Sentences with phrase «as civil society organizations»

His comment invoked a public uproar with some Ghanaians as well as civil society organizations calling on the president to fire him.

The app, which government said cost the country $ 2.5 million, has been criticized by some experts in the technology space, as well as some civil society organizations.

We as a civil society organization has followed Lawyer Sosu's dedicated and spirited fight against injustice and breaches of fundamental rights of the vulnerable.

Not exact matches

By the Civil War's end, the United States had begun its shift from a disjointed agrarian society to an industrialized one knit together by corporate and financial organizations as much as by democratic ones.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).

This invited those engaged in government, business, education, arts and media, science and medicine, intergovernmental organizations and the organizations of civil society, as well as those in positions of religious and spiritual leadership, to «build new, reliable, and more imaginative partnerships towards the shaping of a better world.»

We as a civil society have laws that everyone including organizations must follow.

As stated in our joint CEO letter to the WHO Director - General Dr. Margaret Chan in October 2012: «We believe firmly that more has to be done not only by the alcohol beverage industry, but by governments, international organizations, community based entities, civil society and ultimately by individuals and families.»

Brian also serves as part of the secretariat for Champions 12.3, a unique coalition of executives from governments, businesses, international organizations, research institutions, and civil society dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward reducing food loss and waste.

The CGIAR Research Program for Rice, known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), is a partnership coordinated by six research - for - development organizations that bring together over 900 partners from the academic, public, private, and civil society sectors with a stake in the rice development sector.

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.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

The four prominent civil society organizations, known as the Quartet, were awarded the Nobel peace prize in October 2015 for their role in negotiating the constitutional bargain.

The rapid emergence of civil society organizations and civic activist groups was welcomed as indicative of the «liberation» process — gone are the days of the Qaddafi Foundation and its monopoly of civil society — and today Libya boasts a diverse civil society and civic activist space (See El Taraboulsi and Salah, 2013).

These strange decisions led civil society organizations such as WACAM and the Third World Network to call for a renegotiation of the Newmont agreement.

SERAP also urged the Special Rapporteurs to «prevail on the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to decline to sign the bill into law; and on the House of Representatives and the Senate to exercise their legislative powers for good governance, and ensure a safe and enabling environment for civil society organizations both in practice and rhetoric, in line with the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and the government's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

Civil society organizations and the media recently joined the government to launch series of campaigns against illegal mining which is causing havoc to livelihoods and property as well as Ghana's water bodies and forest covers.

Section 12 requires registration of all civil society organizations on the payment of unspecified fees and other fees as the commission may require or prescribe.

The fact is that, not many people, including the educated, will bother reading any manifesto from any political party, those who make it their business are the few civil society organizations, who want to measure the performance of a government, suing the manifesto as the indicator.

A civil society organization known as the Women's Situation...

He said: «the Commission has continued to maintain and expand sustained engagements with stakeholders in the electoral process, through regular meetings with political parties, civil society organizations, security agencies, the media, marginalized groups such as women, youths and persons with special needs, as well as development partners».

While synthetic biology is growing as a field of science, international civil society organizations rely on their 1990s genetic engineering strategy.

Is there a tipping point in a city's charter school market share at which informal civil society associations emerge as new mission - driven organizations?

Civil society organizations — also known as non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- are critical actors in the advancement of universal values around human rights, the environment, labour standards and anti-corruption.

However, to be democratic, it would be necessary, however, that the governance of these systems count on the active participation of the population and civil society organizations in formulating goals (performance standard) to be pursued, as well as in policy or decision rules seeking to correct deviations between what was planned and carried out.

In May 2015, Chiefs of State and Ministries of Education of the UN countries, as well representatives of global civil society organizations, universities, entrepreneurs and media will meet in the city of Incheon, South Korea, to discuss and firm a commitment with the realization of the 4th Sustainable Development Goal of the post 2015 Agenda: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life - long learning opportunities for all.

The debates will bring together academics, representatives of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as representatives of nongovernmental organizations and civil society.

Many civil society organizations such as Palas Athena Foundation

We are taking a life cycle perspective that will strengthen the nexus between education, health, gender, equality and empowerment, working across ministers as well as with civil society organizations, in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The educational team Education for Life participated as facilitators on September 27th and 28th, in the 2nd European Congress on Global Education organized by the North - South Centre of the Council of Europe in Lisbon, where they met parliamentarians, governments, local and regional authorities, civil society organizations and higher education institutions.

Last summer, as he opened a convening of education organizations which had responded to a call for innovative designs to assess student and school performance, he reflected on the important role of ordinary citizens and organizations in civil society had to helping educational institutions advance their democratic goals.

By focusing solely on the fact that Teach For America alumni are playing their proper (and laudable) roles as participants in civil society on behalf of children and communities, Malkin fails to pay any mind to the great work that the organization and its recruits do on a daily basis in providing kids with high - quality teaching.

We also see how necessary it is to engage at the grassroots as well as with a range of civil society organizations, governments, international agencies, and the private sector.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

Geoengineering, in other words, can be viewed by civil society organizations as a strategic opening, as a way to bring home the horrors of climate change to policymakers and the public.

It belongs to cities, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and all of global civil society as much as it belongs to nation - states».

Just as you do, our civil society organizations represent many, many millions of Americans and a wide array of perspectives and interests.

We also see how necessary it is to engage at the grassroots as well as with a range of civil society organizations, governments, international agencies, and the private sector.

The Board's constituencies self - selected two representatives each to the working group, as follows: partner countries (Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam); donors (Japan and Norway); UN Agencies (FAO and UNEP); Civil Society organizations (CAMV and Global Witness); and Indigenous Peoples (AMAN and UNPFII).

WEDO, along with the Council of Women World Leaders and the Heinrich Boell Foundation will be co-hosting a roundtable event on Friday to be led by former Irish president Mary Robinson and ex-Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland — intrepidly described as the «the first ever global gathering of high - level government, U.N. and civil society organizations» on climate change issues.

As a result, OPIC should strengthen its process for engaging civil society organizations, require meaningful informed consultation with local communities, and monitor and disclose that it is properly adhering to these requirements.

It may have provided some protective cover to non-governmental organizations that are emerging in the region, including IndyAct, which has emerged as a civil - society lobbying force.

In June 2017, the ABS Working Group presented an interim report to Convocation outlining a proposal to enable lawyers and paralegals to deliver legal services through civil society organizations, such as charities, not for profit organizations and trade unions, to clients of such organizations in order to facilitate access to justice.

But secondly, empowering other civil society organizations within Africa to expose them to this new area of work that - you know, where they can make positive impact, as well.

«As organizations granted standing at the National Inquiry, we have serious concerns about the direction of the Inquiry, its capacity to undertake the necessary systemic review, and the conditions of participation for civil society groups, like ours, that are crucial to informed outcomes,» said Dr. Pamela Palmater.

«We write to you as Canadian civil society organizations concerned about access to medicines, in Canada and globally.

Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while building our infrastructure and highly valued social programs during some thirty post-war years.