Sentences with phrase «where human laws»

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On disappointment with Obama: «Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge.»

In Oakland, California, at least four were arrested after creating a human chain to block a county building where demonstrators demanded that county law enforcement refuse to collaborate with federal immigration agents.

Canada seeks a world where freedom — including freedom of religion, the rule of law, democracy and human dignity are respected.

It is therefore crucial that the Canadian government require Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating overseas to conduct enhanced human rights due diligence, especially in regions where human rights and environmental laws (and enforcement of those laws) are lax.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

When the time is right, he leaves that reality for the bigger, truer reality, where he is able to see another dimension to human life, and he finds that he is no longer bound by the laws of the universe that once held him.

If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.

Since the Christian Faith holds that as a law or an ideal, it is impossible of realization because of human alienation from God and that where it is realized even partially in history, it is realized as the result of the Divine Forgiveness freely given in Christ providing the motivation for mutual forgiveness among persons and peoples in their historical setting.

The ceremonial law, as a good Jew, he apparently retained except where it conflicted with service to human need, and this was often.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

In any event, here is where an authentic theory of natural law proves to be indispensable for Judaism, but only when the social contract theory is abandoned, a task that «requires radical criticism of the key political idea of the Enlightenment,... that human beings can construct their own primary society autonomously.

It has been a hallmark of genuine natural law theories that through rational reflection on human nature they arrive at the precise place where Scripture reports a firm commandment (against killing the innocent, for example, or violating marriage vows).

Thus, where the law served both to honor God and to serve human need, he could rejoice in it; where it was at variance, he could boldly set it aside.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

I wish that Lepard had written more about this problem, exploring the issues confronted by non-Muslims in societies where Islamic shari'a law has been adopted, for example, and considering the current debate about this among Islamic human rights scholars such as Abdullah An - Na» im.

«If there's one place where humans should stay out of each other's business, it's eating,» the longtime actor explains during a busy day that includes a Law & Order shoot and voice - overs for American Dad.

It also accepted the Home Office's argument that sending the man back was not in breach of human rights law, which state that a person can not be sent to a place where they may face torture or ill - treatment.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

Speaking at the G20 African Partnership Conference in Berlin, Germany, he said African leader «must first facilitate the building of a new sustainable African civilization where there is accountable governance... rule of law, individual liberties and human rights, where the principles of democratic accountability are guaranteed and where we mobilize the immeasurable vast resources of Africa to resolve Africans problems.

«The Human Rights Act and the European convention on human rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.&rHuman Rights Act and the European convention on human rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.&rhuman rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.»

«The Legislature and the governor could have taken this moment where there's all this attention on sexual harassment to really beef up the state human rights law to change the standard which requires sexual harassment to be severe and pervasive — they didn't do that.»

Ms Phillips continued «Scrapping the Human Rights Act would be deeply embarrassing for the UK internationally, and would seriously undermine efforts to make British society fair, free and where everyone is equal before the law.»

«Mr Cameron singled out human rights law, reform of workplace rights and support for marriage as areas where Tory principles are being held in check but urged senior MPs growing tired of coalition not to «waste» the next three years.

Other relevant case law includes a case where the Vancouver Police were fined by the human rights tribunal for, among other things, misgendering a trans woman by using her legal (male) name and male pronouns instead of her preferred name and pronouns.

He challenged Mrs. Ezekwesili to explain to Nigerians where the constitution of Nigeria, and international human rights law supports the killing and molestation of innocent people in the name of advocacy for self - determination.

It is worth noting however, that the period of dictatorships in East Asia, was during the Cold War when western allies were busy forming alliances as opposed to the situation now where they act as global watchdogs for human rights and respect for the rule of law.

The Directorate for Science and Policy Programs, one of three program directorates, furthers AAAS's objectives in five program areas where the interests of science, government, and society intersect: Science, Technology, and Government; the Center for Science, Technology, and Congress; Science and Human Rights; the Dialogue between Science and Religion; and Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law.

The Directorate for Science and Policy Programs, one of three program directorates, furthers AAAS's objectives in six program areas where the interests of science, government, and society intersect: Science, Technology and Government; the Center for Science, Technology, and Congress; Research Competitiveness; Science and Human Rights; the Dialogue between Science and Religion; and Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law.

A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

He emphasized health care heavily and mentioned he also said it could be great in the fields of law, in governments, anytime where you have an incredible database of facts that you need to be able to draw on very quickly and get answers to in human language.

Traditional Jewish law dictates that graves should not be opened, and these observers feel uneasy about researchers digging near killing sites where human remains might be disturbed, although they may recognize the historical value of doing so.

What it gets right: Of any film on the list, I, Robot addresses Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics most directly: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

However, the United States has no law against human cloning, because Congress has not agreed where the line should be drawn.

That court referred the case to the European Court of Justice, asking it to decide several questions, including what the E.U. law means when it refers to «human embryos,» and whether the ban also covers patents that don't involve embryos directly but where the use of embryos «is a necessary precondition» for the covered process or product.

This sentiment was echoed at a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition (16 - 17 July), where an undercurrent of discontent stemmed from a perceived lack of government leadership in the area, says Jessica Wyndham, associate director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program.

Christian Mingle is being sued for a violation of human rights law in California, where same - sex marriage is legal.

He is currently the Matheson and Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and the Weber Research Professor of Civil Liberties and Human Rights at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served...

Within this perspective, Paul Weis describes refugees as «a vessel on the open sea, not sailing under any flag ’23 while Hannah Arendt observed that refugees are without rights because each nation - state has primary obligation to protect the rights, interests and expectations of its own citizens first, no matter where they are.24 However, both international and national refugee laws are adopted with the sole aim to ensure entitlement of the basic rights, proclaimed under a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and peace.

Over 80 percent of unwanted dogs are born in nations in which animals are not protected under the law and where rabies is a genuine human health threat.

The anti-tethering law prevents dogs from being kept outside where they may be able to break free and (cause cruelty to humans?

Those in favor of horse slaughter have insisted horse slaughter should resume because they claim U.S. humane laws protect horses from cruelty, unlike Mexico and Canada where American horses are now sent to be slaughtered for human consumption in France, Belgium and some other countries.

Although these animals have been living outdoors in close proximity to humans for 8,000 to 10,000 years, leash laws allow animal control to pick them up and bring them to pounds and shelters where virtually 100 % of them will be killed.

Upgrade the current commercial dog breeder law, requiring larger enclosures that have solid flooring and are not stacked Require that commercial breeders provide basic care, including constant access to exercise areas, nutritious food and potable water, socialization with humans and other dogs, regular and proper veterinary care, and more Require those selling 15 or more dogs in Ohio each year, regardless of where they are located, to also adhere to Ohio's humane standards Hobby breeders (defined as breeders with fewer than 8 female breeding dogs) as well as animal shelters and rescue groups are exempt from coverage.

Strategic and well resourced safety net programs should be in place to enable and encourage collaboration between key agencies (animal shelters, rescues, veterinarians, law enforcement, human service providers, food banks and policy makers) to identify situations where keeping pets and people together may be the best course of action and ensure that vital services are provided to accomplish this goal.

Backers of the bill hope that it fills gaps in the animal protection law, and sends a message to Asian countries where dog meat is still consumed, including South Korea and China, where the annual Yulin festival in China sees thousands of dogs and cats are publicly killed and skinned, and their meat marketed for human consumption.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

Nate conflates problems of prediction in the realm of human behavior — where there are no fundamental governing «laws» and any «predictions» are potentially laden with subjective and untestable assumptions — with problems such as climate change, which are governed by laws of physics, like the greenhouse effect, that are true whether or not you choose to believe them.»

Where does the NY Times get off with a blanket statement like the absurd «in the rural West, the right of humans to dominate nature is as deep - rooted as the laws of physics.»

The designation has no force of law, but is aimed at building and promoting a network of places where people are attempting to mesh human activity with biological and scenic assets.