Sentences with phrase «today civil society movements»
ROME, Italy — Today Civil Society movements blamed Governments negotiating on biofuels at the Committee on World Food security for defending the interests of the biofuels industry rather than the interests of people pushed into hunger by biofuel policies.
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Originally they were created during the black civil rights movement, but their story is seen even more prevalent in today's society with gay rights.
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA — Today — Civil society leaders from across Africa, with support from global movements, launched a letter to climate negotiators that warns that focusing on launching a new mandate at the Durban talks risks backtracking on promises to the poor and the planet.
Signs of that movement from non-Indigenous Australians came today with a joint statement by almost 1,000 academics, civil society groups, lawyers and charities calling on the Federal Government to «respect the wishes of Australia's First Nations peoples in the Uluru Statement and make constitutional reforms that enable First Nations peoples to take their rightful place in Australia an immediate national priority».