Sentences with word «ngo»

It does exist a convention on a regional level, the European Convention on the Recognition of the Legal Personality of International Non-Governmental Organizations within the European Council, an international treaty that sets the legal basis for the existence and work of NGOs in Europe.

Janet stayed on for a few days after Lester returned home, meeting with environmental NGOs in Beijing and giving a presentation on Plan B 4.0 at Beijing Normal University.

CCS is supported by environmental NGOs such as Norway's Zero Emissions Resource Organization (ZERO).

Budget guesthouses are being opened throughout the country as it gains in confidence, boosted by the improvements being introduced into the economy by NGOs from the US, Australia and Europe.

Environmental examples have included representatives from NGOs from around the world (e.g..

Cornerstones of a just civic society, we help activist nonprofits like City Harvest feed hungry New Yorkers in need, and build robust, data - rich sites for NGOs like the United Nations to help its 200,000 + members smoothly navigate their local currencies and get answers about their pensions.

Politico also reported in December 2011 that Pew Charitable Trusts, a funder of the «Looting the Seas» report, hosted a screening of a CPI documentary and then organized a call to action with other NGOs for the protection of bluefin tuna.

ASOCUCH is one of 17 local NGOs working in partnership with the Rainforest Alliance to arrest Guatemala's rampant deforestation crisis by strengthening community forest management, with the support of USAID.

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.

The point is the omnipresence and influence of green NGOs like WWF is a question which has been raised by Donna Laframboise again.

Some excellent work is currently being done on NGOs such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

We, Green Watershed, also don't feel like we have many NGOs who can and will collaborate with us.

As a freelance web and graphic designer she also collaborates with local NGOs from the cultural sector.

More on the subject of funding of Green NGOs by vested interests, Activist Cash shows that Greenpeace had received $ 1.08 m from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and $ 115,000 from the Rockefeller Family Fund.

While questions remain as to who paid the activists who conducted the attack, it is clear that what would seem to fit the definition of an act of eco-terrorism, was incited by international NGOs including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Food First.

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

Today, Friends of the Earth Europe with the Green10 — the alliance of leading environmental NGOs at EU level, supported by over 20 million EU citizens and active in all 28 Member States — wrote an open letter to President Jean - Claude Juncker to express grave concerns over the direction the EU seems to be taking with the announcement of his new team.

We found many NGOs saying that in their experience, some refugees did not even want to attend their programs, and others saying that it was because of the way their programs were run.

«The management and operations of such camps is solely the responsibility of the various NGOs working at such facilities and the para-military organizations that provide security at such camps.

The cruelly ideological Reagan - era policy places restrictions on US funding for foreign NGOs providing abortion services, or even information about terminations or about other reproductive health services like contraception or HIV prevention.

Some environmental justice NGOs do not want to discuss geoengineering for fear that it will validate the «mad science» and distract civil society, governments and business communities from focusing on less drastic measures that will have impact on climate change.

acting on behalf of leading NGOs in the challenge, on the grounds of compliance with customary international law and international treaty law, to the detention of David Miranda when carrying material from the Edward Snowden leaks

I am a God fearing lady that believes there is someone special out there for each and everyone of us.I am a Model and also work with NGOs which makes me travel a lot.Am looking to make new friend first and see what happens from there.

The remainder of the income may well come from people who, for instance, might want something amounting to «save the whales», but not necessarily the compact between NGOs governments and supranational political bodies that has developed at the expense of democracy.

This subordination of the development agenda to the climate agenda, however, has turned development NGOs against development.

The alliance, stretching from grassroots organisations, national and international networks, and large NGOs on every continent declared that across October and early November they would «Reclaim Power» with a «Global Month of Action on Energy.»

A feature on how conservation NGOs use evidence to guide their decisions, by staff writer Shreya Dasgupta, is the winner in the environment category of the 2018 Science Seeker Awards.

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

Aren't NGOs now just outsourced government departments?

The Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA) is an alliance of environment and social NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact and their carbon out of the atmosphere, in an equitable and transparent way that respects the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.

In a report released this week [1] at a high level meeting of the Energy Community [2], CAN Europe and other NGOs [3] called for more transparency, a level playing field for energy investments and decent environmental standards in Southeast Europe.

«We will be equally interested to hear from car manufacturers about EU product standards, as from NGOs about EU environmental policies, or security experts about combating organised crime,» Hague went on.

Her elusive figure lurks everywhere and nowhere in «To Name It is to See It,» a solo exhibition by Huong Ngo upstairs at the DePaul Art Museum.

International Crisis Group 28 October 2011: DR Congo: As Electoral Campaign Starts, Congolese and International NGOs Call for Urgent Measures to Prevent Escalating Violence

25 percent of emissions permits to be auctioned with option to increase later (Friends of the Earth and other NGOs wanted 100 percent from the start of the scheme)

Forest Trends recently put forth a submission on this topic, supported by numerous partner NGOs with whom we work closely.

To date there has been little to no consideration of the climate impacts of diet in either government policy or the communications strategies of various environmental NGOs worldwide.

The participating public interest NGOs bring particular value - added to the gBICS through their firm stand on the need to avoid or adequately manage conflicts of interest.The influence of the baby food industry in research, the medical profession and in policy - setting is pervasive, both through direct sponsorship and through Public - Private for profit Partnerships (PPfpPs).

In 2015, relief groups received $ 4.2 billion in humanitarian funding — but local and national NGOs combined received just 2.3 percent of it -LSB-...].

Many NGOs also already submit financial reports, etc to their supporters, and many of these reports are accessible to the public.

In other words, the economic transition occurring in the Amazon has effectively given NGOs new leverage in consumer awareness campaigns.