Sentences with phrase «justice projects»

According to the most recent World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, Canada ranks 12th overall out of 113 countries included in the survey.

Bryan Baker joined Northwest Justice Project in 2015 as the organizations first Director of Development.

''» Unfortunately, given the impacts of legal problems highlighted by the CFCJ Cost of Justice project, lawyers must also heal their clients.

Justice Arthur Chaskalson, former Chief Justice of South Africa, and Aruna Roy, who spearheaded efforts to enact India's ground - breaking Right to Information Act through her organization MKSS, were honored with the inaugural World Justice Project Rule of Law Award.

Sarah Chamness Long joined the World Justice Project in November 2012.

It could include, basically, a Little - League baseball team,» said Alex S. Vitale, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College.

Our delegation, consisting of Professor Caroline Bettinger - Lopez and then 3L Charlotte Cassel; Ahmad Abuznaid from Dream Defenders; Meena Jagannath from Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services; Niaz Kasravi from NAACP; and Alisa Bierria and Aleta Alston - Toure from Free Marissa Now Coalition, after the hearing with Sybrina Fulton, Ron Davis, and IACHR Commissioner Rose Marie Belle Antoine.

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.

Long - standing programs such as San Francisco State University's Project Rebound, the Bard Prison Initiative, the Inside - Out Prison - Exchange Program at Temple University, Boston University's Prison Education Program, and the Education Justice Project at the University of Illinois - Urbana - Champaign, to name a few, are still proving the benefits of higher education in prison.

Housing Justice Project Provides free legal help to eligible low - income tenants facing eviction in King County.

For people living on low income, ABSs may have little to offer, both because lack of money will still be a barrier and because there is more to taking advantage of legal services than just money (a point recognized by the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice project and report).

The World Justice Project ranked the US 18th in the world in its most recent rule - of - law rankings, judged by criteria like accountability, absence of corruption, respect for fundamental rights, and access to justice.

Immediately after graduation, Ashley moved to New Orleans and has worked with the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, BAEO, and the Urban League of Greater New Orleans.

Worldwide About Blog Animal Justice Project is a proactive international animal rights organisation working to create a society where all animals are treated equally.

Hispanic students were 15.7 percent of CHCCS» enrollment and received 13.7 percent of short - term suspensions, according to the racial equity report card released by the Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

The Electoral Justice Project, a branch of the Movement for Black Lives, has launched a #WakandaTheVote initiative, taking advantage of the record - breaking crowds at Black Panther in order to register black voters for the 2018 elections.

Another problem: It is not until the 21st paragraph that the piece mentions the role of the Forensic Justice Project in exposing this injustice.

Brugger said that Northwest Justice Project sees more people seeking help than they can manage.

World Justice Project Releases New Index Measuring Government Openness from General Public's Perspective

She held this position until October of 1995 when as a result of a statewide restructuring plan, she left to launch the Northwest Justice Project as the Director of > read more

Last month, the World Justice Project joined more than 20 organizations — including Results for Development Institute, Millennium Challenge Corporation - MCC, Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network and more — in the launch of a new Governance Data Alliance (GDA) tool that compiles a range of governance data for the first time.

Friday, May 4 More Than a Fish Fry: Eating Fish from our Local Waterways Katy Brown, Public Health & Environmental Justice Project Manager, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper

A longtime instructor affiliate with the Education Justice Project, which provides higher educational opportunities to students at the Danville Correctional Center in central Illinois, Castro engaged one of her incarcerated students, Michael Brawn, in a dialogue exploring the challenges of educating a population within the constraints of a carceral system...

Leon Smith, director of the racial justice project for the Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, said the charter schools» numbers and the racial disparity in sanctioning students are both disturbing.

In Europe, researchers at the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT - UAB) working for the Menu for Justice Project [6](an EU project involving 51 partners from different European countries) mapped more than 550 legal education institutions in Europe using Crowdmap, the web - based mapping platform developed by Ushahidi.

[17] This ranking is derived from the data (xls) that is available for download from the World Justice Project website.

Gordon worked for Massachusetts Justice Project (MJP) for more than 15 years before the program joined Community Legal Aid in 2014.

• Create 15 new staffed civil legal aid attorneys; • Increase the capacity of pro bono programs across the state; • Invest in research and training for legal aid and pro bono attorneys; and, • Provide Northwest Justice Project attorneys with long overdue cost of living and salary adjustments.

The Transnational Law & Social Justice project aims to study how transnational law shapes, facilitates and challenges economic, political and cultural exclusion in a fragmented legal and political landscape.

César Torres has served as Executive Director of the Northwest Justice Project since the Fall of 2006.

Director of the clinic, JoNel Newman was familiar with this issue as she had worked at Florida Legal Services before coming to Miami Law and had litigated a case for the Migrant Farmworkers Justice Project where a hospital had repatriated a Guatemalan national because his care was deemed too expensive for the hospital to shoulder.

The Rule of Law in Afghanistan: Key Findings from the 2017 Extended General Population Poll presents select findings from a nationally representative World Justice Project survey conducted in Afghanistan in August and September 2017.

Another measuring highlight was the launch of the 2015 Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project which provides what is probably the world's most comprehensive insights about how people experience rule of law based on 100.000 household and 2400 experts surveys.

As the Washington Post reported, the Justice Department has suspended funding for the Legal Orientation Program it funds through 19 nonprofits, including the ABA's Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project in South Texas and the Immigration Justice Project in San Diego.

David Greene examines the ongoing civil justice projects that a new government will have to address

The World Justice Project engages citizens and leaders from across the globe and from multiple work disciplines to advance the rule of law.

On September 8, 2017, NCSC entered into a contract with Millennium Partners (MP), as a partner in implementing the Moldova Open Justice Project.

What is positive: the World Justice Project continued unrelentingly with its data collection with another edition of the Rule of Law Index.

Anne uses her extensive skill - set and passionate advocacy to make a profound difference for Alaskans by volunteering through ALSC's Housing Court Justice Project.

It also runs a Food Justice Project focused on boosting health and dietary choices in the local immigrant community, another important and promising endeavor:

The Migrant Justice Project was designed to address migrant workers» fundamental rights and expand Justice Venture International's outreach to migrant workers in Beijing.