At the moment Congress was considering amendments to the Penal Code, and lobbying efforts were naturally concentrated there.

(b) Development education, advocacy, lobbying and representation

Which girl was doing a little lobbying?

(g) Lobbying with our legislators for adequate health insurance

NGOs, too, have an indispensable part to play in monitoring and lobbying.

The preparation of alternative reports also forms part of conference orientation and lobbying training courses.

Most of the projects and programmes implemented had been successful as a result of focused lobbying.

CHANGE was represented and contributed to organizing the caucus and training others in lobbying and monitoring.

Lobbying advocacy National Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians and the Association of Traditional Chiefs of the Niger.

UNMIL is conducting public awareness activities and lobbying to facilitate the passage of the legislation in the near future.

It is also actively involved in lobbying Congress with regard to the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.

It is also hoped that some lobbying could influence the legislation in defense of woman entrepreneur in the informal sector.

Another strategy trained women for participation in national politics and political parties by helping them develop advocacy and lobbying skills.

Their lobbying efforts worked well, first to deregulate, and then to have taxpayers pay for the cleanup. Their hope is that it will work once again to keep them free to do as they please, regardless of the risks for taxpayers and the economy.

They are also lobbying to ensure that legislators recognize the importance of drafting of laws that guarantee and promote gender equality.

The CSR has also been actively lobbying with UNCTAD and UNIFEM to bring in gender dimensions to the WTO trade negotiations.

In Fiji, legal and financial assistance in lobbying, advocacy and drafting with 24 non governmental organizations brought about unprecedented constitutional reform.

In many countries, the cooperative movement has developed strong lobbying forces to apply political pressure to pass or protect favourable legislation.

(ii) It organized a meeting with Kenyan non governmental organizations to review the global Platform for Action, and another workshop on lobbying

This included responses such as open hostility, attempts to discredit, lies, threats, other forms of intimidation and sophisticated forms of political lobbying.

The September summit would then become a lobbying bazaar as countries seek to promote their national ambitions or to protect their national interests.

Oh, yes, I was at the board meeting, we were takin' a vote and one of the girls was doin' a little lobbying'.

71. The Committee has undertaken intense lobbying to bring the matter to the attention of as wide a domestic and international audience as possible.

Business associations and governments can also support the commodity sector by lobbying and identifying market opportunities and channelling information flows to the enterprise sector.

The revolving door between Congress and lobbying firms appears to have been central to how the financial sector became deregulated, which effectively allowed excessive risk taking in the run up to the crisis. In another paper, Igan and Mishra, working with Thierry Tressel, found that firms taking more risks before 2008 were also engaged in more lobbying.

I expected to hear about lobbying efforts and nutrition, but mostly I learned about supply chains. The discussion focused mainly on how food can be procured, prepared, and delivered within the constraints of pricing, availability, and each school district s facilities (which determine what kind of food they can prepare and serve).

The Special Secretariat on Policies for Women and the Women's Caucus of the National Congress are lobbying for approval of these new pieces of legislation.

Throughout 2002, Governor Calderón continued her lobbying of the United States Congress to modify tax legislation in order to bring new companies to the island.

The draft rule seeks to make clear that lobbying Member States by individual staff members against positions taken by the Secretary General is not permitted.

In Kenya, UNIFEM assisted HIV AIDS and women's networks in lobbying for a gender sensitive HIV AIDS control and prevention bill, which was submitted to Parliament.

This status of the Tribunals has led to a great scramble and lobbying by judicial personnel to be appointed as chairmen or members of the tribunals.

Go to ClimateCrisis.org or CarbonCalculator.com and buy carbon credits. You could join other leaders in mandating, lobbying for mandated cap and trade in U.S. greenhouse gas reductions.

And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done.

Global Youth Action is trying to impact policy and lobbying organizations and authorities to include youth decision and policy making processes that will inevitably shape their lives.

SAGE, Plan Guinée, APAC Guinée, etc) have been reinforced, and they are now actively participating in lobbying, awareness raising and promotion on behalf of education for girls.

ANGOC participated in non governmental organization lobbying work (ii) The Conference itself, held from 3 to 14 June 1992, the Executive Director attended as an official observer

Civil society also played an important role in lobbying on behalf of women of African descent to ensure that they were at the centre of any development approach.

Throughout 1994 and the first part of 1995, CHANGE also organized regional conference lobbying training sessions with the British Council in eight countries, reaching some 36 other countries.

In that regard, it was stressed that electing the members by a two thirds majority of the Assembly, as recommended in the draft outcome document, was not in line with current United Nations practice and would be detrimental to developing countries due to obvious constraints in their ability to undertake lobbying efforts compared with developed countries.

There isn't anybody in Washington lobbying to make it happen or in those municipalities, to build out their cities with these wireless networks because there's zero ongoing communications cost.

Politicians in both Hawaii and Guam have been lobbying hard to become the chosen destination for the carrier owing to the significant impact it would have on the local economy.

As a result, the big transnational institutions are lobbying hard for a pan European approach to banking supervision and regulation (and implicitly for fiscal bailouts should that supervision and regulation fail).

Human rights education methodologies shall take into account the need for cultural sensitivity and should include lobbying, networking, exchange of best practices, capacity building and preparation of material in local languages.

Ms. Herfkens then proceeded to suggest proactive ways to take action, such as lobbying the Governments of developed countries to fulfill their promise of devoting 0.7 of their GNP to development aid.

The aim is to reach the vast majority of the Dutch population through radio and television commercials, the who does what' (www.wiedoetwat.nl) website, public relations, campaigns, debates, media lobbying and free cards'.