• In December 2021, its 12 founding agencies were joined by three more - the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) - and discussions with other agencies are underway to further broaden and strengthen the Alliance. (who.int)
  • This is no small task: regulatory sanctions and controls on technology can often limit access to the very tools activists use to mobilize locally and direct international attention to human rights abuses. (cdt.org)
  • Whether and how sanctions can be used to address abuses by other governments-those that may not be engaged in widespread violence against their own citizens-raises a critical question: because restrictions on sales of technology can also impede citizens' use of communications tools, to what is the most effective way to promote human rights and access to ICTs in this context? (cdt.org)
  • However, the Executive Order and the EU sanctions send a clear message: ICT companies have a responsibility to avoid complicity in governmental human rights abuses. (cdt.org)
  • If they sell their products in regions where human rights abuses are likely to occur, they must address this risk. (cdt.org)
  • Including the rule announced today, these actions have added 53 parties specifically implicated in human rights abuses of ethnic minorities from Xinjiang, and 15 of these which were implicated in human rights abuses related to forced labor of ethnic minorities from Xinjiang. (commerce.gov)
  • The Commerce Department will continue to take firm, decisive action to hold China and other perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable. (commerce.gov)
  • Materially assisting any entity engaged in the above activity, or that is sanctioned under the Order. (cdt.org)
  • Adopted by world leaders in 2015, the Sustainable Development Agenda includes 17 SDGs and 169 related targets covering areas such as gender equality, safe drinking water and sanitation, education, environment, human rights and housing, all of which have a direct or indirect impact on health. (who.int)
  • Alongside its routine activities, HaMoked also fought against arbitrary restrictions which were imposed on Palestinians on the pretext of the Coronavirus crisis. (hamoked.org)
  • Together with the fellows and based on their specific needs and interests, RWI will set up a framework of activities that includes individual feedback sessions to their research on an on-going basis, opportunities to attend and present in research seminars, possibilities to teach and make public presentations, and subject to Covid-related restrictions study visits at Swedish entities such as government, civil society organisations, and companies. (lu.se)
  • President Obama articulated sanctions that will narrowly target certain uses of technology - and sales of technology to certain regimes - that present immediate, clear threats to human rights. (cdt.org)
  • With the goal of deterring the sale or use of surveillance or network disruption technologies in Iran or Syria, the sanctions block people associated with these entities from entering the U.S. and allow their assets and property in the U.S. to be seized. (cdt.org)
  • state entities in both countries are already subject to broad sanctions under current U.S. law. (cdt.org)
  • The United States will continue to take appropriate actions, including designating persons for sanctions, to respond to serious human rights abuse and corruption around the globe. (treasury.gov)
  • Australia imposed autonomous sanctions in relation to Zimbabwe in 2002, reflecting concerns about political violence and human rights violations. (dfat.gov.au)
  • While the bills did not pass the state legislature, New York Governor Cuomo signed an executive order on June 5, 2016 that, like some of the bills, mandated the creation of a blacklist of entities engaging in or promoting boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel and required state agencies to divest public funds from those on the blacklist. (ccrjustice.org)
  • Demonstrates strong expertise in the areas of international sanctions regimes and human rights in business. (cliffordchance.com)
  • In the U.S., an Executive Order issued on Monday targets entities providing technologies to the Iranian and Syrian governments that allow them to disrupt networks and monitor and track citizens. (cdt.org)
  • Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 14 entities pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which targets serious human rights abuse and corruption, for being affiliated with designated Israeli businessman and billionaire Dan Gertler. (treasury.gov)
  • This action targets these entities' ability to access commodities, software, and technology subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and is part of a U.S. Government-wide effort to take strong action against China's ongoing campaign of repression against Muslim minority groups in the XUAR. (commerce.gov)
  • This Entity List rule supplements other Entity List designations in October 2019, June 2020, and July 2020. (commerce.gov)
  • Among cases against private entities, a ground-breaking judgement came in 2021, when a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030, relative to 2019, across all activities including both its own emissions and end-use emissions. (lu.se)
  • The 2023 Symposium for Student Innovation, Research, and Creative Activities was held on Friday, April 21, 2023 . (tamucc.edu)
  • The 2023 Symposium for Student Innovation, Research, and Creative Activities (SSIRCA) is sponsored by the Division of Research and Innovation, in collaboration with the College of Education and Human Development, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the College of Science, and the Mary and Jeff Bell Library. (tamucc.edu)
  • At CAAF/3 today, senior representatives from the eight consortium entities signed a strategic collaboration agreement to kickstart the Air-CRAFT initiative. (masdar.ae)
  • Participants reviewed progress so far and discussed examples of successful collaboration, including capacity-building activities as well as community empowerment and vaccine roll-out in the context of COVID 19 response. (who.int)
  • This report highlights rural agency perspectives on multisector collabora- commonly described collaborative activities among the 32 parti- tion and identifies facilitators unique to rural interagency collaboration. (cdc.gov)
  • MoF&A, 2006-2008 Coordination, Percentage of coordination of activities of the programme with MoT&I, MoF, collaboration and coordinated programs, other programs, projects and activities. (who.int)
  • The overarching framework for engagement with non-State actors and the WHO policy and operational procedures on management of engagement with non-State actors apply to all engagements with non-State actors at all levels of the Organization,1 whereas the four specific policies and operational procedures on engagement are limited in application to, respectively, nongovernmental organizations, private sector entities, philanthropic foundations and academic institutions. (who.int)
  • The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights noted in its final election observation report that "the campaign lacked competitiveness and voters were not presented with a genuine choice of political alternatives," with the European observers citing "serious irregularities inconsistent with national legislation and OSCE commitments, including proxy voting and indications of ballot box stuffing. (state.gov)
  • HaMoked is an independent organization funded exclusively by individuals and institutions in Israel and around the world that support human rights principles. (hamoked.org)
  • Amnesty International: This organization directs a grossly disproportionate share of its criticism for human rights violations at the United States and Israel. (freerepublic.com)
  • We exercise the utmost discretion in our actions, refrain from participating in any activity that is, or may be perceived to be, in conflict with the interests of WHO, or that might damage the reputation of the Organization. (who.int)
  • Over half of our funding is provided by foreign governmental entities. (hamoked.org)
  • The Minister for Foreign Affairs has designated persons and entities which are engaging in or have engaged in activities that seriously undermine democracy, respect for human rights or the rule of law in Zimbabwe. (dfat.gov.au)
  • In this work we present a framework to detect such entities on Twitter. (aaai.org)
  • This training data is enriched by a manually annotated collection of active Twitter users that include both humans and bots of varying sophistication. (aaai.org)
  • By invoking human rights to hold the Swedish state accountable, the Aurora case is in line with broader trends in climate litigation. (lu.se)
  • The Prosecutor General's Office ensures rule of law, protects the rights and freedoms of citizens and legally protected interests of the state, conducts preliminary investigations of crimes, and prosecutes persons and entities accused of crimes. (state.gov)
  • It is narrowly targeted to minimize collateral damage to tools and infrastructure that enable human rights defenders and citizens to communicate. (cdt.org)
  • Citizens United would grant corporations more rights than humans. (opednews.com)
  • The ATSDR ombudsman serves as an independent resource available to all parties, including private citizens, citizen advocacy groups, corporations, and local, state and federal government entities who have environmental health concerns involving ATSDR, who feel that they are not being heard, and who have exhausted all other resources. (cdc.gov)
  • A framework of activities designed to allow for the monitoring and surveillance of emergency responder safety and health during all phases of emergency response: pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment. (cdc.gov)
  • To that end, as of today, 73 individuals and entities have had their assets blocked under E.O. 13818. (treasury.gov)
  • It is prohibited to use or deal with an asset, or allow or facilitate another person to use or deal with an asset owned or controlled by a designated person or entity (the assets are 'frozen' and cannot be used or dealt with). (dfat.gov.au)
  • Aurora argues that the Swedish state has a responsibility to mitigate this risk in order to protect rights enshrined in the Swedish Constitution and in the European Convention on Human Rights. (lu.se)
  • The Swedish alternative movement's place-making activities in the seventies have been understood as an attempt to escape the political sphere. (lu.se)
  • The Entity List is a tool utilized by BIS to restrict the export, reexport, and transfer (in-country) of items subject to the EAR to persons (individuals, organizations, companies) reasonably believed to be involved, or to pose a significant risk of becoming involved, in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. (commerce.gov)
  • Another reason for selecting these five chemicals is that there is a fair amount of overlap in the wide range of endpoints or organs that these chemicals affect in humans and/or animals (see Appendices A-E, Table 1). (cdc.gov)
  • The Office for Human Research Protections is a public health authority under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. (hhs.gov)
  • While based in the UAE, the consortium will also engage with, and welcome the participation of relevant international entities as it progresses. (masdar.ae)
  • Companies are obligated to evaluate their practices and engage with human rights experts in order to better understand and mitigate the potentially grave consequences of their business practices. (cdt.org)
  • It makes complete sense that corporations have the same economic rights as humans, since the purpose of corporations is to engage in economic activity. (opednews.com)
  • In January 2021 HaMoked published its annual activity report for the previous year, during which HaMoked assisted 4,051 individuals and families. (hamoked.org)
  • It directly impacts all human activity, the environment and the matter world in a myriad of ways. (energeticsynthesis.com)
  • Aurora's key claim is that those under the age of twenty-six living in Sweden are at risk of having their human rights violated by future negative impacts of climate change. (lu.se)
  • The U.S. Executive Order identifies entities (including companies) that have been complicit in the Iranian and Syrian governments' "malign use" of technology to violate human rights. (cdt.org)
  • This document, as well as a background document including corrections to these textual proposals received from Member States after its publication, are availab le at http://www.who.int/about/who_reform/non- state-actors/en/ (a ccessed 16 April 2015). (who.int)
  • In support of this aim, WHO engages with non-State actors in the advancement and protection of public health in order to foster the use of non-State actors' resources (including knowledge, expertise, commodities, personnel and finances) in favour of public health and to encourage non-State actors to improve their own activities to protect and promote public health. (who.int)
  • The National Guard ensures public order and security of diplomatic missions, radio and television broadcasting, and other state entities. (state.gov)
  • The legal purpose of the state-created fiction of a corporation is to benefit the public by engaging in economic activity. (opednews.com)
  • The state especially has the power to not grant political rights to an economic entity it created. (opednews.com)
  • Additional conditions for certain research activities involving children who are wards of the State or any other agency, institution, or entity. (hhs.gov)
  • The human soul, while not by nature immortal, is nevertheless capable of entering an intermediate disembodied state upon death, however incomplete and unnatural this state may be, and, eventually, being reunited with a resurrected body. (reasons.org)
  • The bill, which would have reduced state funding to colleges and universities that fund membership and activities in organizations supporting boycotts of a list of countries, including Israel, was drafted in response to the American Studies Association's 2013 resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. (ccrjustice.org)
  • The two bills would have mandated the creation of a blacklist of individuals and/or entities that support boycotts of Israel (S6086/A8220A) or "allied" nations (S6378A/A9036), prohibited those on the blacklist from doing business with the state of New York, and required state pension funds to divest from any companies on the blacklist. (ccrjustice.org)
  • S6086/A8220A and S6378A/A9036 require the State of New York to create a list of persons 1 and entities that express a particular political viewpoint, and then bars New York from doing business with and investing in persons and entities on that list. (ccrjustice.org)
  • The charity was unaware that the husband of its director of faith and human rights featured in documents released after a criminal trial at which connections were revealed between British supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Arab Islamists accused of plotting to overthrow a Gulf state. (freerepublic.com)
  • In particular, I define a connection as follows (other accounts may vary): "A connection exists between two entities when a change of state in one entity can cause or result in a change of state in the second entity. (blogspot.com)
  • a) an overarching framework for engagement with non-State actors, and (b) four separate WHO policies and operational procedures on engagement with nongovernmental organizations, private sector entities, philanthropic foundations and academic institutions. (who.int)
  • Therefore WHO engages with non-State actors in the creation and protection of global public goods in order to foster the use of non-State actors' resources (including knowledge, expertise, commodities, personnel and finances) in favour of public health and to encourage non-State actors to improve their own activities to protect and promote health. (who.int)
  • At this time, this data can be accessed by contacting the Data Manager for information on obtaining access to this data set or by visiting the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment website (https://www.integratedecosystemassessment.noaa.gov/regions/california-current-region/indicators/human-activites.html). (noaa.gov)
  • A substance is an entity like an acorn, a carbon atom, a dog, or an angel. (reasons.org)
  • A carbon footprint is the "total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities" for a particular individual, according to Time for Change . (greenmatters.com)
  • It is also possible to measure the carbon footprint of a company, event, or other entity. (greenmatters.com)
  • Your carbon footprint essentially represents the equivalent number of greenhouse gas emissions that your activities are responsible for. (greenmatters.com)
  • Can covered entities continue to disclose adverse event reports that contain protected health information to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections? (hhs.gov)
  • His order prohibits federal agencies that include the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security from asking online platforms to take down content with 'protected free speech. (yahoo.com)
  • Therefore, no statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (ahrq.gov)
  • The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • National Chamber's activity is aimed at enhancing the investment climate, the stability and development of business environment in the country, both for national and international investors. (egov.kz)
  • This measure calculates selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs per business entity employee. (apqc.org)
  • Moon Village means robotic and human activities, private and public entities. (thespacereview.com)
  • Altering the Exemption: Subpart D widens the range of research activities requiring IRB review by reducing the scope of the exemption in 45 CFR 46.101(b)(2) regarding research activities involving education tests, survey or interview procedures, or observation of public behavior, if the subjects are children. (hhs.gov)
  • The exemption is also narrowed for research involving observation of public behavior, by eliminating the exemption of any research involving observation of public behavior if the investigator will participate in the activities being observed. (hhs.gov)
  • We leverage more than a thousand features extracted from public data and meta-data about users: friends, tweet content and sentiment, network patterns, and activity time series. (aaai.org)
  • We are calculating the risk of focal groundfish species to non-fisheries related threats (e.g. shipping activity, inorganic pollution) and comparing the relative status and trends of each threat. (noaa.gov)
  • The recognition of ATM cyber threat entities is an important task, which can help ATM security experts quickly and accurately recognize threat entities, providing data support for the later construction of knowledge graphs, and ensuring the security and stability of ATM. (mdpi.com)
  • Moreover, in recent years, the rise of deep learning technology has provided new ideas and methods for ATM cyber threat entity recognition. (mdpi.com)
  • Benefits aside, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have always been considered a threat to environment and human health. (hindawi.com)
  • A fire can occur in any situation whether exist or not human activities and Basic Health Units are not free from this event and unfortunately a real possibility of this happening due to elevated fire charge. (bvsalud.org)
  • Building upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, in E.O. 13818 the President found that the prevalence of human rights abuse and corruption had reached such scope and gravity to threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. (treasury.gov)
  • Commercial potential of biotechnology is immense since the scope of its activity covers the entire spectrum of human life. (hindawi.com)
  • Go to the Consolidated List to search the names of designated persons and entities. (dfat.gov.au)
  • The consortium's industrial and institutional partners will provide market demand, expertise, and technology to support research into the production of alternative fuels for the aviation sector, and extends an open invitation to UAE and international entities to join the consortium. (masdar.ae)
  • While he wasn't on the panel that got the question about lunar exploration, ESA director general Jan Wörner did put in a plug later in the session for his "Moon Village" concept of an international lunar base, which he said was essential before humans could go to Mars. (thespacereview.com)
  • Potential environmental sources of placental dysfunction may be readily quantified discrete physical entities such as cigarette smoke, alcohol, medications, infection, and indoor/outdoor air pollution, or they may be of a more general nature such as exercise, maternal diet and nutritional status, BMI or level of stress. (nih.gov)
  • She conducts research and leads project activities on the effective use of student engagement data to improve educational quality and issues of teaching and learning, and serves as senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) project. (tamucc.edu)
  • It informs those agencies on critical research needs, and facilitates collaborative research activities to address them. (cdc.gov)
  • They could still, however, communicate with those entities for issues related to criminal activity, national security and election interference by foreign players. (yahoo.com)
  • Through its activities and publications, the Section nurtures a sense of responsibility on the part of lawyers, both personally and professionally, to help ensure equality of justice for all. (americanbar.org)
  • The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in New York that would threaten core First Amendment-protected activity. (ccrjustice.org)
  • The purpose of the fellowship programme is to enable Chinese researchers to conduct focused research on human rights in a supportive academic environment at our head office in Lund, affiliated with Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Animism encompasses beliefs that all material phenomena have agency, that there exists no categorical distinction between the spiritual and physical world, and that soul , spirit, or sentience exists not only in humans but also in other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features (such as mountains and rivers), and other entities of the natural environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nanomaterials and Human Health, Nanomaterials and the Environment, Human and Environmental Exposure Assessment of Nanomaterials, and Risk Management Methods) and describes research needs within each category. (cdc.gov)
  • Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit's staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts. (oas.org)
  • This measure calculates the percentage of the total cost of the human resources (HR) function that comes from personnel cost. (apqc.org)
  • The University encourages employees to bring concerns to their supervisor, Human Resources, or other campus entities as appropriate. (ethicspoint.com)
  • Rural areas need consistent funding and other resources to sup- places for physical activity, social supports, and preventive health port health-improving multisector initiatives. (cdc.gov)
  • The individual responsible for all incident activities, including the development of strategies and tactics and the ordering and the release of resources. (cdc.gov)
  • Significantly, UFO activity sometimes transcends mere surveillance and involves direct and unequivocal interference with strategic weapons systems. (theufochronicles.com)
  • icologic and metabolic data that explain the nasal and major differences are 4- to 10-fold more ring-oxidation lung differences and their relevance for human risk and phenylacetaldehyde pathways in mice compared assessment. (cdc.gov)
  • As we made clear during this month's G7 summit, the United States is committed to employing all of its tools, including export controls, to ensure that global supply chains are free from the use of forced labor and technology is not misused to abuse human rights," said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. (commerce.gov)
  • If the IRB does not believe that a proposed research activity fits any of the three categories, but that it does present a reasonable opportunity to further the understanding, prevention, or alleviation of a serious problem affecting the health or welfare of children, the IRB may forward that proposed activity to the HHS Secretary for review under conditions identified in section 407 of the regulations. (hhs.gov)
  • It also investigates and disciplines its officers if they are accused of human rights violations. (state.gov)
  • And by allowing corporations to enter the political sphere, all human political rights are lessened. (opednews.com)
  • Succeeding Supreme Courts have wrongfully taken this headnote, and quoted it as the law that corporations have all the rights of humans. (opednews.com)
  • Corporations are not even human. (opednews.com)
  • Corporations are not human, they not endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights. (opednews.com)
  • The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added five Chinese entities to the Entity List for accepting or utilizing forced labor in the implementation of the People's Republic of China's campaign of repression against Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). (commerce.gov)
  • By contrast, Roberto Battiston, president of the Italian Space Agency and another member of ESA, took less of an interest in the Moon except as a way to support human missions to Mars. (thespacereview.com)
  • Thus, most information on human placental biology is obtained by studying placental tissue obtained after delivery, often from pathological pregnancies such as preterm deliveries occurring predominately in the third trimester, from term deliveries in which placental development has already crested, or from in vitro model systems. (nih.gov)
  • Chemicals that are lipophilic and resistant to metabolic degradation have a tendency to increasingly accumulate with increasing levels of the food chain and to distribute to fatty tissue and breast milk within the human body. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, Borealin +/- thyroids exhibited structural and transcriptomic similarities with papillary thyroid carcinoma tissue from a human patient harboring a BOREALIN mutation, suggesting a role in thyroid tumor susceptibility. (bvsalud.org)
  • Chamber of Entrepreneurs represents the interests of small, medium and large businesses, with its activities covering all areas of entrepreneurship, including domestic and foreign trade. (egov.kz)
  • The government authorizes four different entities to investigate criminal activity and provide security. (state.gov)
  • Requiring IRB review of some research activities involving children that would be exempt if the research subjects were adults. (hhs.gov)
  • The exemption of research activities involving survey and interview procedures is eliminated. (hhs.gov)
  • Conditions for IRB approval of proposed research activities in three categories depending on the level of risk and other specified features of the proposed research activity. (hhs.gov)
  • Research activities, particularly undergraduate research, and independent creative opportunities extend across disciplines, taking many forms and offering benefits across majors. (tamucc.edu)
  • and in Yemen, through support for Houthi rebels (see the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Syria, Iraq, and Yemen). (state.gov)
  • This table contains time series data for numerous human activity data sets associated with the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment. (noaa.gov)
  • Blood was drawn at time 0 and 3 and 6 hours after administration of recombinant human TSH. (bvsalud.org)
  • Depending on the level of risk and other specified features of the research activity, there are three categories under which the IRB can approve research involving children. (hhs.gov)
  • respiratory tract effects in rodents are not relevant for human risk assessment. (cdc.gov)
  • Five persistent chemicals or chemical classes detected in human milk (CDDs, hexachlorobenzene, p,p' -DDE, methylmercury, and PCBs) were selected for the purposes of reviewing available data on their joint actions in producing toxic effects following oral exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • I understand and accept that the ACLU must make difficult -- and sometimes very unpopular -- choices in order to protect the civil rights of all humans. (opednews.com)
  • CRSJ is the ABA membership entity dedicated to the advancement of human rights, civil liberties, and social justice. (americanbar.org)