Sentences with phrase «rights campaign director»

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But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

«This is another effort from the operators to sell online services access to their customer base,» said Joe McNamee, the executive director of digital rights group EDRi, which campaigned hard for strong net neutrality laws.

Editor's Note: Harry Knox is Director of the Human Rights Campaign's Religion and Faith Program and is a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Previously, she led diversity initiatives at the Human Rights Campaign and was the first transgender person to lead a national LGBT organization as exective director of OutServe - SLDN.

The source of the latest report in regards to the story, Spanish paper Sport, further claim that the Catalan giants» Sporting Director Roberto Fernandez is scheduled to meet the Arsenal star personally in the coming days to conduct negotiations ahead of a # 44 million move back to the Nou Camp for the young Spanish star, with Barca identifying the right - back slot as one of the areas that need to be bolstered ahead of the new campaign.

Since joining Open Rights Group as its Executive Director in January 2009, Jim Killock has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive government Internet surveillance.

«It's absolutely right that the Home Office deport a failed asylum seeker but the cost must be kept under control,» Robert Oxley, campaign director of the TaxPayers» Alliance, told Politics.co.uk.

Peter Tatchell is Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, which campaigns for human rights the UK and worldwide: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org His personal biography can be viewed here: www.petertatchell.net/biography.

He was a Director of the Child Poverty Action Group 1969 — 79, and of the Low Pay Unit (a body that campaigned to ensure wages councils protected the rights of workers in certain industries) during 1974 — 80.

«Maryland lawmakers came to the right conclusion and voted to send the death penalty where it belongs - into the dustbin of history,» said Brian Evans, acting director of the organisation's death penalty abolition campaign.

«Right now, New York City Democrats are willing to give Spitzer a second chance, but the big question is what happens after the shock value of his return to politics fades and the campaign for comptroller heats up,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

He currently serves as legislative director to Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, who represents District 30 in Queens, and pledges to support affordable housing and tenants» rights on his campaign site.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria led a HuffPost and Microsoft sponsored panel on LGBT rights at the World Economic Forum in Davos which included J - FLAG Executive Director Dane Lewis, Russian and American journalist Masha Gessen, Human Rights Campaign Presi..rights at the World Economic Forum in Davos which included J - FLAG Executive Director Dane Lewis, Russian and American journalist Masha Gessen, Human Rights Campaign Presi..Rights Campaign Presi... Read

Activist and Author David Mixner Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Jarrett Barrios Board Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda Frank Selvaggi Human Rights Campaign New York Marriage Director Brian Ellner Former Chief of Staff to Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Deputy Campaign Manager to John Kerry for President Steve Elmendorf Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for American Progress Winnie Stachelberg Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andy Tobias Former Clinton White House Advisor Richard Socarides Academy Award Winning Producer and AFER Board Member Bruce Cohen Gill Action Fund Executive Director Patrick Guerrero Gill Action Fund Deputy Executive Director Bill Smith

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Decampaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall DeCampaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

Comedian, actor and director John Leguizamo joined the Human Rights Campaign's push for the legalization of same - sex marriage, a campaign that has refocused itself into a national effort following the measure's successful passage here in NCampaign's push for the legalization of same - sex marriage, a campaign that has refocused itself into a national effort following the measure's successful passage here in Ncampaign that has refocused itself into a national effort following the measure's successful passage here in New York.

In a letter dated April 16th, 2008 which was signed by the Director General of the campaign and Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the highly focal human rights crusader was informed that President Buhari is seeking the nomination of the All Progressive Congress while he also eyeing his continuation in office in 2019.

Campaign group Justice welcomed today's review as a «sensible and clear - headed» analysis of the Human Rights Act, with director of human rights policy Eric Metcalfe saying it made a «refreshing change from ill - informed attacks» on thRights Act, with director of human rights policy Eric Metcalfe saying it made a «refreshing change from ill - informed attacks» on thrights policy Eric Metcalfe saying it made a «refreshing change from ill - informed attacks» on the law.

Raquel serves as the Campaign Director for ISTANDWITHPP, a campaign fighting to protect Affordable Healthcare and women's reproductiveCampaign Director for ISTANDWITHPP, a campaign fighting to protect Affordable Healthcare and women's reproductivecampaign fighting to protect Affordable Healthcare and women's reproductive rights.

«The party that supported and campaigned with open arms for child sex abuser Roy Moore, that elected Grabber - in - Chief Donald Trump, and which has blocked protections for women right here in New York, does not get to lecture anyone, anywhere, anytime about sexual harassment,» said state Executive Director Geoff Berman.

Democratic state party Chairman Jay Jacobs and Executive Director Charlie King are right to be offended by his serial coverups of campaign finances, his failure to reside in his Bronx district and the sleazy way he bartered party loyalty to gain power and perks during last year's Senate coup.

For the past twenty - five years she has served as national director of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, helping to lead marches, tent cities, homeless encampments, sit - ins and Read more»

Martha Swan, executive director of John Brown Lives, a grassroots human rights group, said the campaign «offers us important lessons to address what challenges and divides us today.»

«Dan Lipinski is way out of step with his constituents and with Democratic party principles when it comes to women's rights, LGBT equality, and the basic freedoms that Americans hold dear,» Mitchell Stille, NARAL's National Campaign Director, said in a statement.

In response, NYC Votes and the NYC Campaign Finance Board's Director of Voter Assistance Onida Coward Mayers called on voters to «visit Vote Better NY.org today to add their names to our petition and speak up for automatic voter registration and voting rights protections.»

«Right now, the campaigns are moving past trying to attract an early vote,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

But it is politically very unlikely that government ministers can make solid assurances right now, says Sarah Main, director of the London - based Campaign for Science and Engineering.

But it's important to know that the decision to live openly as transgender can be difficult for many reasons, explains Jay Brown, director of program strategies for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and a transgender man himself.

To get to the bottom of things, we sat down with Neil Blomquist, the managing director of Palm Done Right ™, an international campaign dedicated to educating people about the benefits and consequences of palm oil.

campaign being led by director Nina Paley, whose Sita Sings The Blues (my # 2 movie of 2008) remains undistributed because she never cleared the rights for the 80 + year old songs she used in her film.

Add to the impressive viral campaign so far, not forgetting the great cast involved and the visionary directors» upcoming effort has got to be «right up there» with the likes of MAN OF STEEL and IRON MAN 3 as one of next summers most anticipated blockbusters.

Bond: Marai Larasi, (right) arrived as a guest of Tessa Thompson (left) and she is the executive director of Imkaan, a British black feminist organisation which campaigns against violence towards black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls

Even within the 18 states with anti-bullying laws aimed at protecting both sexual orientation and gender identity, and within «blue bubbles» like California, both discomfort and neglect are common, according to Vincent Pompei, director of the Youth Well - Being Project at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the U.S. Pompei noted that attendees at a recent training in Southern California couldn't differentiate sexual orientation from gender ideRights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the U.S. Pompei noted that attendees at a recent training in Southern California couldn't differentiate sexual orientation from gender iderights organization in the U.S. Pompei noted that attendees at a recent training in Southern California couldn't differentiate sexual orientation from gender identity.

Jennifer Peck, Co-Chair and Executive Director of California's Summer Matters Campaign, suggests finding a balance between the right program and an education - positive attitude at home to prevent summer learning loss.

The campaign has been devised with the help of Rachel Wolf, a former adviser to David Cameron, and James Frayne (pictured right), former director of policy and strategy at influential think tank Policy Exchange.

And in a change of heart, Bloomberg News quotes Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, grudgingly acknowledging, «The Volt is certainly a very tiny step in the right direction.»

Conservation group WWF gave it a preliminary thumbs up; said WWF's director of campaigns, Paul King: «The code sends the right signal, loud and clear, for house builders to put zero carbon development at the top of their agenda.»

David Saul, Managing Director of BE Offices, commented: «This survey demonstrates that perception of the EU among Britons is that it has probably reached a tipping point and a successful election campaign by the right - wing in France could topple it over the edge, or at best could force sweeping changes in its structure and powers.

Other records show the firm once pitched an app to Breitbart News, the far - right website funded by hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer — Cambridge Analytica's principal investor — and are currently contracted by WPA Intelligence, a US - based consultancy founded by Republican pollster Chris Wilson, who was director of digital strategy for Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign.

The campaign's principal spokespersons Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams, roboticist Professor Noel Sharkey, and Human Rights Watch arms director Steve Goose addressed the conference, while campaigners were present from the non-governmental organizations Action on Armed Violence, Amnesty International, Article 36, Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and PAX (formerly IKV Pax Christi).

Another speaker on the panel was Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, which is a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY: Ms. Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch, @marywareham @hrw Ms. Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch and global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop KillerCAMPAIGN STRATEGY: Ms. Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch, @marywareham @hrw Ms. Wareham is advocacy director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch and global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop KillerCampaign to Stop Killer Robots.

In high - level international deliberations, the move from «informal» to «formal» represents a real step forward, said Stephen Goose, arms director of Human Rights Watch and a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

The initial campaign coordinator is Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch.

Hialeah resident Ebony Nesbitt said GoFundMe deleted a campaign she created in honor of Stoneman Douglas athletic director Christopher Hixon, a Naval Reservist she served with in Miami, and only allowed her to create another one after she confirmed Hixon's sister as beneficiary, with full rights to withdraw from the fund.

• Communicate regularly with the executive director regarding various campaigns and labor right awareness programs.