Sentences with phrase «work by campaigners»

Not exact matches

Sister Supporter told the Daily Mail that patients - as well as people living and working in the area - have been subjected to «sustained intimidation» by anti-abortion campaigners.

Antenatal tutor Noreen Hart from the National Childbirth Trust (which organised a family fun day in June 2010 to support the initiative) said: «During the last 12 months campaigners have been working closely with Wiltshire Community Health Services» midwifery team and the suggestion of partners having the opportunity of staying the first night after birth was welcomed by all involved in maternity services.

Legal action has been taken by US campaigners on behalf of former child slaves who worked on farms supplying Nestlé and other companies.

The former minister's political career has spanned 30 years and he was honoured by the Pope last year for his work as an anti-poverty campaigner.

It was a really great day and bought together all strains of practitioners, campaigners, bloggers and academics working in this area and supportive of progressive political aims (you can see how it panned out by following our twitter hashtag here).

The move, an effort to halt the spread of bovine TB which ministers acknowledge is devastating Britain's beef and dairy industry, is being questioned by campaigners who argue there is little evidence the cull will work.

Yet it has been the robust response of Hope not Hate and other anti-racist campaigners working with Labour in communities that has pushed back the BNP vote (which remains a worry) not claims by some in Labour that we do not discuss immigration.

I was nauseated by the fact that any genuine anti-corruption campaigner will hold a service passport from the government and agree to suppress the results of investigative work against another organ of government simply because his principals instructed him to do so.

BHA Education Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is clear that more work needs to be done by the Government in order to improve the vital subject of PSHE in our schools.

The #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, campaigners have urged outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan and President - elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to collectively work assiduously to ensure that the remaining 219 Chibok schoolgirls still held by Boko Haram insurgents return home before the May 29 handover date.

Electoral Commission guidance requires campaigners to declare if they are working together, to avoid registered campaigns circumventing the spending limits by setting up multiple other campaigns.

It has been welcomed by campaigners as a first step, but Iain Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary, has said it does not go far enough.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

A policy similar to the one used by Australia was among the key pledges made by Vote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worked.

Notwithstanding the many qualities of Jon Cruddas and the excellent work carried out by other MPs — for example Gisela Stuart and Stella Creasy — in being effective voices for their members and communities and outstanding campaigners, it is, after all, only MPs who currently have the opportunity to be elected to the shadow cabinet.

Miliband praises its campaign, despite the fact that in a recent meeting, campaigners surprised Miliband by presenting him with a Spanish woman, who works as a cleaner for the chancellor, but earns barely more than the minimum wage.

Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 — 1960) was a great political campaigner, in many ways ahead of her times; a visionary but not an ideologue, she worked to facilitate change on the ground in terms moulded by those affected.

«The Age of Stupid» is the product of six years of improvisational fund - raising, filmmaking and distribution work by Franny Armstrong, a Briton best known for McLibel, her documentary on a seven - year court battle between McDonald's and two vegetarian anti-meat, anti-corporate campaigners.

In parts of Southeast Asia, on - the - ground examination of industry practices can be dangerous work, whether done by local campaigners or journalists.

Now that President Obama and other heads of state have left Paris after a round of announcements and events, thousands of diplomats and functionaries — pestered by lobbyists, campaigners and journalists — are getting on with the grunt work of the 21st Conference of the Parties, which is aiming to improve on the ineffectual 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and replace a problematic subsequent agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.

The concept, while highlighted by climate campaigners, was challenged on two levels — one on technical points about the number of wedges of avoided carbon dioxide that would be needed by mid-century and the other on the broader interpretation (which was never in the work originally) that this meant the challenge of limiting warming was not that hard.

The only other interview with Jones et al came on April 9, (09 April Jones and Briffa.pdf) this time by Geoffrey Boulton (a vigorous climate campaigner who worked for 18 years at UEA) and Peter Clarke, Muir Russell once again not bothering to attend.

Lord Stern, author of the government - commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more «blunt» about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures.

There are three really simple numbers which explain this (and if you have even more appetite for the subject, read the excellent July 2012 Rolling Stone piece by the author and campaigner Bill McKibben, which — building on the work of the Carbon Tracker Initiative — first spelled them out).

The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.

«You won't insure certain types of cases»: ATE has sat behind a surprising range of cases; it is distinctly possible, for example, that the MPs» expenses scandal would not have been blown open had freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke not been able to find solicitors work on a CFA, backed by ATE insurance.

There has been growing controversy over the work experience programme in recent weeks with a series of protests by campaigners.

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