Sentences with phrase «campaign against the society»

Not exact matches

Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by groups with a religious agenda.

His [Stalins] government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public insti tutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers.

His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public insti tutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers.

Bev Jullien from Mother's Union, which is backing the campaign, told Premier why violence against women and girls is tolerated in so many societies around the world.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

In the opposing camp there was the CPHA (Campaigning to Protect Hunted Animals), made up of the Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the League Against Cruel Sports and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

The ASA recently ruled in favour of the British Humanist Society over complaints against its campaign slogan: «There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.»

But Dignity in Dying campaigns for dying people to have the right to die well, not for an unfettered right to die, and we believe legislation must balance the rights of the individual against the needs of society.

Since the Weinstein revelations and the subsequent #MeToo campaign, the scale of sexual violence and abuse committed by men against women in every sector of society has become impossible to ignore.

Although leaders of the civil society campaign against the third mandate publically condemned the coup, they called for protests to continue.

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.

Egypt's Ministry of Youth has campaigned against the «dangers of atheism» and the «threat» it poses to society, despite the Egyptian government supposedly being secular.

In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.

According to Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society, the Yes to AV campaign is stressing a «people against the politicians» theme.

«Today we are in the midst of something all - too familiar to those of us who remember the 1970s and 1980s — a hysterical smear campaign directed against trade unions because we represent the only real organised challenge in society to the values and views of our bankrupt establishment.

This represents the complete collapse of politics based on a different and better form of society for which we campaign, often against prevailing prejudice.

Adeyeye said that the APC had not done anything to ensure a proper campaign against corruption aside from using the weapons of harassment and intimidation of the opposition inimical to democratic development in the society.

«In my campaign I want to confront all five of those ills head on, setting out not only how Labour will campaign against these injustices in opposition but also spelling out some of the measures the next Labour government will take to overcome them and move decisively towards a society in which opportunity and prosperity is truly shared.»

From reading the Yes to AV literature, you would be forgiven for thinking that it was the Electoral Reform Society rather than the TaxPayers» Alliance who campaigned against excessive MP's expenses.

When he began campaigning against a proposed sewage outfall near his favourite surfing spot on the coast of northern New South Wales, he never expected to find himself on the receiving end of the wrath of Australia's biggest engineering society.

Notably, the three national organizations most closely associated with the public campaign against smoking — the American Lung Association, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society — were «indifferent» or «skeptical» to initiatives of the state and local activists.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

Mindy has battled against the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) on the state referendum front serving as the campaign manager for The Alliance for Truth Campaign Committee which was at the forefront of the hard fought campaign opposing the HSUS - driven «Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act» (Proposition B) in the Missouri 2010 election and recently helped defeat the HSUS sponsored «Your Vote Counts» referendum promoting direct decampaign manager for The Alliance for Truth Campaign Committee which was at the forefront of the hard fought campaign opposing the HSUS - driven «Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act» (Proposition B) in the Missouri 2010 election and recently helped defeat the HSUS sponsored «Your Vote Counts» referendum promoting direct deCampaign Committee which was at the forefront of the hard fought campaign opposing the HSUS - driven «Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act» (Proposition B) in the Missouri 2010 election and recently helped defeat the HSUS sponsored «Your Vote Counts» referendum promoting direct decampaign opposing the HSUS - driven «Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act» (Proposition B) in the Missouri 2010 election and recently helped defeat the HSUS sponsored «Your Vote Counts» referendum promoting direct democracy.

Undercover operatives employed by the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) mounted a campaign against pet stores in Georgia trying to find that they sold puppies from so - called puppy mills.

Rokkan, in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States as its Creative and Media Agency of Record, has launched a new campaign in The HSUS's continued fight against puppy mills.

The HSUS and Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSLF) want to make that number zero — they're leading a contemporary campaign against the use of animals to test cosmetic ingredients and products.

Kohl's Cause A 9 - year - old poodle named Baby has become the unofficial mascot of the U.S. Humane Society's campaign against puppy mills.

While the Guerrilla Girls campaign forcefully against discrimination, Warhol's Manhattan studio, known as The Factory, provided a welcoming space for those who didn't conform to the social and sexual conventions of 1960s society.

Naturally, (according to the FT, the Green party in Finland and Greenpeace in France still campaign against nuclear energy, while in Sweden the FT reports («The inconvenient truth about an oil - free society») the Greens have got the government to plan to log 1.15 mn hectares a year of its 20 mn hectares of forest for use as biofuel to reduce current dependence on oilfired energy and transport.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a rollback of democratic gains by Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el - Sisi, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's intensified campaign against press freedom and civil society, and further centralization of authority in China were evidence of a growing disdain for democratic standards that was found in nearly all regions of the world.

The KPCS was negotiated by governments, civil society organizations and the diamond trade, in response to a civil society campaign against the trade in conflict diamonds.

His latest arrest is part of a broader pattern of intimidation and attacks by Congolese authorities against journalists, human rights activists and other members of civil society, including those campaigning against abuses in the mining sector.

Indonesia considers environmental and climate concerns to be nothing more than economic discrimination, and civil society campaigns against deforestation and industrial plantations to be unfair attacks.

When Hudson walked into Chancery Lane back in 2006, the Law Society looked like an organisation in deep trauma that veered from one calamity to the next: a clash with the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill; non-stop criticism flowing from the profession's inability to get a grip on its handling of consumer complaints; and then there was the Kamlesh Bahl saga, a rancorous dispute with the first Asian woman to become vice-president.

Lord Justice Jackson has criticised the Law Society for its decision to run a «single campaign» against his proposals for the reform of the costs of civil litigation, and proposed changes to legal aid, which are both outlined in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.

Secondly, the Law Society in running a single campaign against both the Legal Aid cuts and the Jackson proposals has created certain difficulties.

A spokesman for Fathers4Justice told The Daily Mail the «crummy mummy» ads were part of its ongoing campaign against the «fatherless society».