and risk in a workplace discussed above are met, appropriate policy design may alleviate most concerns arising from those areas.

Unlike other jurisdictions which rely upon mandatory quota and affirmative action schemes to ensure more acceptable rates of employment amongst their handicapped citizens, Canadian governments have relied upon human rights legislation.

This, then, is our background context, and we'd best remember it when calling upon human rights to argue against fracking.

As the Press Association reports, in a heated and occasionally ill - tempered debate at the gathering in Birmingham, party members passed a motion condemning the system of police accreditation, arguing it infringed upon their human rights.

«The bill doesn't touch upon the human rights of the LGBT community,» said the initiator of the bill, United Russia deputy Vitaly Milonov.

Not exact matches

«We call upon the international community to hold the Sudanese authorities to account for the safety of these human rights defenders.

No matter was good your doing, to say that that is betowing «personal freedoms» and «human rights» upon people is not accurate.

Animal - rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer ¯ a bioethics professor at Princeton's Center for Human Values who was, once upon a time, beloved by those activists for his 1975 book Animal Liberation.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

Now the relevance of Jesus to the issue of human rights, often missed as Christian religion, is touched upon by Durant quite interestingly:

For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.

The crucifying impact of sin on the whole human race will inevitably have a devastating impact upon the sacred humanity of Christ precisely because he is - by right, vocation and very ontology - ourfinal and plenary union with God.

That is to say, salvation depends finally upon right human action in response to God's gracious Torah, and Jesus» function is simply to re-present that Law as it exists primordially in the mind of God — not to create a new possibility for human existence.

Our commitment to human rights, if it is to be sustained, must depend not on practice, law, or the passing policies of governments (though we must be earnestly concerned about all of these), but rather on a promise that bestows dignity upon every person and demands of every person a respect — no, a reverence — for the dignity of all others.

In this understanding, human rights are not founded upon a myth about a «natural state of innocence.»

Nonetheless, the Berns thesis does throw some doubt upon the generous and affectionate thesis about the American founding propounded by the genial Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This obligation is qualified only by the principle that parents may not make grossly unjust demands upon the child, on pain of interference by the state as guardian of basic human rights.

«We call upon the Iranian authorities to release Pastor Nadarkhani and demonstrate a commitment to basic, universal human rights, including freedom of religion.»

You can check out your favorite stores on BetterWorldShopper.org (they have an app, too, if you want to check it on the go) where they grade companies A-F (just like in school) based upon 5 issues: human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice.

While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.

The individual in a human society in process of collective organization has not the right to remain inactive, that is to say, not to seek to develop himself to his fullest extent: because upon his individual perfection depends the perfection of all his fellows.

Their principles of human rights and their restraints upon royal misconduct had found embodiment in the nation's constitution.

The essay will no doubt become an important guide in the public debate on Israel and its critics, for it outlines the complexity of an issue that touches upon politics, human rights and religion.

«Human rights» indeed exist today as parasites upon the decaying body of Christendom.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

Because belief empowered and shaped political life, they granted all religions the right of free exercise, and knowing the human desire to dominate, they courageously insisted that government not infringe upon religious life.

So in case what has been expounded here is correct, in case there is no incommensurability in a human life, and what there is of the incommensurable is only such by an accident from which no consequences can be drawn, in so far as existence is regarded in terms of the idea, Hegel is right; but he is not right in talking about faith or in allowing Abraham to be regarded as the father of it; for by the latter he has pronounced judgment both upon Abraham and upon faith.

I am just frustrated with the canned answers that the anti-abortionisits, who yes, do happen to be a good portion of the christian right, give based off of a book, when there are far more, pressing problems in our society of fully agreed upon «alive» human beings.

All these developments, and in particular the drive under the WTO regime to make access to food mainly dependent upon market mechanisms, are a threat to food security - the most fundamental of all human rights.

This implies that we human beings do not have the ability or right to change or manipulate this immutable and eternal reality based upon our own desire, whims or peccadilloes.

Lepard distinguishes between positivist legal traditions based upon «state - oriented» values (emphasizing state sovereignty) and the more dynamic human rights laws derived from common practices and understandings, including religio - ethical principles.

The 1985 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rHuman Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman person.»

An important aspect of the law - abidingness of God's world is that human beings affect one another; hence, intercessory prayer ought to lead to the putting forth of the right stimulus upon another by conversation, letter, gift, or any other form of communication that is open.

And it is undoubtedly true that maintaining concepts of absolute moral value, of objective right and wrong is the only intelligible basis upon which you can protect and promote the flourishing of every member of the human community.

The relevance of these stories being run concurrently will become clearer upon consideration of the Human Rights Act (1998) and that the ECJ could, should United's lawyers consider it appropriate, rule that post match comments are a breach of a person's Human Rights.

According to Josimar, upon hearing from Bayern, chancellor Angela Merkel's government tasked Human Rights Watch researchers about potential implications that could arise from a deal, and the group responded that one would pose «a serious risk to the club's reputation.»

It's a big humans rights issue and if you feel parents should be allowed to do as they wish with their children why look down upon female circ?

Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome applied to the court arguing that his human rights were being trampled upon by Ghana in relation to the case in which he sued Ghana for abrogating a financial engineering services contract and was paid Gh?

And honestly, when you are taking it upon yourself to repeal a piece of legislation called the Human Rights Act, it's not a matter of fact which requires much substantiation.

It relies upon a concatenation of treaty provisions, including Article 9 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR), which provides for a right to «marry and... found a family», and Articles 12 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), which protect the right to marry and found a family and also prohibit discrimination.

However, in the process of reconciling with the Taliban, extreme care must be taken so as to preserve, even if not build upon, the gains Afghanistan has made in the domains of human rights in the last decade or so.

Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, onetime Deputy Commissioner at CHRAJ, suggested that currently, human rights and dignity was being trampled upon, due to the failures of the two institutions.

United Nations human rights experts have called upon the US government and political leaders to «unequivocally and unconditionally» reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes.

The warnings by NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch in a coalition of 47 organizations in June that the UN was not sufficiently prepared for the elections and lacks «adequate and appropriate resources to protect civilians... and to avert election - related violence» (HRW 2011) were not acted upon.

«Okeke has the right to go to court to enforce his fundamental human right which the people are trying to trample upon.

It is a tough task to challenge such fascism crimes; As a victim of a series of fascism crimes associated with Udacity cofounder Sebastian Thrun along with this criminal suspect Gabriele Scheler, and the likes, what I posted on the web are no more than facts, facts those fascists I challenged dare never officially deny, either publicly or in private; I bet such of their fascism crimes would not be tolerated anywhere in human society; If anyone disagree, especially those in my public challenge, please give us a candid answer right here on this board, which part in my statements is not base upon facts?

According to Doe Adjaho, upon receiving the motion «I sought to satisfy myself to find out whether this matter is under investigation before the Commission on Human Rights and Administration Justice.»