Sentences with phrase «lobby national delegates»

Under our ECOSOC status, we are entitled to be observers at UN conferences, to lobby national delegates and, on occasion, to run NGO «Parallel Events» (i.e. workshops or panel discussions) during some annual UN conferences such as its session of the Commission on the Status of Women which is held in New York each year in March.

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1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

A notable example is the ABA's Government Affairs Office — which lobbies in Washington DC to convey to national lawmakers «the Association's concerns and views on matters of importance to the legal profession,» [10] and to advocate for ABA policies as they are adopted by the ABA's «policy making body,» [11] the House of Delegates.