Sentences with phrase «on civil society»

In future, droughts would even far exceed this normal state; the impact on civil society and the economy would be severe.

This in turn requires a different political philosophy, a turn to a model of education based on civil society rather than state control.

The environmental future depends on civil society around the world who share our values and who has transformative potential in transitioning the society into green economy and sustainable development.

The impact of choice on civil society also gets serious attention.

Yet this government appear to have declared war on civil society.

We call on all civil society organizations, professional bodies, faith - based groups, youth groups, the union movement, academia, and indeed on all citizens of Ghana to support the Center's call to the EC to avoid a potential constitutional crisis.

Government crackdowns on civil society groups have surged in recent years, an alarming trend impacting many Goldman Prize winners around the globe.

My hypothesis is that cities with similar degrees of choice - friendly policies and politics can have different outcomes, depending on the civil society organizations that have developed to support the school choice sector.

Our movement must maintain its strong focus on civil society lead change and mobilization.

Today in Bonn, delegates are taking a first step towards understanding and fixing the remarkable limitations placed on civil society participation at the UN climate talks.

Other recent research by her has focused on the role of women in radical movements in Northern Nigeria, the conflict in Yemen, and on civil society in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

It constantly but subtly reminds us that, when it comes to jobs, workforce development, and entrepreneurialism, we can and should rely on civil society first.

Maybe then we can weed out the idiot in breeders and their kin from having any effect on civil society.

Wuthnow draws the subtle distinction that «rhetoric about faith - based programs has had one kind of impact on civil society while the reality of these programs has had quite a different effect.»

Ibragim Arsanov is head of the commission on civil society development in the Public Chamber of Chechnya

The next government of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC), under John Dramani Mahama, will rely heavily on civil society organisations and the media, by resourcing them to fight the canker of corruption, according to Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu.

«And abetted by the crackdown on civil society through travel bans, freezing orders, anti-protest laws, this is in our opinion is not the way to fight terror,» he added.

The bill is being rushed through Parliament because the government wants to get it on the statute book in time for the restrictions on civil society to come into force a year before the election in 2015.

Speaking in Akure on Tuesday, Babalola, the Special Assistant to the governor on Civil Society Matters, said «Akeredolu is sincere enough to acknowledge Mimiko's achievement as tremendous.»

This stress on civil society was a high water mark for compassionate conservatism.

The Civic Space Initiative aims to increasing public awareness on civil society issues worldwide.

But the experience of chartering suggests the deliberate pace is a feature, not a bug, of initiatives that lean on civil society.

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On the civil society side, the March for Science may have fizzled, but scientists have found other avenues to #resist.

There are many other failures in the document related to women's reproduction health, missed opportunities to start new global treaties on civil society participation and on sustainability reporting, the extraordinary lack of any reference to armed conflicts, nuclear energy (especially in light of the fukushima disaster), and many others.

Worryingly, it has fallen on civil society to monitor the impact of the reforms on indicators like health, because Government has taken the view that it is not possible (or more likely, not palatable) to assess how LASPO has affected justice system users beyond the MOJ's bottom line.

On 7 March, philosopher of technology Dr. Peter Asaro, a co-founder and vice-chair of ICRAC, addressed the board on civil society concerns with autonomous weapons and described the coordinated NGO response provided by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

Speaking at a colloquium on Peaceful Election in Accra, Dr. Chambas also called on civil society, religious leaders and traditional authorities to assume their role in this national endeavour.

A «participative process» was finally implemented in November 2014, based on civil society «volunteers» who counted on legal protection and some infrastructures of the Catalan government.

Outgoing: External Citizenship Advisory Panel member, Sarah Labowitz In an elegantly written letter dated February 6, 2017, corporate social responsibility expert Sarah Labowitz resigned her post on ExxonMobil's «External Citizenship Advisory Panel,» created in 2009 to invite constructive criticism of the multinational corporation's overall impact on civil society, human rights, democratic governance and the environment from experts in those areas.

Amnesty International also voiced concerns, saying the «ongoing crackdown on civil society and the assault on media freedom has reached disturbing and unprecedented levels.»

The authoritarian government hasn't helped: It has been cracking down on civil society, dissolving the largest opposition party in November.

But the stark truth is that the bill is not about regulation: it's crackdown on civil society, and it's driven partly by the National Assembly's obsession with control but also by self - protection.

E. whereas former Commission President José Manuel Barroso called on civil society to play a constructive and engaged part in the TTIP negotiations;

Some of Hungary's biggest opposition leaders, antigovernment newspapers and NGOs have pulled back after voters back the prime minister and his pledges to crack down on civil society.

Volunteers of Eastern Harvest, operators of a Food Bank in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, have called on civil society and other private individuals and companies, to assist the Eastern Harvest Food Bank, to continue its mandate of giving free food items to the poor and needy, aged and widows in the community.