Sentences with phrase «rights nongovernmental organizations»

When the initial proposal for the conference was made in 1989, the General Assembly suggested that member states and human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) hold regional meetings in preparation for the world gathering.

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Second, as moral inspiration, the Universal Declaration has helped launch nongovernmental human rights groups across the planet, including the influential organization Amnesty International, which numbers more than one million members worldwide.

Dynasty is the first science - supporting nonprofit to fall victim to Russia's 2012 «foreign agent» law, which aims «to crack down on nongovernmental organizations focused on human rights and free elections,» Vladimir Pokrovsky wrote Wednesday at ScienceInsider.

In 1984, in the wake of Argentina's return to civilian rule, President Raul Alfonsín and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - a nongovernmental human rights organization - requested technical assistance in exhuming mass graves of victims of the country's «dirty war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regime.

Rather, he argues, climate - concerned governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should pool their resources and buy up the extraction rights to coal and other fossil fuels from so - called «third countries» that choose not to participate in greenhouse gas - reducing collectives.

In a January editorial in Science, Alvarez, Huete - Perez and Axel Meyer, a professor of biology at the University of Konstanz Germany, wrote, «It is incumbent upon scientists, human rights advocates, nongovernmental organizations and wildlife protection organizations to share knowledge, voice concerns, provide guidance and demand a greater role for science in the design and construction of this massive project.»

Founded in 1964, they are an independent, national, nongovernmental organization, working in the courts, before legislative committees, in the classrooms, and in the streets, protecting the rights and freedoms cherished by Canadians and entrenched in our Constitution.

The campaign, which is coordinated by Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, has seen its membership double since the launch; it is now comprised of 48 nongovernmental organizations in 23 countries.