Sentences with phrase «global movement against»

The problems American states are confronting in finding drugs to make lethal injections look kind and gentle lie in a growing global movement against capital punishment in which America is increasingly seen as part of an anti human rights «axis» along with Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia.

Standing Rock, an indigenous - led resistance, is a part of a growing global movement against pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure.

Not exact matches

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an «assault on facts» by populist politicians.

Though a few nations did retaliate against a few selected products, Smoot - Hawley played only a modest role in the global movements back and forth between protectionism and free trade.

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.

A global pagan movement against extreme fossil fuels.

Kerry: Well, I'm on the board of V - Day, which is a global movement to end violence against women.

«We made this movie before the Harvey story broke,» Deutch says, referring to the allegations of sexual assault brought against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein that prompted the global #MeToo movement.

Plus, she's a member of the V - Counsel, a group of advisors to V - Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls (www.vday.org).

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 theiGlobal 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 theiglobal 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.

www.whiteband.org «Challenging the institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty and inequality across the world to defend and promote human rights, gender justice, social justice and security needed for survival and peace» The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, -LSB-...]

Originally commissioned by V - Day — a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions — the show consists of a series of monologues that tell stories from many different perspectives around the issue of violence against women.

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Even as arguments against modernism's supposed transcendence of daily life were issued by a host of global players — Hélio Oiticica and the tropicália movement in Brazil, Guy Debord and the Situationist International in France, the Art Workers» Coalition and early land art in the us — many influential curators and critics doubled down, most notably Michael Fried in his 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood», a defence of medium specificity and the priority of immediacy and opticality.

In his comments, Gore equated the fight against global warming to a religious - based, moral crusade similar to the civil rights fight, women's suffrage, and the abolitionist movement during the Civil War era.

The movement encompasses groups like Geoengineering Awareness Group Canada, or the yearly Global March Against Geoengineering.

We do encourage you to voluntarily share Personal Information with us, because we can't build the movement we need to win the fight against global warming without you.

National Center or Public Policy Research expert on global warming and the ozone layer (1996) Robert Wesson Endowment Fund Fellow (1993 - 4) at Hoover Institution Marshall Institute Expert bio: http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=38 A darling of the anti-climate movement, Baliunas has been a central scientist in the fight against action on climate change.

There's a sideswipe at the carbon footprint of middleclass Aga owners; a defence of Greens against the accusation that they're an overwhelmingly middle class movement; and a rather pathetic attempt at a class breakdown of Ryanair customers, before getting down to the main issue — an attack on Spiked and its principal contributors for their agnostic position on global warming.

The saga of the global warming movement's jihad against skeptical scientists — including those whose skepticism of man - made climate change orthodoxy is moderate enough to make them dislike the «skeptic» label — has grown to include the formidable Dr. Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Grueso has been widely perceived as one of the most inspiring leaders at the forefront of Latin America's «Black environmentalism» movement, one of the most exciting and important grassroots movements in recent times for championing human rights and the environment against the pressures of the global economy and military repression.

It you want to see the essence of the genuinely dangerous union of church and state that our Founding Fathers sought to protect us against, just look at the Global Warming movement.

Start dissecting their narratives, comparing them side - by - side while looking for physical evidence corroborating Ross Gelbspan's «industry corruption» accusation against skeptic climate scientists, and a very different picture becomes clear: these people's narratives don't line up right, they collectively have no evidence backing up their accusation, and this prompts serious questions of whether core leaders of the global warming movement are totally oblivious to this situation, or if they knew their narratives had no merit from the start.

The white paper pushed back against the growing global movement to end investment in fossil fuels.

«The Vagina Monologues» inspired Ensler to create V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.

From the article:... The saga of the global warming movement's jihad against skeptical scientists — including those whose skepticism of man - made climate change orthodoxy is moderate enough to make them dislike the «skeptic» label — has grown to include the formidable Dr. Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

A global pagan movement against extreme fossil fuels.

A BAFTA and multi-award winning filmmaker and Human Rights Campaigner, Leslee's documentary «India's Daughter», has been critically acclaimed around the globe, won 32 awards (including the Peabody Award and the Amnesty International Media Award for Best Documentary 2016) and sparked a global movement to end violence against women and girls.