Sentences with phrase «peoples and communities based»

The text box below sets out guidelines for engaging with Indigenous peoples and communities based on human rights principles.

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-- Marc Gorlin, founder and CEO of Roadie, Inc., an app - based shipping community that connects people with stuff to send with drivers heading in the right direction.

Likewise, there's good reason to think the goal of «protecting our community from abuse and hatred» is a non-starter as long as «our community» means a user base of more than two billion people.

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

San Francisco — based Airbnb, a sort of hotel booking site for couch surfers, allows people who have extra space (like a spare room, guest house or sofa) to rent it out to travellers looking for a place to stay; «trust scores,» guest reviews and support from Airbnb staff give the site a sense of community that's missing from competitors Craigslist or Kijiji.

Businesses naturally become an integral part of the communities in which they do business — they hire its people, contribute to the tax base, become points of local pride, and much more.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Jonathan Mohan, founder of BitcoinNYC, a volunteer organization based in New York that unites Bitcoin enthusiasts, says the Fed's takedown of Liberty Reserve was downright good for Bitcoin — and that many people in the Bitcoin community see the Liberty takedown as a «benefit» for virtual currencies.

FRIENDS is a Brooklyn - based coworking community and the work home to 35 creatives — designers, filmmakers, writers, illustrators, developers, photographers, and people doing generally awesome (creative) work.

However, the most recent version of the AHCA effectively eliminates guaranteed coverage for those with preexisting conditions, allowing states to waive community rating and return to allowing insurers to charge people based on their expected healthcare costs.

All token - based networks require buy - in from a broad - base of people globally and the founding teams must operate in a balanced, transparent manner and understand the ethos of the broader blockchain community to gain global buy - in.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Whereas social networks are dominated by a noisy minority of people who may not reflect your customer base, insight communities help brands build authentic relationships, while gathering continuous consumer feedback, opinions and preferences.

The Red Cross is working very closely with the entire response community - government agencies, other non-profit groups, faith - based organizations, area businesses and others - to get help to people as quickly as possible.

Alternative sentences such as house arrest, electronic surveillance, and community - based work programs keep minor offenders tied closely to the very things that motivate most people to straighten out: their families, jobs, and communities.

Religion codifies the rules of conduct and joins people together into a community not necessarily based on proximal community, which can be a good thing.

Can the communities of the poor which are irrupting throughout the Third World be the basis for a new «people's theology» which seek to liberate humanity from all forms of oppression: poverty, servitude, racism, sexism, and the like?

The righteousness of a people, in turn, must be based upon real communities, composed of real families, real neighbourhoods, and real settlements, and upon «the relationships of a fruitful and creative peace with its neighbours.»

Its founder Sampson Raphael Hirsch's sectarian decision to break with the organized Jewish community was in line with his general philosophy — that Judaism was eternal, not based on history, social development, or people's mores and norms.

To deny females equal authority not because of their character, their intimacy with Christ or their giftedness, but solely because of gender — a fixed and unchangeable condition — creates communities, organizations, churches and marriages that are inherently unjustbecause they deny a people group shared authority based on an unchangeable condition - gender.

I love the community of people who gather there on a weekly basis and the leaders who provide direction.

The same people who shoot down religious based knowledge are the same people who lap up everything the scientific community spews out; you're just as bad and stop trying to convince yourself otherwise.

It is incumbent on those of us who are in position to influence the thinking of faithful people to make clear that the neo-liberal economic thought that informs most current top - down development, riding roughshod over communities, and reshaping the lives and thinking of hundreds of millions of people, is based on assumptions that are antithetical to ours.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

As a strong Catholic who is of service to the community on a regular basis, loves the faith, respects other's rights to have their faiths as well, and — yes — has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I would love to see CNN's belief blog write a story about the positive of the Catholic faith, instead of always reading about the people that have left and the problems people have with the Church.

It's a value system based on community rather than the individual, and holds that the honor of the community is more important than the life, health, or well - being of any one person or family in the community.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

But although the real basis of the community's life was always the total event we have described, its attempt to give a rational explanation of its life took more and more the form of an effort to define the nature of the person.

The latter is apt to be rather more aware of himself as primarily a person being professionally trained to fulfill a key - office, as an administrator, executive and leader in a vast and important department of the community life of the American people, than as a man on whom God has laid an arresting hand calling him out of that life in the first instance in order to be sent back into it on that basis to a ministerial and prophetic task.

But Miller said Pentecostal churches «have been more successful [than the «base communities» of liberation theology] in dealing with the felt needs of poor people — and especially women.»

It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.

That's why you find many churches helping the poor DIRECTLY with food, clothing, gas money, community - based programs, donations of money and labor to people affected by natural disasters, etc..

«21 This biological connectedness among all communities in India, which affirms the anthropological basis of Dalit and Adivasi existence, is a major step in espousing the universalization of human rights for all people.

Thus the central and essential foundational question for me has to do with the basis on which each individual person (and each purposive community) resolves the issues of meaning and value for his or her (or its) life.

If a theology of silver fishes emerges, one that respects the integrity of the Korean people and their beautiful peninsula, division theologies based on the division psychosis will be transformed into theologies that respect living communities of people and land.

Arguments favoring international trade are based on valuing community, emphasizing immediate improvement of the lot of the poor, avoiding extreme gaps of income internal to nations, and retaining the ability of people through political processes to have a say in determining what happens to them.

«In the Muslim community there's a misconception amongst some people that religion allows this, that parents have an Islamic right to choose partner of their children, and that they don't have a choice in this,» says the Glasgow - based Imam.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

And the onus is on us to keep taking steps toward Jesus and His people on a daily basis — through prayer, scripture, community and evangeliAnd the onus is on us to keep taking steps toward Jesus and His people on a daily basis — through prayer, scripture, community and evangeliand His people on a daily basis — through prayer, scripture, community and evangeliand evangelism.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to build a community that embodies the new relationships of God's Kingdom based on freedom, justice, dignity of every human person, love and fellowship.

But in actual communities where people love each other on a regular basis, when there is a crisis, the outpouring of love and care is second to none.

Several years ago, when I was asked to speak on the liberation of the poor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, several hundred persons from local base communities entered the lecture hall early and filled up all the seats.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

the right to cooperate in the building of the national community as a «fraternity» of individual persons and peoples on the basis of equality before the law of the land.

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

Huge dams are affecting water cycle and bio-regions, pursseine trawlers are affecting marine food chains, both are destroying livelihood of people based on community control of resources.

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

Our choice is not between freedom and suffocating community but between a «society based on reciprocal respect and solidarity and a society that leaves many people behind.»