Sentences with phrase «civil society need»

The business community and civil society need to push governments so that they will keep this agreement.

Management systems linking government, business and civil society need urgent repair.

However, more reporting is no panacea to counter corruption and hold public officials to account, domestic institutions and civil society need to be robust in order to effectively use this information to force governments to allocate revenues for development.

Governments, companies, research institutions, and civil society need to articulate both quantitatively and qualitatively the political and business case for action.

There is major support for Rio Principle 10, and a sense that civil society needs a place in all decision - making.

If the french presidency at the UNFCCC wants to be coherent with what Hollande said on his intervention, civil society needs to be let in the negotiating rooms.

«Civil society needs to engage in these discussions where the line is to be drawn.»

Hope is essential, but it won't generate itself, and in the face of continuing political, media and corporate communications failures civil society needs to move beyond sounding the alarm, important as that is.

Not exact matches

We need reliable economic indicators and data for sound economic policy, and to provide other governments, businesses, and civil society with the tools to enrich our national life.

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.

The liberal principle accepts the truths of God's revelation in Christ only to the extent that they cohere with natural reason, correspond to pious feelings, or serve the needs of civil society (cf. Apologia, chap.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

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He added: «Urgent and concerted action is needed across government, the private sector, civil society and statutory agencies, in order to tackle this problem.»

One generally assumes that constitutional bills of rights are needed primarily to limit the power of governments and to protect the legal space for those ordinary communal activities often grouped under the label of «civil society.»

«In addition, the UK has a proud tradition of civil society and faith groups providing support for people in need, and it is right that their impressive work is recognised in the report.

Meanwhile civil society has become clear that the changes needed are fundamental.

These are the elementary skills of civil society, through which free citizens exercise self - government by doing for themselves (that is, without turning to government) what needs to be done.

We do not need to construct a qeneral theory of civil society in the context of contemporary political philosophy: that could lead to an endless discussion of different positions and the myriad attempts in the with the practical question of the role of Christian communities in attempts to refurbish, or newly establish, participatory democratic societies across the globe.

Yet I argue that participation in initiatives to restore a civil society in America, with appropriate reflective self - understandings, could meet the needs and activate the worldly spirituality of precisely those millions of middle - of - the - road citizens looking for the sorts of moral meanings, the kinds of religious roots, these communities used to represent and in some ways still do.

Civil society, if it is to survive, needs to find some new philosophico - religious basis: a conceptuality drawing on the past, certainly, but also looking toward a very different human future.

The intuition that a civil society» which thinks of itself not from above as God's ordinance but from below as a social compact» needs somehow to take responsibility for executing one of its citizens is sound.

In this struggle, the major conflict is with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both real and imaginary.17 This dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurred.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

The state is at the service of civil society and arises from it since, inevitably, there are clashes of interests at a civil level which need an authority to provide binding policies and laws to fairly resolve competing interests.

The state rather than addressing itself to the creation of civil society, has become largely a mediator of ethnic political equation; whereas what we really need is a dynamic re-interpretation of the past, taking seriously into consideration, the new elements of change.

Yet in principle, there has been a clearer discernment of the need to preserve civil liberties than has been found in most of the structures of society.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

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.

In the Protestant tradition sin has perverted the moral law of creation more radically and therefore takes a more pragmatic approach to the laws needed in different historical situations for the preservation of civil society, its individual members and its basic institutions.

Pope Francis added that the Church is ready to take such steps but «political communities and civil societies» need to pitch in to for the initiative to become a reality.

Civil society has recently undergone a much needed explosion and new informal organisations are popping up everywhere and gradually improving the lives of the poor.

But the government in Kiev needs meaningful help from Brussels to restructure its debts, to prevent oligarchs from washing money in Western banks, to protect poor citizens from the harsh implications of reforms, and to enhance the rule of law and institutions of civil society.

Conservatism, after the halcyon days of Anglo - American Thatcher - Reagan 1980s, deemphasizes its closeness to markets and emphasises the need to protect civil society.

Civil Society organisations, the Clergy etc, all presented various suggestions and contribution including the need to forward the matter to the Supreme Court to make it more binding.

What we do in the name of victims is what is politically convenient at a time when civil society is fragile, wounded, and in clear need of protection and action.

Laws must be enacted to balance the countries «need to know» to keep societies safe on the one hand, and accountable and transparent guarantee of civil liberties for all, at all times and under all circumstances, on the other hand.

By the way, why do so many politicians - especially the young and ambitious - need to be reminded that civil rights are not some kind of bonus, granted to a «lobby» with an agenda, but a defi ning characteristic of the free society which they have been elected to serve?

The Speaker charged civil society to intensify public education on the need to collect and preserve their PVCs, asserting that people must be driven to partake in electoral processes so that they we continue to wield power as enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic.

The ECONEC / INEC teams have already met with CEI officials, Civil Society Groups and the Committee in charge of funds mobilization as part its the NEEDS Assessment and solidarity visit at the instance of the CEI.

CODEO and other like - minded civil society organizations after the 2016 general elections, advocated the need for total disbandment of identified political vigilante groups.

To defeat extremism, we need to learn from how civil society and the state took on racism in the twentieth century.

His comment was in reaction to whether there is the need for validation as being championed by some political parties, especially, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Civil Society Organisations.

Amid the turmoil of Vietnam and the civil rights movement, the great Elvis Presley once sang — as only the King could sing — about the need for tolerance and compassion in society.

The Electoral Commission (EC) has commenced the forum to hear the arguments by the various political parties and Civil Society Organisations on the need for a new voters» register.

So while the Electoral Reform Society and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United KSociety and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Ksociety groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Kingdom.

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».

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For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

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