Sentences with phrase «ngos saying»

It isn't hard, for example, to imagine the head of any of the large US environmental NGOs saying the same words as Mr. Hauge.

We found many NGOs saying that in their experience, some refugees did not even want to attend their programs, and others saying that it was because of the way their programs were run.

Both union officials and NGOs say Unilever seems serious about tackling the problems, which are common in the supply chains of giant corporations producing across the globe.

«In addition to this election - related violence, the country has been ravaged by widespread insecurity for years, with a recent increase in attacks targeting humanitarian workers, including the deadliest incident in Congolese history, in which five aid workers were killed in October in South Kivu,» the NGOs said.

Ngo said Google will also show previews of mobile Web pages, when they are available.

NGOs said a lack of disaster preparedness caused more damage than the disaster itself.

Government officials, researchers, and local NGOs say they have pleaded with Facebook representatives from as far back as 2013 to better enforce the company's own rules against using the platform to call for violence or to target people for their ethnicity or religious affiliation.

(Myanmar NGOs say that Facebook didn't detect the messages, and that the warning Zuckerberg received was actually from civil society groups.)

«I really liked the banners from the Stoneman Douglas Alumni, which surprised me since they reached out to us,» junior Megan Ngo said.

Not exact matches

«Even if we disagreed on 10 points, we would work on one or two,» Coady says, remembering her first engagement with NGOs and First Nations.

However, product certification is unlikely to satisfy environmental NGOs, he says, which have their sights set on rapid decarbonization of the economy.

And, indeed, the NGOs were beginning to say, «There is a problem.

Former California governor and Terminator movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he plans to sue the big oil companies for «first degree murder», likening their actions to those of tobacco companies, and NGOs are suing Big Oil in the Philippines for violating the human rights of typhoon victims.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says that NGOs are «not only disseminators of public information or providers of services, but shapers of policy, too.»

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.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch objected, saying the action «violates [the NGOs»] rights to freedom of expression and association.»

«In some cases, local NGOs lack the expertise or capacity to address health problems or education issues,» said Puddington.

The government's move can be traced back to 2011, when it changed its Foreign Contribution Regulation Act so that it could regulate NGOs it disagrees with philosophically, Mellado said.

The order says that no U.S. funding can go to NGOs around the world that provide abortions...

There's so much to be proud of, too: So many people have been transformed by the gospel, so many moms and dads have become better parents and so many kids better kids and siblings; there are so many institutions formed — hospitals, schools, missionary organizations, NGOs, etc — and I'm proud to say this is my family.

«We are disappointed that Christian traders, NGOs, and others who lost their businesses to arson and violence have not been compensated,» said activist John Dayal.

Additionally the minister said that churches, NGOs and other charity «should» provide the care for those who can not afford it.

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We need action from everyone from governments, businesses, NGOs and us all in our homes: uniting in the food waste fight,» said Marcus Gover, Chief Executive of WRAP.

It's exciting to see foundations, NGOs, and businesses all coming together to solve this issue and recognize food waste's impact on our planet and biodiversity,» said Yolanda Kakabadse of World Wildlife Fund US's Board of Directors.

The people that come here to study or work in policy or NGOs, this is what we enjoy,» he says.

The film «We feed the world» includes an interview with Mr Brabeck saying that he thinks NGOs who suggest people have a human right for water have an «extreme» view (and other scary things).

The alternative is to rope in NGOs to develop diapers and have a surgeon certify them,» he says.

One lawmaker said, «NGOs can not be above the laws of the land.

Usman also said the troops were facilitating humanitarian assistance by supporting both government institutions and NGOs working with IDPs.

A «human rights activist» even said, rather worryingly, that, «there is need for government to maintain control over these NGOs precisely because of their access to funds which needed to be accounted for.»

«Yesterday, medical personnel from government and other NGOs examined her for a total of about five hours, trauma experts from UNICEF also met her, the FG will assist the Murtala Mohammed Foundation which has already been providing support for the families of the missing Chibok girls and which runs a truama and counseling facility in Kano will also be involved in the ongoing work with Amina in monitoring her progress and any additional support she requires», he said.

He said: «There is a view now in many parts of the world that the only way to ensure prosperity and stability is to suppress freedom to crack down on pesky NGOs and irritating journalists and independent judges and generally to deprecate the western liberal consensus about how a society should be ordered.

Receiving the team in his office the Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas affirmed that the theatre is open to all registered NGOs and agencies, which he said have been working cooperatively with the Theatre Command to improve the welfare of conflict victims in the North East.

He said to achieve the set goals of increasing access for adult learners and growing the retention rates, the State Government initiated partnerships with religious organizations as well as NGOs, market and mechanic associations, and private sector partners all in a bid to scale up the number of literacy centres across the State from the current 532 centres to 1000 in 2017.

Debnath said that he started the HIV / AIDS awareness campaign in his hometown in Sundarbans, India, in May 2004, with visits to NGOs, schools, colleges, universities, commercial sex workers and restaurants.

The Global Amnesty Watch, an organization out to address the use of international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) by some big countries to undermine their territorial integrity, sovereignty and the national laws of the country said, it is rightly concerned that the plots to destabilize otherwise stable countries is gathering pace instead of slowing down in the face of global outrage over the damage being done.

He said, «Most civil society groups, NGOs inclusive, are limited in capacity, funding and resource profile (human capital), and are in many cases one - man or one - family organisations which spring to life when a new tranche of donor - funding is received.

«The important thing about really insisting on the go - betweens — especially NGOs, the United Nations — is the credibility of persons that will be talking to the Federal Government,» he said.

He said his position had always been that government must have a credible person or persons that would intervene, preferably the United Nations or international NGOs.

A study from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, an international partnership of universities, research institutes and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), says social protection will help an estimated maximum of 425 million people it believes are currently living in poverty.

«World leaders, NGOs, faith groups, the private sector and civil society as a whole must heed this warning as we work together to achieve the millenium development goals by 2015,» he said.

Later the Department for International Development said that the Girls Education Challenge was «a new project that will call on NGOs, charities and the private sector to find better ways of getting girls into school in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia which the UK has identified as a priority, including Bangladesh, South Sudan and Nigeria.»

Listing an area helps governments and NGOs preserve it, says Juan Bezaury - Creel at the Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia.

«Although we found IL - 6 elevated significantly in the delirious patients two days after surgery, we did not find the elevation to be statistically significant at one month following surgery,» said co-lead author Ngo, biostatistician in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS.

Ethical concerns have prevented many NGOs from conducting such trials because they require giving aid to some and not to others, Sandefur says.

«I've worked in industry, in academia and for NGOs [non-governmental organizations], but I've never worked for government,» Soneja said.

In a telephone and email interview from Norway, Harstad said he knows of no specific cases in which such approaches are being used by governments or NGOs.

The International Chamber of Shipping did not comment for this story, but in its 2013 annual report, it said it was «concerned that efforts by certain governments (and environmentalist NGOs) to treat the Arctic as if it is fundamentally different to any other sea area in which special dangers might apply may have the unwelcome effect of delaying the code's adoption.»

«When scientific researchers, NGOs and impacted communities work together, they can build increasingly accurate and effective datasets needed to develop solutions to social challenges,» Harris said.