Sentences with phrase «lack of accountability for»

The HREOC process responds to widespread concerns about a lack of accountability for international engagement that had existed towards the end of the ATSIC period.

Image: Cover artwork for the Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic report «Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots» © 2015 Russell Christian for Human Rights Watch

Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots by Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic, April 2015.

Although the new decision here in Ontario for paralegals may help with this in part, the reality is that the underlying issues behind family law, including widespread abuses of the system and lack of accountability for both parties and their representatives, will require more systematic changes for there to be truly and significant improvements.

«We are also troubled by the lack of accountability for policing and justice system responses to violence against Indigenous women and girls,» says Kendra Milne, Director of Law Reform.

Serious concerns were also raised about the lack of accountability for corporate commitments to tackle climate change.

E&EI believes that climate change can be solved by eliminating all subsidies, including the implicit subsidy of the lack of accountability for emissions.

But what is going on here is classic government lack of accountability for the costs of their force.

Deaver uses this story to emphasise the plethora of lies, misinformation, rumour and gossip that is rife in blogs, as well as the lack of accountability for the information due to the anonymity of posters.

She is sure it is one more example of their arrogance and lack of accountability for their actions and she wants that the change.

Despite all the problems that have recently cropped up in the last year concerning the utter lack of accountability for private schools and for - profit managed charters receiving public taxpayer dollars, Speaker Corcoran seems intent on giving more and more money away to those who will line their own pockets rather than educate our children.

In a separate action on Monday, a rally organized in front of LAUSD's Beaudry Street headquarters by the East Area Progressive Democrats (EAPD) took the school board to task over the selection process and characterized Rodriguez as being emblematic of the board's lack of accountability for charter schools.

How do you handle a lack of accountability for home schooling?

Charters were a choice option that avoided the concerns posed by vouchers — entanglement of church and state and a lack of accountability for public dollars.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Microsoft Founder Bill Gates, whose foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to charter schools, have both warned charter school operators that a lack of accountability for under - performing schools was giving the entire movement a black eye.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

Even some contractors who offer services to SIG schools have raised alarm bells about the lack of accountability for outside groups.

The lack of accountability for nonprofit foundations, again?

In Washington, Schneiderman's team pointed to the rising populist anger about the lack of accountability for the crash, represented most vividly by Occupy Wall Street.

All this against the backdrop of a complete lack of accountability for past crimes.

Flanagan indicated he wanted a broad - based review of economic development spending, including some areas that are potentially sensitive to Cuomo, such as the money his administration spends on advertising job - creating efforts and a review of the «lack of accountability for major deals and projects that fail miserably when it comes to creating jobs.»

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But it's actually worse than just a lack of accountability, because rather than ding management for these failures, boards reward management for these missteps.

Layoffs are an abomination — for the pain they cause innocent victims — and the lack of accountability they often represent.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

If exchanges like Poloniex have helped build the infrastructure for today's cryptocurrency mania, their relative secrecy and lack of accountability to customers and regulators have helped fuel the backlash to that mania, especially outside the U.S.

But according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which did a study in 2013 on the drug shortage, other reasons include a lack of materials to make the drugs, as well as delays in getting government approval for new and experimental drugs.

In a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published on December 8, 2016, and publicly released on January 9, 2017, the IRS is called out for its lack of guidance in regard to taxpayers investing individual retirement accounts (IRA) in «unconventional assets,» including virtual currency.

Gun control advocates believe that the lack of information is a way for the firearms lobby to skirt accountability for gun - related crime.

Budget 2012 will be remembered for its lack of vision; its lack of transparency; its lack of accountability; and its lack of sound economic policy.

Mr. Flaherty's emphasis on accountability is important because one of the major weaknesses of regulatory structures as they exist now is a lack of clarity over who's responsible for safeguarding the entire system, something officials call «macroprudential regulation.»

This to me is the most urgent problem: The way they are behaving seems consistent with an idea of authority, power, entitlement and privilege that allows for a lack of accountability, transparency, honesty and humility.

In summary, there are four major reasons for the high amount of sexual violence and overall violence in TV produced in the U.S.: (1) monopoly control of program production and distribution by a handful of powerful companies (2) the drive for profits far in excess of those enjoyed by the vast majority of U.S. businesses (3) a lack of accountability on the part of sponsors and

A lack of financial transparency and accountability has bedevilled the Holy See for centuries and has been a top concern for Francis» reform - minded papacy.

Following a storm of criticism about the lack of financial accountability on the part of many of the TV evangelists, the groups in the l970s established the Evangelical Council for Financial Acountability to develop financial accounting and reporting principles to which all members must adhere — a kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

Major reasons for lack of control of violence in TV are monopoly dominance by a few powerful companies, the drive for profits, the lack of accountability and a lack of the FCC to exercise oversight.

It may not be what «the new» mantra for «church» is, but going back to ministry after being away for a time has shown me that to the many that are disenfranchised the «new» way or the pie in the sky of what the church should be... is ending up with a lack of loyalty to the cause, a lack of accountability to leaders — move on if you don't like this or that, complain about whatever and never really commit to the hard things.

Everybody else ends up feeling like more of a failure, because obviously, the accountability group works for some people, and it must be their own weakness, or lack of spirituality, or little faith, or failure to read their Bible and pray enough, or whatever it might be to grant the success that others experience.

With the ways the other teams are shaping up: 1) New managers in EPL with quite the success (Pep, Klopp, Conte & possibly Mourinho) 2) Big money not afraid to spend And looking at the way the club, are lovely Arsenal they're playing for are doing: 1) Wenger not showing any sign of changing his approach on the market 2) Lack of accountability & ambition at every level Delaying there contract resigning for themselves is the smartest thing they can do!

The experts also warned that there is a lack of corporate accountability for the adverse consequences of these abuses, noting that the global industry is currently worth $ 44.8 bn and is predicted to increase to more than $ 70bn within three years.

Thank you Dr. Amy for demonstrating the appalling lack of accountability among Homebirth midwives and their supporters....

I am constantly trying to highlight the lack of education, lack of training, hideous outcomes and the utter contempt for any concept of accountability on the part of homebirth midwives.

Objections to a HIQA review echo past failures in transparency and a lack of accountability which have plagued the Irish maternity services for decades.

What is also of grave concern to AIMS Ireland is the number of failures at national level identified in the report including timely access to maternity services, inadequate staffing levels for safe care, a maternity care model that hasn't been revised in 59 years despite numerous national and international reports and recommendations, a lack of accountability and governance, an absence of reviews of clinical practices in units and the lack of a national maternity services strategy, all of which we have seen recommended on previous inquests without reform.

The lesson for business is clear: monopolies and lack of accountability incite malpractice and encourage a sense of invincibility that sooner or later will be revealed as false.

They addressed the democratic deficit; corporate lobbying; the inability for representatives to propose legislation; and the lack of accountability.

Asked during a May 24 press event in Albany about the lack of transparency and accountability for SUNY's nonprofit corporations, Cuomo pointed out that they were set up before he became governor.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

Why funds raised from corporate Ghana for the Miss Ghana Foundation or its projects were being shared this way, with Inna Patty taking almost all and not putting received funds towards projects as mentioned by the former Beauty Queens indicates the deep rot the organisation dwells in, made possible by the obvious lack of accountability and external supervision.

«It's disappointing that after receiving preferential treatment from the City, James Blake appears to be giving cover to the de Blasio administration for its complete lack of police accountability and transparency instead of supporting the demands of our families and communities for an end to police abuses against us,» they said in a joint statement.

«The Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that lacked transparency and accountability,» he said.