Sentences with phrase «calling on governments»

Health campaigners welcome a new World Health Assembly Resolution calling on governments to strengthen controls on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes and establish «adequate mechanisms» to deal with conflicts of interest.

Baby Milk Action press release 10 June 2014 Baby Milk Action is today joining colleagues around the world calling on governments to support international efforts to strengthen international law, thereby better protecting people from human rights abuses caused by corporate activities.

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

If exporters continue to ignore their regulatory obligations, the government should do what the vast majority of Australians have been long calling on governments to do — and that is end the live export trade.

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

It called on the government to set aside party politics and adjust its Brexit approach to accommodate the needs of the different regions.

Amazon, though, said it is still committed to delivering packages to customers via drones, and called on the government agency to rethink its proposal and how it might impact corporations.

's Still Waters and Prince Edward county's 66 Gilead, Dillon's is calling on the government to even the playing field.

Pilots have been calling on the government to conduct tests of what would happen if a drone went through a plane's windscreen or got sucked into one of its engines, and this incident — where the drone struck the front of the plane — will likely prompt a greater sense of urgency.

But opposition parties have called on the government to halt the privatization of utility Hydro One, which they have said is raising costs for consumers.

Instead of calling on the government to act, they should consider workplace policies that are friendlier to women and immigrants.

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.

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from residents of Thunder Bay, Sudbury, and Winnipeg, calling on the Government of Canada to abandon its promotional stance toward the northern gateway project and ensure it has a full and neutral review, bearing in mind that so far the proponent has not dealt with the subject...

They are calling on the government to cease its promotional stance in relation to the proposed northern gateway pipeline project involving the risky supertanker scheme off the coast of British Columbia.

The president of the Criminal Lawyers» Association is calling on the government of Ontario to make good on its promise on changing the way police records checks are done, before a provincial election later this year.

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.

Soon after, more than 75 companies, organizations and local governments called on the government to take action to reduce carbon pollution from the buildings sector.

Recommendations 21 and 22 call on the Government to simplify and undertake a comprehensive review of the tax system.

She called on the government to clearly outline the impacts on jobs and services of any potential cuts in Thursday's budget, as the Conservatives chip away at an estimated $ 26 - billion deficit.

Canada has been doing a pretty good job of supporting its tech startups, but I'm calling on government, private investors, banks and pension funds to double down on that support to help make them the country's engine of growth over the next decade.

«Today I am calling on the Government Accountability Office to investigate the circumstances surrounding the multimillion - dollar contract awarded to Whitefish Energy — a brand new company with two employees,» said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D - WA), the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

The UK cryptocurrency community is calling on the Government and the Financial Conduct Authority to toughen up rules governing the trading of virtual currencies and to issue licenses to firms which demonstrate compliance.

Other submissions call on the government to eliminate consent requirements altogether for small and startup businesses, suggesting that businesses be permitted to send thousands of messages each year without any need for prior consent.

Trade critic Gerry Ritz criticized Freeland, speaking of the need for adult supervision and calling on the government to get the job done.

VICTORIA — In the wake of serious revelations about Christy Clark's fundraising tactics, B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan is calling on the government to provide Elections BC with sufficient resources to complete its investigation before British Columbians vote.

Rallies are being held across the province to mark the anniversary and call on governments to re-commit to public health care; Darcy will be attending the rally in New Westminster at Sapperton Park.

Now the task force report has called on the government to expand the number of facilities capable of testing so that proper consumer protection can be assured.

The release takes issue with the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan and calls on the government to create a regulator that understands the impact of proposed activity and puts rules in place to prevent any unacceptable impacts.

EDMONTON — New Democrat Seniors critic David Eggen called on the government to provide Albertans with an update on the...

EDMONTON — New Democrat MLA David Eggen called on the government today to reverse budget cuts to the office of the...

In response to this past weekend's announcement by Kinder Morgan that it is suspending non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion until May 31, and the possibility the project could be abandoned after that date, Premier Brian Pallister is calling on the government of British Columbia to abandon its opposition to the project and for the Government of Canada to ensure the project proceeds to completion.

Porter made similar comments during the bank's annual meeting last April, when he called on governments to end the «inter-provincial bickering» and «political indecision» that has left energy projects mired in delays.

To reverse this worrying trend, the Business Council has repeatedly called on the government to adopt a competitiveness agenda that includes simplifying the tax system.

News Release Independent Senator Doug Black calls on the Government of Canada to immediately refer his bill and the constitutional question regarding Ottawa's ability to regulate the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Supreme Court of Canada for an expedited hearing.

EDMONTON — Alberta's NDP are calling on the government to shelve Bill 9 until Albertans can be adequately consulted, Alberta NDP Service...

It also calls on the government to provide increased support for communities to report on the status of infrastructure and establish project selection criteria that prioritizes funding requests based on national economic interest, return - on - investment, and job creation.

In closing, Bair calls on the government and Congress, in particular, to provide additional oversight to prevent fraud, money laundering and the use of cryptocurrencies for illicit activities.

Two cryptocurrency exchanges from Chile are reportedly calling on the government's regulatory association to clarify its position on the crypto industry.

We call on governments to do as much to encourage the flow of students outbound to Asia as they do to generate flows of foreign students to Canada.

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.

The Church in Wales is calling on government ministers to step in and help all those who've lost their... More

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

«It is a source of great concern to us and we are calling on the government to immediately release all these human rights activists and religious leaders.»

The Church in Wales is calling on government ministers to step in and help all those who've lost their jobs in the latest round of redundancies at Tata Steel.

The Children's Society has called on the government to make «fundamental changes» after new research... More

The Christian Aid chairman is leading a campaign calling on the government to crack down on all forms of tax avoidance, in a new report by the charity.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) called on the Government to scrap the pay cap as a matter of urgency to stem the numbers going.

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev John Sentamu, has called on the government to cut the number of low - paid workers by one million.

Both cases have caused national uproar; about 150 radical clerics have called on the government to hang Bibi and others accused of blasphemy.