Sentences with phrase «on civil society in»

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.

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

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

In fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil societIn fact, the survey found that the business sector in general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil societin general is one of the top advocates for sustainable change, almost on the level of civil society.

He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership with civil society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.

The report was prepared by a task force of specialists who drew on input from stakeholders in Canada's business community, civil society and government.

About Fossil of the Day awards: The Fossil of the Day is a long - standing tradition in the UN climate talks and is voted on and awarded by Climate Action Network International, an international network of over 850 civil society organizations.

on NAFTA serves corporations: Civil Society will hold their own discussions in Mexico City May 26 - 28th

In Canada, the principles of civil society supported by our regulatory systems are equally essential to supporting robust policy and regulatory consultation and decision - making on PRC investments and activities.

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.

Leaders in both business and civil society have focused too much on the friction between them and not enough on the points of intersection.

By insisting in an exaggerated fashion on our dependence upon government, by overlooking the ways in which multiple sources of support in civil society and the marketplace afford us a kind of independence, President Obama would, in effect, turn the clock backward.

But efforts to defend and strengthen this bedrock institution ultimately depend on how marriage is understood, articulated, and practiced in civil society... Continue Reading»

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

God has long since been excluded from any role in civil society's reflections on how to conduct itself.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

In his second chapter, he concentrates on «ascetic Protestantism» (i.e., American Puritanism) as the movement that gave the most explicit and enduring historical shape to civil society.

Yet even as conservatives in the last two decades have made notable strides in access to influential cultural institutions in entertainment and the media, the influence of civil society and nonpolitical leaders on public opinion is still underappreciated.

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

«The right to practise one's religious beliefs must accommodate civil society's obligation to provide for the safety of all and, in particular, children's safety from sexual abuse,» the commission wrote in a report released on Monday.

In their statement, Catholic bishops accused American political leaders of launching «an attack on civil society.»

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.

Drawing together Ukrainians of all ages and backgrounds — old women on puny state pensions and tech - savvy teenagers still in high school, university intellectuals and street-wise factory workers, Ukrainian - speakers and Russian - speakers — the Maidan soon became a self - organizing civil society.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

Corporations, the state and civil society — including churches — have a role to play in this process of creative, pragmatic reflection on the appropriate role of the market.

After careful analysis of the options, he concludes that efforts thus far to reconceptualize civil society in a post-traditional setting have foundered on the conundrum of tying cultural solidarities to human universality.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

[i] Regardless of how one sides on this issue, a plain reading of Romans 13, clearly indicates that the civil government plays a role in God's design for society and His people.

Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.

In 2015, the Congressional - Executive Commission on China (CECC) documented a that the Chinese government continues to «silence dissent, suppress human rights advocacy, and control civil society,» resulting in oppression that's «broader in scope than any other period documented since the Commission started issuing Annual Reports in 2002.&raquIn 2015, the Congressional - Executive Commission on China (CECC) documented a that the Chinese government continues to «silence dissent, suppress human rights advocacy, and control civil society,» resulting in oppression that's «broader in scope than any other period documented since the Commission started issuing Annual Reports in 2002.&raquin oppression that's «broader in scope than any other period documented since the Commission started issuing Annual Reports in 2002.&raquin scope than any other period documented since the Commission started issuing Annual Reports in 2002.&raquin 2002.»

Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»

The» - Christian» side of the hyphen, which would draw on the New Testament, is not of much help in defining laws for civil society.

What the ex-KGB hand, Putin, has gotten done is this: He's erected a kleptocratic quasi-dictatorship on top of a crumbling civil society while murdering his political opponents, invading his neighbors, backstopping Syria's murderous Bashar al - Assad, and conducting a fantastic propaganda campaign throughout the world (supported, sadly, by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church)-- all of which is aimed at reversing the verdict of recent history, rebuilding Stalin's empire in a new guise, and deconstructing the West.

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

Augustinian realism draws a bright line between friendship based on shared foundations in civil society and the opportunistic exercise of state power.

Secondly, civil authority would allow individuals even in an unfallen society to economize on decision costs.

His unqualified gratification «that the tax bill passed by Congress includes an excise tax on investment income earned by super-sized university endowments» dangerously downplays the important role played by nongovernmental institutions in a pluralist civil society.

The topics here will range from the political agenda of the new generation to passing on the baton and successors at companies to trends among start - ups and in civil society.

On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGsOn Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGson global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

(22 May 2014) Discussions on the draft «Principles for Responsible Investments in Agriculture» highlight the diverging positions between governments, the private sector, civil society and farming communities.

Accordingly on 11 June 2009 the UK civil society organisation Baby Milk Action submitted a complaint alleging that the reports posted on the UN Global Compact Office site and launched at the joint event were misleading and that Nestlé was, in truth, responsible for egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles.

The Combining All Our Strength alliance for civil society organisations, in which OurKingdom is a key player, this week held a high - level seminar on the prospects for change, involving electoral experts and Labour and Lib Dem MPs.

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.

It is not «As - Mad - as - Snakes - in - a-Sack», it may involve talking with many strands from the civil society but a consensus on protective measures can soon be established as the basis for UN-sanctioned action or even EU / Nato if game - playing strangles the will of the former to be of use.

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.

All these, of course, would have a «chilling effect» on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, and introduce a cloud of fear in civil society circles.

Having voiced a strong interest in strengthening Russia's political and civic conscience, Khodorkovsky is unlikely to relent on his passion for supporting Russian civil society in forms other than challenging power, for example through funding and intellectual guidance.