Sentences with phrase «issues of the global citizen»

His visual vocabulary of repeating motifs, combined with word play — running internal monologues, spiked with puns, double entendre and malapropism — is an open - ended investigation into the moral issues of the global citizen in the early 21st century.

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The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

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.

Governments of some developed nations also argue that land degradation is not a global issue of immediate concern to their citizens, but rather a problem limited to the dry lands of developing countries.

RD overall affect millions of citizens at global level and are considered a significant issue.

The objective of health research under FP7 is to improve the health of European citizens and boost the competitiveness of health - related industries and businesses, as well as to address global health issues.

The TANs bring together a wide array of nongovernmental organizations, citizens associations, trade unions, communities and alternative media in forms of activism which target global level institutions and issues, while also attempting to use global level visibility to level changes at the national level.

This is mind The Widening Circle (TWC) was launched as a new organizing initiative with the explicit aim of catalyzing the Global Citizens Movement (GCM), a sustained campaign that will spread across regions and issues in «widening circles.»

In CFE v. New York, Judge Leland DeGrasse ruled that an adequate education included the «foundational skills that students need to become productive citizens capable of civic engagement and sustaining competitive employment,» the «intellectual tools to evaluate complex issues, such as campaign finance reform, tax policy, and global warming,» the ability to «determine questions of fact concerning DNA evidence, statistical analyses, and convoluted financial fraud.»

These educators are preparing a generation of global citizens with knowledge of global issues and developing their skills to work towards positive social change.

Part of our awareness as global citizens is knowing how different media shape our opinions and outlooks on the issues that affect us all.

Part of their awareness as global citizens meant knowing how different media are used to persuade us into forming opinions and outlooks on the issues that affect us all.

Learners should have opportunities to further their understanding of interconnectedness, empathy and global issues so that they are prepared for the globalized world they live in, which in turn will inspire a future generation of responsible, compassionate citizens.

One of the stated purposes of SUA is the development of global citizens.68 He also mentioned that Dr. Ikeda feels in the United States that all issues can be discussed with a kind of openness that does not exist in Japan.

Exploring issues of social justice has always been a powerful driver for Billy Crombie and her experiences overseas made her determined to help students to become global citizens

Our character - based curriculum prepares Gulliver students to become global citizens, embodying the 4Cs — critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaboration — that are essential to facing the complex issues of our rapidly changing world.

How can we become an aware citizen of the world by contributing our best to save it from issues like global warming and health diseases?

The artists included in Cities of Conviction use visual language to explore the pertinent cultural issues facing Saudi Arabia and its citizens, which are in parallel with those facing artists from Utah and, in a world becoming ever more global, the artists also address the dilution of specific elements of culture.

Her politically engaged works have tackled global issues of power, migration, censorship and repression through participatory works that turn «viewers» into «citizens.»

Mr. Chamie notes that the relatively enormous thirst for energy, food and other resources from Americans, when compared with that of the average world citizen, gives outsize importance to issues like global warming and to American trends.

Here's why I see no social or political tipping point: Behind the ups and downs tracked by Gallup, Pew, The Times and others, there's been little evidence of a shift in what political and socials scientists call «issue salience» for global warming — making it the kind of problem citizens bring to the voting booth.

And perhaps (notwithstanding the IPCC's firmly closed deliberations doors, and obviously unbeknownst to the movers and shakers behind this report) this is why — according to Olav Kjørven, Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Bureau for Development Policy at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-- «the era of making decisions about global issues behind closed doors with little citizen involvement was coming to an end.»

If that were true, on an issue such as global warming, about which scientists have a great deal of consensus, we'd expect citizens to come to agreement as their knowledge of the issue increases.

Perhaps I fit the late Andrew Breitbart's definition of «citizen journalist», as I mentioned at the end of my June 2011 Breitbart piece, but as seen there, (full text) what I was actually trying to do was to prompt mainstream journalists to step back from the abyss of only half - reporting the global warming issue and find their character via unabridged reporting on the issue and inquiries into narratives about details within it that don't line up right.

So, imagine you are just an ordinary citizen who might have seen a mention of disinformation campaigns rampant in the global warming issue, perhaps even seeing the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase spelled out in connection to the Information Council on the Environment.

We've seen in the past how games can touch critical issues like climate change, hunger, and obesity, but World Without Oil is different in that it is a «historical pre-enactment,» crowdsourced from the minds of global citizens who know this scenario is all but upon us.

Much larger than the C40 but with less press appeal than Bloomberg, the association ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability (composed of 1220 local governments) also participated from the conference actively and UN Habitat launched a global campaign called I'm a city changer, aimed at «sensitizing and creating awareness among citizens on urban issues to achieve better cities.»

Based on a book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, the film by Robert Kenner purports to show how «Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.»