Sentences with phrase «civil society working»

The videos contain interviews with 60 people, from Assistant Secretary General Janos Pasztor and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner, to frontline delegates drafting the new agreement's text and civil society working to influence policy.

At their best, community charter schools are part of a time - honored tradition of civil society working to advance the public good.

The International Civil Society Working Group on Synthetic BiologyConsisting of: Action Group On Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), Center for Food Safety Center for Food Safety, Econexus, Friends of the Earth USA, International Center for Technology Assessment, and The Sustainability Council of New Zealand

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We respectfully asked the Cambodian government to continue to improve working conditions for Cambodian factory workers and treat civil society with fairness, in accordance with international standards and norms.»

I talk a lot about our cluster strategy and how we want companies to work closely with government, academia and civil society and create these super-clusters, or collaborative environments where we can work together and share ideas.

«The short - term, dopamine - driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth,» he says.

Sustainia and its partners continuously work to inspire companies, policy makers and civil society across sectors and regions.

The NBFL works to advance workers» rights and promotes a progressive civil society where no one gets left behind.

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.

By working together, governments, consumer goods companies, local producers, civil society organisations and communities have the potential to achieve change which would have been beyond any of them working on their own.

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?

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

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.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

There are some basic rules of thumb that societies live by across the world (don't kill, don't steal, ect...) because a society in anarachy doesn't work, or rather, it doesn't work as well as a civil lawful 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.

All of us must continue to work toward an integrated affective sexual maturity if we wish to be of greater service to the Church and civil society.

Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.

Finally, Charles Villa - Vicencio takes up the new work of making liberation theology not just a theology of resistance but of reconstruction in places like South Africa and El Salvador, where civil war has ended but the crushing burdens of building a more humane society continue — in a new world order with less and less compassion or creative insight for the plight of the poor.

Znaor, Darko (2012) Partnering for Farmland Biodiversity Conservation: Civil Society and Farmers Working Hand - In - Hand.

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

Once again at interpack 2014, a congress — featuring an international line - up of various actors from business, science, politics and civil society engaged in a fruitful exchange of ideas — served to showcase the work of the SAVE FOOD Initiative.

Agung Widi, from Kalimajari, a civil society organization working with cocoa farmers and Kerta Semaya Samaniya cocoa cooperative in Jembrana, Indonesia, explains how certification helped them become one of the top 50 cocoa producers in the world.

The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting at the moment (10 — 27 June) and an international civil society campaign is calling for it to set up a Working Group to draft this treaty.

He conducts two streams of interdisciplinary and multi-method research: the first uses quantitative and qualitative approaches from corpus linguistics to investigate British media portrayals of migrant groups, borders, and citizenship, while the second set of projects explores how data, evidence - based research, and «impact» are constructed, shaped, and visually communicated by civil society organisations in their public - facing work.

We consult, analyse and research widely, working with academics, businesses and civil society to build a complete picture of how climate change affects the UK.

He aims to inform the public, liaise with other members of the academic community, work with civil society actors engaged in arms control and partner with governments to discuss the moral issues introduced by new technology and collaborate on design proposals.

This project identifies ways that insights from political economy can be used in the work of NGOs and local civil society organizations who are seeking to reform the governance of extractive industries.

The rule of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos seemed secure: the government had insulated itself from civil society groups working on human rights and governance issues, improved its relationships with business - hungry Western states, and deepened its strategic partnership with China.

We hope that the government will work with civil society to find a different approach that does not sacrifice fairness on the altar of speed.»

This is why as we approach the 2019 elections, I agree with Intersociety that civil society organisations working this area should not restrict their interventions to election monitoring.

Meanwhile, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the governors of the 36 states to work together in tackling the menace of the herdsmen's killings and invasions, and not be distracted by their political ambition.

By Jibrin Ibrahim Yesterday, the Working Group on Peace Building and Good Governance, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the Centre for Democracy and...

The bill is entirely unnecessary, as the work of civil society is already sufficiently regulated under existing legislation, including the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Act and other similar legislation.»

The organization said, «the sole objective of the House of Representatives is to weaken and delegitimize the work of independent and credible civil society.

The African Commission has consistently criticised restriction on the work of civil society.»

The pair, Miss Lois Boahemaa who is a JHS «2» student of Modern Preparatory School at Jema and Master Abubakari Osman who is in form «3» at D / A Junior High School (JHS) at Pramposo have therefore called on the government, district assemblies, civil society organizations, parents, traditional and religious leaders to work collectively to eliminate things that impede the rights and safety of children.

2) As part of the ESRC Genomics Network (EGN), the Forum acts to: integrate the diverse strands of social science research within and beyond the EGN; develop links between social scientists and scientists working across the entire range of genomic science and technology; connect research in this area to policy makers, business, the media and civil society in the UK and abroad.

Shehu was reacting to a protest staged by a coalition of civil society groups in Abuja, asking Buhari who has been receiving medical attention in London, United Kingdom since May 7 to either resume work or resign.

He said, «Over the past year, the US Embassy has been working closely with the civil society, the Nigeria Police Force and the EFCC on various initiatives to enhance government transparency, improve security, and investigate and prosecute complex financial crimes.

Some civil society groups and several Ghanaians have largely condemned sentence as being too lenient, suggesting the ruling party worked behind the scenes to protect the suspects.

OK, he did not say anything about Trident, and he equivocated about the deficit, but apart from that — markets, reform of the state, civil liberties, relations with the Liberal Democrats, work - life balance, the good society — it was all there.

Some humanists also contribute to society through their work as celebrants, helping the non-religious to mark important occasions in their lives in humanist ceremonies for baby namings, weddings, civil partnerships and funerals.

«World leaders, NGOs, faith groups, the private sector and civil society as a whole must heed this warning as we work together to achieve the millenium development goals by 2015,» he said.

«We shall also continue to strengthen the relevant state institutions and work with Civil Society to win the war against corruption.

Speaking further, he said, «The PDP is aware of clandestine plots against key opposition leaders, particularly members of the PDP National Working Committee, some dissenting members of the APC, members of the civil society, opinion leaders, journalists and bloggers, who refuse to succumb to intimidation and that such persons have already been listed and currently being trailed by agents of the state.

She worked closely with civil society in Sierra Leone to ensure that the national survey was representative and would provide data of use by and interest to the local population.

Working together, the global community and national public, private, and civil society partners must ensure that LARCs are fully available alongside other contraceptive methods so that universal access is achieved through informed choice, voluntarism, and equity.

«This has much to do with NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], civil society organizations who were working with China over the last decade.»

«We have seen how cities and states can overcome complex challenges by taking an approach that considers a broad range of sustainability principles covering human rights, labour standards, environment and anti-corruption, and then working with business and civil society to find lasting solutions.»