Sentences with phrase «worked as a human rights»

(Tangent: I spent most of college and law school working on progressive, feminist, anti-racist issues and worked as a human rights lawyer before moving into the world of food.)

Many of those attacks have been based on Khan's work as a human rights lawyer, when he represented (in his own words) some «pretty unsavoury characters».

Since 1981 — Kennedy has worked as a human rights activist — leading delegations into places such as El Salvador — Gaza — Haiti — Kenya — Northern Ireland — and South Korea.

The son of a bus driver, Mr Khan worked as a human rights solicitor before becoming an MP in 2005.

Since 1981 — Kennedy has worked as a human rights activist...

Gottfried has also worked as a human rights advocate, traveling to the Soviet Union during the Cold War to meet with dissidents.

Understanding of the global context and its interconnections to your own, together with different tools available facilitating the information and communication flows represent the basis of your work as a human rights educator and as an activist.

Prior to her photographic journeys, she worked as a human rights activist, raising issues facing black lesbian women in South Africa.

Written by Jaya Harrar Lawyer Monthly had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Katherine Theodotou earlier this month; Katherine is an impressive professional who has not only had significant impact in the legal industry, but also in her work as a human rights activist.

In her impassioned lecture, Baroness Kennedy identified the theme of access to justice as common to both her work as a human rights advocate, and the commercial enterprise of third party litigation funding.

For the last ten years my research at Emory has focused on clinical studies through my pro bono work as a human rights attorney, representing immigrants and low income disenfranchised minority groups, and over the last six years as a part - time magistrate judge engaged in presiding over and supervising therapeutic criminal diversion programs designed to redress the traumatization of socially and economically marginalized minority young adults, whose socioeconomic condition contributed to their criminalization.

Lawyer Monthly had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Katherine Theodotou earlier this month; Katherine is an impressive professional who has not only had significant impact in the legal industry, but also in her work as a human rights activist.

During his doctoral studies, Dr. Khoday also worked as a human rights researcher at McGill University's Social Equity and Diversity Education Office.

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Since then, the firm has done work for such high - profile clients as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Paul Gross — directed film Hyena Road.

The report is yet another call to action for Canada to work with First Nations as partners to realize our human rights, including our Aboriginal and Treaty rights.»

As an employer, Edward Jones has been named among the «100 Best Companies to Work For» and «Best Workplaces for Parents» by Fortune magazine, as well as one of the Human Rights Campaign's «Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.&raquAs an employer, Edward Jones has been named among the «100 Best Companies to Work For» and «Best Workplaces for Parents» by Fortune magazine, as well as one of the Human Rights Campaign's «Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.&raquas well as one of the Human Rights Campaign's «Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.&raquas one of the Human Rights Campaign's «Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.»

2016.12.05 RBC businesses in the US recognized as «Best Place to Work for LGBT + Equality» by the Human Rights Campaign Seventh year the company achieved 100 percent on Corporate Equality Index...

During this milestone year, the tireless human rights organization celebrates its proudest achievements as it continues to prove its work is far from done.

2014.12.01 U.S. RBC businesses recognized as a» Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality» by The Human Rights Campaign Fifth year the company achieved 100 percent on Corporate Equality Index...

Yet while Prime Minister Harper said during his recent visit to China that his work as a vocal advocate of human rights in China is «paying dividends,» critics remarked no one important was listening.

For the sixth consecutive year, AIG has achieved a 100 % rating in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work for LGBT equality.

Earlier that same month, it received a perfect score as a «best place to work» for LGBTQ individuals from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

His focus falls on the way that human rights as an ideology detracts from the difficult and demanding work of politics.

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

The human being, has been expropriated of his basic rights: as a «human resource», he / she only has the right to exist as a function of profitability and of what is now known as «employability», a concept which has replaced that of the «right to work».

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?

While I find this situation as intolerable as any right thinking human being should, I find it interesting that when the victim is Christian so many Christians come out of the wood work.

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.

Indeed, in my decades of work around issues such as euthanasia, utilitarian bioethics, animal rights, transhumanism, and other associated agendas, I have found that the more one rejects human exceptionalism, the more likely one is to declare that immoral and (still) illegal wrongs — like infanticide — are virtuous.

Both fought for the right of all people to be treated as human beings, able to live and work where they choose.

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

Hasan is to be praised for this groundbreaking work, and anyone interested in oriental Christianity, as well as in questions of human rights and religious freedom, ought to read it.

Since the incursion of sin it is also necessary that through the same human nature of God in his Divine Person, there should be given the perfect vehicle too of reconciliation and restoration, not only as a fact, but as an ontological work in the real order, in the living order, in its own right» (p. 240)

That implies, of course, that human beings as human beings have rights, and much of the most creative work of Enlightenment thinkers has been spelling out these rights.

Our story has allowed us to become organizers, and we started a series of dinners called #Right2Work as a way to advocate that working is a human right, regardless of immigration status.

And as the vice-director of Human Rights in Childbirth, I work to establish women's fundamental right to make decisions about their bodies and babies, a right that I've always been quick to say must reach beyond courtrooms and hospitals into our daily conversations and experiences.

One of the first places to look for information on your rights when returning to work as a new mom is to talk to your Human Relations representative.

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Four British Christians - Nadia Eweida, Shirley Chaplin, Lilian Ladele and Gary McFarlane — heard their ruling at the European court of human rights on a variety of concerns which can be summarised as «religious rights at work».

Humanist MP Michael Connarty has been working closely with the BHA and the European Humanist Federation in his role as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — a forum within the Council of Europe that provides an opportunity for representatives from member states to discuss human rights issues.

Clegg lives in Woodstock and has worked as a civil rights attorney and serves as chair of the Ulster County Human Rights Commirights attorney and serves as chair of the Ulster County Human Rights CommiRights Commission.

Laski's main political role came as a writer and lecturer on every topic of concern to the left, including socialism, capitalism, working conditions, eugenics, woman suffrage, imperialism, decolonisation, disarmament, human rights, worker education, and Zionism.

Following what he described as the public's concern about the less than professional working ethic, unorthodox dress code and accusation of flagrant abuse of human rights its operations,...

Following what he described as the public's concern about the less than professional working ethic, unorthodox dress code and accusation of flagrant abuse of human rights its operations, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, yesterday launched a rebranded, re-kitted and re-equipped Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and the new Nigeria Police Complaint Response unit (CRU).

«Standing as an independent candidate, for the values of democracy and human rights which I have worked to promote worldwide, I have made a start.

The statement read in part, «Abubakar had extensive experience working with the United Nations in peace support operations, mediation process, preventive diplomacy and good offices, as well as the promotion of good governance and respect for the rule of law and human rights.

Following what he described as the public's concern about the less than professional working ethic, unorthodox dress code and accusation of flagrant abuse of human rights its operations, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, yesterday launched a rebranded, re-kitted -LSB-...]

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

I also welcome the continued work of my right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) in her capacity as the Prime Minister's Envoy for Human Rights in Iraq on the protection of minority communities.»