Sentences with phrase «focus on civil society»

Our movement must maintain its strong focus on civil society lead change and mobilization.

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He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership with civil society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.

Leaders in both business and civil society have focused too much on the friction between them and not enough on the points of intersection.

• The focus on the autonomous individual to the neglect of institutions of civil society, especially family.

He is best known for his focus on the relationship between NGDOs and civil society, a new and lively topic among development experts.

I can't speak for the artist but American non-believers focus more of their attention on Christianity because it is Christians who are continually imposing their religion on US civil politics, laws, and society.

Other recent research by her has focused on the role of women in radical movements in Northern Nigeria, the conflict in Yemen, and on civil society in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

However it is important to note that only a small proportion of civil society groups are involved in the protests; namely those groups that are based in Bujumbura who are focused on governance and human rights issues and regard themselves as watchdog responsible for holding the government to account.

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

«In addition, we must anticipate shift in the focus, scope and attention of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and other stakeholders on our services and activities beyond the traditional Election Day event to the Commission's pre-and post-election activities.

Beyond then the UK / India development relationship will focus on technical assistance - especially cultivation of pro-private sector infrastructure, development of healthcare systems and support for civil society.

Now, governments, businesses, civil society institutions and other stakeholders are focused on turning targets and plans into climate action.

In this project, the Education factor is present in the majority of the strands of work: approach of incorporating comprehensive sex education in the formal education system and in youth organizations; implementation of the Comprehensive Strategy of Sex Education of the Department of Education in the classrooms at the two education centres; strengthening of the institutional capacity of the health and education sectors, through the provision of health personnel, methodological tools and focusing on gender, human rights and multiculturalism; cross-sector coordination (Health - Education Departments), and with civil society to develop alliances which promote the exercising of the Sexual and Reproductive rights of the adolescents and young people of zones 3 and 7 of Guatemala City.

We have written about charity systems and then we try to focus on about the expression of solidarity values at the present and its impact in the social politics, social jobs and civil society.

However, the government's focus on greater school freedom means local and civil society organisations must act to help schools to pursue sustainability.

It has been created ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April, where leaders, business, civil society and young people from around the world will gather in London to focus on a common future and helping ensure every young person can access a world - class education.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).

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.

Engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism, Durant's work is thought - provoking, focusing our attention on the challenges facing contemporary society.

Özcan Kaya focuses on the intersection of art and politics, civil society, cultural policy / politics, as well as social, cultural and gender identities.

More specifically, the workshop focused on the government's role in incentivizing action in cities, including by highlighting the leadership role taken by cities in both developed and developing countries, and private sector and civil society efforts to support local governments and cities.

Some environmental justice NGOs do not want to discuss geoengineering for fear that it will validate the «mad science» and distract civil society, governments and business communities from focusing on less drastic measures that will have impact on climate change.

Although a broadly - based civil society organisation rather than a modern environmental pressure group the Union now focuses much of its programme around policy issues and promotional initiatives on the integration of climate and air pollution policies, including in particular its next World Congress (Cape Town, September 2013).

This year's forum focused on «finding solidarity and joint countermeasures on the subject of environmental safety in relation to human dignity,» with sessions on mega-development, climate disasters and people's lives in Asia, and the role of civil society in environmental safety in Asia.

Social movements focus members of civil society on particular dimensions of social problems of concern and provide their publics with clear definitions of those problems, along with arguments regarding who is at fault and what options exist for solving their social grievances.

ESM 283 - Environmental Negotiation [4 units] Jostes For 2017, the curriculum for environmental negotiation has been substantially revised to focus on the tools and behaviors necessary to deal with polarized politics and the vaporization of trust within and between communities - in politics and in a not - so - civil society in general.

If we as outside civil society groups can shift the narrative to focus on the issues that are not being addressed by our leaders in the negotiations, then there is a greater chance that those inside may listen, if not now at least in the future.

The main land use item we followed was APA item 3 (c), which was also the hot topic among land - focused civil society because of it's impact on how parties under the Paris Agreement account for their emissions by sources (deforestation, agriculture) and removals by sinks (forests, agriculture) from the land sector in their NDCs.

The TEM facilitated an effective dialogue between participants, including Parties and representatives of the UNFCCC institutions, public and private investors, renewable energy companies, civil society, and research and academia, focusing on concrete business models and regulatory frameworks being used to deploy renewables on the ground.

Given that the CDM rules to not yet fulfill these requirements, the human rights and climate change working group, with the support of several network members prepared a submission focusing on the need to (1) establish institutional safeguards; (2) strengthen local community and civil society participation; and (3) provide a means to consider and address local stakeholders» concerns.

And still there is little being discussed in civil society about it and how it could potentially change the conversation and focus on how to combat climate change.

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA — Today — Civil society leaders from across Africa, with support from global movements, launched a letter to climate negotiators that warns that focusing on launching a new mandate at the Durban talks risks backtracking on promises to the poor and the planet.

See e.g. Maxeiner, supra n. 1, at 44 (arguing that a globalized legal education is no longer subject to the cultural barriers that were once dominant in society, allowing students to focus on the legal cultures that they will likely encounter in an increasingly globalized economy); see also James E. Pfander, Book Review, (reviewing Thomas Main, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (Thomson / West 2006)-RRB-(describing the case for globalized Civil Procedure courses by emphasizing how such an approach would lead to a greater understanding of American procedure).

UNHCR interventions will focus on increasing the integration of refugee response programmes with comprehensive national and regional protection and development frameworks; enhancing productive and coping mechanisms of refugee and host communities; and strengthening resilience through partnerships and innovative approaches such as cash - based interventions and other self - reliance initiatives in close cooperation with governments, humanitarian and development actors, civil society and the private sector.

Funds and implements the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), focusing its support on grassroots organizations and diverse, responsive funding mechanisms that allow for effective long term support for civil society partners.

In pursuit of that goal, ICNL's programs and research focus on promoting an enabling legal environment for civil society and public participation worldwide.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a new edition of its quarterly journal International Review of the Red Cross, focused on new technologies and warfare and featuring articles by several members of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Dr. Peter Asaro of ICRAC on banning autonomous weapons systems, Prof. Noel Sharkey of ICRAC on autonomous robot warfare, and Richard Moyes and Thomas Nash of Article 36 on the role of civil society in the development of standards on new weapons.

Muslim Matter is online magazine which is focused on issues of Religion, Society, Ethics, Politics, Civil Rights, Family, as well as the random issues that pop up from now and then, all with some ranting and humor mixed in.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Michael Rosen Says... will focus primarily on issues related to civil society.

Responding to the alarming increase in psycho - social and developmental problems among children whose parents are living apart, 26 leading research scientists, family professionals and representatives of civil society from 11 countries gathered in Bonn, Germany, on 21 - 23 February 2014 to found a new international organization focused on the feasibility of shared parenting as a viable and beneficial solution for children.

The International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP) was founded on 22 February 2014 in Bonn, Germany, by leading research scientists, family professionals and representatives of civil society from 11 countries as a non-profit organization focusing on the feasibility of shared parenting as a viable and beneficial solution for children.