Sentences with phrase «justice groups who»

We hosted a series of events in the San Francisco Bay Area, together with allies from Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador; the Indigenous Environmental Network; the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Against REDD and for Life; as well as California environmental justice groups who found common cause with these communities.

Not exact matches

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 groups are represented by former DOL solicitor Eugene Scalia (the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) who's a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington office.

The groups are represented by former DOL solicitor Eugene Scalia, who's now a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington office and the son of deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Oliners found, in this group, persons who relied both upon principles of justice and equity, on the one hand, and upon principles of care, on the other.

Two of the group of up to six thugs who attacked the teenager and his friend Duwayne Brooks, simply because they were black, have been convicted of murder, but the rest have evaded justice.

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

The marginalised Dalits, tribals and women — and their struggle for dignity and justice have raised the question of power that influences our relationships with different groups who control power whether it is economic, political or cultural.

I am very grateful that I actually have a group of Jesus followers who aren't afraid to do justice and still love worshiping in song when we gather for church.

I. M. Swindler, who receives $ 15 million per year as chairman of Lawyers for Social Justice, says his group strongly backs the proposed measures as «an eminently fair arrangement for all the parties who matter.»

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

The court 5 - 4 ruling was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wrote that the law school «may reasonably draw a line in the sand permitting all organizations to express what they wish but no group to discriminate in membership.»

Those who reject the notion of a deity however could say that it is an evolutionary development in that groups who become societies have a far greater likelihood of success and survival with the basic understanding of things like right and wrong and justice.

He famously told a group of students who asked about the virtual civil war then underway, «I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice.»

We know that it does not take «everyone on Earth» to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

And it is SO FRUSTRATING to watch people who identify as Christian disregard gigantic chunks of the Bible that talk about welcoming the stranger, feeding the poor, doing justice, loving kindness, etc., etc., etc., to say nothing of ignoring the fact that Jesus was part of a marginalized group under empire and also a refugee from a batshit crazy tyrant (Matthew 2).

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

From Monday, Justice John Mansfield, the president of the Australian Competition Tribunal, Novartis group general counsel Ray Steinwall and University of South Australia economics professor David Round — who were on Friday named as members of the tribunal reviewing the deal — will begin to digest Mr Helou's great big pitch: that the benefits of increasing scale by allowing the nation's biggest dairy processor to acquire smaller rival Warrnambool Cheese & Butter outweigh any destruction to local competition.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

Thirteen groups made their presentations to Chief Justice Robert Bauman, who took 4 months to examine all the Affidavits.

The news has been welcomed by disability rights campaigners and health groups, who say the new changes will improve access to justice.

Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.

He explained that any group of people who meted out instant justice by lynching suspected criminals should be dealt with according to the law irrespective of their political affiliation, saying «Ghana belongs to Ghanaians and not any political party.»

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.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

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.

Cuomo was under intense pressure from criminal justice activists, and a group of mothers who lost their sons to police shootings to pass a bill taking investigations out of the hands of local DAs.

Pro-NPP Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has described as «needless» the decision by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to set up special courts to prosecute persons who refuse to pay the mandatory TV license.

Mr. Dasuki, who was arraigned before Justice Sani Yusuf, alongside a former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Group General Manager of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Aminu Kura, and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital, had on Monday filed for bail after pleading not guilty to the 19 - count charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

I believe policy can be advanced most effectively when an elected official works with all groups that can be affected and who stand for justice — I would include people with disabilities at the table when crafting legislation that I sponsor or co-sponsor, as they would represent the largest minority group in the U.S.

In fact, Brooklyn Defender Services, a public defense group, said in a letter to Cuomo that each year the agency represents thousands of legitimate working people who get caught up in the criminal justice system for possession of a tool they need for work.

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.

The group said the Civil Society Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun, the statement noted could be using the opportunity that it mobilized its members to Abuja to show solidarity with the controversial Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, who has been summoned to Abuja by the National Judicial Council to defend herself, to score some cheap points.

It is headed by Charles Farr, a former senior intelligence officer who has sought the views of cabinet ministers, including the home and justice secretaries, the security minister as well as other MPs and the campaigning group Liberty.

Ulster County Legislator Manna Jo Greene, who is the environmental director for the environmental protection group Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, said Hinchey was a tireless advocate for a sustainable economy, a healthy environment, world peace and social justice while in the state Assembly and Congress.

Owie, in a statement, said that the Buhari administration was not walking the way of justice and equity; otherwise, it should immediately declare Fulani herdsmen, who have continued to kill and maim innocent Nigerians in the north central and southern parts of Nigeria, as a terrorist group.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

«Unfortunately, we continue to see elected officials and police leadership twist this tragedy into an opportunity for them to silence the cries for justice from families who have lost their loved ones to police violence,» said the statement from Ferguson Action, which was signed by several other groups.

The group also said the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has met the victim who paid the GHc30 for the ID card replacement and has decided to initiate its own case.

But it was Gordon Brown who appeared most impassioned, winning a standing ovation from a non-partisan group as he appealed for «justice, dignity and fairness».

Bianey Garcia, a transgender activist with Make the Road, a social justice group out of neighboring Jackson Heights, said while this is the 13th known attack on trans women in Queens this year, «so many are not reported for fear of going to the police,» partly due to transphobia in official ranks and also to fear of exposure for those who are undocumented immigrants.

The pledge provoked anger from feminist pressure groups, who said it would tip justice and public opinion in favour of the defendants.

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.

One of the latest twist of the story told on Wednesday was by Senate President Saraki who announced that his State governor and ally, Abdulfatai Ahmed had told him that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the director of public prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice, were ordered to be transferred to Abuja on the directive of IGP) Idris Ibrahim.

Chief Inspector Oppong said the Police arrested Adjei who was alleged as the leader of the group, to assist in the investigations, but the angry youth besieged the Techiman Police station asking for him to e set free whilst supporters of the victims also demanded that he should be released to them for instant justice.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

Luis Cabrales, who worked for many years as a campaign director for the Coalition for Clean Air, a venerable green group that was instrumental in the passage of California's historic vehicle Smog Check Program in the early 1970s, has spent most of his adult life fighting for environmental justice.

The researchers found that young men who fell into the «high victim - perpetrator» group were also the young men who felt the most disenfranchised - they had experienced the most racial discrimination, were most aware of institutional discrimination, had the most experiences with the criminal justice system as both victims and suspects, and were the most cynical about politics.

In the past few years, for example, I have talked with many students across the United States from historically marginalized groups who feel personally affected by the growing discussions around social justice.