Sentences with phrase «about civil society»

She is passionate about civil society and the role of not - for - profit community organisations in fostering equality and building supportive environments for all.

Hughes can speak about civil society expectations of New Zealand's policy, practice, and diplomacy on fully autonomous weapons.

Ms. Boillot can speak about civil society expectations of UK policy, practice, and diplomacy on fully autonomous weapons.

He can speak about civil society expectations of Germany's policy, practice, and diplomacy on fully autonomous weapons.

... Should not everyone who cares about civil society simply quit Facebook?»

In this zone, experiments «should not be subject to any formal... vetting and approval», so the report's fine words about civil society engagement begin to ring hollow.

The UCLA story offers an opportunity for classroom discussion and learning about civil society.

This interpretation matters to our very ideals about civil society.

The same could be said about civil society.

In that respect, there is something peculiarly modern about civil society, at least in the form familiar to us.

Not exact matches

I talk a lot about our cluster strategy and how we want companies to work closely with government, academia and civil society and create these super-clusters, or collaborative environments where we can work together and share ideas.

It explicitly recognizes that government needs to «stop and ask for directions» from civil society and academics, many of whom have been thinking about and analysing budgets with a gender and intersectional lens for more than 20 years.

About Fossil of the Day awards: The Fossil of the Day is a long - standing tradition in the UN climate talks and is voted on and awarded by Climate Action Network International, an international network of over 850 civil society organizations.

The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade regime.

The Trade Justice Network is a network comprised of environmental, civil society, cultural, farming, labour and social justice organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and their implications.

The global apparel industry that I hail from has built up a particularly long history of attempting to address concerns from civil society, organized labour and governments about the industry's negative social and environmental impacts.

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was concluded there was concern about Mexican labour and environmental standards; side agreements were established around these topics, allowing civil society to raise complaints under the terms of the agreement.

Given this growing consensus, what's provocative about Renewing American Compassion is not that it argues for returning social welfare functions to civil society, but that it dares to offer specific and useful proposals for how this might happen.

The Civil Rights movement was about about the equality of Man (& Women) and about how everyone has the same inalienable rights and that bigotry and racism can no longer exclude an entire segment of society.

And he could be serious about his faith, as well: In reply to Garry Wills» claim that «being Catholic always mattered more to him than being conservative,» Buckley responded, «If he meant he has a higher loyalty to God than to civil society, then the answer is obvious: God has to be preeminent.»

*********************************** One would hope that voters were casting their ballots on the basis of what they conclude is best for a civil society and a pluralistic population, not on the more egocentric opinions they may have about right or wrong that are derived from their religious beliefs.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

The early»60s were also an optimistic time at home when it seemed that the civil rights movement was bringing about long overdue changes in our society and a new phase of democratization seemed possible.

But I am also a parent and a member of a civil society, naturally uneasy about Peoples Temple and other groups that no one quite comprehends.

For effecting a transition to a new civil society, the truth about the past can be more important than punishment for the past.

If we lived in a truly civil society, that called for us, generally, to be polite and to talk about our differences in a genuine way, and if really were interested in an educated public, we would be behaving in this way.

The most ready - to - hand sources of ideas for dealing with such questions are no doubt to be found in the centuries - long Western debate about «civil society.»

Wistful about the decline of religious resources and unconvinced by efforts to construct new forms of universal reason, Seligman does not see any clear way to give civil society a contemporary conceptual form.

Wuthnow draws the subtle distinction that «rhetoric about faith - based programs has had one kind of impact on civil society while the reality of these programs has had quite a different effect.»

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

About the same time in 1984 Vaclav Havel attributed to the Czechoslovakian opposition group, the Chartists, the «knowledge» of «how suddenly a society that seemed atomized, apathetic, and broken can be transformed into an articulate, united civil society.

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.

In this vision, he seeks to move beyond debates about the «welfare state» or East / West power politics and to find a way of speaking about a reliable, humane, and caring form of civil society.

Beyond economic calculations, there are also moral judgments to be made about how state action can promote or discourage a healthy civil society.

ABOUT CHAMPIONS 12.3 Champions 12.3 is a coalition of more than three dozen leaders across government, business and civil society dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward achieving Target 12.3 of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals.

Speeches were given by about 50 experts, mostly academic professors and researchers, but also from leaders of civil - society organizations, the private sector and government officials.

The report calls for the creation of innovative public - private partnership arrangements, as well as partnerships involving different levels of government, civil society organizations, and donor organizations, in areas from crop technology to the provision of school feeding programs to help bring about sustainable food security throughout Asia.

But the stark truth is that the bill is not about regulation: it's crackdown on civil society, and it's driven partly by the National Assembly's obsession with control but also by self - protection.

Ewen Green talked about shifting the locus of Conservatism from considerations of the state to attitudes towards civil society.

The Solzhenetsyn point is not about civil liberties, but appears to be directly about the impact of marketing and advertising on society, particularly towards children.

@user4012 It sure is about specific immigrants (I don't think Bannon has a problem with white Christians from Britain going to the US), but the distinction isn't which immigrants want to «undermine civil society» (do you really think Asian CEOs in Silicon Valley want to implement sharia law?)

Mr Copson spoke about how, increasingly, advocates of Bishops have also built their case on the position of the Church of England as our largest NGO — a civil society group with a branch in every community.

Last year, Zalishchuk spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum about the challenges for civil society in her country.

The opposition New Patriotic Party was the first to raise concerns about the register, a move which was subsequently supported by numerous civil society groups.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

Other lessons can be drawn from the DFID - backed programme in Nepal that funded civil society groups and local government programmes to bring about more inclusive political processes.

On Tuesday, a group of leading civil society activists urged Buhari take medical leave, as his absence «has fuelled further speculations and rumours» about the true state of his health.

Based at the University of Edinburgh, the Forum runs a programme of national and international activities to draw natural and social scientists, policy makers, regulators, civil society and business into an ongoing dialogue about the relationship between genomics and society.

The protesters who are members of about four civil society organizations were demanding that Buhari should return to the country or resign if he was incapacitated.

OK, he did not say anything about Trident, and he equivocated about the deficit, but apart from that — markets, reform of the state, civil liberties, relations with the Liberal Democrats, work - life balance, the good society — it was all there.