Sentences with phrase «many civil society»

There's a lot of legitimate — I would call them — civil society reasons why bitcoin is a powerful mechanism.

Putting them front and centre wherever offshore production might be found will take the collaborative, conscious effort of Canadians from all sectors; government, brands, consumers and civil society.

To date, the Canadian retailing industry and our civil society organizations have not come up with anything remotely similar to these initiatives.

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

It is up to Nevsun to make sure that it is conducting itself in the proper manner and is not complicit with any of the accusations being directed at the Eritrean government by civil society.

The idea is to ask civil society, our academic institutions, corporate Canada and our businesses to all step up, because this is something that's really going to be a team effort.

Like many Catalan independence supporters, including Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, Rufian wears a yellow ribbon to highlight the continued imprisonment of separatist figures Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra, former interior minister Joaquin Form and civil society leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart.

The Fair Tax Campaign, a British civil society organization that promotes corporate tax transparency, observes: «one of the major objectives of tax avoidance activity is to defer the time when tax is paid.

Tillerson made brief mention of human rights and religious freedom while in Beijing, but had no known meetings with activists or engagements with civil society representatives.

The authoritarian government hasn't helped: It has been cracking down on civil society, dissolving the largest opposition party in November.

As IBMers, we have learned, through era after era, that the path forward — for innovation, for prosperity, and for civil society — is the path of engagement and openness to the world.

We respectfully asked the Cambodian government to continue to improve working conditions for Cambodian factory workers and treat civil society with fairness, in accordance with international standards and norms.»

They recognize that healthy small business is the foundation upon which economic progress, and a stable civil society, can be built.

More importantly, it wanted to play a key role in building Ukrainian civil society.

He added: «In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state, but he can't, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won't allow it.»

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country's president, has been turning Turkey into an Islamist - tinged autocracy, purging the military and other state institutions of perceived internal enemies and jailing thousands of journalists, professors, civil society leaders, and political opponents.

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

I think it's an important remark you are making here in China, because the civil society factor has been a difficulty in the past to register.

Ruth Shapiro of the Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society says civil society in Asia is often ahead of government in identifying areas of concern.

QUESTION: I refer to Mr. Kent's remark on the triangle of government, business and civil society.

I'm Chairman of such a civil society structure, global think tank called the Club of Rome, and I'm just coming from Beijing, where they have informed me that the rules for registrations of civil society structures have been streamlined and improved, so much so that this triangle can also be applied here in China.

I call it the Golden Triangle, government, business and civil society.

I talk a lot about our cluster strategy and how we want companies to work closely with government, academia and civil society and create these super-clusters, or collaborative environments where we can work together and share ideas.

February 16, 2017: Mark Zuckerberg writes a nearly 6,000 word manifesto, «Building Global Community,» on the future of Facebook and global civil society.

Last week the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank brought together in Washington the world's finance ministers, central bankers, financial experts and economists, other government officials, and invited representatives from the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations.

The event aims to kick - start an increase in investments in mental health: investments by governments, development agencies and civil society.

Leaders from all parts of society, including business, politics, academia, and civil society have one common task: Building resilient and sustainable societies.

FATF, civil society and private sector representatives met for a constructive discussion on key issues which included combatting de-risking, digital identification and crypto assets.

Sustainia and its partners continuously work to inspire companies, policy makers and civil society across sectors and regions.

The Global Opportunity Network contributed with its presence at the ECCA 2015 conference to assure scientists, civil society and business participants that many opportunities and solutions are already there, waiting to be explored, measured, implemented and scaled up.

A group of thought leaders representing business, academia and civil society sits down to discuss how global risks can be turned into a wide range of new opportunities.

Eight Opportunity Panels with thought leaders from business, civil society and government will point to opportunities that can put societies on a path towards a more sustainable future.

In fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil society.

Leaders from all parts of society - including business, politics, academia, civil society - have one common task of building resilient and sustainable societies.

These charities all help strengthen American civil society by promoting private initiatives rather than government programs as the solution to the most pressing issues of the day.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

Next week the World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its 48th annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, drawing together a large number of leaders from governments (including President Trump), international organizations, business, academia, and civil society.

Sixty - five green and civil society groups in February demanded each political party respect B.C.'s greenhouse gas targets.

Each of them will consist of 25 - 30 creative, innovative, and solution oriented leaders from Business, Academia, Civil Society / NGOs and youth organisations.

He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership with civil society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.

Generally these discussions include representatives from industry, NGOs, government and civil society and, like dialogues, are conducted in accordance with Chatham House Rules.

While the directive aims to strike a balance between privacy and financial scrutiny, it also seeks to publicly disclose some of this information so that third parties and civil society at large can know who holds what currency and potentially even how much.

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

Civil society puts the number at two to three times that many.

We need reliable economic indicators and data for sound economic policy, and to provide other governments, businesses, and civil society with the tools to enrich our national life.

The report was prepared by a task force of specialists who drew on input from stakeholders in Canada's business community, civil society and government.

Under the theme, «unity of purpose and diversity of roles,» the report proposes specific activities for government, business and civil society.

It explicitly recognizes that government needs to «stop and ask for directions» from civil society and academics, many of whom have been thinking about and analysing budgets with a gender and intersectional lens for more than 20 years.

Unfortunately, entrenched centralized institutions from politics, business and civil society, have little interest in truly deconstructing their business models to withstand the trust age.