Sentences with phrase «other civil society leaders»

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.

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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.

This answer also makes me the most happy, not that we haven't had other non-christian presidents before (Thomas Jefferson comes to mind) but Obama is the first is a long time and as an Agnostic myself I am proud to have a leader that puts the ideals of science and civil society above those of ancient and antiquated religions

The Government responded by temporarily detaining one civil society leader and issuing arrest warrants for other activists.

«Others include religious and traditional leaders, security sector actors, humanitarian response organisation, academics, international agencies, the private sector, media and civil society actors,» she said.

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There were three M.D.s, all Republican congressmen who opposed the administrations plans, but no public health specialists, health economists, speakers for civil society, leaders of health maintenance organizations or representatives of other health care organizations.

The report, authored by CIVICUS in collaboration with a wide range of civil society activists and leaders, and other stakeholders, is the first of what will be a regular report tracking the changing shape of civil society and emerging trends in the opportunities, challenges and constraints civil society and people's participation face.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

At the close of the Forum, Kyte and Mahama were joined on the stage by dozens of leaders from government, business, academia, civil society and other groups who over the two days had made new action pledges.

In many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bar.

Osler is a program partner of the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) the preeminent global information policy think tank that works with regulatory authorities, policymakers, business leaders, civil society and other key stakeholders around the world to help frame and advance data protection law and practice through accountability - based information governance.

Z / Yen now offer intensive half day crash courses for senior leaders from finance, law, regulators, civil society and other sectors.