Sentences with phrase «struggle for social reform»

Armed with their «progressive» reading of Vatican II, American Jesuits of this transitional generation became more committed to the struggle for social reform than to the propagation of Christian faith.

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Giscard d'Estaing made key economic and social reforms but struggled for reelection in a difficult economic climate.

But education reform must be considered as part of a larger struggle for social justice.

Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling for agrarian reform.

Since April 2013, under the Department of Work and Pensions» Social Fund reform, each local authority has been responsible for providing help to its residents struggling with an emergency.