Sentences with phrase «for humanitarian projects»

Then it was adapted for humanitarian projects such as emergency shelters during the Gulf Wars.

Via Gizmag More on Water Purification for Rural Areas Five Poverty - Fighting Clean Water Projects and Designs Sponsor a Lifestraw Family Water Filter with Project H Design All - Purpose Water Filters For Humanitarian Projects Emily Pilloton Discusses the Hippo Roller and other Designs for Humanity (Part Two)

Contributions include discussions on racial disparities in special education placements, the intersection of disability with other identity variables such as gender and sexuality; the exploitation of disabled bodies to generate resources for humanitarian projects; and suggestions for how a human rights framework can promote inclusivity and better health outcomes.

Join us on a guided tour for families followed by the workshop «To live in darkness» developed by Studio Olafur Eliasson for the humanitarian project Little Sun.

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This structure gave the company, its clients and its employees, the mechanism for allocating their donations to humanitarian and development projects in Africa, run by the direct partner, Africa Directo.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints provides relief and development projects for humanitarian purposes in countries all over the world.

MASIPAG however, believes that Golden Rice is only intended to project a clean and wholesome image for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and make it acceptable, since Golden Rice is aimed for so - called «humanitarian purposes.»

We also support humanitarian natural disaster relief projects around the world for those in need of clean water.

«I'm absolutely delighted, and I think it's a very compelling story,» says Drake, whose team developed the new strain for the Humanitarian Rice Board which runs the golden rice project at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Because of Operation Dear Abby, we have been motivated to develop a project that has become an enormously rewarding educational, humanitarian and patriotic experience for everyone involved.

There is also a blatant lack of involvement of groups of people with disabilities (DPOs) in planning, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian projects, as well as a limited number of technical experts on inclusion working for mainstream organisations.

Historically, international agreements and frameworks related to humanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable grhumanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable grHumanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable groups.»

Humanitarian actors should ensure, for instance, that specific consultation meetings are held with persons with disabilities for the planning, implementation or evaluation stages of a given project.

This «new wave» of documents includes: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (the Hyogo Framework's successor), the Sustainable Development Goals (the successor of the MDGs), and the Core Humanitarian Standards (the Project SPHERE's successor).

ALIMA is committed to developing more research partnerships in its humanitarian projects, because this is how we will raise the quality of medical practice for all.»

The research was conducted in a malnutrition project run by the medical humanitarian organisation The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) and its Burkinabe partners Keoogo and SOS Médecins.

«I'm absolutely delighted, and I think it's a very compelling story,» says Drake, whose team developed the new strain for the Humanitarian Rice Board which runs the golden rice project at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

The Consortium, led by PILPG, includes stakeholders with extensive experience working across multiple sectors in human rights documentation, including: the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Humanitarian Law Center; the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience; OutRight Action International; Physicians for Human Rights; The SecDev Foundation; SecDev Cyber; the International Bar Association's EyeWitness to Atrocities project; and Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

He has received several awards, including the 1994 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin; the University of California, Berkeley, «National Public Health Hero» award; the Jan J. Kellermann Memorial Award for distinguished contribution in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention from the International Academy of Cardiology; a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association; the inaugural «Lifetime Achievement Award» from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; the Beckmann Medal from the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases; a U.S. Surgeon General Citation; the «Pioneer in Integrative Medicine» award from California Pacific Medical Center; the Stanley Wallach Lectureship Award from the American College of Nutrition; the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement; the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine; the Glenn Foundation Award for Research; the Bravewell Collaborative Pioneer of Integrative Medicine award; and the Sheila Kar Health Foundation Humanitarian Award from Cedars - Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles); the Plantrician Project Luminary Award.

While teenaged daughter Stephanie (Lauryn Canny) is using her mom's old photos for a school project, Rebecca gets an offer to work in a safe refugee camp in Kenya, where she'll document the humanitarian efforts.

The Yes Men's brilliant lies unlock explosive satirical truths, but the film runs out of steam a bit toward the end, as the duo decides to take its project to an inevitable conclusion by pretending to disband the WTO, ostensibly for humanitarian reasons.

Additionally Goldwyn co-chairs the Artists» Committee for the Innocence Project, is an Ambassador for the humanitarian relief organization AmeriCares and is a Trustee for the 2nd Stage Theater.

Projects such as the Humanitarian Leadership Academy and the Norwegian Refugee Council's Frontline Humanitarian Toolbox, designed specifically for aid workers in Syria, are working to boost capacity via online courses.

I also provide voice services for documentaries, humanitarian causes, meditation, inspiration projects.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Bringing together newly commissioned essays from leading activists, curators, and humanitarians, extensive photographic documentation, and an array of archival materials, the catalogues will serve as the comprehensive record for this groundbreaking exhibition and provide readers with an expanded historical and political context for the project.

In her project Borders and Boundaries, embroidery artist Danielle Clough — featured previously — weaved a beautiful colourful bird into wired fencing, as commissioned by United Nations for the lead up to its first World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul today.

A humanitarian and philanthropist, Knight is devoted to various worthy causes, including the American Diabetes Association, for which she is a national spokesperson, the American Cancer Society, the Boys & Girls Club of America, the Minority AIDS Project, amfAR and Crisis Intervention.

Green Planet is a «not for profit» organization focused on the principles of researching projects that are commercially viable whilst providing humanitarian and environmental benefit to a world in need.

Researching the growing, harvesting and processing of kenaf and fund raising for a humanitarian rural agriculture project that will advance kenaf worldwide and assist many more farmers and communities than just those included in the project

Through his worldwide contacts and experience he is able to assist his clients in making the best use of funds for commercial, humanitarian and environmental projects.

This is our philosophy, creating projects that work with nature whilst creating sustainable returns either for the recipients of humanitarian grants or commercial entities.

You can change it for the World Community Grid and let the processing power of your computer be available to researchers working on humanitarian projects.

Such a bold and humanitarian action by the world's religions acting in unison is certain to catalyze a public debate over how we can integrate societal choices, as prioritized under UN's sustainable development goals, into sustainable economic development pathways for the 21st century, with projected population of 10 billion or more.

WASHINGTON — In response to the measured and projected effects of climate change, U.S. naval forces should begin now to strengthen capabilities in the Arctic, prepare for more frequent humanitarian missions, and analyze potential vulnerabilities of seaside bases and facilities, says a new report by the National Research Council.

Such widespread, free distribution is central to the project's plans for achieving its humanitarian goals.

On the Copenhagen Consensus, one year's interest on Obama's $ 5 trillion more debt would have paid for ALL the top 16 global humanitarian projects — and what did we get for that enormous sum into government with the debt on our children?

There's been a groundswell of do - good capitalism (green start - up companies, big business switching to green practices), a crop of investment houses featuring only sustainability and humanitarian projects, and many for - profit social enterprises popping up.

In the test case that came before the Supreme Court in 2010, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Court held that it was constitutional to prohibit a group of humanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri LHumanitarian Law Project, the Court held that it was constitutional to prohibit a group of humanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lhumanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka.»

The NYT's Room for Debate features commentary from Georgetown Law Professor David Cole (who represented the Humanitarian Law Project) as well as law professors Stephen Vladeck, Richard Epstein and others.

Intel sent Dan overseas for 3 years to lead an international legal team, and he recently served on a South African humanitarian project for Intel.

The DLI has succeeded the LCA's original foundation concept as its primary vehicle for humanitarian and charitable legal projects.

Blockchain «banking for the bankless» project Humaniq has opened up a London office, growing and internationalising their team of banking, finance, business and humanitarian experts in advance of their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fundraising which launches on April 6, 2017.

She voluntarily served with the Lions club, offering humanitarian services, innovated, managed and actively performed various projects, and officially served for the positions of; the Club's Financial Secretary, Secretary and served as the Club's First Vice President and Intending President.

Oversee Humanitarian projects for East Regional Command in Afghanistan, and conduct Humanitarian Operations with joint and multinational, military and civilian organizations Provided Operations and Research Systems Analysis on Improvised Explosive Devices by conducting trend analysis on activity within the area of operation as conducted in Division and Brigade Combat Team; deployed in support of CENTCOM in Operation Iraq Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Agencies often see parents fundraise for or even create projects of humanitarian aid in their child's country of origin.

During past 4 years we have conducted several research projects in ST including the Grant (first official grant in Russia for ST research) from the Russian Federal Humanitarian Fund.

Matching Grants: Matching grants (previously called standard grants), are for larger - scale humanitarian projects that address unmet needs.

The success of the project will encourage a redirection of existing humanitarian aid, excite new donors, and provide a working model for local government support.