Sentences with phrase «many civil society groups»

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.

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

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.

The Trade Justice Network joined nearly 40 civil society groups to call on the three governments to #EndISDS.

As the third round of NAFTA negotiations are set to begin in Ottawa, civil society groups will be holding their own meetings.

The pan-Canadian coalition, which emerged from the North American civil society gathering on NAFTA in Mexico City in May 2017, is made up of labour, environmental, farmer, social justice and other civil society groups across English - speaking Canada and Quebec.

The Basque militant group ETA is announcing that it has «completely dissolved all its structures,» in a letter sent to Basque institutions and civil society groups.

Archbishop Justin Welby has said of the scheme: «The full community sponsorship scheme presents churches and other civil society groups with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war - torn places.»

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents.

Champions 12.3, a coalition of 30 CEOs, government ministers, executives of research institutions, farmer organisations and civil society groups, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos and aims to accelerate progress toward meeting target 12.3 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which seeks to halve per capita food waste by 2030.

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

[PARAGRAPH BREAK] The Champions include CEOs of major companies, government ministers, and executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farmer organizations, and civil society groups.

We were one of the few civil society groups attending meetings with the Commission (usually my colleague Patti Rundall, our Policy Director).

Several civil society groups have formed to try to fill this gap, despite severe budgetary issues.

We hope that other civil society groups and prominent persons in this country will add their voices to this purposeful call for we are all involved in building our motherland Ghana.

Other pro- Npp middle class civil society groups were formed to augment activities of occupyGhana and the opposition.

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.

«We join the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians and civil society groups to register our strongest disapproval and objection to this idea.

Despite its innocuous title, the Statute Law represented an attempt by the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta to clamp down on the activities of civil society groups that had supported his prosecution at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

«Concerns have been expressed to Unite by some civil society groups that their views have not been sought and that the consultees draw heavily from the large employers and retailers.

However it is important to note that only a small proportion of civil society groups are involved in the protests; namely those groups that are based in Bujumbura who are focused on governance and human rights issues and regard themselves as watchdog responsible for holding the government to account.

NGOs and civil society groups can be uncomfortable addressing political and power issues because they don't wish to «rock the boat» and risk their sources of funding.

The rule of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos seemed secure: the government had insulated itself from civil society groups working on human rights and governance issues, improved its relationships with business - hungry Western states, and deepened its strategic partnership with China.

The Lib Dems would also seek to establish a constitutional convention, but theirs would take input from political parties, academic and civil society groups, as well as the British public, and aim to draw up a full constitution for a federal UK.

The army command dallied, too, in its unwillingness to embrace civil society groups and the country's emergent political parties.

Amidst this hullaballoo, the political class has conveniently turned a deaf ear to the calls by civil society groups to undertake critical electoral reforms such as decriminalising politics.

Moreover, as part of a broader effort to deter incidences of hate speech and incitement, which were rampant in 2007 - 08, civil society groups embarked on media monitoring campaigns.

Thirdly, charities, NGOs and civil society groups, which are often invited by the court to «intervene» in proceedings to offer advice, could now find themselves liable to pay the costs of all the parties.

Next steps should include making the data on the site available via API, so that researchers, civil society groups and apps developers can create new ways of using it.

«Finally, I seize this opportunity to remind Lai Mohammed that under the Jonathan administration the ministry of information had annual ministerial briefing where the media and civil society groups interrogated cabinet ministers on the activities of their departments.

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.

Mr Copson spoke about how, increasingly, advocates of Bishops have also built their case on the position of the Church of England as our largest NGO — a civil society group with a branch in every community.

Claims from political opponents that he had prostate cancer have been denied but civil society groups still want to know whether tax - payers» money was used for the private treatment.

Ghanaian civil society groups within the tax space, have urged Parliament to investigate tax waivers granted a Chinese Petrochemical Corporation, the SINOPEC Group, through an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) agreement in 2014.

He suggested for concerted efforts between government and civil society groups to find lasting solutions to the canker of head - portering.

The formation of vigilante groups seems to be growing across the country, especially among the two major political parties — the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), despite concerns raised by the National Peace Council, the clergy and civil society groups over the existence of such groups.

He therefore recommended strongly that «erring officials and security operatives found wanting on election duties should be severely punished according to the dictates of the law while other civil society groups in Ekiti State should tow the path of Democracy Vanguard in sensitizing the electorates».

On the pro-European side, a broad coalition would be assembled bringing together unions, business organisations and civil society groups, a true example of One Nation politics.

Ghanaian Civil society group, the African Centre for Energy Policy, ACEP, has revealed through its partners, a Swiss NGO, Public Eye, how Swiss commodity trading firms are exporting what they call «dirty diesel» to Africa.

The ECONEC / INEC teams have already met with CEI officials, Civil Society Groups and the Committee in charge of funds mobilization as part its the NEEDS Assessment and solidarity visit at the instance of the CEI.

A coalition of civil society groups under the aegis of Project Swift Count has deployed 800 personnel to monitor Saturday's governorship election in Kogi State.

A civil society group, under the aegis of Independent Human Rights and Crime Monitoring Group, has warned the Nigerian Army against human rights abuses in the...

«Bids were publicly opened in the presence of NEITI, DPR, BPP, Civil Society groups and the press.

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.

One potential for good could be greater engagement with the voluntary sector and civil society groups.

The UN team will also engage humanitarian actors, representatives of civil society groups, as well as men, women and children of the affected population.

According to the Electoral Commission, the setting up of the panel follows petitions it received and calls from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters» register, with others calling for an audit of the register instead, all with a view to ensuring a credible voters» register for 2016 and beyond.

The opposition New Patriotic Party was the first to raise concerns about the register, a move which was subsequently supported by numerous civil society groups.

This generous view is not shared by many civil society groups and business leaders, who find the lack of vision, clear commitments and targets a big disappointment and a huge missed opportunity.

Meanwhile, some heads of public institutions, the private sector and civil society groups have told me that what is happening is not new.