Sentences with phrase «nongovernmental organizations as»

Our experience has been that these flourish when there are many nongovernmental organizations as well, beginning with the churches.

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«What's for sure [with trade deals] is there will be losers, as there have been losers from NAFTA and other trade deals,» Maritta Strasser — a lead trade campaigner for the nongovernmental organization Campact, and a speaker at Saturday's reportedly 50,000 - person rally in Frankfurt — told CNBC last month.

Meanwhile, the governor of Caquetá made the same point to our delegation, as did members of a morning - long symposium in which we heard from departmental legislators, nongovernmental organizations, educators and church groups.

Second, as moral inspiration, the Universal Declaration has helped launch nongovernmental human rights groups across the planet, including the influential organization Amnesty International, which numbers more than one million members worldwide.

Perhaps as significant as the Earth Charter, Agenda 21 and work on sustainable development is the unprecedented step UNCED has taken to encourage global village participation by way of a parallel conference of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) including religious communities.

* If ever there was a clear - cut cause for outrage, it is the concerted campaign by Greenpeace and other nongovernmental organizations, as well as by individuals, against Golden Rice.

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

Robson, whose @joolzr Twitter bio says she's a «primatologist who got a bit lost, and found her place to stand,» now works as a consultant for the University of Auckland, nongovernmental organizations, and others.

As Frank Smithuis, an irrepressible Dutch malariologist who works with MORU and runs his own nongovernmental organization out of one of Yangon, Myanmar's crumbling buildings, puts it: «Then we had better hurry.»

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

While these nonprofits — many also classified as NGOs, or nongovernmental organizations — are very visible and play an important social and humanitarian role, they are only the tip of the employment iceberg.

It no longer recognizes Greenpeace India as an environmental nongovernmental organization.

These nongovernmental organizations — along with others that militate on environmental, public health and legal issues — have begun to serve as a vital counterpoint to the government's otherwise unchecked push to propel the nation's blisteringly fast - paced economic development.

The PRB serves as the US national committee to SCAR, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, a nongovernmental organization charged to initiate, promote, and coordinate international scientific activity in the Antarctic.

Each of these international gatherings in Russia involved scientists and diplomats as well as government administrators, commercial operators, advocates from nongovernmental organizations, and indigenous peoples.

The debates will bring together academics, representatives of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as representatives of nongovernmental organizations and civil society.

Individuals and groups from K — 12 and higher education are invited to participate in this program, especially faculty, administrators, school and district leaders, and higher education administrators, as well as individuals and groups from educational nonprofits, funding organizations, and nongovernmental organizations.

Reimers will act as one of 30 representatives to the commission, which supports worldwide humanitarian development and values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice from the federal, state, and local governments and from nongovernmental organizations on issues of education, science, communications, and culture.

As more states address the preparation of new teachers, both lawmakers and nongovernmental organizations are trying to increase admission requirements.

Online teacher education programs are becoming feasible as the technology infrastructure in Namibia advances (Bateman, 2002) and nongovernmental organizations such as SchoolNet Namibia continue to install networked computers in primary and secondary schools around the country.

Consult, as appropriate, regarding Transportation Fringe Benefit Program activities among Federal, State, tribal, local governments, nongovernmental entities, the private sector, foreign governments, and international organizations.

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Consult and obtain, as appropriate, information and advice regarding Transportation Fringe Benefit program activities among Federal, State, tribal, local governments, nongovernmental entities, the private sector, foreign governments, and international organizations.

Protecting the resources of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is a collaborative effort involving local, State and Federal agencies as well as numerous nongovernmental organizations.

And then, mainly with European and nongovernmental organization pressure, the goal was spread via the G8 and eventually the UNFCCC into other parts of the world as well.

This webinar brought together experts and representatives from states, electric generators, academia, and nongovernmental organizations to consider this new approach for ensuring that the RGGI emissions trading program functions as designed and examine the finer points of how such a reserve might work and be implemented.

[16] NEMS is used by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Department of Energy as well as various nongovernmental organizations for a variety of purposes, including forecasting the effects of energy policy changes on a plethora of leading economic indicators.

Although nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have worked for years to protect forests from clearcutting, sustainable forestry is now seen as another way to protect forests.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, then Secretary General of NATO, told reporters in 2014, «Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so - called nongovernmental organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas.»

It belongs to cities, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and all of global civil society as much as it belongs to nation - states».

Its members include private companies — Ford Motor Co., IBM, and Motorola, Inc., to name a few — as well as universities, nongovernmental organizations, and the city whose name it bears.

While over 180 countries will be participating in December's UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, as well as countless intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations from all over the globe (including six from Israel), the Israeli government will not be among the participants.

Ms. Garcia has worked for several years as a researcher and analyst interacting with a broad variety of clients, including private sector, government, community - based organizations and international nongovernmental organizations.

The sources of the blogs vary from new on the Web, proprietary sources on the hidden web, jury verdicts, court opinions, reports by government and nongovernmental organizations around the globe as well as fun stuff such as trivia questions about products that are the subject of trade secrets.»

We aim to provide balanced and objective research, offer new and unexplored viewpoints to public policy discussions which are inclusive of the opinions and interests of a broad range of IP stakeholders (including governments, nongovernmental organizations, the legal community, businesses and the general public) and ultimately, act as a facilitator for the flourishment of a knowledge - based society in Canada.

These openings represent many opportunities for subject - matter experts and senior leaders from the military, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), as well as current federal employees seeking a transfer or promotion.

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About Blog The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to ensuring that humanity adopts the increasingly powerful technologies of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics / AI safely as we move towards the Singularity.