Sentences with phrase «other civil society»

However, in the Social Justice Report 2006 I identified that an «information gap» exists in Australia that inhibits the use of a human rights framework by many Indigenous peoples and other civil society groups.

CCLA banded together with other civil society organizations to promote the Stop Online Spying campaign.

The commission would fulfil it scrutinizing role much more effectively if it highlighted these and other civil society organization reports on its web site.

But secondly, empowering other civil society organizations within Africa to expose them to this new area of work that - you know, where they can make positive impact, as well.

The Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network has joined with other civil society organizations to release an open letter to the governments of the remaining TPP countries, calling on them to abandon the TPP in its current form.

With the Croatian government's recent announcement of their plans to to open up the Adriatic to oil exploration, Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia along with a number of other civil society groups this month officially launched a campaign to save the sea around Croatia, Montenegro and Italy from oil drilling.

Friends of the Earth Europe, alongside other civil society groups, symbolically returned to the International climate talks today.

In December 2008, Ona and several other civil society leaders were arrested and held without charge and without access to legal representation in deplorable conditions in a basement cell for five days.

Meanwhile, the small group of countries initially supporting the Philippines had grown, and the RSWG joined other civil society coalitions in a coordinated effort across constituencies.

In 2002, the courage, resilience, patience and commitment of members of the Green Belt Movement, other civil society organizations, and the Kenyan public culminated in the peaceful transition to a democratic government and laid the foundation for a more stable society.

But they all show the potential for positive and lasting change, and with greater sharing and exchange, could become powerful tools in the hands of indigenous peoples, local communities, other civil society organizations, and governments that are struggling to achieve a sustainable, equitable and just world.

The Civil Society Week: From 8 to 15 November, a number of other Civil Society events will take place in Johannesburg.

In addition to the formal Rio +20 outcome, a significant number of voluntary commitments were made by governments, businesses and other civil society partners in the lead - up to Rio and at Rio itself.

A range of other civil society, public and private sector activities worldwide need volunteerism for sustainable trick - down effects.

Main concerns by the Forum and other civil society organisations still remain: what place will non-formal education and lifelong learning will be given in the targets and indicators?

Institutional arrangements are yet to be worked out for incorporating migrant workers association and other civil society organizations in policy formulation regarding migration.

So while the Electoral Reform Society and other civil society groups are rightly campaigning for people to cast their votes on May 3, it is also recognised that change is desperately needed to spread the use of a proportional system across the United Kingdom.

The Bureau notes that the rights of self - expression and media freedom are enshrined in our constitution, and several governmental and not - governmental institutions such as the National Media Commission (NMC), the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and other Civil Society Organizations, recognized by statute or otherwise, have a primary responsibility to regulate the communication sector and avoid inflammatory commentary that has the potential to threaten the peace and stability of the country.

In a statement on their invitation of the two radio panelists who threatened judges on Accra - based Montie FM, the security agency called on the Ghana Journalists Association and other civil society groups to help ensure decorum in the media.

The coalition, comprises Lawyers Integrity Crusade Network (LICN), National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), National Youth Democratic Congress (NYDC) and other Civil Society Organizations.

«As we have seen with recent events in the Middle East and North Africa, the role of Amnesty International and other civil society organisations remains relevant in today's world.

He therefore recommended strongly that «erring officials and security operatives found wanting on election duties should be severely punished according to the dictates of the law while other civil society groups in Ekiti State should tow the path of Democracy Vanguard in sensitizing the electorates».

As a founding member of CISLAC, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), and other Civil Society Organizations, Prof. Momoh had excelled by voluntarily offering holistic and tremendous supports for the establishment and sustenance of the Centers.

«In view of these allegations, the Chief of Army Staff, ai set up a 10 - man Panel comprising senior Army officers (both serving and retired) and members from the National Human Rights Commission, Nigerian Bar Association and other Civil Society Organizations, to investigate the veracity of the allegations made against the Nigerian Army.

Inter-media groups such as Aman Ki Asha and other civil society initiatives were identified as important Confidence - Building Measures between the two countries.

Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank research or actions of other civil society organisationsor through the law.

«We seek to align with other civil society organisations for a much more loud advocacy that ensures that people who are seeking to occupy the high office of our land do not have such questionable track record like Mr Mahama,» Ernesto Yeboah said.

We hope that other civil society groups and prominent persons in this country will add their voices to this purposeful call for we are all involved in building our motherland Ghana.

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.

The Global Network, together with other civil society organisations (CSOs) and social movements, has seized this anniversary as an opportunity for stocktaking and, more importantly, to call for renewed commitment by governments, UN agencies, civil society and other stakeholders, for the full realisation of the right to adequate food and nutrition.

Baby Milk Action refused to do this on the basis that it and other civil society organisations were already campaigning on the issues and Nestlé had published its own responses on websites and elsewhere.

Archbishop Justin Welby has said of the scheme: «The full community sponsorship scheme presents churches and other civil society groups with the opportunity to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war - torn places.»

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.

The renewed talks sparked protest from the Trade Justice Network and other civil society organizations, calling these secret negotiations absurd and undemocratic.

The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade regime.

Not exact matches

He added: «In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state, but he can't, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won't allow it.»

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country's president, has been turning Turkey into an Islamist - tinged autocracy, purging the military and other state institutions of perceived internal enemies and jailing thousands of journalists, professors, civil society leaders, and political opponents.

Berkun credits «the relationships he built with the society of civil engineers, and the investments he made in explaining to them why his design was superior to others.»

Last week the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank brought together in Washington the world's finance ministers, central bankers, financial experts and economists, other government officials, and invited representatives from the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations.

We need reliable economic indicators and data for sound economic policy, and to provide other governments, businesses, and civil society with the tools to enrich our national life.

But it was otherwise vague on plans to address the problem, stating without any specifics that it was expanding veterans» access to affordable housing and working with other levels of government and civil society.

While it is almost impossible for Chinese civil society to bring pressure on its own government, there could be other ways of addressing labour standards.

When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»

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.

In other words, the state should not take over the functions of the family, civil society and lower levels of government.

«In this arena, as in a great many others, the administration is clearly determined to see civil society as merely an extension of the state, and to clear out civil society — clearing out the mediating layers between the individual and the state — when it seems to stand in the way of achieving the president's agenda.

But I am also a parent and a member of a civil society, naturally uneasy about Peoples Temple and other groups that no one quite comprehends.

But by 1961 the Supreme Court found itself having to acknowledge that «a sincere and meaningful belief which occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by... God» in the life of others qualified as religion in our civil society.

To participate in civil society is to get your way sometimes and not others.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.