Sentences with phrase «justice at the negotiations»

Seriously, if we want to promote climate justice at the negotiations, we have to take some times to think about the living conditions of these women farmers.

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Some state lawmakers took a break from rancorous budget negotiations last night to see U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speak at UAlbany.

Thursday Questions — Energy and climate change Business Statement - Leader of the House Motion — Reform of the court of justice of the EU Motion — European document relating to the EU draft budget Motion — European document relating to EU human rights strategy Adjournment — Arms trade treaty negotiations at the UN

The City Council and the de Blasio administration are currently in negotiations over another criminal justice proposal outlined by the speaker at this time last year, when she called for a change in how the city handles summonses for low - level, non-violent quality of life offenses.

Lynch and the PBA were already incensed at de Blasio over protracted negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, annoyed with the mayor's move to formally end a police practice called stop - and - frisk (which criminal justice reformers say has been used disproportionately and abusively against young black men), and looking to weaken him by convincing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill passed by the legislature that would allow the PBA to all but stifle any efforts by the city to discipline corrupt and incompetent cops.

Traveling in from Appalachia, Brazil, London, and ranging from arrested labor justice campaigners to U.N. climate negotiations youth organizers and a Deutsche Bank analyst, 140 students and young people gathered at the «Transition to a New Economy Conference,» which was an effort to create holistic alternatives to the current economic system — a discourse cracked open by Occupy Wall Street.

Clémence Hutin, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «These negotiations should have been about ramping up the EU's climate efforts for 2030, instead we are risking a decade of inaction.

The Warsaw agenda includes numerous topics that raise profound ethical and justice issues which not only must be faced to achieve a global climate change solution but which are also increasingly at the center of the most contentious issues in the international climate negotiations.

Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «In the Philippines they're counting their dead, but some at these negotiations are just counting their cash.

Assuming that people were following the process and policy closely while at the same time speaking in UN jargon, is what sometimes prevents us from spreading our climate justice narrative outside the negotiation rooms.

Ethical and Justice Issues In Contention At the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - The First In A Series Of Reports.

Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 3, Financing Adaptation and Climate Change Responses in Vulnerable Developing Counties and Issue 4, Ethical Responsibilities for Loss and Damages.

The Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 2, Equity and National GHG Emissions Commitments in the Medium - and Long Term

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

During the climate negotiations in Warsaw that concluded late Saturday, some of the most prominent US media institutions finally acknowledged that ethics and justice issues were at the very center of the most contentious issues in dispute.

The failure of nations to consider act on what equity and justice requires of them to reduce the threat of climate change has been at the very center of the most contentious disputes in international climate negotiations (See, Brown, 2013, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity).

This is the second in a series of papers which will examine the ethical and justice issues that are at the center of the Warsaw climate negotiations, often referred to as the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP - 19).

Watching PLE initiatives such as the Young Justice Champions Project in practice and seeing young people grappling with legal concepts, putting into practice skills such as negotiation, and using the internet to search for answers to their problems, you can not help but get excited at the possibilities.

Whether a matter is resolved through settlement, negotiation, mediation, arbitration or trial, the attorneys at Howard Law are prepared to aggressively pursue justice while remaining attentive to their clients» needs.

Star alumni: Nathalie Des Rosiers, dean of common law at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law; former Superior Court justices John Kennedy and Thomas Granger; Ontario Superior Court justices Jasmine Akbarali, Ian Leach, Margaret McSorley, Mary Anne Sanderson and Michael Varpio; Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Bradley Miller; David Shore, television writer for House, NYPD Blue, Family Law and Due South; Bryce Rudyk, senior legal adviser to Alliance of Small Island States in United Nations negotiations relating to climate change treaties and adjunct law professor at the New York University School of Law; Amy Archer, senior adviser to the government house leader at the Ontario government

Negotiators who have spent days or months trying to secure a contract will be understandably hesitant to jeopardise successful negotiation of the substantive terms with blunt talk about unpalatable topics like breach of contract, remedies and how and where the defaulter should be brought to justice etc, and many arbitration clauses are tacked on — often at 3 am — without much, if any, thought being given to the wisdom of selecting arbitration at all.

To ensure justice for victims of corporate human rights abuse, transnational companies who evade accountability in the states hosting their operations must face justice at home — a new treaty under negotiation holds the promise of doing so.

• At least 18 years old • Three or more years of relevant experience working as a bounty hunter and / or in law enforcement; degree in criminal justice also preferred • Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills • Combat training, including in close quarters • Negotiation skills • Psychological characteristics of patience, persistence, cleverness, courage, and excellent judgement in minimizing risks

Standards for consultation, the first step in negotiation, are set out in the document prepared by the Social Justice Commissioner for the Australian Heritage Commission appended to this submission, and provided to this Committee at the Public Hearing.

After originally not agreeing to a mediated consent determination, mediation was given further impetus by an early evidence hearing at the conclusion of which Justice North expressed surprise at the lack of progress in negotiation given the strength of the evidence.

After months of negotiations, we are at a loss to understand why the Department of Justice would bring a legal action.

Matt was a Pro Bono Excellence recipient at Boston College Law School, judged the Boston College Dispute Negotiation Competition, worked at the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, and has been published in the Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice on two separate occasions.