Sentences with phrase «rights group»

An animal rights group has lost another legal bid to have two chimpanzees declared persons so they can be transferred to a sanctuary.

He said he hoped the gay - rights group that financed a legal challenge to the policy, the Log Cabin Republicans, would work to convince a handful of Republicans to join Democrats in laying the groundwork for repeal.

But how can a union that led marches against stop - and - frisk and hosted a dialogue between Justice League NYC, a leading civil rights group, and City Hall also bankroll a political party so hostile to its social - justice agenda?

While Lipton and activist organizations — like Make the Road Action, a leading immigrants» rights group that endorsed Nixon on Friday — were careful to blame the crack - up on Cuomo, at least one labor leader offered a more scathing indictment of the WFP.

The Feds are investigating the independent expenditure group NYCLASS, the animal rights group that backed de Blasio during his mayoral bid and sank $ 174,000 into last year's elections.

A deep - pocketed animal rights group expects a new carriage - horse bill early next year — no thanks to the City Council speaker, who the organization blasted Saturday as an «ineffective» phony who «holds herself up as a leader who's strong on animal welfare.»

While Governor Cuomo is criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for stepped up enforcement against undocumented immigrants, an immigrant rights group is calling him a hypocrite for keeping campaign contributions from a billionaire who's company is headquartered in the same Buffalo building as ICE.

Rights group Amnesty International said Saudi Arabia carried out at least 158 death sentences in 2015, coming third after Iran and Pakistan.

The Human Rights group Liberty have today written to the council urging them to drop the plans saying they would discriminate against disabled people.

A Home Office offer of 12 month's immigration amnesty for survivors of the Grenfell disaster has been branded a trap by a leading human rights group.

ONITSHA — A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of Law, Intersociety has said that it is far better for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to be kept in the prison custody than to remain in the captivity of the Department of State Services, DSS.

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.

Pressure mounted for Fox News to take action against its top - rated host, Bill O'Reilly, as a series of prominent companies pulled advertising from his show and a leading women's rights group called for his ouster.

In this wide - ranging interview with the Director of the Open Rights Group members of Open Democracy discuss bulk collection, state bureaucracies, the pre-crime era and trust.

The government came under fire last night from the Conservatives and the human rights group Liberty over the way the media is briefed on counter-terrorism operations.

Last year, Ken Cuccinelli was tied to a men's rights group advocating for divorced fathers.

Caroline Abrahams, NCH Cathy Ashley, Family Rights Group John Baker, Families Need Fathers Ruth Black, Ormiston Children & Families Trust Dorit Braun, Parentline Plus Dr Ann Buchanan, University of Oxford Dr Samantha Callan, Care for the Family and Edinburgh University Dr Hamish Cameron, Hon Consultant Child Psychiatrist, St George's Hospital Lisa Cohen, Jewish Unity for Multiple Parenting Mary Crowley, Parenting Forum Ruth Dalzell, National Children's Bureau Professor Brigid Daniel, University of Dundee Carol Daniel, Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council Helen Dent, Family Welfare Association Professor Judy Dunn, Institute of Psychiatry Professor Brid Featherstone, Bradford University Duncan Fisher, Fathers Direct Kate Green, Child Poverty Action Group Nicola Harwin, Women's Aid Joan Hunt, Oxford University Pip Jaffa, Parents Advice Centre, Belfast Sandra Horley OBE, Refuge Mary Macleod, NFPI Penny Mansfield, One Plus One Professor Michael Lamb, Cambridge University Dame Julie Mellor Jenny North, Relate Roger Olley, Children North East Chris Pond, NCOPF Terry Prendergast, Marriage Care Dame Gillian Pugh Kulbir Randhawa, Asian Family Counselling Service Karen Richardson, York Centre for Separated Families Ceridwen Roberts, Oxford University Yvonne Roberts, writer Jane Robey, National Family Mediation Mary Ryan, RTB Associates Dr Christine Skinner, University of York Jean Smith, Scoop Aid Jo Todd, Respect Dirk Uitterdijk, YMCA Gwen Vaughan, Gingerbread

Fathers Matter is a partnership between Family Rights Group, Boys2Men, Children Law UK, Fathers Direct, Grandparents Association and Sky Kingsland Partnership.

We participated in the steering group of the Family Rights Group Fathers Matter 2 project — which aimed to gather evidence on how social care agencies engage with dads, and develop models of good practice (for more details click here).

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

FATHERS MATTER A NEW project has been established by Family Rights Group to identify and address barriers that prevent fathers, whose children are involved with social services, to care for and be involved in decisions about their children.

The Family Rights Group two year action - research project «Fathers Matter» which has been exploring the involvement of fathers in social care settings has now produced a number of exciting outputs, including two major reports, two conferences and a web - based discussion board for professionals, which includes examples of highly promising practice.

Yeah, no matter which group I join — book group, mom group, animal rights group, knitting group — there's always one annoying person.

The campaign includes the release of a Mother's Bill of Rights, laying out the basic rights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun violence.

The Fatherhood Institute and the Family Rights Group are running a two year project, initially with six local authorities, to engage more effectively with fathers and other men around the child.

London: Family Rights Group.

Germany wary of Russian hackers as elections approach + + + Human rights group voice concern as disappearances in Turkey continue + + + + A film about the forgotten Afro - Italian boxing champion Leone Jacovacci

«This man has no business using the Olympic rings to give him credibility,» says Charles Forrest, CEO of INDICT, a U.S. - government - funded human rights group based in London.

An animal rights group has put pressure on Aldi Australia asking the supermarket to open up about its animal welfare polices to the same degree as its competitors.

Food and drink companies need to turn their words on marketing to children into action, says European consumer rights group BEUC, as it calls «game over» on marketing unhealthy food to kids.

Senior food policy officer at European consumer rights group BEUC Camille Perrin said: «It remains to be seen what will be deemed a «significant» difference in composition, and we trust national authorities will consult consumer organisations to inform their assessment.

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

A victims» rights group is calling for an investigation of retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, shown here in 2002.

It's just sad that any gay rights group would think that providing food to a group of people is somehow wrong even POW's get feed.

The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was set up in Scotland in 1974 by two activists of the Scottish Minorities group, which became the Scottish Homosexual Rights group.

After a painfully long pause, an elderly man awkwardly countered by voicing his indignation about seeing the words «Do not judge» on a billboard put up by a local gay - rights group.

Morgan has apologized for the rant and this week phoned a major gay rights group, vowing to return to Tennessee to apologize to those who heard it.

A New York Cardinal says the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade continues to have his support after organisers admitted a gay rights group for the first time.

What really animates Hedges» anger at religious conservatives, however, is their recent political power and success on the state level at banning same - sex marriage ¯ an issue that has been central to Hedges since his father made him start a gay - rights group at college.

Can't someone order a chicken sandwich without some gay rights group getting offended?

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights group, counts all of abortions done in the United States, and for 2014 recorded 926,200 abortions.

Lively's work in Uganda led to a lawsuit against him under the Alien Tort Claims Act, filed March 14, 2012, by Se.xual Minorities Uganda, an LGBT rights group in that country, and the Center for Consti.tutional Rights in the U.S..

DC based Human Rights Campaign, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered civil rights group, lauded the court's decision.

A human rights group has reported that more than 400 people have died in Syria in the last month due to a crackdown on anti government protesters.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

Attorney Diane Coleman, president of the disabilities rights group Not Dead Yet, demonstrates how the same society that can not be bothered to provide the necessary assistance to enhance the lives of disabled people seems to jump to support any disabled person's request for assisted suicide.

The respected human rights group Americas Watch has on numerous occasions condemned U.S. government efforts to distort the human rights record of both the Nicaraguan government and the U.S - backed contras.

The Council on American - Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, called on the NFL to make its rules about on - field celebrations more clear.

The Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama is a nonprofit civil rights group that combats and monitors hate groups.

Almost all the first full - time staff members of the Delta Ministry, the NCC - sponsored civil rights group which began work in the Mississippi delta and elsewhere in the state in September 1964, had participated in the summer project.