Sentences with phrase «nations special committee»

She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and artist residencies, including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship andtwo Fulbright Senior Specialist grants as well as grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid.

All these factors combined to create the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, which came up with the plan to divide the land into a Jewish state and an Arab State with Jerusalem to be in an international trusteeship.

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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

At the Resumed Session of the United Nations Committee on NGOs held in New York in May 2010, the organized was granted a special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and a member of the United Nations Global Compact.

When a parliamentary task force on First Nations Self - Government was created in 1982 — the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self - Government — the AFN was invited to have a non-voting ex-officio member work with the MPs on the cCommittee of the House of Commons on Indian Self - Government — the AFN was invited to have a non-voting ex-officio member work with the MPs on the committeecommittee.

In 1990 he wrote a Master's thesis on the bureaucratic efforts to undermine the Commons Special Committee on Indian Self - Government, and later wrote a doctoral dissertation on the testimony of First Nations lea ders before a succession of joint Senate - Commons Committees on the Constitution during the decade before patriation, part of which was published in 2006 under the title Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations Self - Government (Routledge).

She is the first First Nations woman to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ex-officio member of a special House of Commons committee, the first Indigenous Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario, the first woman appointed Ontario's Ombudsman and the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.

Hioureas previously served as Special Legal Advisor to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations, where she represented Cyprus at the Sixth Committee to the General Assembly (Legal Affairs), and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Cooperation through submission of periodic reports to committees established under these treaties and through cooperation with requests and visits by special rapporteurs of the United Nations; and

He was a founder of the Population Crisis Committee, a member of the governing board of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and a special consultant to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).

developments in the international jurisprudence on minority rights by various human rights committees, special rapporteurs and organs of the United Nations (including through the application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the situation of Indigenous peoples);