Global Witness today appealed to
the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to release human rights activist Golden Misabiko without delay ahead of a court hearing due to take place on Wednesday.
In an effort to deal with rampant corruption and rising deforestation,
the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reviewed and canceled some 60 % of logging contracts in the country.
Not exact matches
Despite any talk
of a
democratic ICON
Republic, in the long run it's hard to imagine the voting rights being dominated by anything other than large financial institutions or
governments.
A legal and technical team representing the major mining companies operating in the
Democratic Republic of Congo has arrived in Kinshasa for talks with the
government on its new mining... Read more»
Yet the Ugandan
government's army is hardly innocent
of atrocities either, having displaced, tortured, and killed numerous civilians in Uganda as well as in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
One
of the primary reasons that our
government was set up as a
Democratic Republic (as opposed to a pure democracy) was to «protect the minority from the tyranny
of the majority».
The citizens
of this
democratic republic are deemed to lack the competence for self -
government.
When the nation was established as a
democratic republic, the people
of the former English colonies, acting in their various constitutional conventions, transferred all governing power to their states and to the federal
government, reserving for themselves only certain rights and powers they previously claimed to enjoy as subjects
of the British Crown.
In other forms
of government, perhaps the role is to provide all necessities for its citizens, but not in a
democratic republic.
In a classic article for the New
Republic (November 9, 1974), Morgenthau now paints a gloomy picture
of the «decline
of democratic government» and offers no insight as to how it can be restored.
I also believe that citizens in a
democratic republic have a responsibility to support
government attempts to meet the basic human needs
of the destitute.
whatever the
democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a
republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all
of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller
government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth
The
government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo is the most awful
government in the fourth
republic, Koku Anyidoho, Deputy General Secretary
of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC), has said.
The reaction among scholars, activists, journalists, bloggers and PanAfricanists was immediate in identifying the inaccuracies, exaggerations and oversimplifications, which addresses «crimes... from a bygone era» as a tool to cultivate American military support (read intervention) for the Ugandan
government, «a repressive dictatorial regime» responsible for looting, rape and atrocities in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
It stretches from the more aristocratic strands, which maintain that liberal
republics with representative
government, the rule
of law and the separation
of powers, are a sufficient guard against domination; to the more
democratic ones, which want genuine popular control over political institutions.
The Federal
Government may sanction Kenya Airways for conveying a corpse from the Ebola - affected
Democratic Republic of Congo to Nigeria.
Her comments echo those
of Tony Blair, who said this morning: «I condemn this completely irresponsible act by the
government of the DPRK [
Democratic People's
Republic of Korea].
Romania's political framework is a semi-presidential, representative
democratic republic where the prime minister is the head
of government and the president is...
The National Organizer
of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused the President
of the
Republic, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo, of peddling falsehood about the state of the economy he inherited from the previous administration According to Kofi Adams, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government took over the most stable economy of any administration in the fourth r
Republic, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo,
of peddling falsehood about the state
of the economy he inherited from the previous administration According to Kofi Adams, the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
government took over the most stable economy
of any administration in the fourth
republicrepublic.
The U.S. guarantees that each
of its states will have a «republican form
of government», but not a «people's
democratic republic».
«Andrew is very smartly charming and engaging this campaign - finance coalition, partly because it includes money people like Soros and Sean Eldridge and the good -
government groups, partly because he doesn't want to be attacked from the left,» a
Democratic strategist says (Eldridge, a possible congressional candidate, is also the husband
of multimillionaire New
Republic owner Chris Hughes).
The
Democratic Republic of Congo has moved to increase taxes on mining firms and increase
government royalties from the industry despite fierce opposition from international mining companies.
His first job was to produce banners for the
government of German
Democratic Republic, but during his time there, he never actually painted any
of the banners and was rather charged with cleaning the old ones and preparing them for his colleagues.
As I report for The Times on Tuesday, the
Democratic Republic of Congo and the Bonobo Conservation Initiative (supplied in part with some some conservation money from the United States
government) are establishing an 11,803 - square - mile preserve that is aimed at protecting a substantial population
of the apes, along with other rare wildlife.
Local communities,
Democratic Republic of Congo
government representatives, WWF, and others met earlier this year to discuss plans for a forest conservation program in Maï - Ndombe.
The recently - elected parliament
of the
Democratic Republic of Congo, and the new
government, should make wide - ranging changes to how mineral, oil and forest resources are managed, said Global Witness in a new briefing published today.
Global Witness calls upon the UK
Government to hold British company Afrimex to account for fuelling conflict in the
Democratic Republic of Congo Press release - 21/02/2007
More than 130 park rangers have been killed in various conflicts between
government and rebel forces in the
Democratic Republic of Congo since 1996.
BONN, Germany — A few weeks ago, international scientists,
government officials and forest advocates visiting a remote community in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed the presence
of...
This case follows on from the recent judgment in Sanum Investments Ltd v
Government of the Lao People's
Democratic Republic [2016] SGCA 57, in which the Singapore Court
of Appeal found that an investor - State arbitral tribunal did have jurisdiction to hear claims against the
Government of Laos.
The situation here is not parallel to that which prevailed in the Court
of Final Appeal
of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in
Democratic Republic of Congo and others v FG Hemisphere Associates LLC [2011] HK CFAR 395, where the Basic Law required all issues
of «acts
of state such as defence and foreign affairs» to be determined by the PRC and for certificates to be obtained from the Chief Executive after obtaining a certifying document from that
government.
Mauritius is a parliamentary representative,
democratic Republic with the President as the Head
of State and the Prime Minister as the Head
of Government.
What is unique about her practice is that she has had repeated success in acquiring exploration rights in countries new to the E&P industry such as São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and Southern Sudan where she successfully negotiated with
governments to assure their newly created oil and gas practices align with industry standards for the benefit
of her clients.
Despite any talk
of a
democratic ICON
Republic, in the long run it's hard to imagine the voting rights being dominated by anything other than large financial institutions or
governments.