Sentences with phrase «civil society without»

You can't have a civil society without Civil Engineers.

But as Hollande was advocating for a radical position to tackle Climate Change, the French presidency of the UNFCCC left the Civil Society without the ability to see and listen to what governments are actually doing, or not doing, about it.

Also the awareness that we are part of a global civil society without borders starts to expand from the limited circle of intellectuals, artists, scientists and social activists where it was already present, to include larger and larger layers of our society.

Thus, there is no global civil society without a shared sense of national community.

Not exact matches

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

But it was otherwise vague on plans to address the problem, stating without any specifics that it was expanding veterans» access to affordable housing and working with other levels of government and civil society.

CETA was negotiated in secret, without any attempt whatsoever to include citizens, and has not taken into consideration the reasonable and legitimate amendments proposed by civil society.

Leaving aside the manifold ways in which stay - at - home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to be sure — can be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?

Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis of democracy — that is, the structure of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule of an economic aristocracy.

Here's the REALITY: There will NEVER be a world without religion, so the best we can do is decide which religions have shown that they can live in relative peace with others in a civil society?

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.

Civil societies, for example, are relatively self - sustaining totalities, unified fields of activity for their human members; but they can not be considered even metaphorically as substances without the concomitant danger of totalitarianism, i.e., the radical subordination of individuals to the social whole.

Only a civil society so rooted is capable of sustaining pluralist democracy without imploding into chaos or sinking into the dictatorship of relativism.

Adoke said in a statement, that some civil society organisations petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the allegations, which he described as, «weighty,» without having facts to substantiate the claims.

«If things remain as they are - without dialogue between the electoral commission and political parties over the electoral process, as well as between the commission and civil society and the international community - and elections go on as planned, the result could be violence,» Jerome Bonso, chairman of the National League for Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in Kinshasa.

«Civil society groups have play a key role in holding government and parliaments accountable but without a strong civil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.&rCivil society groups have play a key role in holding government and parliaments accountable but without a strong civil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.&rcivil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.»

The combined effect of sections 25 and 26 is that no civil society group will be able to carry out any activity without first seeking and obtaining a ministerial approval.

Speaking on behalf of Civil Society Organizations, Emmanuel Bonet, called for increase fundings to State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM), to enable it conduct the forthcoming Local Government Elections without hitches, noting that the N500m allocated to the commission is insufficient.

Corruption is cultural heritage to Nigeria and Nigerians, where civil servants display so much wealth in the society without anybody deemed it fit to ask for sources of such wealth but rather worship such individuals.

This was in the face of criticisms from civil society groups and a member of the opposition NPP, Gabby Otchere Darko who claimed that the corporation was undertaking the deal without Parliamentary approval.

When the internet first got kicking, some scholars of democracy and civil society thought that online discussions could create what they called a «conversational democracy»: an ongoing town hall without bricks and mortar.

While many civil society groups were competing to build their own image at the side events in the official Rio Centro tents and other locations, the so called Peoples Summit in the Flamingo Park was a chaotic demonstration that lead to thousands of civil society representatives from across the world being stranded and lost without any sense of direction or coordination.

Without mandates on how many or what kinds of charters had to be created, families and civil society could take the lead, gradually creating new organizations and webs of relationships.

Without idealizing these men and women — doctors and lawyers, artists and advocates — France documents the energies of civil society, the forces of organization and resistance that lie just beneath the surface.

Heads of States will find it hard to credibly justify the SDGs in September 2015 without climate change goals while academia, civil society and even the private sector (and of course, ECO too!)

In December 2008, Ona and several other civil society leaders were arrested and held without charge and without access to legal representation in deplorable conditions in a basement cell for five days.

«Without energy there is no economy, without climate there is no environment and without economy and environment there's no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.Without energy there is no economy, without climate there is no environment and without economy and environment there's no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.without climate there is no environment and without economy and environment there's no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.without economy and environment there's no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.»

This morning civil society from across the globe welcomed party negotiators to the COP23 venue with Reclaim Power's demands that urge governments to start taking action to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C without destroying the livelihoods of those we are trying to protect.

«Without energy there is no economy, without climate there is no environment and without economy and environment there is no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.Without energy there is no economy, without climate there is no environment and without economy and environment there is no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.without climate there is no environment and without economy and environment there is no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.without economy and environment there is no well - being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national security, there's no economic growth.»

Hence, the IPCC needs to strengthen its position of an «honest broker» that presents policy - relevant alternatives without prescribing decisions for politics, civil society, and business.

There are multiple ways in which civil society could mobilise without travelling to the COP venue.

The companies expressed readiness to work with governments and civil society to make the global climate agreement in Paris happen, without which they warned «will result in greater risks and costs.»

Law societies are now like an elected government without a civil service.

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.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

As a result, Canada's law societies are like an elected government without a civil service.

Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC suggested that the very system of CMP had been championed by civil society organisations, including JUSTICE, in the context of the litigation in Chahal, as a least unpalatable solution to the deportation of individuals on national security grounds without effective judicial review (See Cols 1821, 1897).

law society management structure — management by part - time managers («benchers») who have only a lawyer's expertise to apply to the problem, i.e., like a government without a civil service, which therefore can not govern effectively;

The play had been performed regularly in major theatres in London for a period of nearly two years without any sign of it undermining society or occasioning civil strife or unrest.

No longer can they adequately regulate the legal profession without a civil service to advise and carry out major law society - sponsored services, such as the innovations in the production of legal services that would make legal services again affordable to the majority of society.

The absence of that critically important expertise, means that law societies are like a government without a civil service, therefore they can not govern, as is proved by the A2J problem's long - standing existence and the continuing growth of its victims.

Latin American civil society groups reject the sale and purchase of these monitoring programs without adequate controls and that put human rights at risk in the region, for the following reasons: