Sentences with phrase «ngos at»

Since the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots was created by a small group of NGOs at a meeting in New York on 19 October 2012, it has grown into a global coalition of more than 55 NGOs.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots was established by representatives of seven of these NGOs at a meeting in New York on 19 October 2012.

Today, Friends of the Earth Europe with the Green10 — the alliance of leading environmental NGOs at EU level, supported by over 20 million EU citizens and active in all 28 Member States — wrote an open letter to President Jean - Claude Juncker to express grave concerns over the direction the EU seems to be taking with the announcement of his new team.

Tendetza had planned to condemn the project at a Rights of Nature Tribunal organised by NGOs at the climate talks which are taking place this week in the Peruvian capital.

It was part of a natural history broadcast and may therefore have slipped past the NGOs at the BBC.

In fact, the UNFCCC's parent (i.e. the UNEP via ECOSOC) has done much to encourage and facilitate the participation of an ever - increasing number of NGOs at these annual confabs.

And this brings me back to the point raised above about taking NGOs at face value.

Not exact matches

The forest industry adopted third - party certification of its products without governments getting involved at all; it was an understanding between companies, their customers and NGOs.

In one recent case, NGOs worked with the company to reintegrate workers in Honduras into a new Gildan operation after they were laid off at another factory.

In another case, the company worked with NGOs in Nicaragua to clear up an instance in which an outside contractor was accused of anti-union activities at a Gildan - contracted facility.

In fact, he recently attended a forum in Quebec along with the head of the MSN, Lynda Yanz, at which they talked about the positives that flow from a non-adversarial relationship between NGOs and industry.

He represents Clean Energy Canada at the Energy Forum — a unique collaboration between clean power producers and NGOs in British Columbia.

This open data movement aims to make these datasets available, at no cost, to citizens, citizen groups, non-governmental-organizations (NGOs) and businesses.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

It is at the level of NGOs located in the north and south that contact must be established and the problems of the world system examined.

At the fiftieth annual meeting of NGOs, Kofi Annan called for a People's Assembly by the year 2000.

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.

The Earth Charter is the project of a loose group of NGOs who hoped to use their accreditation to the 1992 UN «Conference on Environment and Development» at Rio de Janeiro (the «Earth Summit») to get a document containing some more radical environmental views on the formal agenda and, if possible, adopted.

When I see the tremendous support the Global March has received, it becomes certain that the 21st century is not going to flourish at the cost of the sweat and blood of children, said Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, of India, the international coordinator of the Global March, who had originally conceived the idea and proposed it to NGOs worldwide working on children's human rights.

Partly because of the opposition of Communist countries, The United Nations has kept itself at some distance from faith communities, although Religious NGOs have, for many years, made a contribution at certain levels, in particular to specialist agencies.

If India does succeed in driving Compassion — and other NGOs it doesn't agree with — from the country, «no plan or provision at all has been made to care for these children when we depart.»

Many NGOs, church related and others, work at this kind of development.

Since the 1960's the May «68 generation, the powerful population control lobby and its multi-billion dollar industry, «eco-feminist» and other secular Western NGOs and postmodern academics had occupied key positions at the United Nations and its specialised agencies.

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

NGOs operate with at a more broadly conceived idea of human well - being.

At the same time there are proposals to involve voluntary organisations of all sorts (NGOs, Churches, etc.) in an effort to soften the blow in the most affected areas of social life.

Attendees at this panel discussion included farmers, students, scientists, or NGOs from France, Germany, Nepal, the U.S., and several other countries.

GRAIN's work is mostly financed by grants from NGOs, private foundations, governments and, at times, intergovernmental organisations (see a list here).

Six years after the launch of SAVE FOOD at interpack 2011 the initiative has grown into a broad - based alliance of over 850 international members from industry, associations, NGOs and research institutes.

Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura (Farmer - Scientist Partnership for Development) is a farmer - led network of people's organizations, NGOs and scientists following the mission to improve the life quality of resource - poor farmers.

Leading businesses and NGOs reached a strong consensus on the importance of certified sustainable palm oil at the European Palm Oil Conference (EPOC2015) held in Milan in October, and welcomed the launch of the Italian Union for Sustainable Palm Oil

Speaking at the event will be the recently - formed Food Waste Reduction Alliance who will emphasise the importance of a collaborative approach to reduce food waste and in particular, how the private sector needs to work with government and NGOs.

The campaign — which has reached millions through Facebook and Twitter, and has been backed by Mayim Bialik, Pamela Anderson, Sophie Dahl, Sharleen Spiteri, Victoria Pendleton plus NGOS including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF — encourages people to pledge to go meat free for one day a week at pledge.meatfreemondays.com and share the idea with others.

Partnering with farmer organizations, governments, suppliers and NGOs to implement our interventions across key cocoa - growing origins is critical to create impact at scale.

SUCAFINA and the Kahawatu Foundation, a Swiss Non-Profit, improve yields per hectare by running model farms, teaching good agricultural practices at farmer field schools, and cooperating with other NGOs and clients to put more income at growers» disposal.

At the same time we work in partnership with all players — from farmers to companies, governments and NGOs — to address these widespread issues of the coffee industry, together.

The Challenge began in 2015 at the United Nations climate talks in Paris and has grown to more than 60 members across the industry, including other roasters, NGOs, and the governments of Mexico and Rwanda.

Leading businesses and NGOs reached a strong consensus on the importance of certified sustainable palm oil at the European Palm Oil Conference (EPOC2015)...

Holding a summit to tackle the tough issues of food insecurity, exploitation of food workers, and food waste at the opulent Ritz Carlton in San Francisco provoked an interesting contrast, but the collection of industry, NGOs, media and students in attendance were indifferent to their surroundings and intently focused on improving the world's food system.

So they are shackled to the dirt, hoping NGOs will pay them to do menial jobs at a fraction of the rate they might pay a Kenyan.

To be held from 18 - 20 January, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Manama in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the conference is open to anyone with an interest in the safety of children on the web, including Internet Service Providers, telephone companies, NGOs, charities, regulators, government departments and the public.

The UN Breastfeeding Advocacy Team (UNBAT) members are NGOs, that take action to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding at the grassroots, professional, and policy level.

But the Syrian government is deeply suspicious of international agencies and is determined to limit the presence of international NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and the International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse at this point in a non-international armed conflict.

New laws passed in 2016 restricted access to banking, ID, and expanded stop, search and seizure powers; NGOs and activists started to challenge parts of the hostile environment; and the media started reporting the effects on everyday lives — something Politics.co.uk has been at the forefront of.

The most notorious clause in the bill proposed to cap the amount of money that NGOs could receive from foreign sources at 15 % of their total budget.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

At the start of the year, the opposition to these policies was largely within NGOs and charities working with migrants and refugees, race equality organisations, and a number of concerned parliamentarians and representatives including Brian Paddick in the House of Lords, Sian Berry on the London Assembly, and Caroline Lucas in the House of Commons.

The Initiative, backed by groups from ten countries and several international NGOs aims at pre-emptively banning autonomous robots, most importantly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or «drones»).

Unfortunately, another growing norm in international relations — shaped by experiences in Darfur, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Rwanda, where NGOs have been expelled or kept firmly in check — encourages Syria to hold out against international civil society input, which Damascus regards as a western fifth column at worst, an unruly rabble at best.

But there is categorical evidence from NGOs and foreign governments that the UK lobbied hard against such an agreement being reached, opposing it at the last G20 finance ministers» meeting, and blocking any reference to it in the EU's pre-G20 position.