Sentences with phrase «rights lobby groups»

Now the government is seeking an extension despite opposition from the home affairs select committee, human rights lobby groups and MPs from both sides of the house.

Obama accused the powerful pro-gun rights lobby group of peddling an «imaginary fiction» that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.

The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun - rights lobbying group, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

New York State's LGBT right lobby group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, which has also endorsed Quinn's candidacy, struck back hard against Weiner, as well.

Not exact matches

This week, the lobby group TheCityUK, said that it had dropped its demand that the U.K. should keep its passporting rights.

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

But Australia also had fewer barriers than the United States to enacting gun control: There is no constitutional right to bear arms, and there are no pro-gun lobbying groups with the influence of the National Rifle Association.

Apart from not liking the video's message and concept, which, given his credentials as head of an anti-union «right to work» lobby group, doesn't come as a surprise, Oakey is particularly bothered by the fact that the PSAC — a union — produced the video.

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

If progressive evangelicals want more free exchange and less institutional solidarity, perhaps they should lobby a bit more aggressively for the conscience rights of beleaguered institutions like Biola University and groups like Bowdoin Christian Fellowship.

Then, when the United Nations was founded at San Francisco in 1945, non-governmental groups lobbied to include a bill of rights in the body's charter.

So I embraced atheism and gay human rights activism, becoming part of a group which successfully lobbied for a clause banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in South Africa's postapartheid constitution.

The groups that support gay rights should discover these «lobbies» that people seem to imply so much.

The president of the National Right to Life Committee told the AP that they believe that the numbers reflect the awareness and lobbying efforts of anti-abortion groups.

Civil partnerships have not yet been adopted in Guernsey, although gay rights groups are currently lobbying for their introduction.

In the case of Uganda, legislators supported an infringement on human rights because it was popular: 96 % of Ugandans disapprove of homosexuality and this includes a number of influential religious lobby groups.

A hearing officer on Friday ruled that four lobbying groups that both support and oppose abortion rights can keep their roster of donors a secret.

To complicate matters, Loeb also has donated to some left - leaning advocacy groups including the Center for Reproductive Rights, which fights for a woman's right to choose abortion, and the Human Rights Campaign, a group that lobbied to get marriage equality enacted in New York in 2011.

A powerful lobby group in its own right it also ensures a voice in Europe though membership of the Federation of European Motorcyclists» Associations (FEMA).

There are also citizen organizations which engage in lobbying activity, like environmental or consumer rights groups.

Members of the Wisconsin Contractor Coalition, which formed to oppose right - to - work efforts and has about 350 construction - related businesses on board, are lobbying lawmakers on the issue, said the group's spokesman Steve Lyons.

«I would think that people would put betting on horses and playing bingo on a par with a right to a healthful environment,» said Peter M. Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, a nonprofit lobbying group based here.

Tkaczyk worked for nonprofit groups, lobbying legislators for affordable housing and supporting tenants» rights.

Others involved in this battle include the Marriage Equality New York PAC and the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, DC - based lobbying group which recently hired Brian Ellner, a former aide to Mayor Bloomberg, to spearhead this effort.

The Institute for Policy Research also provides funding for Migration Watch, the Tax Payer's Alliance and other right - wing lobbying groups.

All rights reserved.A number of Cabinet members appear to have breached the rules of government through their membership of a secretive hard - Brexit lobby group, now chaired by the outspoken government critic Jacob - Rees Mogg, openDemocracy can reveal today.

Come learn about and discuss the rights we currently have, potential threats to those rights, popular issues motivating convention supporters, who is likely to serve as delegates to a NYS Constitutional Convention, and the groups involved in convention lobbying.

The clause has divided gay rights groups, with Stonewall, a more mainstream lobby group with close ties to the government, accepted the exclusion.

Also at noon, unions, patient rights groups and lawmakers call for the passage of the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act, State Capitol, Senate lobby, Albany.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) prepares to lead roughly 700 LGBT advocates to the State Capitol in Albany for the group's annual Equality and Justice Day lobbying effort on April 30, supporters of a decade - old transgender civil rights measure are stepping up the push to secure Senate passage this -LSB-...]

But, now, with the State Legislature in the final few days of its 2013 regular session, the Empire State Pride Agenda, the advocacy and lobby group leading the push for civil rights protections for the transgender community, says that there is «clear momentum» toward enactment of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, says currently most contributions for campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».

Their calculation puts them at odds with four larger groups more directly involved with lobbying efforts to end the ban: the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, Servicemembers United and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

And that stink will continue until Bill de Blasio does the right thing — and tells his lobbying group to give the money back.

«Brian Ellner, who until this week worked for the New York City Department of Education, will oversee the Campaign for New York Marriage, which is to be financed by the Human Rights Campaign, a lobbying group for gay rights based in WashiRights Campaign, a lobbying group for gay rights based in Washirights based in Washington.

Trump tweeted that he planned to meet with the National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun rights and lobbying group, to discuss the issue.

As a result, biomedical groups and animal - rights groups engaged in fierce lobbying.

Together with a coalition of animal rights, environmental, religious and farm groups, Rifkin is also planning to lobby the US Congress.

But Michela Kuan, a biologist and a member of the animal rights group Lega Anti Vivisezione in Rome, says Italy's problems weren't caused by animal rights activists or the political debate, but by the animal research lobby.

After spending hundreds of millions on lobbying, these groups were able to persuade tea - bag and conservative Republican governors and legislatures to repeal collective bargaining for teachers, limited bargaining rights for others, dramatically expanded funding for charter schools or otherwise undermine what most would describe as the American public education system.

And they are reinforcement, she said, that the policies she brought to the District — and that she lobbies for nationally with her group StudentsFirst — are the right ones.

But they were also the result of careful bond building between Democratic and Republican lawmakers as well as disparate lobbying groups — from big business to civil rights activists.

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

Gun rights groups point out that all six pieces of animal rights - related legislation Fearing lobbied for in the most recent legislative session were approved and signed by Brown, including Assembly Bill 711, which, over the objection of hunters, banned the use of lead ammunition.

The nationwide battle over so - called «puppy mills» made its way to Carlsbad Tuesday night, where the City Council voted 3 - 1 to ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats after intense lobbying by a variety of animal rights groups.

The group lobbied the city's major public galleries for increased artists» rights and an end to sexism, racism and oppression within the art world.

Right now business and fossil fuel lobby groups have a lot of influence over politicians as we all know.

In the UK too, the primary sources of climate change denial have been right - wing «free market» lobby groups, particularly the Centre for Policy Studies, and politicians politicians, such as Nigel Lawson.

In his eagerness to appear green (because environmental organizations are now a large and wealthy lobby group in their own right) the president of the United States ignored these warnings and instead made Solyndra a poster child for his vision of the future.