Sentences with phrase «of other civil society groups»

With the Croatian government's recent announcement of their plans to to open up the Adriatic to oil exploration, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia along with a number of other civil society groups this month officially launched a campaign to save the sea around Croatia, Montenegro and Italy from oil drilling.

Not exact matches

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.

But I am also a parent and a member of a civil society, naturally uneasy about Peoples Temple and other groups that no one quite comprehends.

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.»

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

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

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.

Notably, in 2010, the ACLU testified against «the use of terror watch lists to screen gun purchases,» writing that the «deeply flawed» terror watch list process led the group to conclude, «Given these problems, we do not believe that anyone should be deprived of the right to purchase a gun, or the right to fly, or any other benefit of membership in civil society based solely on placement on a terror watch list.»

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

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».

CODEO and other like - minded civil society organizations after the 2016 general elections, advocated the need for total disbandment of identified political vigilante groups.

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.

«Civil society groups have play a key role in holding government and parliaments accountable but without a strong civil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.&rCivil society groups have play a key role in holding government and parliaments accountable but without a strong civil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.&rcivil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.»

Director of Elections of the NPP, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, in an interview with GBC's Radio Ghana explained that the stakeholder briefing with Civil Society and Identifiable Groups, Embassies and other Missions and Political Parties is to get them involved in the party's development agenda should it win the December elections.

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

In a statement on their invitation of the two radio panelists who threatened judges on Accra - based Montie FM, the security agency called on the Ghana Journalists Association and other civil society groups to help ensure decorum in the media.

The Nigerian Election Debates Groups, NEDG, comprising of media organisations, non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs, Civil Society Groups and the Nigeria Bar Association among others has concluded arrangement...

So while the Electoral Reform Society and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United KSociety and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Ksociety groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Kingdom.

Dear President Juncker, The co-signatories of this letter represent a broad group of business associations, civil society, think tanks and other organisations who are working together to bring strong support to the EU's commitment to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement objectives.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

While many civil society groups were competing to build their own image at the side events in the official Rio Centro tents and other locations, the so called Peoples Summit in the Flamingo Park was a chaotic demonstration that lead to thousands of civil society representatives from across the world being stranded and lost without any sense of direction or coordination.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

This historic move follows work by Global Witness, Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG), the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and other Kachin State and Myanmar civil society actors and parliamentarians to expose widespread abuses at the heart of a vast, deeply corrupt trade.

Today, a broad group comprised of business associations, civil society, think tanks and other organisations have urged the President of the European Commission, through a joint open letter, to make the future EU budget fully compatible with the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development goals.

At the close of the Forum, Kyte and Mahama were joined on the stage by dozens of leaders from government, business, academia, civil society and other groups who over the two days had made new action pledges.

Meanwhile, the small group of countries initially supporting the Philippines had grown, and the RSWG joined other civil society coalitions in a coordinated effort across constituencies.

Building on the foundation of national climate plans from 187 countries, the Paris Agreement is a reflection of the remarkable momentum from cities, companies, civil society groups and others that complement the global will to act that has grown over the years since the first international conference on climate change in 1992.

Friends of the Earth Europe, alongside other civil society groups, symbolically returned to the International climate talks today.

On that day, communities, civil society groups and other activists will organise various mobilisation actions — from street walks to the community forums, field visits to affected sites, exhibitions and press conferences — all of them united by the same message: No to fossil fuels in Africa, targeting the existing and proposed fossil fuel projects on the continent.

Rotten though the American legal system is, and despite the fact that most of these organizations do not agree with Steyn's views on climate change (nor necessarily with Mann's either), amicus curiae briefs supporting Mark's position have been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters» Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associations of American Publishers and of Alternative News Media (e.g. Village Voice), NBC Universal, Bloomberg, Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other publications and groups.

We are a growing network of 22 New Zealand civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and social movements who support each other and our allies to take real action to protect New Zealanders and others from climate change, to protect New Zealand's unique environment, and build a more fair, just and safe New Zealand for us all.

During a period of three years, the members of the Commission and other contributors for its five working groups conducted 22 national consultation processes with representatives from local governments, academia, civil society, and grassroots movements.

However, in the Social Justice Report 2006 I identified that an «information gap» exists in Australia that inhibits the use of a human rights framework by many Indigenous peoples and other civil society groups.