Sentences with phrase «on ngos»

In this Idea Exchange, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar sees an «agenda» in calling Indian cities among worst polluted, defends Modi government's stand on NGOs, questions Rahul Gandhi's aggression, and asserts RSS does not interfere in government.

EU citizens can not invoke their EU Charter rights before the CJEU, but must rely on NGOs using the complaint procedure adopted by the Council of Europe under the European Social Charter.

Research On The NGOs» Influence In Coping With Climate Change (Meili Tang, Huijuan Shi, & Fengjiang Cheng, Institute of Climate Change and Public Policy - Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology) Section Three: Economic And Social Management In Climate Change 1.

The chilling effect of injunctions on NGOs means that such issues can remain hidden from view.

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

Moreover, an international convention on NGOs would mean the creation of a commission to guarantee the correct application of the convention by the states, monitoring the breach of rights and obligations.

At the Resumed Session of the United Nations Committee on NGOs held in New York in May 2010, the organized was granted a special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and a member of the United Nations Global Compact.

Later the Department for International Development said that the Girls Education Challenge was «a new project that will call on NGOs, charities and the private sector to find better ways of getting girls into school in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia which the UK has identified as a priority, including Bangladesh, South Sudan and Nigeria.»

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has approved the setting up a high - powered committee to conduct a «thorough and meticulous exercise» on NGOs operating in the state...

Labelling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, outlawing anti-regime protests, cracking down on NGOs and the clampdown against anti-regime activists and journalists are indications that the security state is disintegrating.

Russia began cracking down on NGOs 10 years ago; since 2012, its NGO sector has shrunk by a third.

India has the second largest population in the world with the largest democracy, but with many people in extreme poverty, the country has no sturdy welfare systems built - in, and often relies on NGOs to help.

Russia's «foreign agent» laws, a decade - plus effort to crack down on NGOs, reflect the country's reservations over outside influence.

Not exact matches

They focused on new workforce improvements, and interviewed more than a dozen local NGOs to help with in - factory training sessions.

«Even if we disagreed on 10 points, we would work on one or two,» Coady says, remembering her first engagement with NGOs and First Nations.

However, product certification is unlikely to satisfy environmental NGOs, he says, which have their sights set on rapid decarbonization of the economy.

Think of the large NGOs focused on climate change as the beavers who want to keep new holes from forming.

But last year the Mining Association of Canada and the Prospectors and Developers Association joined with two NGOs to form a working group on the issue.

In another approach to standardizing what responsible mining looks like on a global basis, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance has brought together a group of major mining, electronics, jewellery and steel companies, NGOs, affected communities and labour unions to establish a multi-stakeholder and independently verifiable responsible mining assurance system, focused on improving both social and environmental performance.

It is to develop NGOs focussed on school transformation.

With the NGOs Facebook relies on in the Southeast Asian country deeply dissatisfied, it's clear that words alone will no longer suffice.

On April 5, a group of six NGOs working in the country addressed a critical letter to Zuckerberg, citing «issues that have been rife on Facebook in Myanmar for more than four years now,» criticizing the company for crediting its own systems with catching violent messages when in fact it had been these organizations doing the moderation worOn April 5, a group of six NGOs working in the country addressed a critical letter to Zuckerberg, citing «issues that have been rife on Facebook in Myanmar for more than four years now,» criticizing the company for crediting its own systems with catching violent messages when in fact it had been these organizations doing the moderation woron Facebook in Myanmar for more than four years now,» criticizing the company for crediting its own systems with catching violent messages when in fact it had been these organizations doing the moderation work.

The BC Liberals are under investigation by Elections BC and the RCMP after The Globe and Mail revealed the party is accepting illegal donations from lobbyists, specifically highlighting donations by Byng Giraud and Marian Ngo from Woodfibre LNG, which proposes to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the old Woodfibre Pulp and Paper Mill site near Squamish, British Columbia.

In the context of student protests over Quebec tuition fees, my friend Luan Ngo has just written a very informative blog post on Quebec's fiscal situation.

Many small NGOs pool their resources and develop data purchasing consortia such as the Canadian Council on Social Development Community Social Data Strategy.

It is also not uncommon for ICCR to invite other stakeholders to the conversation including representatives from NGOs and community groups as well as subject matter experts advocating on any given issue as a way to build bridges between companies and the communities impacted by their operations.

Gandhi's followers as well as many Western NGOs continued to work, without national help on community development.

The IRF office carries out its mission by issuing reports on persecution, meeting with foreign government officials, partnering with NGOs, and reaching out to religious communities.

We have to bring together all of the social forces including in those countries where the national traditions mean that it is mainly the associations and NGOs which are active more than the trade unions which tend to be stuck on a professional level rather than in a wider capacity.

Yet another restriction of religious freedom comes in the form of monitoring of or outright bans on foreign sources of funding — the lifeblood of many church organizations and other NGOs in India.

Political ethicist Michael Ignatieff argues: «If we want human rights to be anchored in the world, we can not want their enforcement to depend on international institutions and NGOs.

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks and NGOs to give it further scrutiny and for major changes to be made before it is passed.

The Earth Charter is the project of a loose group of NGOs who hoped to use their accreditation to the 1992 UN «Conference on Environment and Development» at Rio de Janeiro (the «Earth Summit») to get a document containing some more radical environmental views on the formal agenda and, if possible, adopted.

The combination of small and middling nations curtailing national sovereignty to enhance their own sense of importance and of NGOs using the idea of civil society to undermine political accountability makes for a fine muddle in trying to understand what is going on.

They can begin to welcome — gingerly perhaps — the churches and other NGOs as consultants and partners in the process of formulating ideas and programs, and in mobilizing public opinion in support of proposals that may make it possible for humanity to survive and thrive on this planet in a nuclear space age.

Teams from the UN and NGOs on the ground are currently working with Nigerian officials to determine how best to offer treatment for the physical and psychological needs that the girls will have after being raped by members of the Islamist rebel group, should they be freed.

(In an arrangement richly symbolic of the measure of respect given to NGOs, they were allocated working space on the lower level of the vast Vienna International Center, while the official country delegates conducted business over their heads on the floors above.)

When I see the tremendous support the Global March has received, it becomes certain that the 21st century is not going to flourish at the cost of the sweat and blood of children, said Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, of India, the international coordinator of the Global March, who had originally conceived the idea and proposed it to NGOs worldwide working on children's human rights.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

In many cases intervention affects the role of humanitarian NGOs, whose work traditionally has been based on political neutrality.

One way in which delegates and NGOs seek to accomplish the latter is the yearly ritual excoriation of the United States for not having ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

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.

NGOs have become material actors on the world scene of late, and have held conferences parallel to other UN events.

While I can't speak on behalf of all NGOs who participate in such programs, I can now state with confidence that World Vision's child sponsorship program consistently exhibits the following:

Without minimizing the importance of the micro-dimension which is the focus of the work of so many movements and NGOs, it is nevertheless important to place these in the macro structures and to be capable of making proposals on various levels.

Before starting Alter Eco over a decade ago, they had experienced first - hand both profit - driven multinationals and on - the - ground NGOs.

«Through supplying these insights to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), WeFarm will help create social impact on an unprecedented scale.»

On one side of the argument we have public health associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and consumer groups looking for effective solutions to address the growth of lifestyle diseases, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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.

The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment.