Sentences with phrase «rights groups on»

But as noted earlier, NAACP is one of the few old - school civil rights groups on which NEA and AFT can count on as a reliable ally.

Major Civil Rights Groups On Harkin's No Child Left Behind: «We Can not Support The Bill At This Time»

An alliance between civil rights groups on the left and the business community on the right pushed for aggressive federal involvement to drive policies designed to aid disadvantaged students.

But it was clearly a fiasco for the nation's oldest civil rights group on all fronts.

• Submission to the Department for Education's draft statutory guidance for local authorities on family and friends care, drafted by Family Rights Group on behalf of the Kinship Care Alliance, June 2010

• Submission to the Frank Field Poverty Review, drafted by Family Rights Group on behalf of the Kinship Care Alliance.

13.10.2015, New kinship care research shows potentially disastrous effects of tax credit and welfare reform 27.03.2015, Press release on new report from Family Rights Group on «Could do better... Must do better: A study of family and friends care local authority policies» by Mercer A, Lindley B and Hopkins A

20.03.2017, Press release from Family Rights Group on Department for Education Innovation Programme funding to trial Lifelong Links

PPNC is also collaborating with other campus groups including a Medical Students for Reproductive Rights group on the Hofstra University campus and Senoritas Latinas Unidas at Adelphi.

The survey, conducted by Grandparents Plus and Family Rights Group on behalf of the Kinship Care Alliance, found that 93 % of carers felt that they hadn't been given enough information about finance when they took on care of the children.

Submitted by Family Rights Group on behalf of Your Family, Your Voice, Kinship Care Alliance, and agenda, 5th December 2016

or by phoning Family Rights Group on 0207 923 2628.

Not exact matches

Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

He also relies heavily on claims made by human rights groups and the United Nations in supporting his case against the Assad regime — claims that some skeptics have said are made with zero verification.

Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.

Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada, right, looks on as Joe Oliver, Canada's finance minister, speaks at a news conference during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, April 11, 2014.

It came right on the heels of the amazing numbers we heard on Friday from J.P. Morgan and Citi [group],» Cramer said on Monday.

«Based on how stock prices are reacting to earnings right now, «earnings strength» should be replaced with «earnings stink,»» Justin Walters, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group, said in an email to clients Wednesday.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is among a broad range of human rights groups planning to protest at Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.

On the creation side, GoPro's media group manager, Bradford Schmidt, persuaded Woodman to acquire a leading digital - video software company, CineForm, in early 2011, right around the time GoPro released a rig that allows users to shoot in 3 - D by calibrating two cameras to shoot simultaneously and create layered 3 - D files.

The U.S. leader caused outrage in Britain on Wednesday after he used his Twitter account to share anti-Islam videos from a U.K. far - right group.

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

The New York City Council and a local tenants rights group announced on Monday that they would launch a joint investigation into the real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner, a top aide to President Donald Trump, over alleged falsification of building permits.

The short version goes like this: Blake Mycoskie, head of TOMS, agreed to be interviewed by Jim Daly, president of the right - wing Christian group Focus on the Family.

«We were approached by a group [from the United Arab Emirates] with rights to the Sudanese J. Tobrar gold concession, which is on the same mineral belt we are looking at in Egypt, so it made sense to explore the opportunity,» Galipeau says.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

Spending more money on the right employee, the right equipment, the right marketing campaign or the right mastermind group can pay for itself over and over again.

American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said on Thursday that a move by the leading U.S. black civil rights group to warn black travelers off the airline was «obviously a disappointment.»

The ever - increasing omniscience of internet giants like Facebook and Google has put many watchdog groups and civil rights lobbyists on red - alert.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

The more time you spend where your customers are, the more you'll learn about how they think and whether or not you're focused on the right group.»

In a recent proposal put forward to Canada's major banks, Quebec - based shareholder rights group MÉDAC (Mouvement d'éducation et de défense des actionnaires) asked the Big Five to commit to achieving equal representation between men and women on their boards in 10 years.

The animal - rights group said it plans on buying around $ 4,000 worth of shares so it can speak at the company's annual meetings and urge it to stop using coyote fur in its jackets.

Yang was invited to speak at the meeting by UN-accredited advocacy group UN Watch but China's interventions bared China's sensitivity on human rights, say observers.

I reached out on social media (namely Twitter, Facebook, and Slack groups) to find the most important online business trends e-commerce experts are seeing right now in 2017.

While this figure might not have market watchers jumping up for joy, «it is a positive sign that more people flowed into the labor force and shows the labor market is on the right track,» says Kurt Rankin, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

U.S. President Donald Trump loudly insisted on Tuesday that both left - and right - wing groups used force in the aftermath of a white supremacist rally and that all of the facts were not yet in about street clashes in Charlottesville, Va..

But beginning in the 1990s, Exxon reportedly began giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science,» the New York Times reports.

Criticism of Google's dominance in search — it enjoys a 90 per cent market share in Europe — reached a fever pitch this year, with competing search engines and major publishers attacking the company, and even consumer rights groups piling on.

April 6 (Reuters)- A civil rights group and some consumer groups said on Friday they would file a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Facebook Inc's use of facial recognition techniques threaten users» privacy.

Brad Feld, managing director, the Foundry Group, on the importance of choosing the right business partner before teaming up.

And on Twitter, users like the far - right provocateur Laura Loomer went viral by stoking speculation that Islamic terror groups were responsible for the shooting.

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

For his part, travel analyst Henry Harteveldt, founder of Atmosphere Research Group in San Francisco, did not comment on his hometown hub but did share that he has nothing good to say right now about second - place finisher LaGuardia in New York.

Billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman and president of Dalian Wanda Group, right, shakes hands with Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), during an event in Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2016.

A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right - to - work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.