Sentences with phrase «justice groups leading»
The march was organized into six broad contingencies with indigenous and environmental justice groups leading the way.
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Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.
The pact could resolve investigations led by a specialized group at the Justice Department focused on mortgage securities cases.
The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.
Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdu Kafarati, had on September 20, 2017, ordered the proscription of the Nnamdi Kanu - led group.
But how can a union that led marches against stop - and - frisk and hosted a dialogue between Justice League NYC, a leading civil rights group, and City Hall also bankroll a political party so hostile to its social - justice Justice League NYC, a leading civil rights group, and City Hall also bankroll a political party so hostile to its social - justice justice agenda?
The Clooney Foundation for Justice, led by George and Amal Clooney, gave a $ 1 million grant to help the Southern Poverty Law Center combat hate groups in wake of recent white nationalist gatherings in Charlottesville.
Earlier today, Bratton's opposition to Cuomo's plan was criticized by Russell Simmons, the hip - hop mogul and social activist who is a longtime friend and supporter of Cuomo, and by the Justice League NYC, a coalition group that led some of the protests following the Eric Garner decision, and met with Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss police reform issues.
James Welch, Liberty's legal director who led the group's intervention in the case, said: «Punishing people and their families without trial makes a mockery of British justice.
Migrant groups have today hit out at the practice, with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) warning that it could lead to a two - tier justice system.
Aside from the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, which is opposed to the committee, other militant groups, including the Niger Delta Avengers, had given the Clark - led dialogue team their consent to negotiate on their behalf to resolve the renewed hostilities in the region.
A leading member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely - Hayford has accused the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of doing «a poor job» in investigating the $ 100,000 Ford gift expedition case.
Liz Cheney's group Keep America Safe, which has led the resurgent Republican attacks on President Obama's national security policies, is releasing a video this morning that questions the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers who advocated for detained terror suspects during the Bush Administration.
BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) prepares to lead roughly 700 LGBT advocates to the State Capitol in Albany for the group's annual Equality and Justice Day lobbying effort on April 30, supporters of a decade - old transgender civil rights measure are stepping up the push to secure Senate passage this -LSB-...]
Charles Oputa, a.k.a Charlyboy, on Monday led his «Ourmumudondo» Group on a peaceful protest to the Federal Ministry of Justice, demanding the proscription of `' Killer herdsmen» across Nigeria.
The Def Jam records founder stood in the blowing snow outside City Hall next to leading rap music figures like Common and Immortal Technique, and beside leaders from singer Harry Belafonte's Gathering for Justice group and with Eric Garner Jr., son of the late Eric Garner.
The social justice and social action group chaired by Iain Duncan Smith - an ideal choice only to lead a one - way march on the South Pole - is expected to demand a tougher line on family values.
This was disclosed yesterday by the Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, who represented the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, when a civil society group, Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, led by Barrister Eze Onyekpere submitted a report on MTEF to the Senate.
In December, Glenn E. Martin, a leading voice in the push to close Rikers Island, abruptly quit the criminal justice reform group he had founded.
In making the Justice Department announcement, Rosenstein also said the department would reinstitute next month the Council of Federal Forensic Laboratory Directors, a group of the heads of the government's leading forensic laboratories and digital analysis centers; put in place a system for monitoring examiner's courtroom testimony and regularly review the new standards «to confirm that they reflect current scientific knowledge and best practices.»
She also led an international working group on ecological debt and environmental justice.
That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.
... Groups like Education Minnesota, Educators 4 Excellence, Generation Next, ISAIAH and the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership are leading the way through effective organizing and a focus on social justice to make schools into the kinds of places that deserve to serve Minnesota's kids.
A coalition of education groups led by the National School Boards Association and its Ohio affiliate had urged the justices to review a federal appeals court opinion that denied qualified immunity to an administrator who had reported to state authorities her suspicions that a 17 - year - old girl with an intellectual disability was being sexually abused at home.
The Alliance for Education Justice, a network of student and youth - led organizing groups, has confirmed at least six physical assaults on students by police officers since Betsy DeVos took office.
Now the Authors Guild and a Preston - led group known as Authors United are seeking recourse from the U.S. Department of Justice, which they are hoping will launch an antitrust investigation.
Yvonne has ghost - written and co-written several top selling non-fiction titles, including: Rising up from the Blood: A Legacy Reclaimed — A Bridge Forward The Autobiography of Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush, The Great - Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington (Solid Rock Books) by Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush; Fighting for Your Life: The African American Criminal Justice Survival Guide (Amber Books) by John Elmore, Esq.; Led by the Spirit: A Sharecropper's Son Tells His Story of Love, Happiness, Success and Survival (Strickland Books) by Robuster Strickland; Let Them Play... The Story of the MGAA (MGAA Books) by John David; A Journey that Matters: Your Personal Living Legacy (Lyceum Group Books) by Erline Belton; The Messman: A World War II Hero Tells His Story of Survival and Segregation on the Battleship North Carolina (Quality Books) by Yvonne Rose and John Seagraves; and FREEZE: Just Think about It (More Than A Pro Books) by Levar Fisher.
There is no group of nations more appropriate to lead the fight for global environmental justice.
Conservation Justice, one of the private groups working with Gabonese authorities to curb wildlife trafficking, is encouraging people to send congratulatory notes to Kouma Zaou and other officials leading the effort.
Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] The #OurPowerPR Solidarity Brigade launched by the Climate Justice Alliance, Organización Boricuá, UPROSE, Black Dirt Farm Collective, Greenpeace, The Leap and 25 other partner organizations in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, arrive in Puerto Rico this month with three new delegations and 45 people to support «Just Recovery and Rebuild» projects focused on food, labor and energy sovereignty led by grassroots groups in Puerto Rico.
Indeed, we've taken the lead, along with Greenpeace, California Environmental Justice Alliance, and two dozen other groups in asking the governor of California and the California Air Resources Board to reject REDD, and have just published an Op - Ed in the Sacramento Bee asking Californians to oppose the agreement.
A new coalition of leading UK environmental and social justice groups, convened by Oxfam and NEF (the new economics foundation) and including Friends of the Earth and the Royal College of Nursing, says the government can not choose between tackling poverty and climate change; it must begin to tackle these related issues together and it must take action now.
Noting that all four leading candidates to replace Chief Justice William Rehnquist were Supreme Court law clerks, The Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr writes, «There isn't a dud in the group.»
Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»
In February we brought together a group of seven justice leaders from different parts of the world for two days; men and women who are leading or who have led impressive justice change in their countries, against many odds (the final report of that meeting is being finalized as I write).
Further developments on the Financial Remedies Working Group (FRWG), led by Mr Justice Mostyn, which set out its recommendations in October, are expected in the early part of this year.
A group led by David Wiseman and Suzanne Bouclin at the University of Ottawa proposed that the profession (i.e. 44,000 lawyers) pay and provide access to justice articles, not place the financial burden on students http://www.lsuc.on.ca/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2147487551
This report from the Treasurer» Advisory Group on Access to Justice (TAG) Working Group proposes a framework for change which would see the Law Society lead and innovate on these important issues, rather than have change imposed upon it.
Congratulations to Chief Counsel Anthony Benedetti on receipt of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) Champion of State Criminal Justice Reform Award, which «recognizes an individual or group whose tremendous efforts have led toward progressive reform of a state criminal justice system.Justice Reform Award, which «recognizes an individual or group whose tremendous efforts have led toward progressive reform of a state criminal justice system.justice system.»
She became interested in learning more about the personal experiences of self - represented litigants as they become a increasingly significant interest group in the justice system, leading to the National Self - Represented Litigants Research Study (2013).
Iain has exceptional experience securing justice for trade union members and has successfully lead Thompsons Solicitors» Trade Union Law Group for many years.
The proposals, drawn up by a working group led by Mrs Justice Gloster, could be fine - tuned during a potential two - year pilot in the business and property courts.
In February 2015, the prosecutor leading the probe into possible coordination between Governor Scott Walker's campaign and outside groups filed a motion asking at least one Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, and possibly more, to recuse themselves from hearing a challenge to the investigation based on the spending they benefitted from during their elections.
The team has also been involved in a number of important «open justice» challenges to facilitate press reporting of the courts, including leading a group of five media organisations in successfully challenging an arrangement where the former head of the Financial Services Authority would otherwise have given evidence in private in the Lloyds Bank shareholder litigation.
On May 6 - 7, 2016, a distinguished group of leading academics and experts joined the World Justice Project for a two - day conference at Stanford Law School.
Established in 1957 by a group of leading jurists, JUSTICE is an all - party law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system — administrative, civil and criminal — in the United KJUSTICE is an all - party law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system — administrative, civil and criminal — in the United Kjustice system — administrative, civil and criminal — in the United Kingdom.
Andy once again helped lead a coalition of business groups in passing more civil justice reforms during the 2013 - 14 Wisconsin legislative session.
In the second situation, a broad international stakeholder group, led by World Wildlife Fund The Netherlands and HiiL Innovating Justice, set up the accountability mechanism.
Led by Lord Justice Gage, the group includes Mr Justice Pitchford, chair of the criminal committee of the Judicial Studies Board; Guy Beringer QC, a senior partner at Allen & Overy; and Christopher Murray, senior partner at Kingsley Napley.