Sentences with phrase «how civil society»

Pay attention to and educate others on how civil society's understanding of climate change issues has been manipulated by powerful forces, that is, help citizens see the wizard behind the curtain who has been projecting a false understanding of climate change matters.

It also highlights how civil society can address issues with implementation of the agreement.

This page develops resources on international mindedness and how civil society groups work to improve global interactions.

To defeat extremism, we need to learn from how civil society and the state took on racism in the twentieth century.

«And I think select committees are a very important way of looking at how civil society holds itself to account.»

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I talk a lot about our cluster strategy and how we want companies to work closely with government, academia and civil society and create these super-clusters, or collaborative environments where we can work together and share ideas.

«The short - term, dopamine - driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth,» he says.

A group of thought leaders representing business, academia and civil society sits down to discuss how global risks can be turned into a wide range of new opportunities.

While the directive aims to strike a balance between privacy and financial scrutiny, it also seeks to publicly disclose some of this information so that third parties and civil society at large can know who holds what currency and potentially even how much.

Given this growing consensus, what's provocative about Renewing American Compassion is not that it argues for returning social welfare functions to civil society, but that it dares to offer specific and useful proposals for how this might happen.

The Civil Rights movement was about about the equality of Man (& Women) and about how everyone has the same inalienable rights and that bigotry and racism can no longer exclude an entire segment of society.

But efforts to defend and strengthen this bedrock institution ultimately depend on how marriage is understood, articulated, and practiced in civil society... Continue Reading»

God has long since been excluded from any role in civil society's reflections on how to conduct itself.

Cuddihy showed how in civil society people had to let their old faith and behavior get ground up and refined.

The problem then becomes how to reconcile a philosophical anthropology of individualism with the mutuality and interrelatedness of society, and the concept of civil society is that synthesis by which these theses have been bridged.

How was it possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised...

Frankly, I often disagree with fellow believers on how they try to legislate their interpretation of scripture, but the governance of a civil society is never going to be uninfluenced by people of faith as long as it is a democracy.

It is Card's depiction of how a society slips into civil war, presented as a cautionary tale for an America polarized by ideology.

How equipped is civil and political society in Scotland for influencing these issues and will it be for the better?

[i] Regardless of how one sides on this issue, a plain reading of Romans 13, clearly indicates that the civil government plays a role in God's design for society and His people.

Surrounded by such places, and steeped in the principles of Catholic social teaching, the participants of the Seminar grapple with the monumental questions of our day: How, after a half - century of degradation, can the institution of the family, the bedrock of civil society, possibly bear the weight it must bear if freedom is to serve the common good?

How was it possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised the hope for peace among long - alienated peoples?

Two books on South African apartheid show how it was possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised the hope for peace among long - alienated peoples.

About the same time in 1984 Vaclav Havel attributed to the Czechoslovakian opposition group, the Chartists, the «knowledge» of «how suddenly a society that seemed atomized, apathetic, and broken can be transformed into an articulate, united civil society.

In so doing I am attempting to apply Durkheim's thesis to religiously plural societies and thereby show how a civil religion can develop.

Beyond economic calculations, there are also moral judgments to be made about how state action can promote or discourage a healthy civil society.

Agung Widi, from Kalimajari, a civil society organization working with cocoa farmers and Kerta Semaya Samaniya cocoa cooperative in Jembrana, Indonesia, explains how certification helped them become one of the top 50 cocoa producers in the world.

From June 5 — 7, 2018, more than 200 leading personalities from the cocoa and chocolate industry, governments and civil society will gather in Davos / Switzerland to discuss how technology is spurring innovation in our sector, explore how we can ensure a sustainable chocolate future and highlight the role of business as a change agent.

The complaint submitted by Baby Milk Action was presented in the publication Nestlé's UN Global Compact cover up: How Nestlé's Shared Value reports cover up malpractice and bring the UN voluntary initiative for corporate responsibility into disrepute (NESTLÉ CRITICS, 2009) which included information from various civil society organisations (note 3) alleging violations in the areas of:

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

He conducts two streams of interdisciplinary and multi-method research: the first uses quantitative and qualitative approaches from corpus linguistics to investigate British media portrayals of migrant groups, borders, and citizenship, while the second set of projects explores how data, evidence - based research, and «impact» are constructed, shaped, and visually communicated by civil society organisations in their public - facing work.

This week we met with Liz Truss, MP, Minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and Rob Wilson, MP, Minister for Civil Society, to discuss with other food manufacturers and retailers how we could further support food redistribution in the UK.

We consult, analyse and research widely, working with academics, businesses and civil society to build a complete picture of how climate change affects the UK.

Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank research or actions of other civil society organisationsor through the law.

A number of civil society leaders I interviewed related how they would receive funding offers amounting to thousands of dollars if they would launch particular initiatives in locations designated by the funder's interests.

Mr Copson spoke about how, increasingly, advocates of Bishops have also built their case on the position of the Church of England as our largest NGO — a civil society group with a branch in every community.

Ghanaian Civil society group, the African Centre for Energy Policy, ACEP, has revealed through its partners, a Swiss NGO, Public Eye, how Swiss commodity trading firms are exporting what they call «dirty diesel» to Africa.

Reporting from the Open Government Summit in London, where sixty countries are represented along with 300 representatives from civil society organizations, Susannah Vila and Christopher Wilson cover how those non-governmental groups are trying to use the summit to pressure their governments to actually live up to the nice promises they keep mouthing.

The stakeholder forum, attended by co-coordinating directors, environmental health officers, Municipal and District Chief Executives and civil society organizations, deliberated on how to scale up the model to cover more communities.

The Akim Oda MP, William Quaitoo, tendered in his resignation in August 2017, following pressure from the Minority, and some civil society groups for making ethnocentric comments, which was triggered during a conversation on how government has dealt with the fall army worm invasion in the three regions of the North.

We would like to see how seriously the commission is taking it, in building consensus with civil society and the rest of Nigerians to deal with the issue.»

«Civil society should be concerned about how the Speaker is conducting himself, it is so terrible.

PDF brings together a thousand top opinion makers, political practitioners, technologists, and journalists from across the ideological spectrum for two days to network, exchange ideas, and explore how technology and wired citizens are changing politics, governance, and civil society.»

Also, a civil society organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has said Patience must explain how she came about the funds with which she reportedly built a N10bn hotel in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

The Akim Oda MP tendered in his resignation on Thursday, following pressure from the Minority, and some civil society groups for making ethnocentric comments, which was triggered during a conversation on how government has dealt with the fall army worm invasion in the three regions of the North.

She described how in Mexico (where she served as embassy public affairs officer) environmentalists created what she called «an opening in civil society» that expanded when a devastating earthquake hit their country in 1985.

«We have seen how cities and states can overcome complex challenges by taking an approach that considers a broad range of sustainability principles covering human rights, labour standards, environment and anti-corruption, and then working with business and civil society to find lasting solutions.»

The success of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica marks an important development in the philosophy of sustainable development, demonstrating how the climate challenge can be met through goodwill and collaboration between civil society, business and governments.

150 years ago, Americans fought a bloody Civil War (1861 - 1865) over slavery, which ended in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the How Tinder Accidentally Exposed Society's Inherent Racism The five - year - old dating app shed light on an uncomfortable set of stereotypes.

By taking us to where it all started, Director Matthew Vaughn allows us to witness the origins of the mutant struggle for civil acceptance, and asks the question how can you ask society to accept you when you can't even accept yourself?