Sentences with phrase «done by civil society»

Furthermore, as our new report shows, there is a complete absence of a compulsory and organised curriculum of peace education within UK schools, despite some good work being done by civil society providers.

Not exact matches

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).

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.

And develop it did in America, to a degree of independence perhaps not matched by the civil religion of any other 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.

By holding that the statute did not have an impermissible purpose, that its primary effect was not the advancement of religion, and that it did not require «excessive entanglement» between church and state, the Court sent a signal to the political branches that more creative uses of the structures of civil society (including churches) may now be permissible in the American welfare state.

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

Wistful about the decline of religious resources and unconvinced by efforts to construct new forms of universal reason, Seligman does not see any clear way to give civil society a contemporary conceptual form.

What the ex-KGB hand, Putin, has gotten done is this: He's erected a kleptocratic quasi-dictatorship on top of a crumbling civil society while murdering his political opponents, invading his neighbors, backstopping Syria's murderous Bashar al - Assad, and conducting a fantastic propaganda campaign throughout the world (supported, sadly, by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church)-- all of which is aimed at reversing the verdict of recent history, rebuilding Stalin's empire in a new guise, and deconstructing the West.

As stated in our joint CEO letter to the WHO Director - General Dr. Margaret Chan in October 2012: «We believe firmly that more has to be done not only by the alcohol beverage industry, but by governments, international organizations, community based entities, civil society and ultimately by individuals and families.»

And it doesn't get more damning for civil society architecture — herding justices of the courts (including the Supreme Court) into detention, with alleged smoking guns, after a sting operation, by the secret police.

By the way, why do so many politicians - especially the young and ambitious - need to be reminded that civil rights are not some kind of bonus, granted to a «lobby» with an agenda, but a defi ning characteristic of the free society which they have been elected to serve?

«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.

The Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas has kicked against attempts by government to establish a fertiliser plant, saying it would be economically unwise to do so.

Two civil society organisations, CD and CACOL, said the Buhari - led Federal Government did not deserve to continue in office unless it addressed the «incessant killings by herdsmen» in Benue State.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

So it might be the case that the most promising approach to training is one that relies on the basics of conservatism: Concede our inability to perfectly foresee what's around the corner; avoid centralization; don't assume the government will have all of the answers; and rely on a vast array of small - scale, nimble, local solutions crafted by civil - society actors.

By focusing solely on the fact that Teach For America alumni are playing their proper (and laudable) roles as participants in civil society on behalf of children and communities, Malkin fails to pay any mind to the great work that the organization and its recruits do on a daily basis in providing kids with high - quality teaching.

Friends of the Earth groups have fought long and hard to make this initiative a reality and it's a testimony to the work done by African civil society in the fight against energy poverty.»

National governments, subnational governments, the aviation industry, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society must do more to harness viable technological and policy solutions to sharply reduce the sector's emissions by 2050 and fully decarbonize within the second half of the century.

«The Matrix developed by Forest Trends allows not only the acceleration of the decision - making process, but also provides an opportunity for convergence among the private sector, the public sector and civil society,» said Walter Lazzarini, President of the Environmental Council at FIESP (Federation of Industries of São Paulo / Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo).

How is it that activists and policy wonks like me can get the message across to civil society that their governments will have no interest in doing anything until something gets shoved down their throat by the people who elect them?

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.

The Rio +20 People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice is an event organized by global civil society which is happening until June 23 at Aterro do Flamengo.

Then a colleague on the Canadian civil society delegation pointed out that it doesn't much serve climate justice, only shifts the locus of climate injustice, if developed countries accept financial responsibility for loss and damage — then see their historic wrongs paid for by a farmer in rural Britain or a first - or second - generation immigrant family in Calgary who pay their taxes, rather than a multinational fossil that doesn't.

LIZ would have no competitors providing such a civil service function for all of Canada's law societies, and paid for by enabling CanLII to provide at cost a legal opinion service as does LAO LAW at Legal Aid Ontario.

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.

He feels that organizations such as Peacebuilders create a more civil society and by doing so lessen the overall burden on the society they operate in.

It doesn't surprise me at all that the proposals for streamlining the system put forward by the Civil Justice Committee of the Law Society were kicked into touch.

Lord Goldsmith said a recent survey carried out by the ATJF, the Law Society, the Bar Council and Ilex showed 72 % of the legal profession did not know they could obtain pro bono costs on winning a civil case.