Inside Syria many have organized themselves into civil society groups, to try and retain some semblance of normalcy.
Together with civil society groups and the international community it is already engaged in relief and rehabilitation work.
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Civil society groups have filed for judicial review with the Indonesia Supreme Court.
Civil society groups led by stellar activists have saved lakes and trees and fought for the poor and dispossessed.
Nearly all civil society groups, including religious leaders have been preaching peaceful elections.
The same search engines that help customers find local businesses also point them to websites of bloggers and civil society groups.
We have used the office to coordinate training programs for women, municipal councilors and civil society groups in the Gulf region generally.
The U.N. said the declaration was weaker than international standards, however, and criticized Asean for not seeking more input from civil society groups.
It instead went through the Egyptian government through approved civil society groups, and then also lowered how much civil society groups were funded.
Though there has been a rise in the number of civil-society groups trying to pick up the pieces, progress is marked in baby-steps.
Our success on this front cannot be made through state actions alone but will need to involve cooperation with civil society groups and structures.
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Russian police and tax inspectors have raided the offices of the human rights group Memorial and other civil society groups which get foreign funding.
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The 50 participants are mostly members of youth council or civil society groups in their respective communities and a core group of young leaders have been involved in planning the event since December 2011.
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The telecommunications reform has been enthusiastically received by most economic experts and civil-society groups in the week since its introduction, with near unanimous praise of its toughening of the Mexican regulatory system.
Thus, there has been a substantial and sustained consultative efforts towards formulating a National Youth Policy, in partnership with youth NGOs and other civil society groups and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
"If it's used for other purposes, this will be a dangerous way of going about it, " he says, adding that civic society groups are already calling for an audit once the tournament is over.
The implementation strategy discussed at the meeting operates at global and national levels, and outlines more than 100 areas of work by different UN agencies and civil society groups to secure the safety of journalists.
"Local forest communities and civil society groups have so far been completely excluded from the initiative, which is primarily about 'partnerships' between international conservation organisations and international loggers, " said Simon Counsell, director of the Rainforest Foundation.
Edgar Kavu-Lavu from the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - one of the civil society groups to bring the case to court - says they won't appeal as there is not enough time before the elections are held.
Once the panel is reconstituted, its members will not be starting from scratch in drawing up a draft, since Egypt has had three previous constitutions and various political and civic society groups have drawn up models, Ashour said.
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The CD-ROM, launched at the 15th Annual Conference of AMIC in Penang, Malaysia last July, is expected to be a valuable resource for PSB institutions, television trainers, civil society groups dealing with media freedom and cultural diversity issues, and tertiary institutions as a "classroom" and advocacy resource.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) is part of a powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests that are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans to address the blatant need for coordinated, global action and confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation, and habitat loss.
As international troops draw down from Afghanistan and the military presences lessens, what is really going to help the country and provide a future for Afghans is the civil society groups who work to keep children off the streets and to provide viable alternatives, like education and jobs training, that mitigates youth recruitment into ideologically extreme groups or other high-risk behavior.
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Right now in Africa we spend time with groups in civil society, with groups who are using technology to inform themselves better on what governments are doing and holding them to account.
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In its 2006 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court noted the questionable tactics attorney Stanley Rosenblatt used to get those findings, such as repeatedly telling the inner-city Miami jury to think about how the cigarette industry divided society into groups and tried to exploit them, and making references to slavery and the unfair treatment of blacks under the law.
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Instead of focusing on growing the pie, society splinters into groups, each fighting for their share of the pie.
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How do you expect to help a pluralistic society where large groups of Americans do not frame their religion, faith or belief on the Christian religion?
So civil society can be community groups, NGOs, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations and foundations.
The prime minister said billions of pounds of government contracts would be opened up to bids from groups within society.
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Never mind that the American Cancer Society and other medical groups now encourage exercise among cancer patients including encouraging breast-cancer survivors to lift weights.
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