Sentences with phrase «on ethical government»

We, as voters, should insist on ethical government.

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Governments can build on this culture of high ethical standards by creating an incentive for companies to report wrongful behaviour to the authorities.

Founded by three powerful archbishops in 1933, the Legion offered ethical consultation to Hollywood and eschewed cooperation in legal censorship with government agencies, but its power came from its influence on the faithful and from its willingness to encourage boycotts whenever Hollywood ignored its ethical appeals.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

However, we rarely hear an ethical critique of the whole principle of an all - embracing welfare state controlled by a government that spends nearly half of national income on it.

There is a big debate going on whether it is ethical for the government to promote homebirth when the outcomes are clearly inferior.

Mr Cameron said he objected to the use of waterboarding - interpreted as torture by the UK government - on both ethical and practical grounds.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

Only by working together can we make progress on creating jobs, giving our children every opportunity for success, and providing the Hudson Valley a real voice for ethical and honest government in Albany.»

The remarks came after Wilson listed a broad three - point plan for righting the state that includes restructuring government; focusing on workforce development in a region - by - region, industry - specific way; and reforming Albany's lax ethical standards.

However, the BBC claims that the government's own drugs information panel has expressed concern about the use of drug testing in schools, citing Vivienne Edwards from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs as warning that such tests can undermine pupil - teacher relationships and should not be used a result of «complex» technical and ethical issues surrounding the issue.

Under the new plan, the government will have the power to veto investment decisions made locally on ethical grounds concerning human rights, arms trade, fossil fuels and much else.

Speaking outside the House of Lords, he said the British government's defence of this law «gives lie to their claim to have an ethical foreign policy on human rights» and was an example of «moral and ethical hypocrisy».

Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, a government watchdog, said Mr. Paladino seemed to have two ethical standards: one for those he wants to toss out of Albany and another for those working on his election bid.

That means his considerable drive and political talents can be trained on making the state more livable for its 20 million inhabitants, and its government more ethical.

Saying that «Legislative leaders must be held to a higher ethical standard of conduct and his actions violate that standard,» good government group Citizens Union called for Skelos to step down from his leadership post on Tuesday.

Throughout the year, you've helped others secure a living wage and affordable housing, expanding access to health care, limiting discrimination and disenfranchisement on the basis of color or gender, and ensuring a fairer, more ethical, more participatory democracy and government that work for us all.

Despite the vital role of the Comptroller in promoting honest, ethical government, Spitzer is counting on his millions to make the voters forget his legacy of failing working families and abusing taxpayer resources.

A COMMON thread of deceit and serious ethical breaches ran through a series of secret radiation experiments carried out on Americans during the Cold War, a US government commission declared last week.

The COGEM review focused on lab biosafety, but part of its remit is to inform the government about emerging ethical debates.

«A national synthetic biology organization could convene scientists and stakeholders from commercial entities, philanthropy, academia, and government to discuss policy, develop regulation, prioritize the development of tools and fundamental research, engage the public on education and ethical issues and create infrastructure.»

It's clear the focus is on the moral dilemma and ethical drama that's been brewing since the last Captain America movie, Winter Soldier, and on the growing distrust Rogers has for the government.

The government needs a committee on the ethical implications of changes to education policy, the ASCL's ethical leadership commission has concluded.

I read several good reviews on a ethical hacker's good services.I desperately needed help in increasing my credit score to be able to obtain a new place to live and pay off medical bills that was killing me from critical PTSD disability government very low income.

Humane Canada supports stringent regulatory controls on the biotechnology industry and urgently seeks national and international debate by government, industry, animal protection organizations and the public on the ethical, environmental, economic and social implications of genetic engineering.

He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, where he develops training programs and consults with corporations and government agencies on ethical standards.

Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate impact.

Has your national government taken any position on or other wise encouraged individuals, businesses, organizations, subnational governments, or other entities that they have some ethical duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We invite you to send us your ideas on how EthicalOil.org can better serve to encourage people, businesses, and governments to make ethical energy choices.

Originally posted on FAUXGREEN: The cause of the Ontario Liberal government's industrial wind turbine madness Why, against all that is rational, ethical, and in the best interests of the people, is the Ontario Liberal government continuing to impose thousands more of the useless, destructive, dangerous, costly, un-green, landscape - blighting industrial wind turbines on large swaths of rural Ontario?

This series argues that NGOs, governments, and citizens should ask opponents of climate change policies questions designed to bring attention to the obvious ethical and moral problems with arguments made by opponents of climate change policies based on cost.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

IPCC can, however, distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive questions that arise in relevant socio - economic literature about climate policy - making, identify important ethical and justice issues that arise in this literature, where there is a consensus on ethics and justice issues in the relevant literature describe the consensus position, where there is no consensus on ethical and justice issues describe the range of reasonable views on these issues, and identify hard and soft law legal principles relevant to how governments should resolve ethical and justice issues that must be faced by policy - makers.

This information could be very valuable in deepening citizen and government reflection on ethical, justice, and equity problems with national responses to climate change.

Many positions of governments on climate change fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny yet ethics and justice issues are largely being ignored in discussions of climate change policies at least in the United States.

But it would be a powerful demonstration that governments can ban new climate - damaging projects and refuse to make new fosil fuel export agreements on climate - ethical grounds.

Should Mitt Romney's opposition to government action on climate change be understood as a profound ethical lapse?

Despite a thirty - five year debate on climate change, for the most part, governments, NGOs, organizations, and individuals are ignoring the ethical dimensions of climate change even though an increased focus on ethics and justice is needed to move the world to a global solution to this immense threat.

You can not call our oil «ethical» based on a contrast between those governments and ours, without pointing to obviously unethical willingness on the part of the Canadian government to sell boat loads of weapons to all of these governments.

Lobbying is the world of the politically possible, you put pressure on parties that you can influence and don't waste your time with governments that won't listen to you (I'm looking at you, North America); meanwhile, campaigns need to be about the necessary and the larger ethical issue, by having the same targets for lobbying and campaigning we let those countries who don't listen to us — those same countries who are most responsible for this issue and are doing the most to block or slow progress — off the hook.

[2] Overall, the government lawyer's unique role, and the far - reaching consequences her work can have on the public, call for robust ethical expectations.

Advising on the development of global policies and Canadian corporate compliance policies concerning interactions with health professionals, reflecting the requirements of federal and provincial laws and regulations and industry codes of conduct, including the Innovative Medicines Canada Code of Ethical Practices, MEDEC Code of Conduct on Interactions with Health Professionals, provincial health profession laws and regulations, advertising laws and government requirements arising from registered vendor agreements.

Tech industry insiders and children's media watchdogs have launched a «Truth About Tech» campaign, pushing to create ethical standards for tech companies, lobbying for government regulation and government - funded research on the effects of all these screens, and advocating digital literacy curricula in schools.

Discussions of the legal, military and ethical implications of these weapons among government and independent experts in the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) have shown that there is broad agreement that human control over the critical functions of weapon systems must be retained.

The report proposes that the representative body: independent of government; have an equal number of men and women in leadership positions; and rely on strict ethical standards.

It aspires to high ethical standards and focuses on the delivery of government services I schools, civilian and military communities, as well as, voluntary post-secondary education services.

It not only ignores the primary role that the High Court has bestowed on the legislation for the recognition and extinguishment of native title, it also misunderstands the ethical obligations of a Government bound by international obligations of equality and non-discrimination.

While the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy released white papers on the ethical implications on AI under the previous administration, today's officials are currently cutting back on government - imposed regulation, providing more freedom to businesses in how they use technology.