Sentences with phrase «justice campaigns»

He will undertake research into the effects of the civil legal aid changes and hopes to launch an access to justice campaign in the autumn.

Lilah serves as the Board Chair for Jews United for Justice Campaign Fund.

The Home Office said that new rules would allow about 4,300 more to settle, but the Gurkha Justice Campaign said it would be just 100.

Tracey serves as the Racial Justice Campaign Director for CPD, building deep and close relationships with core affiliates who are focused on driving racial justice work as well as working with other CPD staff to develop effective intersectional campaigns.

«A climate change response must have at its heart a REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH and resources,» Emma Brindal, a «climate justice campaign coordinator» for Friends of the Earth Australia, wrote Wednesday on the Climate Action Network's blog.

In 2012, the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign found that all of the nine people who were on a supervision order due to mental impairment were Aboriginal.

Along with the governor, powerful union leader George Gresham, who is chairing the Mario Cuomo Economic Justice campaign, and some economists will also be on the call.

BREAKING: Ogreave Justice campaign told a decision on a public inquiry will be made by the end of October following a meeting with Home Sec.

Sheila Coleman of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign said Patnick's death served as a «timely reminder» of the need for inquiries into wrongdoing by police officers to take place «as swiftly as possible».

The second link comes via Tom Nelson, and is from Emma Brindal, «Climate Justice Campaign Coordinator» for Friends of the Earth Australia.

This view holds that true school reform must be part of a broader social justice campaign led by people of color, which calls for progressive changes to health care, housing, immigration, and economic policies, as well as education.

This is why it's more imperative now than ever for Amazon to harness its resilient brand and illustrate support for social justice campaigns occurring beyond just the Emerald City.

Working - class black and brown women are leading worker justice campaigns that are winning higher minimum wages, stable scheduling practices and better benefits for all wage - earners.

We switch to fair trade, reassess our spending habits, write checks to charities, and join the Facebook page of a low - commitment justice campaign.

You should take a lesson from passed generations about respecting ones elders or take a cue from modern social justice campaigns about not using a persons demographic status to degenerate them.

«The architect of Britain's most successful lobbying campaign of 2009» Peter Carroll first got involved in the Gurkha Justice Campaign after being approached by four Gurkhas at his home in Folkestone, where the Royal Gurkha Rifl es are based and where he is a councillor, to ask for his help in saving one of their comrades from deportation.

«For years our union has been at the forefront of the tax justice campaign, and we are proud to support UK Uncut that has popularised our message that the real fraudsters and the real scroungers are to be found in the boardrooms not in the jobcentres.

We plan to apply to the court for a protective costs order to limit the costs for which we may be liable, but if you can help we have a Crowd Justice campaign running until March 17th.

Her close relationship with the mayor was a break with the political tradition she grew up in ---- as head of both the Housing Justice Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, as a protégé of Duane, who was an outspoken critic of Giuliani while on the Council, and as a top deputy to former Speaker Gifford Miller, who often adopted a confrontational approach toward Bloomberg.

The announcement comes after members of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign met with Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

We work together in POWER - PAC, and built our «Elementary Justice Campaign: Stopping the School - to - Prison Pipeline» because we've felt at times that school discipline works against — not with — our children and families.

The twenty - second Christopher Ewart - Biggs Literary Prize, worth # 5000, has been awarded jointly to: Julieann Campbell for her book Setting the Truth Free: the inside story of the Bloody Sunday justice campaign (Liberties Press, 2012) and Douglas Murray for his book,...

This included two years when no actual writing got done because I was working eighteen - hour days as a volunteer for the Bhopal justice campaign.

He is currently working with the M.C. Mehta Environmental Foundation, an NGO that provides training programs for aspiring environmental attorneys and runs numerous environmental justice campaigns.

We discuss equal access to education with Christian D'Andrea, an education policy analyst with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, Wis., and Kyle Serrette, director of education justice campaigns at The Center for Popular Democracy.

This introductory webinar by the Immigration Justice Campaign breaks down the who, what, when, where, and how of removal proceedings and immigration court.

Read the story of Daniela * and her 11 - year - old son Marco for a snapshot of the work that Justice Campaign volunteers take on.

This article posted on LeftFootForward, calls for the Labour Party to make access to justice a campaign priority.

The Sound Off for Justice campaign converted three iconic London taxi cabs into mobile protest vehicles with «sound - off» booths, which were touring zones 1 and 2 for five days this week.

In its paper on the indefinite detention of Aboriginal people found unfit to plead, the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign argues that a sentence of imprisonment imposed on a person with a cognitive impairment may be inappropriate and ineffective because the person may not fully understand the connection between the offending behaviour and the prison experience.

This was in fact an incident that was one of several high profile stunts from 2004, all instigated by the Fathers for Justice campaign group.

The same movement led to a wide range of social justice campaigns in Britain.

The NASUWT Act For Racial Justice campaign has gathered evidence and is raising awareness of the issues surrounding racial justice, with an overall goal of making informed recommendations to tackle this ongoing issue within schools and the wider community.

Joanna Lumley is a successful English actress, former model and human rights activist who is best known for her support for the Gurkha Justice Campaign and Prospect Burma, a charity that offers grants to Burmese students.

Members of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign told a news conference «we regard the gloves as off» in response to Home Secretary Amber Rudd's decision not to look further into violent clashes between miners and police in 1984.

She has worked to form discussion groups on college campuses, via Heifer International, the Clinton Foundation, Wild Oats, the Architecture Institute of America, and has collaborated with Arkansas Interfaith Alliance and the Climate Justice Campaign, amongst many others.

According to the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC), a community organisation campaigning on this issue, cases like that of Marlon Noble are indicative of much deeper, system - wide failings that lead to the incarceration of Indigenous people with cognitive disabilities.

«I have never been in rooms like the alliance, in terms of the types of people who sit together,» says Aiko Schaefer of Front and Centered, who has been working on poverty and social justice campaigns in the state for years.

On National Aboriginal Day 2016, PSAC launched its Thirsty for Justice campaign.

Silnicki has worked on social justice campaigns for 18 years, including with the Council of Canadians, the Peterborough Social Planning Council, and with community groups in Kenya, Ghana and Haiti.

Blending of popular culture with social justice campaigning, may well live on - but its role at Glastonbury will only be clear next year.

«Through the NASUWT's Act for Racial Justice campaign, we will continue to fight all forms of racial discrimination and promote the interests of all BME teachers and pupils.»

A spokesman for the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) said they hope meeting Rudd would «reinforce the case for a public inquiry into the brutality of the policing of pickets».

The announcement comes after a delegation from the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) met the Home Secretary on Tuesday to press the case for an inquiry.

He had previously set up the Gurkha Justice Campaign that saw retired British Army Gurkhas win the right to life in the UK on their retirement from active service.