Sentences with phrase «justice organizations such»

This is especially important to social justice organizations such as Families Together in New York State.

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When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

TTIP Take Back the Power flyer Baby Milk Action is working alongside the growing number of NGOs, Unions and citizens such as War on Want, Trade Justice Movement, WDM and 38 Degrees and 120 organizations from 18 different...

Though name - checked Roman Polanski's violation of Samantha Geimer is indefensible, I'm loathe to the wellspring of adolescent sanctimony surrounding the episode; and for a while, Hayley is so insufferably self - righteous that the picture looks as though it will concentrate the brunt of its commentary on the hysteria attendant to allegations of child molestation, credibly channelling the worst tendencies of organizations such as Perverted Justice through that most moralistic of creatures: the pubescent female.

June 14, 2017 (Chicago)- Educators for Excellence - Chicago (E4E - Chicago), a teacher - led organization, released its policy paper, «Sounding the Alarm: Building the Climate and Culture our Students Need,» at an event that brought together over 150 Chicago educators and representatives from health care, criminal justice, education and city and state government to explore how Chicagoans can better support students struggling with issues such as citywide violence, food instability and homelessness.

These partners include networks of community organizations such as the Center for Popular Democracy, Journey for Justice and the Gamaliel Network, representing parents, youth and communities, and the national youth organizing Alliance for Educational Justice.

Stella Connell Levy, president and executive director of the Restorative Schools Vision Project — a human rights organization that uses restorative justice to keep kids in school when they make mistakes — emphasizes that the circle and other such activities come to function as «safe spaces.»

With guidance from an experienced advisor, students may elect courses in such areas as policy analysis, diversity and justice, performance - based leadership, and other topics that focus on reforming and transforming schools and school systems into high performing organizations for all students.

These two lessons examine how environmental issues such as deforestation are intricately linked to many other social issues, and how organizations such as the Green Belt Movement use certain strategies to mobilize citizen action toward social and environmental justice.

So existing organizations like the Evangelical Environmental Network, or Creation Justice Ministries, make sensible targets for such an effort.

To defeat cigarette excise taxes, a Philip Morris strategy document outlined plans for «Co-op efforts with third party tax organizations» — libertarian anti-taxation think tanks, such as Americans for Tax Reform, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Citizens for Tax Justice and the Tax Foundation.

The letter represents one of the first times that such a broad range of California groups have banded together to bring the global struggle against REDD carbon credits to the Golden State — from national environmental organizations (such as Greenpeace, Center for Biological Diversity, and Rainforest Action Network), to indigenous rights organizations (like Indigenous Environmental Network, International Indian Treaty Council and Pachamama Alliance), to environmental justice organizations (such as Communities for a Better Environment, Center for Race Poverty and the Environment, and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network)..

... While some of its partners are climate - change organizations like NextGen Climate, founded by top Democratic donor Tom Steyer, the march is also heavily backed by labor unions and social - justice groups such as Color of Change, which is also backed by Mr. Soros.

If necessary, further funding for such an institute could be obtained by arrangements with the many university and institutional research and policy development organizations that study the justice system and access to justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty justice system and access to justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law.

In June 2017, the ABS Working Group presented an interim report to Convocation outlining a proposal to enable lawyers and paralegals to deliver legal services through civil society organizations, such as charities, not for profit organizations and trade unions, to clients of such organizations in order to facilitate access to justice.

In that decision — which has been criticized by some as hostile to free speech rights and humanitarian efforts — the justices found that a Patriot Act provision that prohibits providing «material support» to designated foreign terrorist organizations could be applied to conflict - resolution advice and legal services provided by human rights organizations to groups such as Turkey's Kurdistan Workers» Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

«As legal organizations working on behalf of marginalized and historically disadvantaged groups, the members of the Coalition each have extensive experience with the obstacles faced by such groups in accessing justice and therefore in enforcing their constitutional rights and other legal entitlements.

The Declaration on Free Access to Law affirms: that public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of «the common heritage of humanity;» that maximizing access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other parties.

We are not only members but also leaders of many trial - advocacy organizations, such as the American Association for Justice, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Savannah Trial Lawyers Association.

West Coast LEAF intervened in the distinct matter of «public interest standing» being denied to these women through their representative organization — to argue that such organizations ought to be able to bring forward important constitutional cases on behalf of the many women who do not have effective access to the justice system on their own.

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.»

And it's sometimes possible to get funding for your public interest summer job from your law school or from a nationwide public interest organization, such as Equal Justice Works.

Public interest work can allow you to achieve greater goals beyond earning a paycheck, such as working to effect societal change, supporting an important public cause, or providing equal access to justice for needy individuals and organizations.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

This has opened up the possibility of pro bono work, but the department has also needed to work with pro bono organizations on practicalities such as avoiding conflicts of interest, explains Bill Basran, director general of the Department of Justice's B.C. regional office and who has been closely involved with the project.

Despite the public awareness of wrongful conviction cases in Canada and the calls by advocates and organizations for an independent body to investigate such cases, the Minister of Justice has determined that «an independent body for conviction review [is] not needed in Canada.»

The World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Nordic Investment Bank, and other multilateral and bilateral development partners with a stake in the fight against corruption, including the United Nations and regional organizations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, academia, and research institutes, have launched a study (the Study) under the auspices of the Global Forum on Law, Justice, and Development, a mechanism shared by a worldwide network of stakeholders designed to capture, co-generate, exchange, and disseminate innovative legal solutions for development.

For this reason, lawyers at the firm belong to organizations such as the Orange Country Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice and Consumer Attorneys of California — groups that work to ensure the American people's right to live in a society predicated on a fundamental sense of fairness, honesty and accountability.

API Legal Outreach partners with community - based organizations such as the Pilipino Bayanihan Resource Center, Bayanihan Community Center, Chinatown Community Development, Cannon Kip, Vet Equity Center, Filipinos for Justice, 1st Mongolian Christian Church and other service providers to provide legal clinics that target specific underserved populations, in particular, the elderly and newer API immigrant populations.

The case has drawn interest from more than a dozen interveners, including the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, as well as a number of civil rights and media organizations, who have weighed in on how such an order would affect free speech rights, international comity, and access to justice.

10 To liaise with Canadian organizations such as the National Judicial Institute, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Superior Court Judges Association, the Canadian Council of Chief Judges, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice and Law Schools;

The Firm supports both Rutgers University School of Law - Newark and Seton Hall University School of Law in their inclusion initiatives by volunteering time and sponsoring organizations and events such as Rutgers Newark's ABLS and its Jazz for Justice event, Rutgers Newark's ALALS and its Fiesta Con Sabor, Seton Hall's Affinity Student Bar Associations and their Annual Diversity Banquet, and Seton Hall's Dean's Diversity Council.

Tort reform, legislation that addresses damages in lawsuits, is supported by many legislators, companies and state organizations, such as the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition.

In conclusion, leading organizations such as the Cyberjustice Laboratory introduce effective innovations that allow the broader community to address some of the shortcomings of judicial systems and to improve access to justice.

It reinforces the fact that organizations such as Innocence Canada are a fundamental part of the criminal justice system.»

Maybe that is the reality in some organizations, but in the case of those filling gaps in access to justice, wouldn't it be much better if the systemic changes required were implemented in such a way as to significantly reduce or even eliminate the need for any gap - filling?

A judge may participate in and serve as a member, officer, director, trustee, or nonlegal advisor of a nonprofit organization devoted to the law, the legal system, or the administration of justice and may assist such an organization in the management and investment of funds.

But from its beginning, A2JBC recognized that to be effective it needed to broaden its perspective and so it invited participation from other sectors (such as health and municipal government), organizations serving users of the justice system (such as Disability Alliance BC and MOSAIC), and users of the family and civil justice system.

Many specialty organizations, such as the American Association For Justice, offer online directories of their members.

Check the websites of non-government organizations (NGOs) such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (International Justice), Human Rights First, Lawyers Collective, etc..

Authors, libraries, research institutes, organizations, agencies, and other key «people» resources concerned with Haitian legal issues such as the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and the Haitian Lawyers Association may also help.

Resume entries such as participation in the Federalist Society or with organizations like the Institute for Justice also pique my interest.

She has long been involved in evangelizing journalism values, ethics and diversity as a local and national leader in the Society of Professional Journalists and the SDX Foundation, and with other organizations such as the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and the Center for Science and Justice at UC Santa Cruz.

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recognize that the problems affecting Aboriginal juveniles are so widespread and have such potentially disastrous repercussions for the future that there is an urgent need for governments and Aboriginal organizations to negotiate together to devise strategies designed to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are involved in the welfare and criminal justice systems, and, in particular, to reduce the rate at which Aboriginal juveniles are separated from their families or communities, whether by being declared to be in need of care, detained, imprisoned or otherwise.

Stephen has lectured extensively on topics related to divorce and collaborative law to such organizations as the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Hofstra University Law School, the 12 Step Divorce Recovery Group, the Women's Justice Center, the Westchester County Bar Association, the Westchester County Psychological Association, and Westchester Jewish Community Services.

This training would be of particular interest to non-health professionals working in organizations such as justice, policing, child and family services, education, business and government.»