Sentences with phrase «civl society activists»

This government has consistently touted the Investor Court System in CETA as a progressive alternative to ISDS, but both academics and civl society activists have noted that it does little to address the problems with ISDS.

Serving as just one example of many reported incidents, on the eve of South Sudan's first anniversary of its independence a leading civil society activist, Deng Athuai, was found beaten into a coma and left by the side of the road.

It should have representatives of political parties, but also a student, a blogger, a couple of civil society activists — and why not members of the public, chosen by lot?

Earlier in his own speech, Comrade Celestine Akpobari, the Coordinator of Ogoni Solidarity Forum, said that he had not been a partisan person and that as a civil society activist, he supports Ogoni interest and cause.

A body of professionals and civil society activists have identified with the Coalition for Nigeria Movement, mooted last week by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

On Tuesday, a group of leading civil society activists urged Buhari take medical leave, as his absence «has fuelled further speculations and rumours» about the true state of his health.

«While it is convenient for the civil society activist to condemn the military and the government of President Buhari, Mrs Ezekwesili didn't find it appropriate, even once, to criticise the dangerous and violent propaganda being propagated by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

Every year, 786 NetSquared events offer networking opportunities for social innovation technologists and civil society activists around the world.

Civil society activists in Cambodia are also extremely concerned about issues of land tenure, decent work and justice.

The report, authored by CIVICUS in collaboration with a wide range of civil society activists and leaders, and other stakeholders, is the first of what will be a regular report tracking the changing shape of civil society and emerging trends in the opportunities, challenges and constraints civil society and people's participation face.

We'll tell the story of this exciting transition, speaking with civil society activists like Astrid Puentes Riañio, co-executive director of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, who are driving this change.

By far, over 300 lawyers and civil society activists have been impacted.

The lawyers have been joined by some civil society activists and supporters of political parties.

Nakamitsu recommends a «multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder exchange» between governments and «civil society activists, the scientific community and the private sector.»

Not exact matches

Tillerson made brief mention of human rights and religious freedom while in Beijing, but had no known meetings with activists or engagements with civil society representatives.

We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil - rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to «fix what ain't right» in our society.»

Since ending his tenure as mayor in 2013, Bloomberg has been an environmental activist focused on climate change, and this has made him consider business strategy in its relation to society.

He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.

Of course the activists blame these pathologies on society's intolerance, but it is not intolerance that produces another and very basic reason why people hope their children will not be homosexual.

While many Muslim activists share the vision that Islam can provide the framework for their respective societies, there is no consensus on precisely what an Islamic state should look like.

During both the First and Second Intifadas, the magazine published articles stating that nonviolent activists were gaining traction in Palestinian society.

«Another objection to moral relativism is called by Fred Feldman «The Reformer's Dilemma,» which describes the situation of an activist who sees a society in need of improvement and feels compelled to propose some alteration for its citizens.

This is not only because it has as yet proved impossible to define consistently the notion of the «optimum» population upon which activist efforts to shape the demographic composition of society seem in theory to rest.

The moral choice comes from how one chooses to express this fact about themselves and many gay and lesbian activists allow the wrong spokespeople to send the wrong messages to a society that hasn't shed the animal instincts to reject what may be viewed as defective.

The Governing Board is not composed of radical activists from the church - and - society curias but of the responsible heads of the Protestant and Orthodox member churches and their official representatives.

Nowadays a socially liberal student, outraged over the injustices of our society and the legitimating role the churches play in them, charges into a pastorate armed with an activist gospel.

It shows up in their contempt for humane societies and animal rights activists.

[63] Susan Cockrell, «Crusader Activists and the 1996 Anti-Trapping Campaign,» Wildlife Society Bulletin 27, no. 1 (1999).

In particular, it is a response to the threat against the family represented by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply demands by a small minority of activists for the legalisation of what they insist on describing as homosexual «marriage».

The Bohemian Merton got the others into any number of scrapes, and the Activist Merton often got carried away by currents in the sixties that — in retrospect — were not entirely fair to American society.

Whether legal rights concerning homosexual parenting and adoption are extended or limited, it is also clear that LGBT activists will use homosexual marriage as a Trojan horse in their greater efforts to deny natural sexuality, to erase sexual differences and replace them with orientations that make it possible to leave behind the «straitjacket of nature» and to pursue the destruction of the heterosexual foundations of our society.

Whether legal rights concerning homosexual parenting and adoption are extended or limited, it is also clear that LGBT activists will use homosexual marriage as a Trojan horse in their greater efforts to deny natural sexuality, to erase sexual differences, and to replace them with orientations that make it possible to leave behind the «straightjacket of nature» and to pursue the destruction of the heterosexual foundations of our society.

Nevertheless, if one were to accept public opinion polls as the compass of our society, would it not make sense to survey the French people also on all the demands made by LGBT activists in the name of equality and antidiscrimination?

Nevertheless, if one were to accept public opinion polls as the compass of our society, would it not make sense to survey the French people also on all the demands made by LGBT activists in the name of equality and anti-discrimination?

We're mad about education, the impact of society upon our children, and abortion activists.

Like the activist or guerrilla martyr, Christ's death is an apparent defeat that is in fact the leading edge of a new society in which the powers behind this death will themselves be overthrown.

In practical terms these claims are challenged both by the rapid recent development of democracy and human rights in several East Asian societies and by social activist and scholarly discourses which challenge these claims directly.

The Vegan Society does not encourage any illegal activity, threats of violence or any abusive behaviour or language towards anyone and we encourage vegan activists to share their messages peacefully and as positively as possible.

but basically a lot of «progressive» activists are trying to push an agenda that «hate speech» is incredibly harmful to the fabric of society and certain buzz words that could be interpreted as derogatory will land you in a lot of hot water with them (i.e. you can't say faggot because its offensive to gays).

The NEC Society is the world's first and only activist - based, clinician / family collaborative organization specifically focused on the understanding, prevention and treatment of NEC.

Panellists at the event, entitled Civil Society: Enabling Dissent, include Anthony Barnett founder of openDemocracy.net, global activist Kumi Naidoo, journalist / blogger Sunny Hundal and campaigner Malcolm Carroll.

The rapid emergence of civil society organizations and civic activist groups was welcomed as indicative of the «liberation» process — gone are the days of the Qaddafi Foundation and its monopoly of civil society — and today Libya boasts a diverse civil society and civic activist space (See El Taraboulsi and Salah, 2013).

Also at 10 a.m., US Sen. Chuck Schumer, state lawmakers and anti-poverty activists call on all members of Congress to seize the opportunity this year to make the EITC and CTC improvements permanent and prevent millions of working Americans from falling into poverty, Community Service Society, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

Civil society and youth activists planned a «Friday to rescue benghazi» demonstration.

The Government responded by temporarily detaining one civil society leader and issuing arrest warrants for other activists.

While LRA leader Joseph Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, Ugandan civil society actors and peace activists were skeptical of the U.S. troop deployment to the country.

Inspired by Saturday's address by Pope Francis at the third World Meeting of Popular Movements — a meeting hosted by the Vatican that brought together delegates representing the poor, unemployed and others struggling at the margins of society — longtime antiwar activist and former gubernatorial candidate Brian P. Moore of Florida yesterday endorsed Rocky De La Fuente's longshot bid for the presidency.

[3] If Brown is also to include Nelson Mandela, who arguably made his name as much by his actions before gaining political power than after, then a discussion of political activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst or, perhaps even more so, Eleanor Roosevelt who successfully campaigned towards removing, or at least alleviating, a different kind of apartheid from their respective societies would have also made a welcome addition.

This is based on interviews with over 100 Libyans between politicians, activists, civil society leaders, and individuals over the past three years in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Italy and the UK.

«UK Uncut's latest planned action, «The Emergency Operation», will see its activists peacefully occupying banks on Saturday 28 May, turning them into big society hospitals.