Sentences with phrase «civil society voice»

The coordinated civil society voice provided by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots must be sustained and expanded to make these goals a reality.

Through her work on the Collective Leadership with La Via Campesina North America (LVC - NA) region as a representative of the Rural Coalition, she has collectively developed strategies that advocate for a stronger civil society voice on food sovereignty and in negotiations that represented the Global south in the North.

She is interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen / consumer and / or civil society voice.

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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.

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We hope that other civil society groups and prominent persons in this country will add their voices to this purposeful call for we are all involved in building our motherland Ghana.

Having voiced a strong interest in strengthening Russia's political and civic conscience, Khodorkovsky is unlikely to relent on his passion for supporting Russian civil society in forms other than challenging power, for example through funding and intellectual guidance.

Scrutiny should also give a public voice to those seeking to be heard by the Government in the negotiations — businesses, trade unions, civil society generally, the devolved administrations, Gibraltar, and the Channel Islands.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

The currencies of the international partnership, trade and aid are at risk unless we stand together, with one voice, and demand that these systemic issues be addressed,» he told the gathering of leaders from civil society organisations (CSOs), businesses, religious bodies and diplomats.

Established as a learned society in 1818, it has 80,000 members and provides a voice for civil engineering, continuing professional development and promoting best practice throughout the industry.

She urged them to use their knowledge to serve the society saying «give voice to the voiceless, volunteer to read in your communities, do your part to combat illiteracy, offer talks on women's empowerment and civil rights to curb abuse of all forms».

Events like these help them to develop a broader awareness of civil society, and give them greater opportunity to have their voices heard, now and in the future.»

In contrast to the coalition, trying to gag unions and other dissenting voices through their lobbying bill, he understands the role that unions and a vibrant civil society play in public life.

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the voice of organised civil society in Europe.

We would also like to engage the participation of the civil society and let their voices be heard, including those vulnerable and marginalized minorities, in the public environmental policy making processes.

Civil society has a critical role to play in social mobilization, raising public awareness, bringing marginalized voices to the centre, holding governments to account for their commitments, by scrutinizing spending, ensuring transparency in governance and budgeting, and developing innovative approaches to help advance the right to education, especially for the most disadvantaged.

At this Forum — attended by over 1600 participants, including 120 Ministers and many partners from civil society, academia, foundations, the private sector and other — the world spoke with one voice to affirm that education is a public good, a fundamental human right and a shared responsibility.

Quite a bit of the discussion is along the predictable and tired paths of building in some corrective measures into «business as usual» scenarios, but at least a few brave voices from within civil society and some governments are pushing for more fundamental changes in economic and political structures.

The Teach Strong campaign, launched today, is supported by a diverse group of stakeholders — including teachers» unions, civil rights groups, teacher voice organizations, and education policy leaders — that share a common vision for a society in which teachers are more valued and supported at all stages of their careers.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

A four day gathering of civil society and social movements (Social Pre-COP) on Margarita Island in Venezuela concluded on November 7th, after having given communities affected by climate change a voice in the run up to December's UN climate talks in Lima (COP 20).

The voice against fossil fuel subsidies has internationally grown stronger the last couple of years - both among civil society and world leaders - but it is apparent that European decision makers don't feel enough pressure to start putting their money where their mouth is.

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.

Well - informed voices from civil society and other stakeholders can play an important role in guiding these evolving international discussions.

Tonight, a large group of Youth from around the world gathered on the front steps of the Moon Palace (where the official negotiations are being held) as a voice for civil society.

The EPA held a stakeholder meeting last November to gather feedback from industry groups and civil society on the matter and overwhelming support was voiced for the EPA controlling the leakage and venting of HFCs.

«Everyone knows these are trumped up charges designed to silence one of Cambodian civil society's strongest voices.

Her campaign forced open Georgia's closed - door political process to include the voices of civil society — an important victory for a young democracy emerging from the former Communist bloc.

«We had hoped that this would be the year that the process was opened up to voices from civil society and the global South, but as the climate talks draw to a close it is becoming clear that the ears of the global North are closed to any just and effective climate solutions.

No civil society or indigenous groups have been invited to participate in the commission, essentially excluding the voice of the people most affected by oil palm expansion in the Peruvian Amazon.

The UN body for climate change is launching an online portal inviting countries, organisations and civil society to contribute to the climate dialogue and allow their voices to be heard.

Organized by the Brazilian government with the support of the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Dialogues (June 16 - 19) sought to bring the voice of civil society to the negotiations: a voting was held to choose which three of ten measures were the most important for the audience.

The TckTckTck campaign has brought together an impressive alliance of civil society organizations, including The Red Cross, Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF and The Union of Concerned Scientists and is amassing the voices of people across the globe.

This is the time for civil society to come together across the globe; to unite with one voice and put pressure on world leaders to commit to personally attending the Copenhagen talks and sign a deal that is Fair, Ambitious and Binding.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

It is a warts - and - all review of the state of civil society in early Victoria as it related to a race without a voice.

I grew up in an era when government was committed to hearing the voices of the vulnerable, and actively supported a wide variety of civil society groups that represented individuals who belonged to vulnerable populations for reasons of gender, race, age, ability, etc..