Sentence examples for right to livelihood from inspiring English sources

In exchange for the right to vote, it snatched away their right to livelihood and dignity.

The Street Vendors' Act was prompted by the constitutional right to livelihood, but it would have spelled the death of the unique colony.

The dump they worked at was shut down last year, as part of a reorganisation of waste disposal that has already seen three contracts given to private firms.Adriana Ruiz, the lawyer who represented the wastepickers, argued that taking away their access to garbage violated their right to livelihood and life.

Reactions: "This law criminalises trans women, and this and similar laws in Malaysia deprive trans women of fundamental human rights, including right to self determination, right to live with dignity, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, right to livelihood, among others," says Thilaga Sulathireh from Malaysian trans rights group Justice for Sisters.

The group, called Plural, asked a question that has been missing in all these decades of discussion: "How would residents envision their future if they had their rights?" The rights being denied to them, argued Plural, are the right to entitlement, the right to participate and the right to livelihood.

To top it, we pretend, we are granting them a right to livelihood.

In recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rights to livelihoods, education, food, health, housing and water are affected by the actions of corporations on a daily basis.

The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood".

The bigger municipality, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, has done away entirely with such actors and their right to a livelihood.

The human right to an adequate livelihood, including the human right to adequate food, needs to be implemented worldwide in a systematic way.

Rosenhaus said there should be repercussions for what Burress did, "but not to the extent where he's denied his right to perform, his livelihood to play".