Several international campaign groups have urged Trump to maintain the provision.
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EU and donations to other campaign groups during the EU referendum.
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It also defended the right of campaign groups to accept donations.
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Campaign groups say the human rights situation has worsened since the referendum.
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It had also defended the right of campaign groups to accept donations.
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Campaign groups have called for protests against the culture of rape in Brazil.
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Civil liberties campaign groups have reacted angrily to the Met&aposs decision, however.
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Emily's List and NARAL, both abortion rights campaign groups, have already endorsed Gideon.
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Campaign groups estimate there are more than 3,000 homeless people in the Brussels region.
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Campaign groups estimate that there are more than 3,000 homeless people in the Brussels region.
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Some Western states and campaign groups said they had hoped for a stronger U.N. mandate.
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Join campaign groups, attend protests, and think creatively about ways to get your message heard.
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The rival referendum campaign groups, Remain and Leave, said they were suspending activities on Friday.
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Certainly campaign groups, such as Britain's Extinction Rebellion, increasingly emphasise catastrophic risk above all else.
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Kadyrov, himself accused by campaign groups of human rights abuses, denied he was a spy.
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Today, campaign groups want it known that these are in reality unspeakable cold-blooded murders.
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A rally held by the Stop Trump Coalition and other campaign groups started at 103 a.m.
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As for what happens next, a clutch of pro-EU campaign groups have released fresh research.
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He did not confirm the reports about activists issued on Friday evening by international campaign groups 350.
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But in Alabama and Pennsylvania, Democratic campaign groups spent millions; in Arizona's eighth district they have not.
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Campaign groups say Beatriz's case is emblematic of the harm that harsh anti-abortion laws can cause.
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The rally was organized by several pro-European Union campaign groups and dubbed the People's Vote march.
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Local campaign groups, like Fundeci and Penal Forum, now defend those accused by "patriots" free of charge.
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Environmental campaign groups say that Ivory Coast is at risk of losing all its forest cover by 2034.
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Campaign groups cautiously welcomed the government's application to UNESCO, but said the battle had not yet been won.
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Some campaign groups and lawmakers have also called for large firms to be required to publish ethnicity pay gaps.
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Many political parties and campaign groups in the Middle East and further afield trace their roots to the Brotherhood.
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But campaign groups such as Humanist UK have complained that the government has been slow to impose this policy.
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Corner hopes the new portal will attract a range of contributors and users, including media, NGOs and campaign groups.
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LBL and other campaign groups have organized "note droppings" like this in retail stores like Zara for many years.
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The new housing laws will price many tenants out of the capital, Sweeney and other social housing campaign groups said.
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By contrast, two major GOP campaign groups are spending over $1 million each on ads for Hyde-Smith, per Politico.
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We're investigating social media platforms, data brokers, analytics firms, political parties and campaign groups across all spectrums and academic institutions.
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Last month it also says it hosted an information session about its advertising and content policies for referendum campaign groups.
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Its investigation confirmed that up to 200 political parties or campaign groups used NationBuilder during the 2017 UK general election.
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The government has been under pressure to take measures to reduce air pollution after losing legal cases brought by campaign groups.
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"Despite the industry's constant handwringing about diversity, disability is weirdly absent from panels, op-eds and campaign groups," the website opined.
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But campaign groups have been suspicious of Shell's endeavors, given that the company continues to invest heavily in fossil fuel extraction.
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About a third of them would be located in protected areas, the campaign groups RiverWatch and EuroNatur said in a study.
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"New technologies that use data analytics to micro-target people give campaign groups the ability to connect with individual voters," Denham said.
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Facebook's potential power over elections lies in its ability to enable political parties and campaign groups to specifically target individuals with advertising.
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It been hailed by campaign groups as a significant step forward in their efforts to make sure Big Business respects international law.
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Campaign groups like the Club for Growth have joined the House "freedom caucus" and Senator Rand Paul in slamming a "new entitlement programme".
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Campaign groups have expressed concerns that the money will be considered as infrastructure investments, reducing the amount available for roads, schools and hospitals.
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France has long been criticized by anti-graft activists and campaign groups for failing to ever convict a French firm for bribery abroad.
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Religious leaders, refugee rights campaign groups and opposition parties have accused Britain of dragging its heels in helping to deal with unaccompanied children.
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Boris Johnson's controversial decision to suspend Parliament led to a spike in small donations to one of the leading campaign groups against Brexit.
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Despite years of trying to clamp down, opposition lawmakers and campaign groups say the government has failed to bring the problem under control.
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Russia is still widely seen in the West as an authoritarian-style regime and campaign groups continue to criticize elections held in the country.
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The campaign also attracted the support of campaign groups such as Internet sans Frontieres (ISF), which has been seeking to quantify the economic damage.
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A legal opinion published by lawmakers also investigating the issue said that Vote Leave might have illegally coordinated the activities of smaller campaign groups.
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Baker, a leading member of the large eurosceptic faction in May's Conservative Party, said he had spoken to Brexit campaign groups about the deal.
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Todd Young (R) — 7 points in a recent Monmouth poll, and more than 20 points in polling that's been released from Democratic campaign groups.
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In November, RSPO members - who include investors and campaign groups - supported a resolution to improve the quality, oversight and credibility of assessments by outside auditors.
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In 2011, it was revealed that officer Mark Kennedy had gone undercover to infiltrate campaign groups including environmental activists on behalf of the Metropolitan Police.
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"There are many political and campaign groups in this country, that's entirely right and as you would expect in a democracy," the spokesman told reporters.
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Campaign groups have organized a packed schedule reflecting an angry national mood, one reminiscent of protests against the Iraq War more than a decade ago.
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That project is similar to smaller scale ones at state parties and campaign groups, which have tracked down-ballot candidates to tie them to Trump.
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In their June 24 notification, the campaign groups say Total's 2018 plan makes no specific reference to its Ugandan Tilenga project, and thereby violates the law.
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Pension funds and hedge funds from western Europe, Canada and the United States have been accused by campaign groups of benefiting from land seized in Piaui.
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In a killing that rocked campaign groups in Cameroon in July 2013, gay rights activist Eric Ohena Lembembe was found dead in his home in Yaounde.
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Allowing potential adversaries a monopoly on technologies that could enable them to launch a crushing attack because some campaign groups have raised concerns is quite another.
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However, the deal is facing opposition from campaign groups and trade unions, who say CETA is as dangerous as their bete noire, a planned EU-U.
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Campaign groups warned of the risks of failure and accused powerful players such as the European Union of not pushing hard enough to reach an agreement.
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Authorities are allowing campaign groups and demonstrators to congregate in the towns of Hendaye and Irun, which straddle the France-Spain border 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) away.
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Finally, boosters argue that introducing RCV limits the efficacy, and therefore the amount, of money spent by single-issue campaign groups, because they often finance negative ads.
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Environmental campaign groups, as well as some businesses, investors and academics said the meeting in Marrakesh must keep up the spirit of international support for climate action.
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Last month, Thailand said its seafood exports to Europe, the United States and Australia had not been hit by reports of slavery by campaign groups and media.
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But it has also led to expensive projects, and ultimately bankruptcy and accusations by campaign groups such as London-based Jubilee of "debt-trap diplomacy" by Beijing.
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Brussels has rejected the use of traditional "investor state-dispute settlement" tribunals, criticised by campaign groups as a tool for multinationals to undermine environmental and labour standards.
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Officials in the mainly French-speaking country ordered an internet blackout in English-speaking parts of the northwest and southwest, and have banned two "Anglophone" campaign groups.
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But political parties and digital campaign groups are growing increasingly sophisticated in gaming the rules and eluding Facebook's attempts to uproot underhanded behavior, the NYU researchers warned.
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The single biggest contributor to climate change in California is a blown-out natural gas well more than 8,700 feet underground, state authorities and campaign groups said Monday.
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Promundo is one of a growing number of campaign groups that believe working with men and boys is a crucial part of ending violence and discrimination against women.
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In the late 1990s, after complaints from campaign groups about the living conditions of hens, Mr Langert visited an egg facility to find that conditions were indeed terrible.
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The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee is investigating the spending of the main campaign groups in the EU referendum as part of an investigation into fake news.
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Some would see a similar act of contortion in his liberal position over abortion, which has earned him high ratings from pro-choice campaign groups like Planned Parenthood.
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Grassroots campaign groups within European countries are demanding restitution, such as in Germany, where 40 organizations recently signed an open letter calling for the return of historical artifacts.
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It's been developed with the help of Rape Crisis England & Wales, as well as consent campaign groups Girls Against, Safe Gigs For Women and the White Ribbon Campaign.
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The FBI is investigating a cyber breach at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that felt like déjà vu to many in Washington — hackers targeting political campaign groups.
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She noted that some campaign groups have expressed concern about HPV vaccines, but said this review had found no evidence to support claims of increased risk of harm.
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The FBI is investigating a cyber breach at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that felt like déjà vu to many in Washington -- hackers targeting political campaign groups.
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Britain is anxious to find something to hold onto in a post-Brexit world and opposition politicians as well as campaign groups fear that a new U.K.-U.
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"For three years, we've been in a phony war," said Naomi Smith, the chief executive of Best for Britain, one of the biggest remaining anti-Brexit campaign groups.
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President-elect Donald Trump's intention to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not gone down well with campaign groups.
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The company received £3.5M from leave campaign groups in the run up to the 2016 referendum, and has been described by leave campaigners as instrumental in securing their win.
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About a third of the planned dam projects are in protected areas, including some in national parks, according to the 2017 study, commissioned by campaign groups RiverWatch and Euronatur.
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Greenpeace and other campaign groups have said the logging allowed by Warsaw is threatening the UNESCO world heritage site and its populations of European bison, lynx and rare birds.
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Police said they were investigating the incident in Maranhao State where members of the Gamela tribe were attacked by farmers with guns, clubs and knives, according to campaign groups.
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When the plan was finally unveiled last month, it was heavily criticised by health campaign groups for not including tough enough measures to limit sugar consumption, especially among children.
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The Commission said it suspected criminal offences had been committed and that Banks was not the true source of 8 million pounds in loans to the Brexit campaign groups.
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The choice of feminism as word of the year, ahead of 'complicit', 'recuse', and 'empathy', highlights the gains made in a challenging year for women's rights, campaign groups said.
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Campaign groups urged governments to exercise caution and EU member states repeatedly failed to take a decision to extend the license approval, which expires at the end of the month.
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EU—one of two main campaign groups during the referendum—tweeted, "We didn't win two world wars to be pushed around by a kraut," next to an image of Merkel.
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Campaign groups Amnesty International, Spain's FundiPau, Greenpeace and Oxfam have called on Spain to stop selling military equipment to the Saudis, accusing the kingdom of abusing rights - charges it denies.
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Democrats immediately vowed revenge against the GOP lawmakers for their votes, with Democratic campaign groups issuing a slew of statements condemning the lawmakers and announcing ads targeting their home districts.
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The ideological campaign groups that Republicans had to please during Barack Obama's presidency—the Club for Growth, Heritage Action, the Senate Conservatives Fund—might have been able to resist the trend.
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Over the last few months, The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), campaign groups, and various scooter companies have been engaged in debate around a burgeoning city-planning and privacy issue.
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This new idea might not be as controversial as his talk of building a wall between the U.S and Mexico, but it has already raised the eyebrows of local campaign groups.
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Because of this, campaign groups are forever calling for governments to make it harder for young people to access porn sites, afraid they will learn about sex through well-choreographed threesomes.
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The Commission said it suspected criminal offences had been committed and that Banks was not the true source of 20163 million pounds ($10 million) in loans to the Brexit campaign groups.
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Last year, when Abrams announced her campaign, groups like Higher Heights and Democracy in Color quickly launched campaigns supporting her, even as critics argued that the campaigns were backing her prematurely.
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The EU and Morocco concluded an association agreement in 1996 and a partnership agreement in the fisheries sector in 2006, the validity of which was disputed by campaign groups in Britain.
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The development and growth of GM plants is heavily criticised by agriculture campaign groups for harming the environment and having the potential to damage native crop breeds through field cross-pollination.
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The discrepancy, worth more than $740 million, led a coalition of campaign groups to call on Monday for an investigation into what has happened to around 69 million tonnes of missing sand.
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Though this bill was defeated, activists are expected to continue their push for reform — buoyed by the huge levels of support campaign groups such as Ni Una Menos (Not One Less) received.
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Chechnya's authorities force women to cover their hair in public spaces and buildings, and ignore harassment of women deemed to be dressed immodestly, New York-based Human Rights Watch campaign groups says.
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Some Campaign groups including Global Witness have accused Gertler of exploiting his friendship with Congo President Joseph Kabila to ink sweetheart deals with the state that have cost the Congolese treasury millions.
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Separately, one of the most vocal pro-Brexit campaign groups launched a campaign to oust Hammond from parliament, saying he was part of a plot to stop Britain leaving the European Union .
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Those involved in campaign groups on the issue said as yet only a relatively small minority had chosen to give up on a family over climate fears - but the numbers are growing.
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The British parliament declared a symbolic 'climate emergency' in response to the protests, raising hopes among campaign groups that the government will cancel the third runway as part of more ambitious climate commitments.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Encouraging people to eat a low-fat diet is making Britain's weight problem worse not better, and having a disastrous impact on health, two anti-obesity campaign groups said on Monday.
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The company said it would rely on reports from established campaign groups on both sides of the campaign to identify foreign-based ads, as its automated election integrity tools are still in development.
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At the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), which starts on April 19, a range of NGOs and campaign groups will be lobbying policy-makers about the merits of the alternatives to prohibition.
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Campaign groups and collectives like Decrim Now and SWARM are calling for full decriminalization, but in the meantime strippers—whose work is entirely legal—are unionizing in the hopes of sparking industry-wide change.
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But in a couple key Senate races in Nevada and Arizona, Democratic campaign groups say public frustration over how corporations are able to suck up increasing amounts of consumer data could make a difference.
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But previous deadlines have repeatedly been missed, the finance minister has criticized the program's cost, and anti-corruption and environmental campaign groups have raised concerns about the lack of transparency in the tender process.
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Responding to the demands of campaign groups, notably Cole's Apology Alliance, then- Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2013 made a formal national apology for the intergenerational pain caused by the government's past adoption policies.
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The public boost of support from the president led key campaign groups like the Republican National Committee to reinstate their financial support of the candidate, after initially withdrawing it amid the sexual misconduct allegations.
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The story doesn't end there, though, because whoever was behind the trade talk leak appears to have resorted to additional tactics to draw attention to it — including emailing campaign groups and political activists directly.
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At the other end of the ideological spectrum, Muslim campaign groups are reacting angrily to the idea that anything or anyone should impede the right of parents to dress their children as they see fit.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The children of Syria's civil war are not a "lost generation", and such labels - widely used by campaign groups - are irresponsible, said a psychologist who specializes in the trauma of war.
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"Blair and his elitist gang are damaging our negotiating strength, thus damaging our national interest by their continuing efforts to undermine democracy," said Richard Tice, who helped found one of the two Leave campaign groups.
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Religious leaders, refugee rights campaign groups and opposition parties have accused the government of dragging its heels on helping to move unaccompanied children out of the camp, which France has said it will soon demolish.
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" Campaign spending by non-campaign groups in the first presidential election year after Citizens United "rose 21965 percent in the presidential election, by 21982 percent in House races, and by 25,24 percent in Senate races.
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One takeaway is that campaigns and non-campaign groups like Working America could do well to focus more of their energy on boosting turnout at the end of a race than persuading voters earlier on.
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LONDON (Reuters) - One of the main Brexit campaign groups in Britain's 2200 EU referendum was fined 2200,2224 pounds ($20.1,217.4) on Friday by the Electoral Commission for incorrectly reporting its expenditure and breaching a spending limit.
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The issue has been contentious on both sides of the Atlantic, but particularly in Europe, where campaign groups have focused on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in their opposition to CETA and the planned EU-U.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A celebrity rapper and convicted human trafficker who forced women and a child into sex work across Europe has left a hit Bulgarian reality TV show after an outcry from campaign groups.
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In an alleyway near our building, representatives from three different political campaign groups have set up camp, and every morning they cling to anyone who passes them by, like those suckerfish who won't leave whales alone.
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Some campaign groups have criticised both banks' funding for TANAP and TAP after Azerbaijan was suspended from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) - a standard for oil, gas and mineral governance - due to human rights issues.
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The European Union in July granted a temporary extension of its approval for the weed-killer, pending further scientific study after a proposal for full license renewal met with opposition from member states and campaign groups.
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Campaign groups said the release undercuts Barack Obama's efforts to slow the rate of global warming to avoid a tipping point and live up to U.S. commitments to a historic climate accord agreed in Paris last month.
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Patrick Heneghan, former head of campaigns for the Labour party, was appointed as the new acting chief executive of the People's Vote, the biggest campaign groups for a second referendum, while its board finds a permanent successor.
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A parallel forum planned by Civil Society for Climate Action, a coalition of Chilean campaign groups, will still take place in Santiago in December, aiming to promote dialogue and citizen participation in tackling climate change, it said.
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"It's going to be a long fight," said Susan Becker, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), one of two campaign groups that have filed a lawsuit in Ohio seeking a change to self-determination.
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The decision fueled criticism from environmental and citizen campaign groups against Brussels, thus strengthening euroscepticism already on the rise in many states where citizens often accuse the European Union for measures their own governments had delegated to Brussels.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - International campaign groups urged the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday to launch an international investigation into alleged war crimes in Yemen, including the killing of many civilians in air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition.
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They came from a smattering of different campaign groups representing the Umbrella Movement, which led the city's 2014 "Occupy" protest, civil rights groups, Tibetan independence activists, and members of Falun Gong, a spiritual organization banned in mainland China.
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LONDON (Reuters) - One of the most vocal pro-Brexit campaign groups launched a campaign on Monday to oust finance minister Philip Hammond from parliament, saying he is part of a plot to stop Britain leaving the European Union.
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Reports of a rise in sexual assault incidents across major European cities from Cologne to the Swedish capital Stockholm have been blamed by a number of politicians and campaign groups on the influx of migrants to the continent.
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Nigerian campaign groups, including Concerned Nigerians Group and the Coalition in Defence of Nigerians Democracy & Constitution, issued a statement in which they said "violent attacks" on protesters at DSS headquarters show that Buhari "is running a dictatorship again".
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Pending the results of the ECHA study, the EU granted an 18-month extension last July of its approval for the weed killer after a proposal for full license renewal met opposition from member states and campaign groups.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson should "turbocharge" policies to cut Britain's carbon emissions so the country can lead by example when it hosts a major U.N. climate summit in Glasgow in November, campaign groups said on Monday.
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A report from campaign groups Global Witness and Transparency International said in October that EU states generated around 25 billion euros in foreign direct investment in a decade from selling at least 6,000 passports and nearly 100,000 residency permits.
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The report, titled "A Nightmare for Workers," shows findings from campaign groups China Labor Watch, ActionAid, CiR, and Solidar Suisse, who sent undercover investigators to four factories that produced toys sold at Walmart, Costco, Target and other international retailers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French and Ugandan campaign groups including Friends of the Earth have filed a legal notification with Total, claiming it has failed to address the human and environmental impact of its Ugandan operations as required by French law.
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But it has faced criticism from survivors of the fire and relatives of the dead, as well as from opposition politicians and campaign groups, who say its remit fails to address the social and political issues underlying the tragedy.
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At the time, the presidency also said Boko Haram was willing to negotiate the release of 83 more girls, though none have been let go so far, spurring criticism from campaign groups over the government's handling of the talks.
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Campaign groups say inequalities in land distribution in Paraguay stem back to the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner, who gave away titles to about eight million hectares of state-owned land to members of the military and political elite.
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A possible state visit by Trump remains a contentious issue among Britons, with lawmakers and campaign groups calling for the offer to be rescinded and promising to take to the streets in protest if he does come to Britain.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - United Nations rights experts and more than 200 campaign groups called on the government of Honduras on Thursday to protect a key witness in the killing of activist Berta Caceres that has sparked widespread international condemnation.
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PARIS, June 25 (Reuters) - French and Ugandan campaign groups including Friends of the Earth have filed a legal notification with Total, claiming it has failed to address the human and environmental impact of its Ugandan operations as required by French law.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil has announced changes to the procedure for demarcating indigenous lands in a move campaign groups fear will weaken the land rights of communities facing mounting pressure from illegal logging and big agricultural operations.
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But a report from campaign groups Global Witness and Transparency International said in October that EU states generated around 25 billion euros in foreign direct investment in a decade from selling at least 6,000 passports and nearly 100,000 residency permits.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A group of 30 international and local campaign groups have petitioned two banks to abandon plans to raise funds to build an oil pipeline to export Ugandan oil, saying the project would damage local livelihoods, water resources and wildlife.
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KAMPALA, June 6 (Reuters) - A group of 30 international and local campaign groups have petitioned two banks to abandon plans to raise funds to build an oil pipeline to export Ugandan oil, saying the project would damage local livelihoods, water resources and wildlife.
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Since Buhari traveled to London for treatment of an unspecified condition on May 7, campaign groups have stepped up calls for a separate southeastern state known as Biafra, evoking memories of a conflict there that killed hundreds of thousands in the 1960s.
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The decision to speed up that particular measure is unlikely to satisfy Cameron's many critics in opposition parties and in some campaign groups that say Britain already has the tools it needs to crack down on tax evasion but lacks the will.
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As many as two-thirds of all trafficked children rescued and placed in local care - from foster families to care homes - go missing within the first three days, often due to mistrust in authorities and fear of their traffickers, campaign groups say.
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Campaign groups such as Medecins Sans Frontieres have been pushing for the new drug to be offered to people in developing countries since it was first approved in the United States in 2013, as the drug is well tolerated and extremely effective.
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At the same time as the horse festival in Yushu, buildings were being destroyed in Sichuan province at Larung Gar, one of the world's centres of Tibetan Buddhist learning, according to campaign groups outside China, and thousands of monks and nuns were evicted.
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A day earlier, Climate Action Network International, which represents hundreds of environmental campaign groups, warned Chile's move "must not detract from the political urgency to address the climate crisis" through emissions reductions and stronger efforts to adapt to wilder weather and rising seas.
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But a large and growing group of development charities like Catholic Relief Services, Unicef and other United Nations agencies, campaign groups like Disability Rights International and Christian advocates for family care are successfully changing the practices of tourism companies, churches and development agencies.
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Some campaign groups involved in the row have suggested EFSA was unduly influenced by studies backed by Monsanto, which analysts say could stand to lose out on up to $100 million of sales of its weed killer if it were banned in Europe.
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The new laws, should they pass parliament, would ban foreign donations to political parties or any political group that has spent more than A$100,000 ($76,350) campaigning in the past four years - a rule that could also likely affect environmental and other campaign groups.
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A survey of 236,2773 Brits, commissioned by the anti-Brexit campaign groups Best For Britain and Hope Not Hate, found that the election will result in a pro-Remain majority in the UK parliament if 2277% of Remainers vote tactically at the next election.
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But reports by CBC News, Canada's public broadcaster, that staff at the country's biggest five banks had moved customers to higher fee accounts and raised overdraft and credit card limits without their knowledge made lawmakers and campaign groups question if lenders were properly supervised.
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The fundraising aspect, Manchin said, also applies to raising money for Senate campaign groups, like the National Republican Senate Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which work to defend and pick up seats for their respective parties, even if that means ousting incumbents.
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"Local communities in the MATOPIBA region have voiced their opposition to the recent expansion of large-scale soybean farming in the area," a coalition of Brazilian and international campaign groups including the U.S.-based National Family Farm Coalition said in a statement responding to the court decision.
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A high-octane group of elected officials—including governors, members of Congress and city mayors—were joined by donors, the heads of progressive campaign groups and veterans of presidential campaigns at a retreat in the cool, mist-shrouded mountain resort of Aspen, Colorado on August 4th-5th.
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In an era before social media allowed like-minded people to form instant campaign groups, the film follows members of Act Up Paris who meet every week to plan direct action stunts to force indifferent politicians, educators and drug companies to get serious about preventing and curing the disease.
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The UK is currently scheduled to leave the EU on October 31, and Boris Johnson has pledged to deliver Brexit with or without a deal, despite warnings from campaign groups that a no-deal outcome would leave EU citizens without proper legal status and struggling to access basic services.
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AIQ received £3.5 million from leave campaign groups in the run up to the U.K.'s 2016 EU referendum campaign, and has been described by leave campaigners as instrumental in securing their win, though exactly where it obtained data for targeting referendum ads has been a key question for the enquiry.
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But despite this, says Coughlan, institutions like the Australian Medical Association and Health Practitioner Regulation Agency have refused in correspondence with campaign groups to issue public statements or investigate related crimes— for example, alleged sexual abuse and the use of banned drugs like heroin on unwed mothers before and after birth.
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An opposition lawmaker and former minister, Ben Bradshaw, called last month for a British government investigation into claims of Russian interference, adding that there were "questions" about Arron Banks, an insurance company owner and political gadfly who gave heavy financial backing to one of the campaign groups on the leave side.
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Breaking out of a cycle of loneliness can be hard because the fewer people you speak to, the sooner you'll feel like you're the only person in the world dealing with it—which is why many campaign groups are pushing for a more open, society-wide discussion about the issue.
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KATOWICE, Poland (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Poland's deputy environment minister, Michal Kurtyka, said on Saturday he was in contact with the authorities over reports from campaign groups that at least 12 to 14 activists were refused entry to the country or deported while on their way to a U.N. climate change conference in Katowice.
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This decision is an expression of solidarity with the millions of human beings currently held in cages in US prisons and jails, with their communities and loved ones, and with friends, colleagues, organisers and campaign groups working tirelessly to call out, resist and counter the social violence perpetuated by the prison system.
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"That is the capacity in which I gave Shahmir advice and encouragement, and I can understand if the lines became blurred for him, but I am clear that I did not direct the activities of any separate campaign groups," Parkinson, who is now a top adviser to May, said in a statement.
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But while Facebook is "one of the, if not the most important channel" of the media, there are "massive question marks" about the transparency of political parties' and campaign groups' use of it, Carl Miller, research director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at thinktank Demos, told CNBC via telephone.
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It appears that many of the campaign groups behind the push for the legalization of medicinal cannabis—some of whom are funded by firms with interests in an economic "green rush"—are now turning their sights to legalization for recreational use, as the discussion around the drug increasingly enters the public sphere.
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And I think that's one of the good things about the-, the WEF, is that it does actually allow people to come and talk about their specific topics, they might be from academia, or from certain, you know, campaign groups, and it does get the business community to think about things differently.
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What used to be a public exchange of information and democratic dialogue is now a customized whisper campaign: Groups both ethical and malicious can divide Americans, whispering into the ear of each and every user, nudging them based on their fears and encouraging them to whisper to others who share those fears.
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Health campaign groups have hailed the findings of the latest study, which support other recent studies that have noticed falls in youth drinking in the UK and US. Britain has seen more dramatic declines in teenage drinking than any other European country since 2002, a World Health Organization report found last month.
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Binyam Mohamed, who spent years in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and then Guantanamo Bay, said he was subjected to this Eminem hit for days on end: R.E.M. and Pearl Jam led a campaign to demand the military stop using music to torture prisoners, and campaign groups asked the government to disclose what songs were being used.
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"This decision is an expression of solidarity with the millions of human beings currently held in cages in US prisons and jails, with their communities and loved ones, and with friends, colleagues, organisers and campaign groups working tirelessly to call out, resist and counter the social violence perpetuated by the prison system," Collins writes in a statement sent to Hyperallergic.
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Soros also wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday criticizing the "toxic attacks" and saying it was vital to try change people's minds about leaving the EU. While the British government has said that the 52-48 referendum vote in 2015 to leave the EU must be respected, many "remainer" campaign groups and lawmakers are continuing to push for a rethink.
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The Facebook CTO was also asked if the company could provide it with an archive of adverts that were run on its platform around the time of the Brexit referendum by Aggregate IQ — a Canadian data company that's been linked to Cambridge Analytica/SCL, and which received £1003M from leave campaign groups in the run up to the 2016 referendum (and has also been described by leave campaigners as instrumental to securing their win).
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Among the thousands of pages of documents submitted to British courts by these companies are hundreds of Facebook and Twitter posts from anti-fracking protesters and campaign groups, uncovered by Motherboard in partnership with investigative journalists at DeSmog UK. They show how fracking companies are using social media surveillance carried out by a private firm to strengthen their cases in court by discrediting activists using personal information to justify banning their protests.
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