Sentences with phrase «as members of the civil society»

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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.

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.

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:9 9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.

Civil societies, for example, are relatively self - sustaining totalities, unified fields of activity for their human members; but they can not be considered even metaphorically as substances without the concomitant danger of totalitarianism, i.e., the radical subordination of individuals to the social whole.

Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.

Significantly, alongside this theological development the term person had also evolved in the secular sphere, and had come to be applied to all members of society with civil and legal rights, to all who could be designated as actors in the drama of public life.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

As a founding member of CISLAC, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), and other Civil Society Organizations, Prof. Momoh had excelled by voluntarily offering holistic and tremendous supports for the establishment and sustenance of the Centers.

Alan taught the first - ever college course on digital politics (1995), created and built the Center for American Progress's social media program (2007 - 13) and has trained more than 15,000 people across the world in digital & social media strategy, including civil society leaders across the Arab world in 2009; key staff at leading advocacy groups and news media outlets; Members of Congress and their staff; as well as political and business leaders from several countries, including a couple future kings.

Political parties are often described as institutionalised mediators between civil society and the formal government of the state - they enable their members» and supporters» demands to be represented in government.

[19] The party is also considering a list led by a member of civil society or the left who has «not ceded to the liberal temptation», with Christiane Taubira considered as a possibility to fill this role.

He charged critical stakeholders such as the members of the National Assembly, civil society organisations and the media not to abdicate their roles of defending and promoting the noble ideals of democracy even in the face of constant threats and intimidation.

Addressing the members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) UK branch, former President John Mahama slammed Civil Society Organizations, religious and traditional leaders for keeping mute over happenings in the Akufo - Addo government, and further bemoaned what he described as the hypocrisy in Ghana politics.

On June 9, as part of our organizational membership on the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) SHRC (Science and Human Rights Coalition), the Society conducted a member - only webinar entitled «Civil Engineering and Human Rights - What's the Connection?»

As Yeb and his delegation left the Plenary Hall, members of civil society were then asked to walk with him in solidarity to his speech at the Third World Network side event on loss and damage.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

The Dialogue, co-sponsored by Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - Cameroon (BDCPC), Cameroon Ecology, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED), and WRI's Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI), provided a forum for government and civil society members to talk frankly about strengthening governance as part of Cameroon's REDD + program.

We, not only as a class but also members of civil society thought a lot about how we were going to judge the final outcome of COP21 because

IPCC Bureau members and authors will participate in workshops as part of the three - day outreach event, attended by policymakers, practitioners, scientists, civil society, business and media representatives from South Asia.

The interpretation of «contributions» in the Warsaw outcome as having an open nature is inconsistent with the demand of many members of civil society, and the African Group position, that Annex I Parties (read: the so - called developed world) will take on economy - wide legally binding commitments.

As a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) and several other high level policy fora, we work with representatives of governments, the private sector, and civil society to promote effective carbon pricing policies that deliver emissions reductions while encouraging innovation and protecting the rights of those affected.

We are a member of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) as well as the International Coalition for Sustainable Aviation, and the Clean Shipping Coalition, civil society observer groups that monitor negotiations in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respecticivil society observer groups that monitor negotiations in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respectiCivil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respectively.

In many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bar.

Perhaps because that state is the home of a large number of devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a.k.a. Mormons, and churches of all stripes care about such things as marriage — and sometimes hold beliefs about them that are at odds with those of civil society.

As a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and inductee into the International Society of Barristers, Eric Kahn handles a broad spectrum of significant and complex claim including automobile negligence, trucking accident, construction site accidents, product liability claims, medical malpractice cases, and claims against public entities.

While in law school, he served as editor - in - chief of the Nova Law Review, was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, and received Book Awards for Contracts, Civil Procedure, Legal Research & Writing («LSV») I, LSV II, Property, Constitutional Law II, Agency, Professional Responsibility, Travel Law, Interviewing & Counseling, and Will Drafting.

In recognition of her work as a member of a team of lawyers who brought an unprecedented civil rights class action against New York City to end the use of excessive force against inmates at Rikers Island and other New York City jails, Ms. Enenajor was honoured with a 2014 Pro Bono Publico Award by the New York Legal Aid Society.

During law school, she served as staff editor of the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, as president of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society, and as a member of Youth Court, helping at - risk youths from entering the school - to - prison pipeline.

The Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association was founded in the Spring of 1986 as a non-profit society dedicated to the objectives of advancing the science of jurisprudence, training in all fields and phases of advocacy, upholding the honour and dignity of the profession of law, encouraging brotherhood and sisterhood among the members of the bar, upholding and improving the adversary system and trial by jury, and promoting the administration of justice and the public good.