Sentences with phrase «urged member states»

He urged member states that still execute convicts to join the 170 countries that have halted or abolished the practice, warning that the risk of a miscarriage of justice is an «unacceptably high price» to pay.

He also urged member states to focus on controlling tobacco, saying efforts should be geared towards controlling sale of cigarettes in the region for the overall benefit of «our people».

1996 WHA Res 49.15: Preambular para: «Concerned that health institutions and ministries may be subject to subtle pressure to accept, inappropriately, financial or other support for professional training in infant and child health»... urged Member States:....

[3] WHA Resolution 49.15 1996 Preambular para: «Concerned that health institutions and ministries may be subject to subtle pressure to accept, inappropriately, financial or other support for professional training in infant and child health» urged Member States to ensure that «financial support for professionals working in infant and young child health does not create conflicts of interest.»

During the ICAO assembly, Alphabet urged the member states to assist it into delivering internet to remote areas.

(32) In its discussion of EU member states» foreign development assistance programs, it contains commendable and strongly - worded calls for the end of forced abortions and sexual violence, and urges member states to work for the provision of prenatal and maternal healthcare supplies, and care for HIV patients.

Urges Member States to scale up efforts to monitor and enforce national measures and to avoid conflicts of interest.

WHA urges Member States to develop and strengthen legislative and regulatory measures to control the marketing of breastmilk substitutes to give effect to the Code and resolutions.

IBFAN is opposed to all claims on foods for infants and young children and is urging Member States to fulfil their obligations to protect child health (and prevent childhood obesity) before authorising any new claims.

URGES Member States to give renewed attention to the need to adopt national legislation, regulations or other suitable measures to give effect to the International Code;

Resolution WHA58.32 2005 Urges Member States: «to ensure that financial support and other incentives for programmes and health professionals working in infant and young child health do not create conflicts of interest».

(1) to urge Member States to take effective measures to implement the recommendations included in resolution WHA39.28; (2) to continue to review regional and global trends in breastfeeding patterns, including the relationship between breastfeeding and child - spacing; (3) to support Member States, on request, in adopting measures to improve infant and young child nutrition, inter alia by collecting and disseminating information on relevant national action of interest to all Member States; and to mobilize technical and financial resources to this end.

WHA Res 63.23 (1.4) «Urges member states to end inappropriate promotion of food for infants and young children and to ensure that nutrition and health claims shall not be permitted for foods for infants and young children, except where specifically provided for, in relevant Codex Alimentarius standards or national legislation.»

WHA Res 55.25 (4) «URGES Member States, as a matter of urgency to ensure that the introduction of micronutrient interventions and the marketing of nutritional supplements do not replace, or undermine support for the sustainable practice of, exclusive breastfeeding and optimal complementary feeding.»

Buhari, while urging member states to tread carefully in pushing for a single currency in the sub-region by 2020, cited the challenges faced by the European Union, EU, who have a similar agenda.

Urges all Member States to promptly and correctly transpose into their national legislation all existing EU and international legal instruments concerning organised crime, corruption and money laundering; urges Member States and the Commission to complete the Roadmap on the rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings, including a directive on pre-trial detention;

The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was established by the United Nations» General Assembly in 2005 (Resolution 60/7) to «urge Member States to develop educational programmes to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again.»

«How can the Commission call on the EIB to grant $ 2bn to a mega gas pipeline and then release a report urging the member states and the same bank to do more to reduce subsidies for fossil fuels?»

UN News Center: The water, sanitation and sustainable energy crises are the among the world's pre-eminent development challenges, senior United Nations officials warned today, urging Member States to adopt coherent integrated policies and innovative strategies to tackle these issues, which take a tragic toll on the lives of millions of poor people, especially women and young [continue reading...]

Not exact matches

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

Any resolution endorsed by member states is unlikely to include targets limiting the use of antibiotics on a per capita basis, the kind of recommendation experts have urged be taken.

This advocacy effort appears to be gaining even more momentum than the movement to release Church of Iran pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (which CT covered regularly), especially now that 80 members of Congress «from both parties signed a Feb. 12 letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to «exhaust every possible option to secure Mr. Abedini's immediate release.»»

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Some members have held high - level meetings with foreign leaders, urged U.S. embassies to investigate situations of repression, and lobbied the White House and State Department to address particular issues in bilateral discussions.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Twenty - one member state agricultural ministers have urged the Commission not to cut agri budgets and called for extra emergency funds to help counter the Russian embargo on European food imports.

In response to the growing evidence for widespread mislabelling, the EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg has now urged all EU member states to implement random DNA testing of processed beef products, for a three - month period beginning March 1.

Talking to the Guardian in 2012, Swansea's fan - elected board member Huw Cooze was effusive about his involvement, stating that he'd been involved in all major decisions and urging other clubs to take similar steps:

Member States are urged to implement the Code into national legislation, regulations and other suitable measures.

The New York State United Teachers union on Friday blasted the appointment of former Education Commissioner John King to become the acting secretary of education and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasure.»

Dlamini - Zuma urged Heads of State to create conditions for member states to issue the passport to their citizens, «within their national policies, as and when they are ready.»

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Sunday urged the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to block any votes on budget bills until a concrete agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility is in place.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday joined the push for Democratic unity in the state Senate, urging the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to align with the party's mainline conference in the chamber.

As Entergy Corp. moves to close the FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant in Oswego County, the area's two House members are urging the state to reconvene negotiations to keep the facility open.

Aregbesola urged party members to ensure support for whoever the party chooses as its candidate for the next election adding that continuity of what his government had commenced seven years ago was more important to the state than anything else.

Members of the Western New York delegation are applauding the state Senate for passing a bill that would make Kendra's Law permanent, and they're urging their Assembly colleagues to follow suit.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday urged people of the Middle Belt region and other states that have witnessed mindless killings to join its members in observing the May 2018 sit - at - home order.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged a crowd of several hundred union members and others in Solvay on Wednesday to demand their state legislators pass a $ 15 an hour minimum wage this month as part of the state budget.

The leader of the state corrections officers union is urging members to boycott the Watertown Daily Times and the newspaper published a story last Thursday on abuse allegations at a northern New York prison.

Led by Reps. Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley and Dan Donovan, New York members of Congress wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging him to use his influence to ensure that Jakiw Palij — a convicted Nazi guard — is deported, so New Yorkers and Americans are not forced to live with «a painful reminder for Americans who fought against the Nazis or lost loved ones in the Holocaust.»

It urged corps members who just got their call up letters to resume at the temporary camp at the Cross River State College of Education in Awi, Akamkpa LGA.

A coalition of 42 business - backed organizations this week wrote a letter to the members of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's commission reviewing the state's business climate, urging that they back a range of long - sought regulatory reforms.

A bipartisan group of New York House members is urging Secretary of State Tillerson to deport an accused Nazi guard living in Queens.

I urge Governor Cuomo to be the champion of reform that we so desperately need, and I'm proud to join Senator Squadron, Assembly Member Kavanagh, and my other colleagues in calling for the Governor to make LLC reform a line in the sand in his Executive Budget,» said State Senator Liz Krueger.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

He further urged African countries to deepen trade among member state.

At noon, AARP members deliver hundreds of postcards from constituents urging Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Griffo to push for inclusion of an independent utility consumer advocate as part of the final state budget, Utica State Office Building, 207 Genesee St., Ustate budget, Utica State Office Building, 207 Genesee St., UState Office Building, 207 Genesee St., Utica.

Niccoli and a group of fellow Democratic candidates have penned separate letters to members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation urging them not to bump the current $ 79,500 base salary of state lawmakers, who haven't received a raise in roughly 17 years.

Last Thursday, Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - Corona) joined Mohammad Razvi of the Council of People's Organization and Amy Paul of South Asian Youth Action at Kabab King in Jackson Heights to urge community members to donate money and supplies to reputable aid organizations in Pakistan.