Sentences with phrase «on women in government»

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Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government are suspected of having used nerve - agent and chlorine gases against people living in Douma, Syria, on April 7, killing dozens and injuring hundreds of men, women, and children.

Government support of small business and investments in women - owned startups could do much to keep America on the forefront.

Women business owners still face greater difficulties in gaining access to commercial credit and bidding on government contracts than do their male colleagues, and pockets of resistance to women entrepreneurs remain strong in some industries and geographic regWomen business owners still face greater difficulties in gaining access to commercial credit and bidding on government contracts than do their male colleagues, and pockets of resistance to women entrepreneurs remain strong in some industries and geographic regwomen entrepreneurs remain strong in some industries and geographic regions.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

While it probably wouldn't change Sessions» mind on the issue, the CBO found that in an oddly backhanded way, requiring women to register for the draft would actually save the government tens of millions of dollars in the years ahead.

While the minister left the corporate tax rate unchanged, the government spending plan did include cash on several fronts to help Canadian businesses and further its key priorities including supporting women in the workforce.

After its $ 8 - billion natural gas windfall in 2005 — 06, Premier Ralph Klein's government had so much money on its hands it gave away $ 400 — so - called Ralph bucks — to every man, woman and child in the province.

A classic work on leadership for business men and women, government leaders and all persons in positions of authority.

The government - backed report from Lord Mervyn Davies, who has been championing gender equality in the boardroom, shows that FTSE 100 companies have exceeded the target of having 25 % women on their boards — more than doubling the number in 2011 when the target was set.

Reacting to the review, the CBI called on the government to assist companies in increasing the representation of women with more free childcare and promoting flexible working.

They quickly pointed out the faults in Clark's boasts about her gender equitable government, which cut essential services women need: child care, family and poverty legal services, education, healthcare, the list goes on.

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

The federal government has positioned Budget 2018 as having a substantial focus on women, and the role of gender in the economy.

We are delighted to work with proactive business and government leaders in B.C. on their commitment to leading the way in diversity and sharing best practices,» said Laurel Douglas, CEO of the Women's Enterprise Centre and co-founder of the WEB Alliance of Women's Business Networks in B.C. «Through exposure and resources shared at We for She, we aim to empower participants throughout the province.»

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan and local government and sport spokesperson Selina Robinson released the following statement on Canada's Women's Rugby team securing a place in the Rugby World Cup Final: «Congratulations to Canada's Women's Rugby team for...

The event showcased their top executives on mission - critical issues before an audience of over 1,000 C - suite and senior executives of WBENC Corporate and Government Members, WBEs, WBENC's Regional Partner Organizations (RPOs), and other stakeholders in the women's and diverse business community.

In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Green MP, Caroline Lucas also called on the Government to develop the UK - wide strategy to end violence against women and girls.

Does it ever dawn on you that the reason there are so many abortions in China is that the government forces women to have them?

Government rules that prevent women from Northern Ireland receiving free abortions on the NHS in England... More

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

I think Justin Trudeau made a bad decision in purposely appointing half the leadership in government in Canada to be women and not doing so on merit alone.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Does being pro-life include the lives of those on death row, enemy combatants / civilians in war, or funding government social programs that support women and children?

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Forcing a woman to wear a niqab or a burqa will be punishable by a year in prison or a 15,000 - euro ($ 19,000) fine, the government said, calling it «a new form of enslavement that the republic can not accept on its soil.»

Chuwang told the local newspaper that while Plateau state officials say «relative peace» prevails, herdsmen attacks in the past eight months saw a pastor and his five year old son injured, four Christian women raped, 12 Christians injured and two communities displaced in attacks on 17 villages in the Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas.

On the contrary, the pro-abortion crowd are the one's in favor of limited government, as in limiting the government's ability to have any say in what pregnant women do or don't decide to do.

In her oft - delivered speech on Peace and Arbitration in National and International Affairs, Woodbridge saw the day of world peace hastening as women's influence in government greIn her oft - delivered speech on Peace and Arbitration in National and International Affairs, Woodbridge saw the day of world peace hastening as women's influence in government grein National and International Affairs, Woodbridge saw the day of world peace hastening as women's influence in government grein government grew.

When my wife sees Bachman or Palin flapping their traps unintelligibly on TV she says they are hurting other women's hard work to be taken seriously in government.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

On the other hand, no intedy should banned women from having such said services in my opinion in the first place whether government or for - profit interprise.

A program on Iran's government - backed Press TV recently took a woman convicted of adultery and murder back to her home in Osku «to produce a visual account» of the death of her husband «at the crime scene.»

Besides, casting the question of abortion in libertarian terms that rely on a strong distrust of government undercuts the many areas where women, the poor and the handicapped ask the community through its government to intervene in the marketplace.

Everyone who thinks objectively realizes that lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs, and gutting the federal government and laying off thousands of government workers creates jobs, and destroying the right to collectively bargain with your employer creates jobs, and destroying a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body and destroying her rights to any sort of privacy in medical treeatments creates jobs.

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

One, an open letter to the then Prime Minister - in - waiting Gordon Brown and published in The Times (to read it click here) brought together 30 signatories ranging from Women's Aid to Families Need Fathers, and called on the government to ensure good services for separated families.

The onus is now on the government to ensure the 8th Amendment is finally removed from the Constitution as the key to protecting women's human rights in maternity care.»

Legislation and government should not have the authority to breach human rights — particularly in the face of obstetric experts who know better and, even more importantly, in the face of a woman and her family who have made an informed decision on how and where they want their baby to be born.

Like all parallel medical services, it falls to the patient to figure out who is legitimately skilled and who is not: EXCEPT, most women having babies are in their twenties and early thirties and I personally didn't have the kind of life - experience necessary to question whether or not my government would provide me with sub par care and just assumed that if the government was paying, it must be safe, and the midwifery community capitalizes on this by running advertisements (which OB / GYN are not permitted to do) advertising themselves as being less interventionist, less c - section (no shit, Sherlock, but you'd have to read between the lines to understand why), and better outcomes.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinIn this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lackinin midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

In the late 1920s and 1930s, dozens of women (and a few men) wrote letters to the federal government's Children's Bureau, asking for advice about the new canned foods for infants that were coming on the market.

The case of Michelle Poirier versus the BC government is the first case to test the human rights code on workplace policies in relation to breastfeeding women and discrimination on the basis of sex.

When asked by Women's eNews about their lobbying on Capitol Hill, the three major suppliers of WIC infant formula — Abbott Labs, Mead Johnson and Nestle — all declined comment, but ARA and DHA additive maker Martek, whose sales in its infant formula division now total $ 300 million a year, said that it pays a staff of «government affairs experts» on Capitol Hill to help lawmakers «make fully informed decisions.»

Discussions on this historic roadmap (which set the agenda for realizing women's rights, signed by 189 governments in 1995) are set to take place at the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) between 9 - 20 March in New women's rights, signed by 189 governments in 1995) are set to take place at the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) between 9 - 20 March in New Women (CSW59) between 9 - 20 March in New York.

In 2009, the Steering Committee on Pregnancy and Birth2 [18] advised the Dutch government to focus particularly on pregnant women in disadvantaged situations, e.g., non-Dutch womeIn 2009, the Steering Committee on Pregnancy and Birth2 [18] advised the Dutch government to focus particularly on pregnant women in disadvantaged situations, e.g., non-Dutch womein disadvantaged situations, e.g., non-Dutch women.

The Regional Women Organisers of the NDC further told residents of Bortianor that the region has benefited tremendously from the government under the leadership of President John Mahama and urged them to turn out in their number on December 7, to endorse his second term as president.

It's really rich how you hypocrites on the right want to force every woman in the world to have unwanted children, then starve them to death because you are so against «government social programs».

Elements in the platform of the SGP include that the government should be based on the word of God, the Belgic Confession, that «false religion» should be actively averted by the government, and that women can not be part of government (Note: this is a selection of some of the more unusual elements from their platform, which includes many more traditionally conservative points seen in platforms of other conservative parties and less orthodox christian - based parties in The Netherlands and other countries).

For, on Monday, he was elected, unopposed, to fill a Conservative vacancy on the Women and Equalities Committee, an independent parliamentary committee that has done much to bring the government to account for its record in this area.