Sentences with phrase «social issues committee»

This session is fittingly called Censorship Strikes Back and it's meant to be a roundtable discussion hosted by Daniel Greenberg, CEO of Media Rez and part of the International Game Developers Association's Anti-Censorship and Social Issues committee.

ASHG Policy Forum: The ASHG Social Issues Committee will review a draft positon statement on the ethical and policy implications of CRISPR - Cas9 technology and genome editing.

She also served as a member of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) Board of Directors (1999 - 2001), as IGES president - elect, president and past president (2006 - 2008) and as chair of the IGES Ethical, Legal and Social Issues committee.

«Throughout our discussion, we kept in mind that the goal of prenatal screening is to enable autonomous, informed reproductive choices by pregnant women and their partners, not to prevent the birth of children with specific abnormalities,» said Yvonne Bombard, PhD, 2014 chair of the ASHG Social Issues Committee.

The statement, drafted by the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the Public and Professional Policy Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), was published online March 18 in the European Journal of Human Genetics.

Not exact matches

A U.S. Senate committee launched an inquiry on Tuesday into how social media website Facebook selects its news stories after a report that company employees blocked news about conservative issues from its «trending» list.

The committee, organized by the Social Science Research Council, will then announce a call for papers and issue grants to fund the research.

As we noted in the last issue of The IRA, the yield on earning assets for all US banks has been falling since 2008 thanks to the social engineering of Janet Yellen and her colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee.

The Yaa Ansah Family, through its spokesperson, Oheneba Kwesi Oppong, explained that an injunction has been slapped on Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III, from holding himself as the paramount chief Akwamu Traditional Area, hence debarred from organizing any social or traditional events in that capacity, until issues about his legitimacy, is resolved by the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chiefs.

At 11 a.m., the Senate Labor and Social Services committees hold a joint public hearing examining ways to address issues affecting families in the workforce, on the agenda: paid family leave, childcare subsidies, facilities enrollment, and dependant care tax credits, Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

Also, as Cuomo's agenda has begun to center on numerous social issues, focusing less on economic matters, the Committee to Save New York, which is made up largely of business interests, has been sidelined to a degree.

The committee recommends the issues of criminality and how much harm a drug causes be completely separated, with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), which advises ministers on classification, focusing primarily on its clinical and social effects.

She told the Commons» business, innovation and skills committee that while current listing requirements do not cover a company's record on environmental and social issues, Britain's corporate governance rules provide the public oversight needed.

Making the end - game targeted message taxes, terror, gay marriage, other social issues galore, liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and would - be Democratic committee chairs who happen to be liberal African - Americans.

The Joe - Ghartey - chaired ad - hoc committee investigating the bribery allegation that has rocked Ghana's Parliament, has cautioned the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga from making further comments on the issue on social media.

Abbott has served on a number of parliamentary committees on social and international issues and held shadow ministerial positions.

Latimer's six issue - based transition committees — health, social services, criminal justice, economic development, operations services, and administrative services — also demonstrates his commitment to listen and work collaboratively.

The committee handles issues related to the health and wellbeing of county residents, related to issues Medicaid, health clinics, social service programs and other related entities.

Erie County Legislator and Chair of the Legislature's Health and Human Service Committee John Bruso issued the following statement on the proposed resolutions for personnel adjustments in the Department of Social Services submitted to the Legislature today by the Poloncarz Administration

With the formation of the coalition in 2010 he was appointed as co-chairman of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee for health and social care, a position he relinquished at the end of 2013 to focus on producing a report examining the social and economic issues facing the north.

Latimer also announced six transition issues committees: Health Services; Social Services; Criminal Justice Services; Operations Services; Administrative Services; and Economic Development Services.

Millum examines an attempt by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to resolve this issue.

Last year, a separate group found that holding a heavy clipboard makes us perceive social - justice issues as more important: In a theoretical scenario, volunteers holding a heavy clipboard were more likely to support a student grievance with a university committee than were those holding a light clipboard.

Based on these comments and other issues raised at last week's meeting, the committee is now drawing up a set of policy recommendations on the use of gene editing and its ethical, legal and social implications.

As the committee explains, «If effective, MRT could satisfy the desire of women seeking to have a genetically related child with a significantly reduced risk of passing on mtDNA disease, yet the techniques raise ethical, social, and policy issues» [1].

Position: Professor of Biomedical Ethics Organisation: Uppsala University Area of work: Ethical Legal Social Issues Member of: Executive Management Committee (EMC)

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly can not accuse the selection committee of putting together a one - note program, or of being restricted only to socially conscious films produced within the traditions of film realism.

The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in the year 2000, issued its General Comment no. 14, relating to the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, which is explained in article 12 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

«As a Committee dedicated to promoting social justice, we are committed to examining these issues in our inquiry and pressing government, local authorities, schools and others to do all they can to improve educational outcomes and life chances.

Because opt - out is a grassroots phenomenon, communities varied in the extent of their participation, based in part on factors such as: 1) degree of parental involvement in the local schools, 2) whether the local PTA had an organized advocacy committee, 3) parental awareness of school - reform issues, and 4) access to the Internet and social media.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

Because annual state testing is still obligatory under ESSA, and the vast majority of states are still using the Common Core, the only news story worth emphasizing related to this issue is that congressional «spending committees have generally ignored the Trump blueprint»: the president's lack of influence at present means that non-rich Americans have no practical means of avoiding sticking with the status quo of the two previous administrations, a test - based accountability strategy that has here been no more effective in promoting social mobility than it has in its original setting, Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

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The global South and its myriad issues — concerning diasporas, hybrid identities, migration flows and travels, personal accounts, memories, isolation, the social fabric, and insularity — have inspired and set the parameters for the Curatorial Committee to select artworks and art projects, as well as oriented the curating of all of the Festival's exhibitions, public programs, and publications.

On Wednesday morning, the UK reported that the small group had concluded that the issue of allowing external social science researchers to the study the work of the IPCC needs further discussion, and proposed that the Executive Committee hold an expert meeting in this regard to take place in 2014 and produce a report to inform the work of the Task Group considering the future of the IPCC.

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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology recently issued a report detailing attempts by the Russian government to disrupt U.S. energy markets through social media.

Committee members include experts in physical and social sciences, communication, education, and other topics reflecting the full scope of issues relevant to global change science.

Spring, 2010 — ABA Section of Litigation, Products Liability Litigation Committee, Products Liability, Vol 21, No. 2, Social Media and the CPSIA: Lessons Learned from Mr. Squiggles (print version); The CPSIA and Social Media Make Product Issues Public (online version)

The Advisory Committee will include members with expertise including climate science, climate impacts and economics, potential response options, science communication, social media engagement, science education, and other issues considered to be contentious in public discourse.

Although there is precious little evidence that any lawyers have gotten themselves in ethical hot water using social media, the Philadelphia Bar Association recently gave its own example of the potential dangers when its Professional Guidance Committee issued Opinion 2009 - 02 (March 2009).

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The wider social and sustainability issues that planning must embrace are echoed in a private member's Bill — the Sustainable Communities Bill — which appears to have government support and has reached committee stage.

He graduated from the Université de Montréal and was highly involved in social issues during his studies, especially in the Criminal Law Committee.

In recent years, it has not been unusual for the justice minister to appoint individuals to the committees with clear ties to the Conservative party or publicly stated views on social issues that could be considered controversial.

«This opinion does not address any issues relating to social media when the restrictions of Rule 4.2 are involved,» the committee said.

The committee's opinion said that a judge's obligations with regard to Twitter are, broadly speaking, no different than they would be when using any form of social media, although different types of social media pose distinct issues.

It is the first YJC mandated to work in youth court with young people who have caused harm as a result of hate crimes and significant social issues YRAP is also the first such committee to be comprised entirely of Youth Members, and takes a unique approach to achieving the goals of Restorative Justice.

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