Sentences with phrase «civil society organizations such»

Many civil society organizations such as Palas Athena Foundation

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

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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).

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».

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.

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.

He feels that organizations such as Peacebuilders create a more civil society and by doing so lessen the overall burden on the society they operate in.

In September 2017, the LSUC's Board of Directors approved, in principle, «a policy to permit lawyers and paralegals to provide legal services through civil society organizations (CSOs), such as charities and not - for - profit organizations,» according to the Law Society Gsociety organizations (CSOs), such as charities and not - for - profit organizations,» according to the Law Society GSociety Gazette.

Benjamin Barber, senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center at CUNY, argued cities might do a better job tackling global issues such as climate change than whole countries or larger organizations such as the United Nations.