Sentences with phrase «led by civil society»

What we propose in the International Campaign aims to create an international movement of thought, discussion, reflection, and action led by civil society, in order to provide contents, raise awareness, define priorities and lines of action, good practices, and find solutions to those points.

To complement and, indeed, actively encourage the state governments to act towards making universal health coverage a people's goal, a nationwide campaign will have to be led by civil society groups, along the lines of recent campaigns to combat corruption and sexual violence.»

Not exact matches

The Jharkhand Freedom of Religion Bill - 2017 was passed by the Bharatiya Janata Party - led government despite significant opposition from religious groups, civil society, and the tribal groups across Jharkhand.

Led by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the partnership includes representatives from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with review and feedback provided by more than 200 additional stakeholders from business, government, civil society, and academia.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

Many recognizable civil society groups including, the Catholic Bishops Conference and the Christian Council of Ghana have condemned the decision by the Mahama - led administration to open Ghana's doors to them.

He also responded to the call of the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations led by Parliamentarians for Global Action to lead them in the preparatory meetings and dialogue at New York, USA, of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court.

Serving as just one example of many reported incidents, on the eve of South Sudan's first anniversary of its independence a leading civil society activist, Deng Athuai, was found beaten into a coma and left by the side of the road.

When Cuomo and Gore recently announced their support for the cap of 2 degrees (and a 80 % reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050, based on 1990 levels), they sided with the industrial countries led by the US versus more than two - thirds of the others countries and thousands of civil society groups.

The infractions by the Akufo - Addo led - government has compelled some of their strong patrons including, the former moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Prof Emmanuel Martey, Political Science Lecturer and now a fully paid - up member of NPP, Dr Amoako Baah and some NPP - tainted Civil Society Groups to have had cause to condemn the government.

«This peculiarity has reduced the real locus of civil society activism to spontaneous protest movements led by charismatic leaders such as Tunde Bakare, Femi Falana, Wole Soyinka, and Joe Oke - Odumakin, etc, some of whom are also active in the political arena.

[19] The party is also considering a list led by a member of civil society or the left who has «not ceded to the liberal temptation», with Christiane Taubira considered as a possibility to fill this role.

Two civil society organisations, CD and CACOL, said the Buhari - led Federal Government did not deserve to continue in office unless it addressed the «incessant killings by herdsmen» in Benue State.

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.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

In addition to the formal Rio +20 outcome, a significant number of voluntary commitments were made by governments, businesses and other civil society partners in the lead - up to Rio and at Rio itself.

The effort was initiative initiated by civil society led by the Earthsavers UNESCO DREAM Center and Sagot Kita Bayan with Climate Institute, the International Theatre Institute (ITI) and Clean Air Philippines.

The Philanthropy Roundtable published an excellent guidebook by David Bass on career and technical education, which smartly suggests that civil society, not the state, take the lead role.

Eve's work leading Grub Street was recently recognized by the National Arts Strategies when they selected her to join their Chief Executive Program, a two - year initiative designed to unleash the collective power of 100 of the top executive leaders in the cultural sector to re-imagine the potential of cultural institutions and to figure out how they can contribute to civil society in the 21st century.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

The group's letter was backed by a letter of support (http://bit.ly/JRLBOT) from the CEOS of more than 25 leading civil society organizations from around the world, which calls for these commitments to take the form of a pledge at the upcoming Rio +20 earth summit.

From October, 2009 until April, 2010 the civil society task force (lead by Luis Meneses Filho) and the Acre government (lead by Monica De Los Rios) ran parallel consultations on the draft guidelines.

This led to the development of consolidated text (inserted into the Paris Agreement by the Philippines) and a division of labor backed by mutual support to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of civil society advocacy on rights and ecosystems.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

WEDO, along with the Council of Women World Leaders and the Heinrich Boell Foundation will be co-hosting a roundtable event on Friday to be led by former Irish president Mary Robinson and ex-Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland — intrepidly described as the «the first ever global gathering of high - level government, U.N. and civil society organizations» on climate change issues.

Hours later, as African negotiators were leading an uproar over the accord and civil society groups were protesting outside, it was still unclear which other countries were willing to support a backdoor deal forged by just five countries outside the typical UN process.

See e.g. Maxeiner, supra n. 1, at 44 (arguing that a globalized legal education is no longer subject to the cultural barriers that were once dominant in society, allowing students to focus on the legal cultures that they will likely encounter in an increasingly globalized economy); see also James E. Pfander, Book Review, (reviewing Thomas Main, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (Thomson / West 2006)-RRB-(describing the case for globalized Civil Procedure courses by emphasizing how such an approach would lead to a greater understanding of American procedure).

He is recognized as a Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada; has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers ™ in Canada in Personal Injury Litigation; and was selected by his peers as a Leading Practitioner in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.

The motion askes the ministry to invite civil society to submit ideas that lead to a reduction of contentious divorces by 50 %.

It appears the new government led by Justin Trudeau will work to fulfill its goal of forming policy on autonomous weapons in cooperation with civil society experts.

The conference is led by Indigenous people and is designed for Indigenous peoples, clinicians, those working in Indigenous health and civil society organizations.

By teaching a process that facilitates relational change, Helen and Harville aim to establish healthy relationship as this society's primary cultural value which will lead to greater civil conversation and foster a legacy of stability and peace for generations to come.

The International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP) was founded on 22 February 2014 in Bonn, Germany, by leading research scientists, family professionals and representatives of civil society from 11 countries as a non-profit organization focusing on the feasibility of shared parenting as a viable and beneficial solution for children.