Samantha Power is the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council.
Rahim Kanani is founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary, where he authors articles on international affairs and social change, and interviews global leaders on topics such as human rights, development, security, philanthropy, innovation, education, and more.
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Water affects all living systems and many things we need: energy generation, biodiversity, food security, human rights, health, sanitation.
NGOs and big energy and mining companies, have signed up to a set of Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.
Fourth, our joint vision reaffirms our role as global partners bound by shared values and committed to international peace, security and human rights.
Ray Haynes, would create a task force to review potential foreign investment by California's state employee and teacher pension funds and alert the funds of national security and human rights concerns.
In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Mr. McDonough will conduct meetings with President Porfirio Lobo, members of his cabinet, and civil society representatives to discuss citizen security, human rights and economic development efforts between the United States and Honduras.
The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights was established in 2000 as a code of conduct for oil, gas, and mining companies, to maintain the safety of their staff and assets while avoiding human rights violations.
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For me, we find those common values and shared principles in the United Nations Charter, as well as the body of international agreements that are the foundation of our common quest for development, peace and security and human rights.
This event capped the four-day annual gathering of the National Foundation for Women Legislators, in the course of which the Casey Chair also briefed dozens of female legislators during individual Committee meetings regarding this new, urgent national security and human rights challenge.
And individual investors, investment banks, fund-managers and particularly public pension funds should expand their "due diligence" assessments to include national security, human rights and other appropriate non-financial considerations so that the American people -- six out of ten of whom are now reportedly in the capital markets -- have the data required to make informed investment decisions.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
The two presidents discussed cooperation between the U.S. and Colombia on counternarcotics, security, and human rights.
The Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing suggests that the State of California and its public employee retirement funds may play a critical role in fashioning a template for a truly national effort to introduce new national security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" into debt and equity purchasing decisions.
If we want to prevent more situations like Syria, we must work closely with Congress to protect or increase funding for the State Department's Conflict Stabilization Operations and the Complex Crises Fund, international organizations, transition initiatives, and programs focused on access to justice, governance and security reform, human rights and social inclusion.
Arguably, the least disruptive approach -- which would not impede the free flow of capital into and out of the United States and minimize the need for government intervention -- would be the voluntary adoption of new security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" by U.S. investment banks and fund managers, including those in California.
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The task going forward will be to extend this modus operandi to more traditional challenges, including those of peace and security, development and human rights.
Earlier this month, Serbia rejected an agreement proposal because the terms did not "guarantee full security and protection of human rights to the Serb people in Kosovo".
As the Santos administration works toward a resolution of the conflict, the United States reaffirms its longstanding defense and security partnership with Colombia and its commitment to work with Colombia to promote citizen security, respect for human rights, and economic prosperity for all its people.
For peace and security, for development and human rights, the United Nations will be with you every step of the way.
Home Office minister Lord West of Spithead warned of "problems" with the European Court of Human Rights if the proposals in the Crime and Security Bill are rejected.
The expulsion comes a week after Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin in the latest effort to patch up a relationship jarred by disputes over issues from European security and Mideast uprisings to human rights.
The court ruled there had been a violation of Article 5 (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The joint declaration included five annexes dealing with security normalisation, policing and justice, human rights and equality, on-the-run paramilitaries and mechanisms to verify and monitor any deal.
Britain views Qatada, also known as Omar Othman, as a national security threat, but the European Court of Human Rights barred the country from deporting him because evidence gained from torture could be used against him in Jordan, where he has been convicted in absentia of involvement in terrorist conspiracies.
The members of the Security Council reaffirmed the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and all obligations under international law, in particular international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.
The UK-based Emirates Centre for Human Rights (ECHR) said Mr Zumer was driving a car in Sharjah when it was stopped by security personnel.
"It seems to me inconsistent that we wouldn't want to help this federal government now start to move forward with the very real difficult challenges of security sector reform, training the armed forces, building their capacity, building their understanding of human rights obligations, " he says.
Policy. (a) Recognizing that gender-based violence undermines not only the safety, dignity, and human rights of the millions of individuals who experience it, but also the public health, economic stability, and security of nations, it is the policy and practice of the executive branch of the United States Government to have a multi-year strategy that will more effectively prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally.
And just as the United States has stood with you in your long search for security, we will support efforts in Turkey to uphold the rule of law and good governance and human rights for all.
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