Sentences with phrase «letter calling on governments»

Lush Spring Prize judges write an open letter calling on governments to put the Sustainable Development Goals at the heart of their policy and programmes for action.

In a cross sector act of cooperation, signatories from 35 representative bodies in the UK food and drink supply chain have signed an open letter calling on the government to make an early agreement on future trade with the Republic of Ireland as the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

In September, the ERG's former chair Suella Fernandes asked MPs to sign up to a letter calling on the government to ensure a hard Brexit.

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In a letter sent Wednesday to Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman US Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R - UT), committee Democrats called on him to hold a hearing on Valeant and Turing later this month.

The basic problem is that during each recession, governments increase their debt load to stimulate the economy and maintain (or even increase) services, but rarely cut back on their debt loads or services during the prosperous times — creating a long - term upward trend in indebtedness that Tony Boeckh of The Boeckh Investment Letter calls the «debt supercycle.»

Calling the 6.6 % real return a «chain letter» and a «Ponzi scheme,» he went on to note, «The legitimate question that market analysts, government forecasters and pension consultants should answer is how that 6.6 % real return can possibly be duplicated in the future given today's initial conditions which historically have never been more favorable for corporate profits.

OTTAWA — In a letter to an employer in his Ontario riding, a Liberal MP says his own government is wrongly invoking the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation, and calls the whole thing «regrettable» and a «lamentable state of affairs.»

The letter comes just a day before Labour MP Frank Field tables his School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill, which calls on the Government to give all councils the duty and resources to provide food and activities during the school holidays, for children who would otherwise go hungry.

One, an open letter to the then Prime Minister - in - waiting Gordon Brown and published in The Times (to read it click here) brought together 30 signatories ranging from Women's Aid to Families Need Fathers, and called on the government to ensure good services for separated families.

So, we organised an Open Letter calling on all four governments of the UK to safeguard public health budgets and end those cuts.

On Tuesday 9 February, health visitors, midwives, paediatricians, GPs, lactation consultants, breastfeeding counsellors, peer supporters, university researchers, professional organisations and charities signed a letter calling for action by the UK Government and National Assemblies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to support mothers to breastfeed.

Their letter was sent after the new environment secretary this morning called for a «new environmental contract» on tackling climate change to ensure government, business and individuals all play their part.

The Prime Minister is set to receive an open letter today calling on the British government to fight «extreme» poverty in Africa in 2005.

Oddo also sent letters to government agencies to push them to maintain and cleanup their properties, called on local businesses to donate money to help expand the mobile response team, and Oddo said his staff has been working with the MTA to start an Adopt - a-Train station program.

(Albany, NY) In a letter delivered today, a coalition of government reform organizations called on Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to hold a series of open public leaders» meetings to discuss and negotiate — in public — ethics reforms necessary to restore New Yorkers» battered confidence in Albany.

Meanwhile, 30 government reform groups wrote a letter to Cuomo asking him to make good on his call for public campaign financing, and for an independent agency to enforce regulations by putting money for those plans in the budget.

On plans to upgrade the 550 post offices in different Local Government Areas in the country, Shittu stated that they would soon start engaging in financial services like internet services, call services apart from the traditional letter posting.

In the letter, President Mahama among others touted his government's achievements and also called on electorates to desist from what he calls «political malpractice» as the country prepares for the general elections.

«He opened it with the key which he had kept on his chain, and its contents began to slide out - a Penguin on Mediaeval Customs, a collection of statistics for exports in 1946, a speech, carefully typed and tabulated, which he had failed to deliver because he hadn't been called, a library book on constitutional government, an unopened letter from an eccentric who used to write to him every day, a few newspaper cuttings, three copies of Hansard, a United Nations report, a grey tie, a clutter of invitations to Mr and Mrs Michael Erskine, and a powder - compact which Jane had once left in the House.»

The Government is facing fresh pressure after a leaked letter revealed that the impact of immigration policy changes on the so - called Windrush generation was known about at least two years ago.

Democratic Syracuse mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams called on the other three candidates in the race to sign a letter pledging not to support the proposed city and Onondaga County government merger outlined in the Consensus report on government consolidation.

We know there's more joy in heaven about one sinner who repents than about 99 just persons, but William Hague lauding the government's green record and calling on colleagues (in a leaked letter) to «avoid losing global leadership on the environment» takes the biscuit.

A total of 26 Bronx politicians from the federal, state and city levels of government signed a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook calling on his company to open one of its retail stores in the borough, noting that while the tech giant currently has 10 stores in the city, none of them are in The Bronx.

But on Tuesday 86 parliamentarians, including eight former cabinet ministers, wrote a letter to the Guardian calling on the government to oppose statutory regulation, even if it is dressed up as «underpinning».

The multi-society letter called on the OMB to work with leaders of government agencies to back the use of the best scientific evidence in their decision - making and to see that federal agencies support scientists doing the work required to «produce the knowledge upon which the nation relies.»

It began «on 11 January, when a letter protesting violence in Turkey's ethnically Kurdish southeastern region, and calling on the government to make peace with Kurdish rebels, was posted online.

This is why, this Schools» Autism Awareness Week, we teamed up with Ambitious about Autism and wrote an open letter to the Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, calling on her to include autism in the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) framework for England, which the government is currently reviewing.

Not on Our Watch, their empowering book, offers six strategies readers themselves can implement: Raise Awareness, Raise Funds, Write a Letter, Call for Divestment, Start an Organization, and Lobby the Government.

They may send you a letter, email, SMS or message through social media to «phish» for information or pretend to be calling on behalf of your bank or a government department, and trick you into giving them information.

The fund may loan portfolio securities to qualified broker - dealers or other institutional investors provided: (1) the loan is secured continuously by collateral consisting of U.S. government securities, letters of credit, cash or cash equivalents or other appropriate instruments maintained on a daily marked - to - market basis in an amount at least equal to the current market value of the securities loaned; (2) the fund may at any time call the loan and obtain the return of the securities loaned; (3) the fund will receive any interest or dividends paid on the loaned securities; and (4) the aggregate market value of securities loaned will not at any time exceed one - third of the total assets of the fund, including collateral received from the loan (at market value computed at the time of the loan).

(Kennel Club Press Release) FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments) and the Kennel Club have sent an open letter to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government The Rt Hon Greg Clark, MP calling on him and the Government to reverse their decision to grant planning permission for a laboratory...

Artists including Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Phyllida Barlow, Anish Kapoor, Jeremy Deller and Antony Gormley have signed a letter, published by the Guardian, calling on the government to rethink a key secondary school policy introduced by the former education secretary Michael Gove.

Kevin, fyi, Thirty - one of Australia's leading climate scientists and doctors have written an open letter to the Northern Territory Government calling on it to not permit the opening up of new gas fields through hydraulic fracturing.

Last week, as cameras focused on Gulf coasts girding for an oil assault, 107 presidents of university and college student governments distribued a letter calling on lawmakers to get serious about energy education.

In this letter, we are publicly calling on the Brazilian Government to reject the idea of using REDD as a carbon market - based mechanism and of accepting it as a means to compensate the emissions from Northern countries.

The men featured in the video and the members of the FoS Scientific Advisory Board are all signatories to letters sent in 2003 to Canada's then Liberal Finance Minister Paul Martin and in 2006 to current Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, calling on them to «examine the scientific foundation of the federal government's climate - change plans» and «conduct a review of the Kyoto Protocol».

An open letter from groups in Acre to the state of California calls REDD «a proposal based on a limited view of the forest, aimed at benefiting business interests and a small group linked to the government, while deepening already existing environmental and social injustice.»

The letter, organised by Australian National University climatologist Andrew Glikson, calls on the federal government to make «meaningful reductions of Australia's peak carbon emissions and coal exports, while there is still time».

In August 2011, a Texas organization called the Court Reporters Certification Board wrote a letter asking the state attorney general to opine on whether an oral deposition meant for use in litigation in the courts of Texas can be recorded solely by non-stenographic means (e.g., by video camera or an audio recording), or whether doing so would violate Texas Government Code § 52.021 (f), which requires that an oral deposition be recorded by a certified shorthand reporter.

In her letter, Crosby calls on the government to take care before any move to a digital - only policy, in... [more]

In her letter, Crosby calls on the government to take care before any move to a digital - only policy, in particular when it comes to long - term access and preservation:

Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

The Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network has joined with other civil society organizations to release an open letter to the governments of the remaining TPP countries, calling on them to abandon the TPP in its current form.

LASPO review: YLAL co-chairs Rachel and Ollie signed this letter to The Guardian calling on the government to review the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 at the earliest opportunity.

Lawyers representing a number of different legal organizations and clinics attended the announcement Thursday to voice their support of the challenge, including Human Rights Commissioner Renu Mandhane, who wrote a letter to attorney general Yasir Naqvi calling on the government to repeal the Safe Streets Act.

Following our meeting on Campaigning for Access to Justice in London, YLAL — together with LAPG and Legal Action Group — sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, calling on the government to review LASPO as soon as possible.

Today, after more than two decades of seeing a steady procession of those people, whom he calls broken souls, in his courtroom, Justice Westman has become one of many in several provinces defying the spirit, and sometimes the letter, of the Conservative government's tough - on - crime agenda.

That the place called in these letters patent Cape or Point Comfort is the place now called and known by the name of Old Point Comfort, on the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, and that immediately after the granting of the letters patent, the corporation proceeded under and by virtue of them to take possession of parts of the territory which they describe and to form settlements, plant a colony, and exercise the powers of government therein, which colony was called and known by the name of the Colony of Virginia.

Washington, D.C.'s delegate to Congress just sent a letter to the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee calling for a hearing on our nation's cellphone security after learning of rogue spy devices found in... Read More

The letter, organized with the support of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots member Pax Christi Flanders, calls on the government and parliament of Belgium to support an international ban on such weapon systems and to resolve as a nation never to develop, acquire or deploy them.