Sentences with phrase «on ethnic communities»

Many successful companies employ public relations strategies that include cause - related projects focusing on ethnic communities.

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Based on data from the American Community Survey, there is a racial and ethnic pay gap as well: Asian Americans reported the highest average earnings in STEM occupations, while non-Hispanic whites also had above average earnings; black and Hispanic professionals earned below average wages in 2012.

«If we're going to be serious - as the province says we should [be]- about reaching out to under - represented groups like indigenous people, the disabled community, socioeconomic challenged areas and ethnic populations, the current resources we have, and the government has, on the table are just not going to be adequate to do that.»

But the other elements of community organizing would come together again and again: the foot - slogging, one - on - one recruitment effort to form an organization of organizations, the struggle to get past ethnic differences, the taking of the public stage, the sequence of conflict - organization - power as the route to negotiation, and the critical relationship to other social movements — which became a guarded relation to the civil rights movement.

On various levels of society we already see the introduction of racial and ethnic quotas, proportional representation, caucuses, preferential treatment, government subsidies and community control.

I was once in a «Chinese community at noon time, I didn't think anything about it, I stopped and went into a small ethnic restaurant, there was very noticeable conversations going on — I could hear it, but the moment I stepped in and the people saw me all conversations stopped.

These include visits to farms and community gardens, long table dinners on farms, farm and garden workshops, Fair Food forums, community cooking events, local business open days, celebrations of ethnic and regional food cultures, permabliztes, soup kitchens and more.

father - child relationships — be they positive, negative or lacking, at any stage in the life of the child, and in all cultural and ethnic communities — have profound and wide - ranging impacts on children that last a lifetime.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

Young people and those from black and minority ethnic communities could miss out on voting for the next government because they are not on the electoral register, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).

However, as Scotland shows us, such a process does not necessarily have to be founded on ethnic principles, which could lead to some form of «exclusive» political identity / community.

They are now lobbying for the creation of a new position on the college's equal opportunities committee entitling them to the same protections as disabled people, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community.

Which is one reason that campaigns tend to focus on the big venues like Facebook and Twitter and ignore the plethora of smaller networks unless they meet a particular need (for instance, connecting with an ethnic - or interest - based community).

The forum, held at Tweed Courthouse on May 10, was part of the Newsmakers series sponsored by CUNY's Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM).

Thus it fails to point out the existence in the Holocaust of religious intolerance and violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, as the UN resolution does in third item above.

Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur

Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.

WARRI — OPINION leaders and Ijaw ethnic nationality groups in Delta State, yesterday, faulted the statement by the Commander of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Major - General Alani Okunola, that community leaders would be held responsible for attacks on oil facilities by militants.

He said, «The present administration of Governor Simon Lalong has worked round the clock since it came on board to bring lasting peace to parts of troubled communities on the Plateau in the last two years and must be supported by all concerned to bring about peaceful co-existence among all ethnic groups.

He proposes to create a statewide reconciliation commission to address police / community relations; recruit more minorities into law enforcement; make publicly available race and ethnic data on police actions; buy replacement vests, body cameras and bullet - proof glass for patrol cars in high crime areas; appoint an independent monitor to review police cases where an unarmed civilian dies and the case is not presented to the grand jury, or the grand jury fails to indict.

Jessica Ramos, who formerly served as director of community and ethnic media for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is challenging Queens State Senator Jose Peralta, an IDC member, called on Peralta to «end his defection.»

The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy had called for a majority Asian Senate seat to represent the people with ethnic backgrounds ranging from Chinese to Bangladeshi whose population has soared.

She added that 32 percent of the city's advertising budget is now spent on community and ethnic media.

Mosques, centres and community groups emerged on ethnic and cultural lines.

It is for that reason that Boris Johnson's views on community relations are rejected by the overwhelming majority of ethnic minority communities in London.

By the end of this decade, Latinos will become the largest race / ethnic group in NYC, which has a significant impact both on the city and its Latino communities.

Jenkins has served as Chair of Government & Operations, Chair of Internal Controls and Procedures, Vice-Chair of Budget & Appropriations and has served on the Committees on Community Services; Public Safety & Security; Generational, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity; and Legislation for The Westchester County Board of Legislators.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve has released a full statement clarifying his comments on the risks of corruption within ethnic communities:

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

He said: «Forcing voters at election time to prove their identity at polling stations by producing official documents would have a disproportionate impact on people from black and ethnic minority communities.

I believe that the rejection of Quinn for valid, political issues such as third terms and her legislative record shows a growing maturity in our communities — we rejected the old «ethnic appeal» and instead of voting on a single - issue or identity we voted for the candidate who best represents a progressive platform.

«This will have devastating effects not only on the working class, but the middle class and ethnic communities that depend on rent protections to be able to afford their homes.»

Mark - Viverito, who has repeatedly engaged the community and ethnic media since taking office, touched on many of the key points from her State of the City speech, as well as other topics that have made recent headlines, such as the City Council's controversial February 5 vote to give its members a pay raise of $ 36,000 a year, a higher rate than a special salary committee had initially recommended.

We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

Despite having had an African - American majority on the city council since 1988, ethnic communities had little voice in local politics, according to Corburn and others who follow the environmental justice movement in Richmond.

Among others, farmers of the ethnic Newar community in Kathmandu valley would traditionally pee under their staircases and sprinkle ash on top to later mix into their vegetable garden soils.

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

► «Turkish academics who have openly criticized Turkey's military crackdown on ethnic Kurdish communities are now feeling the wrath of their government,» John Bohannon wrote Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

During the 300 years before the Incas» arrival in 1450, intentional head shaping among prominent members of the Collagua ethnic community in Peru increasingly centered on a stretched - out look, says bioarchaeologist...

«One thing that's prevalent in the Muslim community is people generally search along ethnic lines or family backgrounds because family is a big part of Muslim marriage on both sides,» he said.

Many countries and communities are opening up with greater understanding of humanity and therefore interracial dating is on increase and more and more women and men belonging to diverse ethnic background are dating each other.

Interracial also encourages the mingling of myriad communities and ethnic groups so that members can expand their horizons and get to know a lot more about each other's ways of life, expectations, and cultures.This truly makes us stand out from the entire cluster of other dating sites on the internet, because unlike them, our members start out having something in common: a love for singles from other races and ethnicities.

Spark Networks operates ~ 25 online personals communities focused on religious, ethnic or special interest groups - JDate, AmericanSingles, Relationships, PrimeSingles.

The initial focus is on Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled the Nazis to the United States, coined the term genocide to describe the deliberate destruction of an ethnic or national group, and pressed the international community to prosecute the crime.

An inclusion rider means that those working on a production can request at 50 percent diversity within a production, meaning that in front of and behind the camera, more women, members of the LGBTQ community and people of different racial or ethnic groups must be hired.

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

Willie focuses his research, teaching, and practice on education planning and school desegregation, the structure and process of family life, community organization, race and ethnic relations, and public health.

One aspect of the American Association of University Women's report on how schools educate girls that has elicited praise from the philanthropic community is its inclusion of research on girls who belong to ethnic and racial minority groups.

March 2013, Participated as an American representative at a conference on the legal and constitutional rights of racial and ethnic minorities in the European Community sponsored by the German government and the Center on Civic Education, held in Munich.

Ethnic Studies incorporates culturally relevant, social justice, community responsive and other pedagogical approaches with a focus on literacy and critical thinking skills.