Sentences with phrase «leading boycotts»

According to the Wall Street Journal, «UNICEF remains captive to a clutch of activists who have been leading boycotts and protests against the baby formula makers since the 1970s on the highly spurious grounds that the companies trying to supply better nutrition «exploit» the poor... If the toll of African AIDS babies continues to rise, the credibility of one of the most beloved UN agencies may sink.»

In the video above, Clifton Nicholas, a Mohawk from Kanehsatake, explains why he's now leading a boycott of the company.

ECCO led a boycott that removed those guns from the store.

Consumer - led boycotts have hit Coles and Woolworths private - label milk, as the retail giants continue to sell the milk at $ 1 per litre, the same price since 2011.

It is inexcusable that Tony Avella wanted to rename a street after Robert (Sonny) Carson, the convicted kidnapper and racial antagonist who lead the boycott against Asian American store owners.

In 2006, in response to a request from Forest Ethics, our company joined a Greenpeace - led boycott of Kimberly - Clark (K - C) paper products, including the legendary brand Kleenex.

Back in 1988 there were even union - led boycotts and hunger strikes in protest against chemical - ridden grape farming in California.

Vandalism of Pepsi machines and the possibility of a teacher - led boycott of Pepsi products, which also include snack foods and the Taco Bell and Pizza Hut restaurant chains, persuaded company officials that little goodwill would come of their generosity.

Not exact matches

Some of Tom Cat's employees and advocacy groups, such as Brandworkers, a non-profit organization for food workers, believed the dismissals were improperly handled, sparking a local and national outcry that led to protests, bad press and boycotts of Tom Cat Bakery bread from famous restaurants such as Le Bernardin.

We won't know until it's over, but PyeongChang has the potential to be the most politicized Olympics since 1980's Summer Olympics in Moscow (sometimes dubbed the «Soviet Olympics») during which 66 countries, led by the United States, boycotted.

Amazon earned itself something of a public relations black eye as a result of the strong - arm negotiating tactics, causing a backlash among authors, many of whom backed a boycott of the online retailer that was led by television host Stephen Colbert.

Boycotts of Danish products led to a plunge in exports.

With Nooyi, false reports emerged shortly after the election that she'd made incendiary, anti-Trump comments, which led to a massive online boycott of Pepsi products.

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Critics of the German - led austerity policies have called for boycotts of German products and have suggested that Ms. Merkel and Mr. Schäuble had unjustifiably humiliated Greece and its prime minister, Alexis Tsipras.

NBC's «Saturday Night Live» poked fun at the recent advertiser boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham led by Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.

The recent furore over mishandled data by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica led to a mass exodus and brand boycott.

Wikileaks has stated that they will be leading a campaign against Coinbase next week which will focus on boycotting Coinbase, calling it an unfit member of the cryptocurrency community.

While the sabre rattling and economic boycotts are very visible actions, behind the scenes discussions between cooler heads will likely be what leads to a politically palitable resolution, if that is even possible at this point.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

She visits detainees and leads the apostleship of prayer group in taking radical options on certain political issues like boycotting sham elections.

From an unknown Baptist preacher leading a bus boycott in 1955, he became, just nine years later, the acknowledged moral leader of our country, standing in the oval office of the White House for the signing of the historic Civil Rights Act.

After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a city bus, the new pastor, King, was drafted to lead the African - American community in a boycott of public transportation.

In the weeks leading up to the movie's release, hundreds of boycotts have sprouted up on social media: # 50dollarsnot50shades encourages potential viewers to donate the $ 50 they would have spent on a night out at the movies to a local women's shelter for survivors of domestic abuse.

Retail giant Woolworths has re-emphasised its support for same - sex marriage and dissociated itself from businessman Roger Corbett after comments by the former chief executive led to a flood of boycott threats from shoppers.

The way the school handled Eustachy's dismissal led players to boycott practice because they had to find out the news on Twitter.

Activists who had led the international sports boycott that helped bring down the South African regime — Kidd among them — essentially asked, «What do we do now?»

Chicago wouldn't relish losing a popular kid from a nearby town — Bill Gleason, editor of Chicago Sports magazine, has already threatened to lead a fan boycott if that should happen.

Proposed rules for the 1981 season had led to FOCA (which represented most of the grid) instructing its drivers to boycott the mandatory driver briefings at the Belgian and Monaco Grands Prix.

Boycotting matches I believe is the type of thing that leads to players like ox and mustafi wanting to get the he'll out.

If so, no doubt Gazidis will claim that Arsenal played the leading role in the boycott.

In 1977, the first Nestlé boycott was lead by US - based INFACT and ended in 1984.

PhD in Parenting leads the way in boycotting Nestle because of their extensive reach and not - good works tied to their brand power, something I've -LSB-...]

Baby Milk Action / IBFAN - UK will be writing to the new administration on behalf of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) to ask this administration to accept IBFAN's four - point plan to bring baby food marketing requirements into line with international standards, which would lead to the end of the long - running Nestlé boycott if the company met its obligations.

That boycott led in 1981 to the World Health Organization's «International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes.»

That should have led to an end to the problem, particularly after Nestlé promised to abide by the Code in 1984 and the boycott was suspended.

Long ago, we put a four - point plan to executives for bringing policies and practices into line with the marketing standards and that would ultimately lead to the end of the boycott.

The picture below was posted along with it and a rant about how other parents should be careful, leading several to comment that they planned to boycott the shop.

Nestlé's inclusion in FTSE4Good led to the URC Mission Committee «issuing an instruction to its Mission Council meeting to terminate the boycott of Nestle products.»

Nestlé has an extensive record of engaging in what many have perceived as irresponsible social and environmental practices which has led to a world - wide boycott of it's products that is still ongoing.

[These include an] unrelenting series of disputes, predominantly relating to alleged violations of the code, which have provoked high profile acrimonious exchanges, boycotts and legal proceedings... [leading] to an atmosphere of mistrust that has now become embedded between key agencies.

The famous boycott of Nestlé in the 1970s led to the development and adoption by nations worldwide of the UNICEF / World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (The Code) in 1981.

Yesterday I told you about a high school student, Hector Sanchez, who led a four - day boycott of school food at Milby, an almost 100 % Hispanic, relatively underprivileged high school in east Houston.

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The boycott was re-launched in 1988 as Nestlé failed to abide by commitments made that led to the end of the first boycott in 1984.

In the 1970s, growing concern that formula marketed to mothers in developing countries was contributing to malnutrition led to a global boycott of Nestle products.

This led to a highly conflictive relationship between the state and the rural sector, which has recently opted to hold back its production as a way of boycotting the government strategy.

Led by their leader, Honourable J. H. Mensah, the NPP Minority walked out of the House and boycotted the rest of the day's proceedings and that was the last that was heard in Parliament of «the Gwarzo affair» Nana Ato Dadzie and Kwamena Ahwoi stated that, they appreciate their time working under Rawlings and would never intentionally seek to discredit him in any way.

Western countries have already condemned the elections as a sham, following the lead of resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi who called for a boycott when they were announced.

But a member of the Dogara - led faction, Muhammad Bala Jibrin, who is a governorship aspirant in forthcoming general election told journalists on the telephone that they decided to boycott the congress because the matter was already in court.