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The World Justice Challenge is supported in part by the Roderick B. Mathews Opportunity Fund, named for a founding Officer of the World Justice Project as well as its treasurer.

She held this position until October of 1995 when as a result of a statewide restructuring plan, she left to launch the Northwest Justice Project as the Director of > read more

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Between 2011 and 2016, Acapulco had homicide rates above 100 per 100,000 people five times and had the highest rate in the country five times as well, according to the Justice in Mexico project.

But for good measure, and given the risk of appeal, Justice Macintosh went on to give his reasons denying Burnaby's application and for supporting the NEB's reasoning in its Ruling No. 40 concluding (at para 80) that «under both... paramountcy and interjurisdictional immunity... Burnaby is precluded from seeking to apply its bylaws so as to impede or block any steps Trans Mountain must take in order to safely prepare and locate the Expansion Project.»

Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

I propose that in this particular issue, where the church has had a marvellous opportunity to project itself into the public sphere as an institution that can be trusted, and to proclaim in deed the gospel of justice and restoration, the church's actions have contradicted its gospel message.

I've been focusing on justice this month, both in preparation for my trip to Bolivia and as part of the biblical womanhood project.

Evangelicals of a social - justice bent have mounted like - minded projects on a smaller scale, such as the Crossroads Program sponsored by Evangelicals for Social Action (seeded by Pew Trust money in 1992) and its ongoing series of publications on faith and public policy.

And believe it or not, the trip coincides perfectly with the womanhood project, as I plan to spend the month of July focusing on justice.

Please consider giving generously to support Food Empowerment Project's food justice work as we start 2018.

She works full time at the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Hickory as a Project Coordinator with at - risk youth and now, with the help of BGCA and Kimberly Clark, she will be enrolling in the University of Phoenix to pursue a career in the juvenile justice system helping at - risk kids.

She has projected calm, measured authority ever since she first came to people's attentions in 2013 as the Ukip byelection candidate in Eastleigh, following Chris Huhne's guilty plea for perverting the course of justice.

The former rookie cop convicted in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a housing - project stairwell dodged prison Tuesday — as his victim's angry kin warned that «justice...

The total cost for the design and construction of the Dutchess County Justice and Transiton Center, as well as the project definition for the new Youth Center, will total $ 192,150,000.

According to the Ministry of Justice, the prison population had not grown as fast as previously projected, with a prison population in January 2011 of 82,991 and a useable operational capacity of 87,936.

Billed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as a move toward environmental justice, the East 91st Street project has long gotten flak from locals — who claim it will bring pollution, noise, rats, and wreak havoc on the overall quality - of - life.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

Her close relationship with the mayor was a break with the political tradition she grew up in ---- as head of both the Housing Justice Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, as a protégé of Duane, who was an outspoken critic of Giuliani while on the Council, and as a top deputy to former Speaker Gifford Miller, who often adopted a confrontational approach toward Bloomberg.

And he has lectured on the Rockefeller drug law reforms as part of a project through Center for Community Alternatives, which seeks non-prison alternatives for justice.

In 1993 Ombrellaro participated as a physician in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Mednet video consultation pilot project, which offered inmates medical exams using videoconferencing technology, negating the need for physicians to be in the same rooms as their patients.

There, Kupchik coordinated several research projects on juvenile justice, all of which he describes as «bigger than a dissertation.»

Nichole Beharie as Dee Roberts gives a truly inspiring performance as a mother, living in the projects, who is wrongly accused of drug dealing, and then is caught up in a corrupted criminal justice system that railroads those who have little way of defending themselves against a system created to protect them.

Specifically, Yahoo Movies asked about his casting as Green Lantern in Mad Max creator George Miller's unfortunately canned Justice League Mortal project.

Despite countless «man - on - a-mission» flicks in recent years, DEATH SENTENCE, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, even Cage's tepid JUSTICE, to name a few, as well as future projects such as Joe Carnahan's DEATH WISH remake or Albert Hughes» MOTOR CITY, I'm always a one for a great one of these efforts in this sub-genre, if done right... and heaps of violence!

The great Fritz Weaver («Marathon Man») as Justice Hugo Black, Barry Levinson (director, «Rain Man») as Justice Potter Stewart, Harris Yulin («24») as Justice William O. Douglas, Ed Begley Jr. («Arrested Development») as Justice Harry Blackman, Dana Ivey («Boardwalk Empire») as Harlan's secretary, Kathleen Chalfant («The Laramie Project») as Harlan's wife, all contribute greatly to making the film better than it really is.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

Dickinson may have been a proto - feminist, but the film is hardly a resurrection of the 19th - century poet as an icon of social justice — surely one market - friendly direction this project could have taken — but rather a hard look at the contours of her sequestered social universe, and how those sometimes limiting parameters nevertheless fueled her work.

Unlike the Scorsese / Todd Phillips project, this movie will be set in the same universe as Wonder Woman and Justice League.

«We took our time with this project as we knew we had to get the casting right to do it justice,» he added.

Pollie Shorthouse, Executive Director, NCCL said: «The professional environment of the Royal Courts of Justice is an ideal venue for this project and allows pupils to learn more about crime and punishment and the legal system as they explore real courtrooms.

As school communities across the country commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) has produced a set of action steps aligned with his messages of justice and equity.

Ultimately, she sees her research and work on the Justice in Schools project as a means to help bridge the gap among key players like parents, teachers, administrators, school boards, and others involved in decisions.

From the site users can also access all the other teaching resources from other APPC projects such as FactCheck.org, Justice Learning and others.

Even better, have students use a social justice lens to generate a list of concerns, and develop one of these as the focus of their project.

Two Projects Win Social Entrepreneurship Conference Harvard Crimson, 5/4/15 «Judges named two intiatives, Educational Justice Activists and Prepped, as winners at an educational entrepreneurship conference on Friday for students enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education course A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective.»

The new activity is being offered at a discounted rate for a limited period when parts of the Galleries of Justice Museum are being refurbished as part of an exciting # 1million Heritage Lottery Fund supported redevelopment project.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

The main purpose of the invasion of DRC was to force Rwandan refugees to return home and face justice as it was falsely projected.

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This includes serving as PI of a Ford Foundation funded project to create a research hub to support the education justice movement, and as a member of the Schools of Opportunity project leadership and the Education Justice Njustice movement, and as a member of the Schools of Opportunity project leadership and the Education Justice NJustice Network.

The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).

Honored by The United Nations and endorsed by The Dalai Lama, The Virtues Project is 5 simple strategies for bringing out the best in ourselves and others, including restorative justice as a way to transform bullies into leaders.

Her career spans from time as a front line bilingual adolescent crisis counselor, with La Raza Consortium, to spearheading national think tank efforts in education equity and social justice on the boards of Grantmakers for Education, the National Equity Project, and the National Coalition for Community Schools.

Stella Connell Levy, president and executive director of the Restorative Schools Vision Project — a human rights organization that uses restorative justice to keep kids in school when they make mistakes — emphasizes that the circle and other such activities come to function as «safe spaces.»

Contributing as partners for CSI teamwork sessions were: the Advancement Project, the Alliance for Educational Justice, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Dignity in Schools Campaign, the Institute for Educational Leadership, The Conciliation Project, and the Schlechty Center.

The school - to - prison pipeline phenomenon that has been a major topic of discussion in education circles in recent years is defined as a result of policies that encourage a police presence at schools, harsh tactics such as extreme physical restraint, zero - tolerance policies and other automatic punishments that result in suspensions and out - of - class time, and other actions that could increase a student's chances of landing in the criminal justice system, according to Teaching Tolerance magazine, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Harvard University's Graduate School of Education's Justice in Schools Project is working to «help educators develop an «ethical repertoire» that helps them identify and respond to dilemmas of justice, just as they have a pedagogical repertoire that helps them respond to instructional challenges.Justice in Schools Project is working to «help educators develop an «ethical repertoire» that helps them identify and respond to dilemmas of justice, just as they have a pedagogical repertoire that helps them respond to instructional challenges.justice, just as they have a pedagogical repertoire that helps them respond to instructional challenges.»

As the recent CCJEF press release explains, Dianne Kaplan deVries served as The Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding's Project Director until her recent deatAs the recent CCJEF press release explains, Dianne Kaplan deVries served as The Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding's Project Director until her recent deatas The Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding's Project Director until her recent death.

Some of the components of this model are project based learning, transformational outcomes, travel, student internships, personalized learning plans (PLP's), service learning, seminars, advisories, using students as resources, interdisciplinary approach, cooperative learning, restorative justice and utilizing technology.