Sentence examples for human rights code from inspiring English sources

Ontario added sexual orientation to its human rights code in 1986.

The human rights judges are not insisting that all prisoners have the right to vote, declaring only that it is a blanket ban on such a right that breaches the human rights code.

However, many Canadians, gay and heterosexual, are unmoved by Mr. Day's newly moderate image, recalling that as a provincial minister he advocated excluding gays and lesbians from protection under Alberta's human rights code.

Doing this in a way that doesn't violate every human rights code in the book is a lot more expensive than paying them benefit, so there'd be no temptation to do it for financial reasons.

On the Pacific coast, the Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia recently found Walter Gray, Mayor of Kelowna, an interior city, guilty of violating the province's human rights code for omitting the word "Pride" when he proclaimed a municipal Lesbian and Gay Day.

The British Columbia supreme court in Vancouver recently overturned an earlier decision of the human rights tribunal that Vancouver Rape Relief had breached the human rights code when it refused to allow Kimberley Nixon, a male to female transsexual, to train as a counsellor of female rape victims.

These organisations had developed and enshrined their own human rights codes: this was their first test and they were failing.

However, new forms of liability have emerged, through litigation under general human rights codes or specific regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Thursday's protest group also called for world football bodies, including Fifa, to live up to their own human rights codes, and for the UNHCR to do more to help Al-Araibi as they had done for Qunun.

"Given the body of case law that already exists across the country and even the different human rights codes, one has to wonder why Quebec felt a need to address specifically in a piece of legislation the issue of face coverings".

Fifa and the Asian Football Confederation hold enormous sway in the region and, following revelations of migrant abuse in Qatar during preparations for the World Cup, had created their own human rights codes which obliged executives to use all available means and leverage to protect the human rights of players.