Sentences with phrase «as civil society»

It enjoys the full support of the City of Cape Town, as well as civil society organisations and many individual volunteers from across the city.

Perhaps we, as a civil society, can better understand the importance of family post separation or divorce, and acknowledge our family courts are still grossly failing noncustodial parents and their children.

A Melbourne GP with a strong interest in public health, she has just returned from 10 days in New York at the UN, as a civil society participant at negotiations between 120 - plus countries for an historic nuclear weapons ban treaty which is expected to be concluded on July 7.

Katitza is well known to many in global civil society and in international policy venues for her work at the U.N. Internet Governance Forum and her pivotal role in the creation and ongoing success of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, for which she served as the civil society liaison while at EPIC from 2008 to March 2010.

WHAT: NGO experts will brief media on the outcomes of the second UN climate negotiations of the year as well as civil society's expectations for the major talks of the year to be held in Warsaw in November.

It seems hard to believe that any of the scenarios would be acceptable to us as civil society if we are serious about dealing with climate change.

What are we to do as a civil society that could be much stronger than getting the Philippines message across through social media, giving speeches and chanting in solidarity with all developing countries in the halls and corridors of the UNFCCC?

As civil society, we must stand with those parties who are fighting to bring an adequate deal back to their people, and tell the story loud and honestly if and when they can't.

Misinformation, lopsided media attention and subtle messaging get across ideas that are harmful to the support we should be giving — as civil society — to constructive, responsible, ambitious policies.

But as civil society we must make it our imperative to acknowledge that and strive to support the fairest, most ambitious actions being taken at the UNFCCC today.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines claims that reducing the environmental requirements — weakening the country's environmental framework - will promote investment in the country, but environmental campaigners point out that key stakeholders such as civil society, indigenous peoples, and academics should be consulted about changes in laws that would affect forests and community lands - such as the proposed elimination of environmental impact assessments.

We, as civil society, need to demand differentiation with parties» long - term goals.

Holding a banner as a civil society demonstration of sympathy with a tragedy, under such emotional conditions, must be seen beyond the codified norm.

Clean coal is an extremely contentious issue amongst the member parties as well as civil society.

His gruesome murder in broad daylight has received strong condemnation by Ghanaians, including President Akufo - Addo and former presidents John Rawlings and John Mahama as well as civil society groups.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

We as a civil society organization has followed Lawyer Sosu's dedicated and spirited fight against injustice and breaches of fundamental rights of the vulnerable.

His comment invoked a public uproar with some Ghanaians as well as civil society organizations calling on the president to fire him.

«The purpose of my visit is also to explain certain government policies and initiatives to very important stakeholders including the chiefs, religious leaders as well as civil society organisations whose contributions matter a lot in the implementation of such policies and initiatives,» she explained.

Earlier in his own speech, Comrade Celestine Akpobari, the Coordinator of Ogoni Solidarity Forum, said that he had not been a partisan person and that as a civil society activist, he supports Ogoni interest and cause.

A time for Britons to stand up, take pride, and watch as civil society completely collapses around them.

The app, which government said cost the country $ 2.5 million, has been criticized by some experts in the technology space, as well as some civil society organizations.

Meanwhile, there have been indications that the action may be scuttled by its affiliates as well as civil society organisations in the country.

The IMF's technocratic criticism of the country's finances was never the same as civil society's attack on corruption.

We as a civil society have laws that everyone including organizations must follow.

«We have failed as a civil society by not confronting the historical, social, and political demons within us,» a Pakistani businessman wrote in a letter to the Pakistan daily the Nation.

This reported situation is one of many shameful incidents in what we would like to refer as a civil society.

... we as a civil society have generally said yes it is.

Not exact matches

As IBMers, we have learned, through era after era, that the path forward — for innovation, for prosperity, and for civil society — is the path of engagement and openness to the world.

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil - rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to «fix what ain't right» in our society.»

In testifying before Congress, Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Program for the American Civil Liberties Union, has cited biometrics as yet another example of America's movement toward becoming «a surveillance society.»

By the Civil War's end, the United States had begun its shift from a disjointed agrarian society to an industrialized one knit together by corporate and financial organizations as much as by democratic ones.

These charities all help strengthen American civil society by promoting private initiatives rather than government programs as the solution to the most pressing issues of the day.

He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership with civil society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.

In light of this refusal to respond seriously to the substantiated and well - researched concerns of civil society, the members of the Trade Justice Network can not accept this empty and meaningless Declaration as anything more than public relations.

As the third round of NAFTA negotiations are set to begin in Ottawa, civil society groups will be holding their own meetings.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

Given this, it is nothing less than our obligation, as fully participating members of civil society, to continue alerting Canadians to these cuts and their impacts, all too often hidden from view through omnibus budget bills and government «feel good» misinformation.

However Christians demand that society accept the existence of their god as fact and validate their religious dogmas by incorporating them into civil law.

Of particular interest is his claim that» as a consequence of the judicial usurpation of politics and the corruption of civil society» the constitutional order of the U.S. is dead and can not be revived.

And he could be serious about his faith, as well: In reply to Garry Wills» claim that «being Catholic always mattered more to him than being conservative,» Buckley responded, «If he meant he has a higher loyalty to God than to civil society, then the answer is obvious: God has to be preeminent.»

In the Enlightenment view of the world, ethical issues regularly get reduced to issues of civil liberties, which is increasingly being shown to be a far too simplistic category to guide society in dealing with such complex moral problems as incest, abortion, divorce, and substance abuse.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

Moreover, as nation - builders and development NGOs have discovered, one can not simply create the space for civil society in a foreign country and trust that it will emerge.

It is no coincidence that the American political scientist who has written most extensively on Ibero - Latin corporatism, Howard Wiarda, also wrote an exasperated book aimed at would - be exporters of American - style democracy called Civil Society, which would better have been called Against Civil Society as Tocqueville Understood It.

The same imprecision has long made it difficult to assess the health of American civil society, as was evident in the backlash against Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone.

He is suspicious of civil society and sees Christianity as a threat: It is the largest force in China outside the Communist party.

When the family disintegrates, social welfare programs multiply» and as they grow, civil society weakens.