Sentences with phrase «protests against the conventions»

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In the last month, there have been mass street protests, and a global network of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, has joined the call for Mr. Najib's resignation.

Croatia's conservative opposition and the Catholic Church - the organisers of the protest - said they support combating violence against women and domestic violence, which is the main point of the convention, but are against its alleged introduction of «a third gender» into society.

He reported that, the New Patriotic Party and the Convention People's Party's polling agents at the Bolgatanga Regional House of Chiefs polling station, protested vehemently against some police recruits, who were brought from the Pwalugu Police training school to vote.

The momentum of the Nader / LaDuke candidacy built on the protests in Seattle against the WTO in December 1999 — and from the streets of Philadelphia and Los Angeles during the R2K and D2K protests against Republican and Democratic Party conventions in the summer of 2000.

Since it required a two - thirds vote of delegates to its state convention, the California Labor Federation's backing of de León was a self - conscious protest against Feinstein's habitually centrist instincts, and a sign of a strong leftward breeze in Golden State politics (the CLF also endorsed gubernatorial front - runner, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who has carved out a strong progressive profile in his latest campaign).

Although the AFT has scheduled a «labor action» during the convention (Sunday afternoon), instead of protesting against the Chicago attack on the teachers in six schools (and a few others not as complete or dramatic), the nation's teacher union will be protesting at a hospital (St. Joseph's) on the lakefront in support of the nurses and other hospital staff trying to organize medical workers at Resurrection hospitals in Chicago.

The riots waged against the WTO convention in Seattle in 1999 protested the use of corporate sweatshops, where low - wage laborers have literally worked their lives away while creating commodities for Western capitalist markets.

Each of his works possesses a distinct provocation; a protest against playing by the universally accepted rules or conventions that exist as an inseparable part of the world that surrounds us.