Sentences with phrase «civil projects which»

Ideal Companies: A cmpany that designed civil projects which do not have to be processes through the governmental red tape machine

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Almost all the first full - time staff members of the Delta Ministry, the NCC - sponsored civil rights group which began work in the Mississippi delta and elsewhere in the state in September 1964, had participated in the summer project.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Gross was involved in the project, which helped «implement activities in support of the rule of law and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba,» according to a statement from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard at the time of Gross» arrest.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

The First Lady also urged the private business sector to rise to the occasion and embrace the goals of the Ghana - UK Private Sector Malaria Prevention project which will go a long way in enabling the private sector, donors, civil society and government towards a common vision of a Malaria Free Ghana.

Lord Butler: I think one of the difficulties is that where there are big projects we move our civil servants and ministers around too often which makes it difficult to hold our ministers and civil servants to account.

Another common reason is that the company may have been set up for a special purpose, such as to construct a large building or carry out another civil engineering project, which once complete and sold on means the company is no longer required.

The project, which has been awarded to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, is being jointly funded by the Nigerian and Chinese governments, and will cost about $ 1.5 bn (N458bn).

While The Buffalo News last month reported that Casey has mentioned the mayor in depositions filed in a civil case against the city, those same sources say they do not expect the litigation brought by NRP Properties of Cleveland — which alleges that Brown killed a planned housing development when part of the project was not awarded to a political ally — will affect his campaign.

The Bar Association of Erie County Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc. (VLP) is a 501 (c)(3) not for profit corporation which provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and small not - for - profit groups in Erie County.

He explained that the project which is in partnership with civil society and development partners is a five year initiative aimed at integrating all affected miners who will be taken out of the mining concessions.

«By comparing the results of the models, it was possible to determine which environmental variables are the most effective in predicting zebra movement, and then use this knowledge to try and infer as to how the zebra make their decisions,» said Gil Bohrer, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University, who collaborated on the project.

Natalie Mladenov, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Rhonda Janke, associate professor of horticulture, forestry and recreation resources, are the faculty leaders of the project, which also involves students in civil engineering, plant pathology, agronomy, geography, and park management and conservation.

The «untitled Nina Simone project» — which has been in the works for several years but was on hold until now due to lack of funding — will tell the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist who became known as the «High Priestess of Soul,» including her rise to fame, her role in the Civil Rights movement, and her relationship with her manager.

In this project, the Education factor is present in the majority of the strands of work: approach of incorporating comprehensive sex education in the formal education system and in youth organizations; implementation of the Comprehensive Strategy of Sex Education of the Department of Education in the classrooms at the two education centres; strengthening of the institutional capacity of the health and education sectors, through the provision of health personnel, methodological tools and focusing on gender, human rights and multiculturalism; cross-sector coordination (Health - Education Departments), and with civil society to develop alliances which promote the exercising of the Sexual and Reproductive rights of the adolescents and young people of zones 3 and 7 of Guatemala City.

Day, nearly 50 years since the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision in which the Supreme Court found that «separate - but - equal schools» for white and black students were unfair and unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) announces a new study on national resegregation trends in American public schools.

Included: A brief summary of the Harvard University The Civil Rights Project, which looks at the resegregation in U.S. schools.

Nationwide, the typical white student attends a school in which 72 percent of students are white and only 8 percent are black, according to a 2014 report by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

So, it is frustrating to discover within this survey, posted on the website of the School Choice Campaign, a flagship project of the Centre for Civil Society to bring about reforms in schools in India, a high rate of attrition among teachers in the developing world, which averages about 19 % across the countries studied.

Despite the decline, Schott has done plenty on behalf of the union and AFT to oppose systemic reform; this includes Schott President John Jackson, co-writing a letter with Pedro Noguera and Judith Browne Dianis of the Advancement Project (which received $ 150,000 from the union in 2014 - 2015) criticizing civil rights groups for supporting standardized testing and the accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Summary: This is a video which shows the data review process used with the Developing Safe and Civil Schools Project.

The UCLA Civil Rights Project's Center for Civil Rights Remedies has analyzed all of the 2012 - 2013 school discipline data, within which you can look up your district's discipline data and include this in your LCAP to satisfy the «school climate» State Priority Area.

Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.

Even when using subjective data, Eden's arguments don't stand up to scrutiny, a point made by Daniel Losen of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA during testimony at a December hearing held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights at which Eden also testified.

Clearly, the enrollment of Connecticut's charter schools mirrors the national figures as reported by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, which states: «Charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools 1n virtually every state and every metropolitan area in the nation.»

Prioritizing civil rights issues in the beginning stages of projects helps to ensure compliance with civil rights laws and prevents costly and time - consuming objections, which can delay successful completion of projects.

On a national level, KEI is a member of the United States Reading Rights Coalition, which is concerned about efforts to disable text - to - speech functions in ebook readers, KEI also provides technical assistance to governments and civil society on reading disabilities projects, including the analysis and amendment of national copyright laws.

All this leads the victims of the hydroelectric project to actions of civil disobedience and resistance, which make the confrontation more serious and produce a violent reaction on part of the State.

Civil War builds upon Kline's project Unemployment, made and exhibited over the last two years, which looks at the potential human consequences of automation, artificial intelligence, and mass - unemployment in the decades ahead.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

Hi There Artbusinessnews, Speaking of which, I am doing a research project on civil rights people and I got a card with Danny Lyon's name on it.

My project focuses on Lorraine O'Grady, Glenn Ligon, Alfredo Jaar, and Kerry James Marshall whose artwork challenged the ways that late twentieth - century dominant culture's portrayal of the movement obscured mid-twentieth-century civil rights activists» efforts to overturn foundational American structures, which maintain racist oppression.

Further they will save us from idiotic wind - farm and solar projects which will be the biggest consumer of diminishing petroleum products the world has ever seen, hastening a PEAKOIL civil collapse.

A number of civil society organizations are working to define the right kinds of projects for the GCF to fund, which will lead to real and necessary transformations.

Organisations such as the EU and UN, being far removed from ordinary life, recruit organisations from civil society — those which care about animals, trees, starving babies and climate change — to arm their projects with moral purpose and legitimacy.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

It's a good time to stop and read the new report of the Civil Society Equity Coalition, which EcoEquity, a core member of the Climate Equity Reference Project, is extremely pleased to support.

A team led by Stanford civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson has projected the growth in energy demands through 2050, and then calculated exactly how those needs can be supplied using only renewables, based on which renewable sources of energy are most feasible in the various States.

«Ohio is the only state that does it based on not voting in a two - year period,» says Dale E. Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, which along with the public policy group Demos, is representing Harmon and two Ohio nonprofit organizations.

Nov. 7 — Alberta — Valard Construction v. Bird Construction Civil law: Bird Construction Company, a general contractor on an oilsands project, hired a subcontractor, which in turn hired Valard Construction Ltd..

April 23 — Quebec — Brunette v. Legault Joly Thiffault Civil law: Between 2004 and 2008, the Melior Group, which was made up of a large number of corporations whose share capital was held by 9143 1304 Québec inc., developed projects to build, renovate and manage seniors» residences.

Residence test: the Supreme Court this month granted permission to Public Law Project to appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which in November 2015 found in favour of the government that the proposed residence test for civil legal aid is not unlawful.

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein in 1997, Ms. Webber received a Women's Law and Public Policy fellowship which funded the first of her four years at the Washington Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs in their Equal Employment Opportunity Project.

The amendment was prompted by the recommendations of the Civil Justice Reform Project, which was chaired by the Honourable Coulter A. Osborne.

It is the challenges they face that constitute the human rights crisis: This is reflected in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index [22] which, on the question of affordable and accessible civil justice, ranks the US 94th out of a total of 113 countries, and which, out of the regional group of North America and Western Europe, ranks the US last (behind countries like Romania and Bulgaria).

The following post, which is the latest in a blog series on the project published by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, highlights the fact that engaging in unique partnerships can lead to the development of innovative products and programs.

She has endeavoured to get involved with initiatives that she feels would have really helped her as a young law student which have included blogging and assisting with the KCL Mediation Project after qualifying as an accredited civil and commercial mediator in 2015.

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) has released several new publications from their Cost of Justice research project, which examines the cumulative social and economic costs associated with everyday legal problems.