Sentences with phrase «justice community»

This story highlights the challenges faced by rural environmental justice communities as they try to ensure that ongoing waste disposal and pollution do not pose public health and environmental threats to local residents.

Through various student - led initiatives, we aim to raise awareness of equity and accessibility issues, and build a strong social justice community on campus.

Our knowledge, experience and dedication to the equal justice community is unparalleled in the insurance market.

If we do not learn any lessons from the past about the creation of environmental justice communities... we're going to create new ones.

They provide advocacy, guidance, information, training, and technical assistance for members of the equal justice community, especially those working in public defense and civil legal aid.

That is a bad deal for environmental justice communities in California and abroad.»

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project eagerly awaits the publication of the Committee on Wrongful Convictions report, and anticipates working with all of the members of the criminal justice community in ensuring that measures are put into place that will advance the interest of freeing the innocent and convicting the guilty.

Ramón Arias is Executive Director of Bay Area Legal Aid and a leader in the national civil justice community.

Stay connected as the Legal Services Corporation, Microsoft and Pro Bono Net partner with justice communities in Alaska and Hawaii to develop statewide legal access portals that simplify the process of finding legal help.

Because of these factors, the Alaska justice community has found unique ways to surmount these barriers:

Marine Conservation Research and Management Environmental Advocacy Social Justice Community Outreach and Planning Climate Adaptation for Coastal Communities

Online TN Justice was known in access to justice communities across the country.

She credits her involvement at the statewide level to the leadership skills she learned at the Washington State Equal Justice Community Leadership Academy.

It should serve as an important guide for stakeholders in the Access to Justice community as they consider the implementation of services to benefit those in need.»

«We are delighted to have found legal aid, court, and community partners in Alaska and Hawaii who are committed to innovation designed to help individuals find the appropriate level of assistance to meet their legal needs, and that will allow state justice communities to deliver services more efficiently and effectively,» - Mark O'Brien, Pro Bono Net Executive Director

James Lopez, a criminal justice community organizer, said he thought the way the Common Council handled the vote authorizing the purchase of the rifles was «super-alarming» given the fact that many issues remain unresolved.

In 2009, we were honored with the Health Care Justice Community Outreach Leadership Award for the New York metropolitan area and recognized by U.S. Senator Schumer for our efforts.

But I couldn't be more well - prepared to move up and start looking at the entire suite of environmental justice communities around the United States than to have had this experience in Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

Please join the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and the Center for American Progress, along with New Jersey mayors and state officials, environmental justice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated co-pollutants.

According to Angela Johnson Meszaros, a lawyer and veteran environmental justice advocate, «There were lots of things that got incorporated into the language in the service of building a coalition, so they could have environmental justice communities pushing for adoption of AB 32.»

We invite you to share your expertise with key stakeholders and members of the bike share and social justice communities at our national conference in Philadelphia, June 22 - 24.

Achieving emissions reductions for environmental justice communities through climate change mitigation policy by Nicky Sheats, PhD This paper focuses on emissions reductions for EJ communities under the Clean Power Plan in particular as well as climate change mitigation policy in general and argues that these reductions should be both mandatory and planned.

Through the Criminology Information Service (CIS), the Centre provides professional and innovative solutions to criminal justice communities worldwide.

With these attributes and its strong grounding in local community needs, it's easy to see why the Aloha state's justice community earned this recognition and is such fertile ground for this pilot initiative.

The portals, along with other developments called for in the report, are designed to help the access to justice community provide a form of effective assistance to everyone with a significant civil legal problem.

Pro Bono Net will present on a wide range of topics, including emerging technology trends in the equial justice community, technology to expand pro bono participation, and designing and delivering better tools to assist self - represented litigants.

Amongst a growing segment of the access to justice community there is unfettered optimism that technology and innovation is the key to improve the delivery of legal services and help bridge our nation's justice gap.

These issues have been circling round in my head, and so it was with great interest that I noted Osgoode Dean Lorne Sossin's recent tweet announcing publication of a paper he wrote with Sabrina Lyon, Data and Diversity In the Canadian Justice Community.

I think they should perhaps think about either staggering how they want to implement this, or offer some exemptions to it for particular tribunals that rely on expertise, and generally have more of a dialogue with the administrative justice community.

From its inception in 1977, TLSC has grown to fill important gaps in the civil justice community.

We treat our policyholders as investors; reinvesting our net proceeds back into the Equal Justice community in the form of training and support of NLADA national and community initiatives.

We know you will be a tremendous asset to the Alliance for Equal Justice community.

Recently, Imari Paris Jeffries, a veteran in the local nonprofit and social justice community, has taken the helm as executive director.

I am a very active member in the Access to Justice community as it is my passion.

The Alaska justice community has a deep emphasis on collaboration and a demonstrated spirit of innovation when it comes to forging creative solutions to justice problems.

We really have to be proactive in dealing with environmental justice communities, to make sure we don't make our problem even worse by adding more communities to the list.

Westchester's social justice community is unsatisfied with 750 units built due to 2009 settlement with federal government

In December, The Business Council joined with members of the development community, the environmental justice community, and the environmental community, to request that the Executive Budget amend and extend the brownfield tax credits.

«From banning smoking in apartment building areas to supporting environmental justice communities and strengthening the city's green building standards to reduce carbon emissions, the City Council is proud of its successful efforts to reduce asthma rates and make New York a greener and more sustainable City,» Mark - Viverito's spokeswoman, Robin Levine, wrote in an email.