Sentences with phrase «of citizen participation»

The theme — The impact of open access to legal information: bridging the gap between accessibility and usefulness — presents attendees with huge scope for discussion, and as a parliamentary librarian, I'm interested to see how many of the suggested themes go beyond the courts and into areas of citizen participation in law - making.

The Court continued that the right of petition as set out in the treaties is a fundamental right which is to be exercised under the conditions laid down in Article 227 TFEU and which constitutes an instrument of citizen participation in the democratic life of the European Union.

This week, we look at a novel use of citizen participation laws to force the prosecutor's hand in the case of Tamir Rice, the 12 - year - old Cleveland boy shot dead by police for playing with a toy gun.

As part of CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, an exhibition organized by ABC No Rio (in exile), Occupy Museums organized a discussion between ABC No Rio, the Guerrilla Girls, Decolonize This Place and W.A.G.E. to discuss models of sustainable art activist practice and building a sustainable web of mutual support.

This Declaration involves a new conception of citizen participation and conceives the emerging rights as citizen rights (23).

It presents 12 key findings which focus on four main citizen requests: immediate and faster climate action by national leaders; greater finance for climate action; building more progress in line with the different capacities of countries; strengthening the role of citizen participation in the UN climate negotiations.

The fundamental building block for CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation was the 1991 decision of a group of civil society leaders from across the world to reinforce and support the virtual expansion of citizen participation in every region of the globe.

Hence, one of the biggest challenges for the construction of Latin American subject of a new type is conditioned by these new forms of citizen participation, appropriation or reappropriation of them whose potential, both for playing domination as mechanisms for mobilizing systemic anti-social, especially digital democracy, is incalculable.

That kind of citizen participation served as McDonough's springboard into the fifth ward race.

In addition, they were an attempt to demonstrate the value of citizen participation on even complex matters of policy.

Not exact matches

Asked if his participation in last month's event was suitable, Vladimir Gak, a senior SNS official and mayor of the northern town of Indjija, repeatedly replied that Sljivancanin «is a free citizen of Serbia».

A Congress or Administration that wants to support broader employee share ownership and profit sharing in economic rewards could develop a checklist on any major program or legislation that is proposed to examine its likely effects on, and capacity to increase, financial participation and capital ownership and access to income on capital of employees and citizens in our economy.

Alberta should care to develop its own provincial system to the best possible option for full participation of its citizens.

In regard to democratic reform, the Party promises a wide range of policies aimed at improving accountability, transparency, and citizen participation.

In the words of a Marco Rubio aide, those American citizens and current residents who have been facing declining wages, declining labor force participation, and collapsing families «can't cut it».

California has no intention of climbing down the economic ladder and all her citizen are willfully blind about what that support through participation or silence.

Direct intervention and participation of the people and citizens in the CIVIL SOCIETY is the hall mark of this movement.

This quality is la vertu... It conveys the idea that the citizen of a republic finds the beginning of his participation in governance in his own inner spirit, but that this spirit takes the form of action, and especially that kind of action that expresses willingness: initiative.26

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

No longer was there a higher kind of life as there had been for the ancients, a life devoted either to theoretical contemplation or to participation in the public activities of a citizen.

But if, as is now the case, most of the people of the world in general want this tyranny checked, then each level of community of communities can be given the assignment to make sure that the member communities allow participation of all their citizens and respect their right to differ and be different.

Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

Yet nothing can have a more deadening effect on real participation by the citizens than if government, instead of merely providing the essential framework of spontaneous growth, becomes monolithic and takes charge of the provision for all needs, which can be provided for only by the common effort of many.

Yet I argue that participation in initiatives to restore a civil society in America, with appropriate reflective self - understandings, could meet the needs and activate the worldly spirituality of precisely those millions of middle - of - the - road citizens looking for the sorts of moral meanings, the kinds of religious roots, these communities used to represent and in some ways still do.

The numbers for unemployment and labor force participation include noncitizen residents — and of the American citizens, many are foreign - born.

Those familiar with the country believe that the answer is twofold: a rigorously negotiated constitution shaped around human rights and citizen participation in political decisions; and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that walked the narrow boundary between exacting vengeance on the agents of the regime and granting them immunity.

But a republic will have republican customs — public participation in the exercise of power, the political equality of the citizens, a wide distribution of small and medium property with few very rich or very poor — customs that will lead to a public spiritedness, a willingness of the citizen to sacrifice his own interests for the common good, that is, to a citizen motivated by republican virtue.

Increasingly large volumes of social activity are withdrawn from public accountability, from democratic control, and from the participation of citizens in decision making.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

After the referendum, the Park District and the board sought to boost citizen participation, which resulted in the formation of advisory boards for Centennial Beach and Frontier Park, among others.

We will help them to be good citizens of the game and community, healthy and fit, while fostering inclusive, sustainable, healthy, safe and enjoyable youth sports participation and optimal athletic performance and achievement.

Her participation at the 118th Annual Meeting of Mass Audubon reaffirms the link between federal environmental policy and citizens at the community level, said Henry Tepper, President of the 100,000 - member organization.

Democratic citizens» active and even agonistic political participation guarantees the well - functioning of a democracy.

As Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, argued in a speech in May 2011, «If a democracy neglects women's participation... it is a democracy for only half its citizens.»

This is because of the consideration that the major political shift towards «more Europe» which most agree it is needed (especially for the Eurozone) requires the full participation of the European citizens.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

Said President Weah: «Article 7 — The Republic shall, consistent with the principles of individual freedom and social justice enshrined in this Constitution, manage the national economy and the natural resources of Liberia in such manner as shall ensure the maximum feasible participation of Liberian citizens under conditions of equality, so as to advance the general welfare of the Liberian people and the economic development of Liberia.»

Democratic Republicanism is more critical of capitalism than most social democratic critiques, because it stresses the importance of freedom for citizen participation as vital to creating autonomy and liberty, and the conflict between labour markets and citizenship.

A patchwork of scattered ventures hardly delivers citizen participation, and the interests of employees may not align with those of the common good.

The greatest strength of the Five Stars movement is its network of genuinely motivated citizens who mobilize consensus by championing popular causes like anti-nuclear campaigns, direct political participation, renewable energy reform and the end of conflicts of interest between the public and the private sectors.

The attainment of collective human dignity for all citizens goes beyond political equality, freedom and political participation.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

Politicians from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP all sang the praises of the Citizens» Assemblies and called for more public participation in politics.

The provisions on local content and local participation in petroleum activities as well as a Local Content Fund will lead to job creation and the building of indigenous capacity, which will enable Government achieve its objective of ensuring that the nation's petroleum resources are harnessed for the benefit of all Ghanaians and thus ultimately improve the standard of living of the ordinary citizen.

Many citizens would sell their labour - power to make a living, but the context would be reshaped somewhat by rights of participation in firm decision - making and, not least, by a basic income.

These scholars analyze the effects of «Web 2.0 information environments» on political organization and citizen participation.

They remove citizens from the public process and — worst of all — take away our faith in our government, disabling the essential system of civic participation which ensures the representation of the people, and not the self - interested.

«At a time in New York where our citizens experience too many barriers to participation, I am gratified that this opinion invites a new era of truly online voter registration, an incredibly exciting step that will help make the state election process more accessible and simpler for all,» Schneiderman said in a statement announcing the opinion.

Some of the contributions APRM had made to Ghana's development is opening up the political space for citizens» participation, good governance and the passage of a number of legislations including the national gender policy and the establishment of the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs, and SADA.