Sentences with phrase «society representatives from»

The members include high - ranking government officials and civil society representatives from developing and developed countries.

While many civil society groups were competing to build their own image at the side events in the official Rio Centro tents and other locations, the so called Peoples Summit in the Flamingo Park was a chaotic demonstration that lead to thousands of civil society representatives from across the world being stranded and lost without any sense of direction or coordination.

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Last week the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank brought together in Washington the world's finance ministers, central bankers, financial experts and economists, other government officials, and invited representatives from the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations.

Generally these discussions include representatives from industry, NGOs, government and civil society and, like dialogues, are conducted in accordance with Chatham House Rules.

We will not here discuss difficult questions of a Christian philosophy about society and state, especially not in how far a representative of power in the secular state receives his authority not simply from the electorate.

The Governing Board is not composed of radical activists from the church - and - society curias but of the responsible heads of the Protestant and Orthodox member churches and their official representatives.

Equally important, however, is the need of ideas and feedback from persons in all walks of life representative of the total society that express their visions, needs, insights, hopes, and fears.

Representatives of CSW met with religious communities and civil society in Jakarta, West Java, Central Java and North Sumatra, including representatives from the Ahmadiyya and Christian communities, and Parmalim traditRepresentatives of CSW met with religious communities and civil society in Jakarta, West Java, Central Java and North Sumatra, including representatives from the Ahmadiyya and Christian communities, and Parmalim traditrepresentatives from the Ahmadiyya and Christian communities, and Parmalim traditional religion.

We welcome input from diverse parties, ranging from small agricultural producers and civil society organizations, to representatives of governments and agroindustry.

Led by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the partnership includes representatives from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with review and feedback provided by more than 200 additional stakeholders from business, government, civil society, and academia.

The conference brought together 66 distinguished speakers and 300 high ‐ level stakeholders from 30 countries, representing a broad spectrum of rice sector actors and development professionals, including senior ‐ level representatives from UN and international agencies, governments, private sector supply chain actors, research institutions, farmer groups, equipment and service providers and civil society organizations from around the world.

The aim of the conference is to encourage representatives from industry, academia and research as well as policy makers and individuals from civil society to enter into dialogue and thus to initiate suitable (pilot) projects.

In order to choose the winners for these prestigious awards, representatives from the NRA, NRAEF, and the Society for Foodservice and Hospitality Management travel with senior military officers to installations around the globe on a yearly basis to evaluate foodservice operations.

In two days, espnW and the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Project will co-host an espnW: Women + Sports Summit at which they will report the results of a survey in which a nationally representative sample of moms were asked what they wanted and needed for their kids from youth sports.

19 June 2017 — WHO has a significant presence at the 31st ICM Congress where over 4000 midwives, policy makers, donors, civil society and government representatives from 116 midwifery associations, representing 102 countries across every continent are gathering in Toronto.

Florence Fisher organized The ALMA Society (Adoptees Liberation Movement Association) in 1972, Emma May Vilardi created International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR) in 1975, Lee Campbell and other birthmothers joined the fight for Open Records forming Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) in 1976, and by the spring of 1979 representatives of 32 organizations from 33 states, Canada and Mexico gathered together in DC to establish the American Adoption Congress (AAC).

ROCHESTER, NY (September 28, 2016)-- Home Leasing, LLC and New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) joined Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, Senator Joseph Robach, representatives from The Landmark Society of Western New York and Edgemere Development, and others to celebrate the opening of Eastman Gardens Senior Housing Community in Rochester's Marketview Heights neighborhood.

Reporting from the Open Government Summit in London, where sixty countries are represented along with 300 representatives from civil society organizations, Susannah Vila and Christopher Wilson cover how those non-governmental groups are trying to use the summit to pressure their governments to actually live up to the nice promises they keep mouthing.

On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Humanists and other secularists — including religious people who believe in a secular state — have long campaigned for an end to «religious privilege» and «religious discrimination»; at the same time, many Muslims have claimed that there is a prevalent «Islamophobia» in society; recently, representatives of some Christian churches are claiming that Christians are being «marginalised» as a consequence of «aggressive secularism» excluding them from public life.

In June, the BHA gave evidence to parliament's Public Administration Select Committee inquiry (http://www.humanism.org.uk/documents/4874) into the Big Society, alongside representatives from the Church of England, the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales, and the Chief Rabbi.

Two of his colleagues then resigned from the ACMD; Dr Les King, and Marion Walker, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's representative on the council.

The committee will be made up of representatives of; the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), the Tema oil Refinery (TOR), the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Bureau of National Investigations, Chamber of Bulk oil Distributors, Association of Oil Marketing Companies, Energy Commission and a representative from the relevant Civil Society Organizations.

They stood with representatives from the Community Service Society, which has just released a report «documenting rent - stabilized housing's critical role in protecting millions of working New Yorkers.»

Picente was joined in support for the agreement by Paul Morgan the Executive Director of the CNYSPCA, Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara, Oneida County Sheriff Rob Maciol as well as representatives from the major community stakeholders, Stevens - Swan Humane Society, Spring Care Farms and the Rome Humane Society.

During their stay in Ghana, the observers will participate in briefings on the Ghanaian political and electoral processes from Ghanaian experts, political leaders, election administrators, representatives of civil society, as well as NDI staff.

The two - day event, 3rd to 4th May, 2018, will bring together leading actors from the media, civil society, policy makers, representatives of the judiciary and academia, to discuss latest developments and pressing challenges related to press freedom and the safety of journalists.

COP 22, which will be attended by representatives from 197 countries including world leaders, environment ministers, government officials as well as a wide range of representatives from civil society and the private sector, is the first meeting of State Parties since the entry into force of the landmark Paris Agreement on November 4, 2016.

At a recent public hearing, several members of the engineering community, including representatives from the Erie Niagara Chapter of NYS Society of Professional Engineers and respected engineering firms, spoke against removing the PE requirement for the county's head of DPW.

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Horn also met with an array of representatives from leading scientific societies and organizations.

These were just a few of the questions raised in an open meeting on 10 October 2002 in Washington, D.C. Within the ornate halls of the National Academy of Sciences building, members of the scientific and legal communities, ethicists, and representatives from funding agencies and professional societies discussed a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

Subsequent articles will examine comments from postdoc office administrators, funding - agency representatives, and disciplinary - society officials; they will also discuss the potential for federal science - policy initiatives to enhance the postdoc experience.

The House of Representatives and Senate subcommittees that hold the purse strings for DOE and the Army Corps of Engineers received an additional $ 4 billion from the recent agreement to raise the budget caps, notes Michael Lubell, a physicist at City College of New York and a former lobbyist for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C..

The Council shall consist of the members of the Executive Committee; two representatives from each affiliated society and active section; and no more than six members - at - large, one or two of whom may be elected annually by the Council for terms of three years from among the members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science resident in the Pacific Division region.

Representatives from the society tested the substance and determined that it was poison.

An international team of more than 100 scientists, policy makers and community representatives, led by international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), today published a new report outlining the vital steps needed to save the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) from extinction.

Americans» Responses to the Great Recession,» the study relies on data from the 1984 - 2010 waves of the nationally representative General Social Survey (GSS); the GSS 2006-2008-2010 panel, which tracked a group of people over several years; the 2001 - 2011 Gallup surveys; and the Evaluations of Government and Society Study surveys from 2011 and 2012.

World Science Forum (WSF), an outcome of the 1999 World Conference on Science, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they present.

Conference attendees - postdoctoral scholars, administrators, faculty, and representatives from disciplinary societies, industry, and corporations - are provided with the opportunity to gather and enhance their professional development and leadership skills.

Participation should extend from the various branches of member state governments, under the leadership of the respective Head of State or Government, to the Bretton Woods Institutions, other IFIs and UN system agencies, representatives of the private sector, civil society and science.

There were also practical sessions from conference sponsors the Incorporated Society of Musicians, who took delegates through their latest data on setting tuition fees, and the Musicians» Union, whose representatives took teachers through «All you need to know about building a private teaching practice».

Around 90 representatives from employers, trailblazer groups, training providers and educational associations and organisations attended the symposium at the Royal Society in London.

The Expo is also the place to put faces to names — so whether it's buttonholing a member of the Music Education Council or a representative from your particular exam board, or seeking out advice by talking to professional associations ranging from the Incorporated Society of Musicians and Musicians» Union to the European Piano Teachers Association UK, Association of British Choral Directors or the British Kodály Academy — with around 150 exhibitors, it's likely that the person you're looking for is in the building.

Representatives from Ministries of Education from Europe and North - America, together with international organisations, European institutions and civil society organisations, are gathering to further discuss the education agenda in the future Sustainable Development Goals -LSB-...]

Results of the 2002 summit included seven conclusions based on the deliberations of representatives from the Association for Science Teacher Education, the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on English Education, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education and the International Society for Technology in Education.