Sentences with phrase «high commissioner for»

The Montreal native and Companion of the Order of Canada was previously the United Nations high commissioner for human rights as well as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

The esteemed experts included: Lene Wendland, the advisor on business and human rights in the office of the United Nations» high commissioner for human rights; Pamela Gillies, president and vice chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University; Cherie Blair, a leading human rights lawyer and campaigner for gender equality; Phillipe Fornier, general secretary of the Swiss Better Gold Association and Nöella Coursaris, the founder and chief executive of Malaika, a foundation focused on educating and empowering girls in the Congo.

For Prof. Clement Dzidonu, President of Accra Institute of Technology, he is still not convinced if Ayisi Boateng genuinely wants to be high commissioner for all Ghanaians.

Hours before Monday's attack, the UN high commissioner for human rights questioned the measures being taken by Egypt's government to combat jihadism.

Immigrants who arrived from the Commonwealth are «being shut out of the system» with some deported or sent to detention centres, says the high commissioner for Barbados.

Navi Pillay, UN high commissioner for human rights, issued a statement recently calling for Guantanamo's closure, adding that its existence is a breach of international law.

According to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, «the [Saudi - led] Coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of airstrikes».

Instead it calls for the Syrian government to meet their people's legitimate demands, release all prisoners of conscience, lift restrictions on the media and internet and cooperate with the UN high commissioner for human rights.

The UN has «not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago,» said UN high commissioner for refugees António Guterres at a New York meeting this summer.

«Because Myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators the current situation can not yet be fully assessed,» Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement Monday.

António Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal and UN high commissioner for refugees, took over on January 1 for a five - year term as the United Nations secretary general.

As a long - serving UN high commissioner for human rights, she framed crimes against humanity in strikingly personal terms.

[3] The last two UN High Commissioners for Human Rights have condemned ISIS brutality, [4] as have the UN's Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh.

The official video (here) which was being posted by the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) on 19 September has more than three million views and half a million likes to date.

Not exact matches

Europe's transport commissioner Violeta Bulc and climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said in a joint statement while the EU had «sought a higher level of ambition, this is a good starting point that will allow for further review and improvements over time».

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

This past week, at the Eurofi High Level Seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Brian Quintenz shared his views on the «tokenization revolution» and the evolving US regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

Then - commissioner David Stern, who pushed for the creation of the age minimum in 2005, wanted to extend it to age 20 or two years past high school graduation.

The closeness continued at the highest levels of the game when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL Players» Association director Bob Goodenow and International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel hunkered down last Thursday in a four - man bobsled for a trip down the Olympic course at slap - shot speed.

Jones has also retained the services of high - profile lawyer David Boies, who may be best known recently for his work defending Harvey Weinstein, in his quest to stop the commissioner's planned extension.

Commissioners also agreed to continue following a policy of not charging out - of - district registration fees for programs offered at the new field house on the Lincoln - Way High School Central Campus in New Lenox.

Julian Tackett, assistant commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association and chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee, said the committee felt the need to continue to address risk minimization issues for the runner.

I am writing on behalf of Baby Milk Action / IBFAN UK regarding our concerns about three of the proposed Commissioners for WHO's Independent Global High - level Commission on NCDs.

Another high - profile campaign for commissioner is taking place in the Northwest Side's 12th District, where three - term Democratic incumbent Ted Lechowicz is being challenged by Forrest Claypool, a former head of the Chicago Park District and two - time chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

During the Sierra Leone arms affair, Murray is troubled by a British high commissioner whose propensity for acting outside UK government policy and engagement in diplomatic freelancing results in major scandal.

For example, out of 347 expected incoming MPs, a minimum of 47 were to be women, a gender equality measure that had already been viewed as «technically impossible» [vi] by President Kibaki before going on to spark constitutional confrontation between the President and the Kenyan High Court over county commissioner appointments.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

He was also full of praise for President John Dramani Mahama and his competent team of Ambassadors, High Commissioners and the immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Hanna Tetteh for working very hard for this victory, «Yes, our immediate past President and his competent team started working for this victory over a year ago and I am very grateful to them for the hard work put in to ensure this victory», he stated.»

A development now being built in the rural village of Schoharie, for example, was promised millions of dollars in funds and tax credits from the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal after its then - commissioner, Darryl Towns, bypassed competing projects that had higher recommendations from his staff.

And as the Times Union previously reported, Steven Aaron — whose LLCs gave the governor $ 25,000 during this six - month stretch and much more in prior years — received millions from the Division of Housing and Community Renewal for work in Schoharie after Cuomo - appointed commissioner Darryl Towns «bypassed competing projects that had higher recommendations from his staff.»

Success Academy suffered a defeat in a high - profile skirmish with New York City on Friday, when the state education commissioner ruled that the city could require the charter school network to sign a contract to receive funding for its prekindergarten program.

The resolution declares «no confidence» in education department commissioner John King's policies and calls for a three - year moratorium on high - stakes standardized testing.

The public forum with New York Department of Education commissioner John King that was first scheduled for Riverhead High School is now being moved to the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium in Manorville.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Tuesday that a call from teachers» unions for a three - year moratorium on using state exam results for «high - stakes» decisions is a «distraction» from the goal of improving New York graduates» outcomes in college and careers.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

In addition, the New York State Council of School Superintendents had told the commissioner that getting students to the higher marks in English and math was proving difficult and had asked her to clarify the requirement for 2022.

A public forum with New York Department of Education commissioner John King is set for 6 p.m. tonight at Eastport - South Manor High School in Manorville.

Rosa, who has been outspoken on testing and teacher evaluations issues, may clash with state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who was hired under the leadership of Tisch and supports high standards and state testing for data purposes.

That was Philip Banks, the department's highest ranking uniform officer who was considered by de Blasio for the commissioner job.

[10] The day after the election, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke suggested that, because of the low turnout and high number of spoilt ballot papers, there was no popular mandate for the new commissioners.

And why they can not find spending reductions is beyond everyone, with high paid agencies, commissioners, directors, co-directors, there must be ten executives for every worker in the state.

In a statement he signed and issued to journalists in Abuja, Adigun alleged that governor Bello directed the state commissioner of Works, Lands and Housing, Abdulmumuni Sadiq, to withhold the endorsement of the land title documents needed to complete the bail condition given for the release of the detained PDP youth leader by a Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja

The Queens Democratic Board of Elections commissioner, who in the past has come under fire for conflicts of interest, is quickly becoming one of the highest earning recipients of Queens court patronage, Gotham Gazette has learned.

Among the featured speakers were David Driscoll, commissioner of education for the Massachusetts Department of Education; Peter Frumkin, professor of public affairs at University of Texas at Austin; Laurie Gardner and Eric Premack, codirectors of California Charter Schools Development Center; Michael Goldstein, founder and director of research and information for MATCH Charter Public High School; and HGSE Senior Lecturer James Honan.

In an open letter to ministers, doctors and children's commissioners warned that some of the consequences from this kind of «high - impact collision sport» can have lifelong consequences for children.

Maine's commissioner of education said last week that his sudden decision to pull the plug on a statewide test stemmed from his belief that questions about suicide were too sensitive a topic for high school juniors.

For Angus MacBeath, former school commissioner in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, however, setting high standards in his home province allowed him to «tell the ugly truth,» and it was the necessary first step toward Alberta's journey of educational improvement.

Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), drily noted that, compared to the international average, «we also have a higher percentage of students who score in the lowest performance levels... and a lower percentage of top math performers.»