Sentences with phrase «civil society views»

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is holding three side event briefings (13:00 - 14:30) to present civil society views and make the case for a preemptive ban on development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons.

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Given this, it is nothing less than our obligation, as fully participating members of civil society, to continue alerting Canadians to these cuts and their impacts, all too often hidden from view through omnibus budget bills and government «feel good» misinformation.

In the Enlightenment view of the world, ethical issues regularly get reduced to issues of civil liberties, which is increasingly being shown to be a far too simplistic category to guide society in dealing with such complex moral problems as incest, abortion, divorce, and substance abuse.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

Primordial groups, like publically consequential religiosity, are incompatible, in Seligman's view, with the autonomous individualism the civil society tradition has required.

Thus, in the author's view, civil society seems to be a trope that has run its course.

Indeed, through the pressure of such groups as the American Civil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutiCivil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstituticivil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutional.

«Concerns have been expressed to Unite by some civil society groups that their views have not been sought and that the consultees draw heavily from the large employers and retailers.

The EC, a month ago organized a two - day forum for political parties, Civil Society organisations and individuals to collate views on the credibility or otherwise of the register.

«In view of these allegations, the Chief of Army Staff, ai set up a 10 - man Panel comprising senior Army officers (both serving and retired) and members from the National Human Rights Commission, Nigerian Bar Association and other Civil Society Organizations, to investigate the veracity of the allegations made against the Nigerian Army.

He said: «In our experience once a reservation is in place, it tends to stay there even when the UN monitoring bodies, parliamentary committees and civil society organisations are united in the view that it's unnecessary and goes against the object and purpose of the treaty.»

According to the Electoral Commission, the setting up of the panel follows petitions it received and calls from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters» register, with others calling for an audit of the register instead, all with a view to ensuring a credible voters» register for 2016 and beyond.

This generous view is not shared by many civil society groups and business leaders, who find the lack of vision, clear commitments and targets a big disappointment and a huge missed opportunity.

Since its inception in 2008, Quilliam has argued that extremists can not and should not publicly endorsed by ministers or government representatives - and that their views should instead be robustly challenged by government and by civil society.

In view of the multifaceted nature of the problem we call on government to lead in a coordinated national emergency effort involving traditional rulers, security, civil society, youth organizations, political parties, media and all affiliated government and nongovernmental agencies to confront this menace confronting our dear nation Ghana.

It should be conducted in a more independently, relatively free from party political horse - trading, taking the views of citizens and civil society seriously.

A civil society group, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has stated that it is hypocritical for former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to label any government, institutions, agencies, individuals as corrupt in view of the unresolved and lingering suspected acts of corruption perpetrated by the former leader.

Being an international conference dedicated to science and knowledge, World Science Forum shall give participants the possibility to exchange their views regarding - among others - the relationship between science and society, the importance and relevance of science for Society, its future, the related financing issues as well as its relationship to political and civil institsociety, the importance and relevance of science for Society, its future, the related financing issues as well as its relationship to political and civil institSociety, its future, the related financing issues as well as its relationship to political and civil institutions.

They viewed public schools as akin to voluntarily supported charities and as part of what social scientists today call civil society.

They viewed public schools — even though public schools in those days usually charged a fee — as akin to voluntarily supported charities and as part of what Tocqueville then, and social scientists today, call «civil society.»

On the other hand, the document is viewed by civil societies and refugees themselves as a basis of unfair discrimination.

It reflects an understanding of civil society that views the state as the guarantor of a rich social ecology, not its chief actor.

We value the useful exchange of views both between member countries and also business and civil society participants and acknowledge the role that further exchanges of this nature can play in supporting action on climate change and the UNFCCC process.

It is our view — and will no doubt be the view of many within the media, and civil society — that the presence of a UNFCCC official (not least the Executive Secretary) at such an event represents a serious conflict of interest and critically undermines the legitimacy, perceived and actual, of the entire the UNFCCC process.

Civil society groups have voiced concerns about what they believe is a short review process, although industry finds the entire process to be too lengthy; this issue of differing views among various stakeholder groups is common across the three countries.

Geoengineering, in other words, can be viewed by civil society organizations as a strategic opening, as a way to bring home the horrors of climate change to policymakers and the public.

Despite an oversupply of credits and waning confidence in the CDM from both market players and civil society watchdogs, the report presented an optimistic and biased view of the CDM and its future while failing to recommend concrete solutions to address some of its fundamental flaws, such as additionality testing.

Rotten though the American legal system is, and despite the fact that most of these organizations do not agree with Steyn's views on climate change (nor necessarily with Mann's either), amicus curiae briefs supporting Mark's position have been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters» Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associations of American Publishers and of Alternative News Media (e.g. Village Voice), NBC Universal, Bloomberg, Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other publications and groups.

I also enjoy collaborating with other companies, civil society and academics to exchange views and develop business» approach to human rights.

Considering this massive power imbalance and the general change of the moral views by society (which are also motivated by the situation sex workers where in), the courts changed their opinion on prostitution and § 138 BGB and, suddenly, prostitution was legal the eyes of German civil law.

In parallel, a wider public consultation is also open to collect the views of all relevant stakeholders such as public authorities, companies, the self - employed, platform workers and the civil society.