In his 20s he founded a pressure group, Campaign Against Homophobia.
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Another pressure group, the National Council Against Smoking, has also criticized the advert.
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At the other end, the Basij operates more like a political pressure group.
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WALHI, an environmental pressure group, has filed a lawsuit over deforestation in Central Kalimantan.
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Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, counts thousands more detained for their political opinions.
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Like Banksy, I am not allying myself with any political party or pressure group.
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This was the best organized and best funded pressure group in 193th-century Britain.
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White Americans are starting to act as if they were themselves a minority pressure group.
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So has James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, a conservative pressure-group.
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Officially they ended last year, after Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, condemned the practice.
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Reporters Without Borders, a pressure group, considers Morocco less free even than Algeria or Afghanistan.
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The final five points are based on CSR scores from JUST Capital, a pressure group.
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UKIP was, in effect, a pressure group that Mr. Farage transformed into a national movement.
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There is a big difference between running a political party and running a glorified pressure group.
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It translated, according to Greenpeace, an environmental pressure group, into 160,000 avoided premature deaths in 2016.
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Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, alleges that the diabetic ex-president received inadequate medical care.
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Momentum, a pro-Corbyn pressure group, used ride-sharing apps to get activists to marginal seats.
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Carmakers are abusing another loophole, according to Greg Archer of Transport & Enviroment, a green pressure group.
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The letter was coordinated by National Security Action, a pressure group that has long criticized Trump.
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In 2007, Freedom Works, a right-wing pressure group, rated him at an abysmal 25 percent.
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Those same standards for "pressure group politics" live on today in guns-rights and anti-abortion groups.
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According to Generation Rent, a pressure group, average agency fees are £386 for a two-person household.
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Greenpeace, an environmental pressure group, reckons that around 160,000 premature deaths have been avoided as a result.
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"IT'S LIKE the Midas effect in reverse," says Badiul Majumdar of SHUJAN, an anti-corruption pressure group.
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Jolene Forman of the Drug Policy Alliance, a pressure group, says this is ideal for two reasons.
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Amnesty International, a pressure group, documented 753,032 executions in 2016, but believes the true number is much higher.
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Since February police have jailed at least a dozen artists, according to Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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Kim Callinan of Compassion & Choices, a pressure group, believes there are several reasons for the growth in support.
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The current bill would "sabotage" that effort, says Human Rights Watch, a pressure group based in New York.
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Men can be detained for "looking gay" or being effeminate, says Badr Baabou of Damj, a pressure group.
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He has helped establish a pressure group, the Pearl Initiative, to support the case for better corporate governance.
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"This is an important case," said Rocio Suárez, of the Center of Support for Trans Identities pressure group.
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Last year Human Rights Watch, an international pressure group, found that the test is still routine in Rajasthani hospitals.
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This is "a disgrace", complains David Ritter of Greenpeace, a pressure group, showing "Adani's unholy grip on our politicians".
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During the Brexit campaign, she was aligned with a pressure group agitating for more fossil fuels and less renewables.
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"Libya today couldn't be further away from…acceptable conditions for free elections," warns Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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Tor Dolvik of Transparency International, a pressure group, says one positive effect is continuous debate about the tax code.
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"These surgeries are medically unnecessary, irreversible and non-consensual," said Truffer, co-founder of the international pressure group StopIGM.
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The State Department declined to participate in a pressure group of like-minded countries led by Peru and Canada.
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Brian Fallon, chief spokesman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, recently started Demand Justice, a court-focused pressure group.
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Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea also expel pregnant girls, notes a report published by Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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"There's regulatory capture and artificial scarcity all across the city," says Laura Clark of YIMBY Action, a local pressure group.
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In September a delegation from Human Rights Watch, an international pressure group, was admitted for the first time since 2010.
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Reporters Without Borders, a pressure group, said last year that it was worried about "the regime's domination of the media".
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The Tory left has Open Britain, a pressure group patched together from the ashes of the Remain campaign, but little else.
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"Health worker shortage kills Ugandans unnecessarily every day," said Asia Russell, executive director of the public health pressure group Health GAP.
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" Park Jung-eun of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, a pressure group, goes further: "Officials feel they are above the people.
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A survey earlier this year by Transparency International, a pressure group, found that it is seen as Indonesia's most corrupt institution.
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A 2016 survey by the British pressure group Stonewall found 72 percent of fans reported hearing anti-gay abuse at matches.
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The total is "not less than 1,000", says Sherif Mohie Eddin of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, another pressure group.
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After "years of abuse…the people have finally woken up," says Ernesto Medina Aguayo of Aquí La Gente, a pressure group.
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I read about certain developments in certain countries and what I see resembles more a pressure group than a political party.
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Over 1,363 churches were closed in Indonesia between 2006 and 2014, says Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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While UKIP was once a merely pressure group, it is now a force that has brought seismic change to British politics.
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But patients in the 120 systolic blood pressure group had a higher rate of kidney injury or failure, as well as fainting.
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"Firing the director is an act of revenge against those who expose the truth," says Marcio Astrini of Greenpeace, a pressure group.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW), a pressure group, says that at least 258 people have been convicted of possessing extremist material since 2010.
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Such broad-brush rules could easily be turned on political protesters, points out Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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Death with Dignity, an Oregon-based pressure group, estimates that 2111% of the recipients of this service end their lives at home.
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New home approvals nearly quadrupled from 5,000 in 2015-16 to 19,000 in 2017-18, according to Peace Now, a pressure group.
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"Since the constitution was ratified, the state has been stalling," says Muhammad Azmy, head of the Public Nubian Union, a pressure group.
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Simon Richards, chief executive of center-right pressure group The Freedom Association, called for a boycott of Greggs' "sick anti-Christian" calendar.
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The regulations governing Fonterra, a big dairy co-operative, encourage volume more than value, says Kevin Hackwell of Forest & Bird, a pressure group.
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The offer comes after pressure group Animals Asia collected over half a million signatures in a petition demanding the closure of the aquarium.
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Cash is a prominent member of the European Research Group (ERG), a euroskeptic pressure group of Conservative MPs that has campaigned for Brexit.
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"Parents aren't saying they're pleased at the news that their children are lesbian," says Paulina Martínez of Metal Muses, a lesbian pressure group.
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Mrs May should put new ones in areas of social deprivation, says Don Porter of Conservative Voice, a pressure group that backs grammars.
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Online pressure group Avaaz said it was filing papers in court on Friday seeking a judicial review of Ofcom's "fit and proper" decision.
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In 2016, Akhmetshin was hired by an organization called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation (HRAGIF), essentially an anti-Magnitsky pressure group.
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Pressure group Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human rights (ZLHR) says the arrests and detentions, most for public order offences, have exceeded the legal system's capacity.
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Without sanctions, Venezuela's leaders would face "no tangible pressure" to change their conduct, says José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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"The idea of tying a CEO's pay to the share price is flawed," said Stefan Stern, director of the High Pay Center pressure group.
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A report in 2009 by Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, found that of some 123 Indian medical colleges, only five taught palliative care.
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A fine of 26m won ($24,000) levied on five plants that exceeded emission limits in 2013 was "ridiculously low", says Greenpeace, a pressure group.
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Paul Caruana Galizia, one of the murdered journalist's sons, welcomed Cutajar's departure and activists representing pressure group Occupy Justice said it was "long overdue".
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For this reason, in 2500, he boldly engineered the transformation of the C.P.U.S.A. into a pressure group designed to work within the Democratic Party.
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"People within al-Azhar are just as divided as the Egyptian society," says Amr Ezzat of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a pressure group.
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A poll by commissioned by the Electoral Reform Society, a pressure group, found that the episode influenced the voting choices of one-third of viewers.
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The authorities have prevented Mihra Rittmann, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, from visiting the country for two years on similar grounds.
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The South African investment firm pulled out after criticism of its involvement from pressure group Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS SA).
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"All roads [in this dispute] lead back to the Department for Transport [DfT]," says Stephen Joseph of the Campaign for Better Transport, a pressure group.
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They are his fellow activists in a pressure group opposed to what it saw as the domination of the Oromo ethnic group in the capital.
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Thus far none of the grievances reported to it has been resolved, says Okey Nwanguma of the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, a pressure group.
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Earlier this month, the race to become general secretary was marred by anti-Semitic abuse of Jon Lansman, founder of the left-wing pressure group Momentum.
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Luckily, the battle to save the space—led by pressure group Long Live Southbank—was successful, and it's still much the same as it's always been.
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A report this week by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a pressure group based in New York, says LGBT rights have come under "unprecedented" attack this year.
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But there are concerns that any U.S. accord will depend on Britain watering down environmental standards, said Jean Blaylock from the Global Justice Now pressure group.
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"The use of live ammunition even against small, symbolic protests has effectively reduced dissent to zero," says Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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The Environmental Defenders Office NSW, a pressure group, notes that there is no legal bar to stacking the board of the authority in charge of the plan.
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Environmental pressure group Greenpeace has warned that tropical rainforests and peatland in Southeast Asia are being "destroyed" in order to free up space for palm oil plantations.
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Local pressure group Frack Free United have produced "devil masks" of multi-billionaire Ratcliffe, 66, which they say protestors will wear at the opening stage in Doncaster.
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But the citizens' rights pressure group British in Europe says the warm words have no legal clout and are contingent on them being respected by both sides.
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Demand Justice, a Democratic pressure group aiming to sink Kavanaugh's nomination, rolled out a six-figure ad campaign targeting three of the red state Democrats last week.
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"The cruel indifference by government to the health needs of Ugandans is astonishing," said Asia Russell, Uganda-based executive director of Health GAP, a public health pressure group.
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Geoffrey Cousins, a businessman and head of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a pressure group, says such protests have turned into the biggest environmental campaign "ever run in Australia".
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At least 218 women were prosecuted under El Salvador's stringent anti-abortion laws between 22016 and 20163, according to the pressure group Citizens for the Decriminalization of Abortion.
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"Without democracy there is no possibility that things will get better," says José Antonio Fornaris, of the Association for a Free Press, a pressure group on the island.
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"Yang Ming is aware of political and legal trends in the relationship of the United States with Iran," Hsieh wrote in the letter released by the pressure group.
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Pat Tiberi (R-OH) quit Congress midway through the last Congress to take a job with the Ohio Business Roundtable, a corporate pressure group in his home state.
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In a ranking of judicial systems by the World Justice Project, a pressure group, Honduras comes 92nd out of 113 countries on its measure of constraints on government powers.
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At several, Pinjra Tod, a pressure group whose name means Break the Cage, has succeeded in easing curfews enforced at dormitories for "ladies" but not at the men's ones.
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The party's most powerful pressure group, Momentum, was founded by a Cambridge-University graduate with an MBA from the London Business School, and is stuffed full of educated millennials.
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In fact, the share of schools with "severely restrictive" speech codes has declined for nine consecutive years, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a pressure group.
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" Pressure group Republic "What is happy news for the royal couple is going to turn into another royal PR exercise, helped along by a widespread failure of good journalism.
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"This election tax has given these men the green light to extort money from the population all the time," says Lewis Mudge of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a pressure group, counted 77 incidents of sectarian violence and tension in Minya, where there is a large Christian minority, since 2011.
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However, partly because of the efforts of Women2Win, a pressure group co-founded in 2005 by Mrs May, 49 female Tories were elected in 2010 and 68 in 2015.
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At least 129 women were prosecuted under El Salvador's stringent anti-abortion laws between 2000 and 2011, according to the pressure group Citizens Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion.
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"People who would otherwise be happy to join in and take part are now thinking twice," says Jason Ng, a member of the Progressive Lawyers Group, a pressure group.
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Many unpaid internships are thus already illegal, says Ben Lyons of Intern Aware, a pressure group which has helped indignant serfs to claim backpay from companies including Harrods and Sony.
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The environmentalist pressure group argues that the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would hand too much power to big business at the expense of consumers and national governments.
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"The timing of this operation—two days after King Hamad's convivial meeting with President Trump—can hardly be a coincidence," says Nicholas McGeehan of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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Last year more than 7,600 Venezuelans sought care at hospitals in the Brazilian state of Roraima, straining facilities and supplies of medicine, according to Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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At a community meeting in the northern Ugandan town, "Our Trees, We Need Answers", a fledgling pressure group of journalists, researchers and community workers, comes with an even louder message.
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The number of children bullied because of their sexuality in Britain fell by almost a third between 2007 and 2017, according to a report published by the pressure group Stonewall.
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Hefazat is a network of madrasa leaders and students who hope to introduce Shariah in Bangladesh and initially gained popularity as a pressure group during the Shahbag protests of 2013.
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PARIS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Activists from Greenpeace broke into the Tricastin nuclear power plant in southern France in order to demand its closure, the environmental pressure group said on Friday.
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In figures cited by the Treasury Committee, pressure group Transparency International said up to 4.4 billion pounds ($6.2 billion) worth of British property might have been bought with suspicious wealth.
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That claim was disputed by pressure group Migration Watch U.K., however, which said in its own research in May that EU immigrants cost the U.K. taxpayer £1.2 billion in 2014/2015.
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Liberty, a pressure group, is as implacably opposed as Jacob Rees-Mogg, an old-fashioned Tory who insists Britain is not "the sort of country that demands to see your papers".
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Amnesty International, a pressure group, has accused it of deliberately targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, markets and mosques; and of using imprecise weapons, such as cluster bombs, which most countries have outlawed.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the main Tory pressure group advocating a hard Brexit, the European Research Group, said the Chequers agreement sought to "stymie" Brexit rather than deliver it.
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To go back 30 years or so requires judges to strike down amnesty laws and a change in political conditions, notes José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
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The test was identical to the one given to the adults, except there was no human peer pressure group; it's already very well established that kids are more susceptible to social influence.
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The later protest was organized by CDR, a pro-independence pressure group that favors direct action and has cut off railtracks and roads, as well as trying to storm the regional parliament.
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A recent study commissioned by Transport & Environment, a pressure group, reckons that 245,000 Europeans suffer from heart disease that can be traced to noise pollution—noise-induced stress perhaps being the cause.
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Democracy for America's executive director called the move "a stunning display of moral and political cowardice," while the pressure group CREDO's political director said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had "failed" DREAMers.
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The poll, commissioned by anti-monarchist pressure group Republic, found that 66 percent of Britons are not interested in the event, with 60 percent of Britons planning to have a normal weekend.
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Rocio Suárez, a spokesperson from the Mexico City-based pressure group Center of Support for Trans Identities, tells Broadly that 12 trans people have been killed in October of this year alone.
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Having arguably achieved its endgame after the Brexit vote last June, UKIP's remarkable trajectory from single-issue pressure group to bona fide political movement representing the economically disenfranchised has lost its sparkle.
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" Gush Shalom (Hebrew for the Peace Bloc), a pressure group founded by Mr. Avnery and others in 20163, published an English-language version of the column titled "Who the Hell Are We?
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Campaigners from the #MuteRKelly pressure group delivered a petition signed by some 217,000 people to Sony headquarters in New York City earlier this week asking the record company to drop the musician.
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A U.S.-based pressure group that lobbies companies to stop trading with Iran, United Against Nuclear Iran, said Yang Ming's decision to withdraw was motivated by the risk of doing business there.
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According to Harm Reduction International, a pressure group, at least 33 countries have capital punishment on the books for drug offences, but only seven are known to have executed drug dealers since 2010.
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A study published earlier this year by Greenpeace, another environmental pressure group, found that only one of 14 multinationals surveyed could trace its palm oil back to the plantation where it was grown.
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Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, has urged the government to investigate the kidnappings of four people accused of links to the Gulen movement, an Islamist sect believed to have inspired the coup.
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Its forecast of future oil demand, propelled by a growing population and rising incomes, makes rising temperatures seem all but inevitable, contends Kathy Mulvey of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a pressure group.
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The Tea Party proved to be an effective pressure group of citizen lobbyists, and their tactics have been co-opted by the authors of the Indivisible Guide for use in the Trump era.
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Architect Barbara Weiss, founder of the Skyline Campaign -- a pressure group that lobbies against the onslaught of tall buildings in development in London -- deems the protected view corridors out of date and elitist.
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A YouGov poll, commissioned by anti-monarchist pressure group Republic, found that 66 percent of Britons were not interested in the event, with 60 percent of Britons planning to have a normal weekend.
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Save Lantau, a pressure group, has accused the government, led by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, of ignoring public opinion on this issue and pressing ahead with reclamation at the expense of alternative solutions.
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Pressure group Fire Safe Europe says around 40 percent of deaths in fires are caused directly by smoke, while a further 20 percent are caused by a combination of severe burns and smoke.
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The attack, documented by Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, is one of several dozen carried out by jihadists in Cabo Delgado—a mostly Muslim, coastal province in Mozambique's far north—since October 2017.
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This summer Extinction Rebellion, a climate-change pressure group, may well achieve what the IRA failed to do, using nothing more than a drone of the sort available for under £100 ($127) on Amazon.
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Labour First, a moderate pressure group, complained loudly that the left had stitched up the conference by denying speaking roles to centrists, most notably Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London (the organisers eventually relented).
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Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways, a pressure group, laments that at Bristol Parkway, another big train station, passengers arriving on the last train from London may face a half-hour wait for a bus.
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At a hearing in Berlin on Thursday, the farmers, backed by the Greenpeace environmental pressure group, said the government was violating their rights by cutting greenhouse gas emissions at a slower rate than promised.
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Though South Korea is Asia's fourth-largest economy and a healthy democracy, it ranks 27th out of 34 rich countries in an index of perceived levels of corruption compiled by Transparency International, a pressure group.
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Of the 2000m green cards (permanent residence visas) issued each year, only 25% are granted because of the applicants' skills, notes John Dearie of Startups USA, a pressure group; in Australia the figure is 2900%.
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Building public trust in government was an important element of the government's mandate, says Asoka Obeyesekere, the local head of Transparency International, an anti-corruption pressure group, but it has made no progress at all.
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The Anti-Defamation League, a pressure group, finds that "right-wing extremism" was responsible for 73% of "domestic extremist-related killings" in the United States from 2009-18, and that "Islamist extremism" accounted for 23%.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some of Europe's biggest stores are failing to stem the abuse of Syrian refugees who work in the Turkish factories that supply their clothes, a business pressure group said on Friday.
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"The Brexit Party has been a successful pressure group that doesn't realise it's already won, it should now push to help Boris get Brexit done and that only happens with a Boris majority," Banks said.
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Also on Thursday, prominent journalist Eskinder Nega said that five fellow activists in a pressure group opposed to what it saw as the domination of the Oromo ethnic group in the capital had been arrested.
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Two Greenpeace activists were still on board, having unfurled a banner with the words "Ditch Diesel" alongside an image of a young girl suffering from a respiratory illness, a spokesman for the environmental pressure group said.
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Professor Washington found that male legislators with more daughters were more likely to receive high scores from the National Organisation for Women, a left-leaning pressure group that rates how a legislator votes on women's issues.
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Come the 2020 election, True Labour is a competitive force, while "Labour" looks like a pressure group posing as a political party and, with few locally active door-knockers and a dysfunctional leadership, sinks into irrelevance.
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"Drones have enabled the US to convert the whole world into a war zone, stretching the laws of war far more than they're meant to be stretched," argues Elizabeth Beavers of Amnesty International, a pressure group.
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Instead, they invited two professional climate deniers to testify, one of whom, Marc Morano, runs an industry-funded, anti-science pressure group and has been a repeat guest on the notorious conspiracy-focused "InfoWars" radio show.
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Kramer did say that just last week the company had a political pressure group request that it discontinue its services for a website that had been linked to a "warlord" on the other side of the world.
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Last week, a representative for the Voice of Loving Hong Kong, a pressure group, filed a writ with the High Court seeking to challenge the legitimacy of 11 other lawmakers, according to the South China Morning Post.
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A local pressure group, Protect Our Parks, has taken city authorities to court for its decision to grant 20 acres of land in Jackson Park, on Chicago's south side, on a 99-year lease costing just $1003.
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A survey last year by ILGA, a pressure group, found that some 70% of respondents in Latin America agreed that gays and trans people should enjoy the same legal rights as anyone else, the highest figure anywhere.
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LONDON, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some of Europe's biggest stores are failing to stem the abuse of Syrian refugees who work in the Turkish factories that supply their clothes, a business pressure group said on Friday.
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Pressure group WildAid said in a report earlier this year that restrictions on the sale of rhino horn in China and Vietnam had led to a major drop in prices, and reduction in demand for the product.
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Simon Richards, the CEO of The Freedom Association — which describes itself as a "non-partisan, centre-right, libertarian pressure group" — announced he was offended by the "anti-Christian" image and called for a boycott of the bakery chain.
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Reports, again unfounded, that an influx of Syrian refugees has created "no-go areas" in European cities have reinforced the hostility, says Shin Kang-hyup of Jeju Residents for the Human Rights of Jeju Refugees, a pressure group.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 155 financial institutions have invested billions of dollars in companies making cluster bombs, weapons which are banned under international law because of their impact on civilians, a pressure group said on Thursday.
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The president, after all, can staff the courts and the prosecutor's office with cronies, and therefore curb scrutiny of his or her own activities, says Park Jung-eun of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), a pressure group.
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"If the Commonwealth took the lead (on due diligence laws) ... it would have an enormous rippling affect around the world," Phil Bloomer, head of London-based pressure group The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, told a panel.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought by three farming families and the Greenpeace environmental pressure group against the German government's climate policies, saying that they had no legal grounds to bring the action.
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"The chief minister (a Muslim) herself and the other people who just want to disturb the tranquility of the area," says Vijay Kumar Sharma, president of the recently formed pressure group the Hindu Ekta Manch (Hindu Unity Forum).
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Distancing pedophiles from society has also made some adopt extreme stances, like Tom O'Carroll, a British pedophile activist, who during the 1980s chaired a notorious pressure group called the Paedophile Information Exchange, which advocated abolishing consent laws completely.
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Wine and his pressure group People Power had aimed to start a program of consultations with supporters on his plans to stand for president next year in a challenge to Museveni, 75, who has ruled Uganda since 1986.
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" Sandro Leuenberger from pressure group Climate Alliance Switzerland said: "The SNB is the eighth biggest institutional investor worldwide, and it gives Switzerland a huge weight internationally.... It's the biggest lever Switzerland has and we have to use it.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Global powers have become so diverted by populism and domestic discontent that they lack the capacity or inclination to defend human rights or even investigate suspected war crimes, global pressure group Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
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"THEIR main objective is to create fear," says Mohamed Lotfy of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, a pressure group, referring to a series of arrest of activists as the government intensifies a long-running crackdown on dissent.
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But a Muslim Brotherhood government elected in 133 curbed secular speech, and the coup that toppled it in 213 made matters worse, says Muhammad Abdel-Salam of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, an Egyptian pressure group.
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The Russian government, sensing that those parents would be a vocal pressure group, proposed a law known as the "anti-Magnitsky law," which would halt all adoptions of Russian children by Americans — including those that were already in process.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia dismissed on Thursday accusations by an anti-corruption pressure group that Prime Minister Hun Sen and his family have amassed $200 million in business interests including some with links to land grabs and environmental destruction.
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According to a recent report by the Women's Media Centre, a pressure group, of coverage by 28 American news outlets in late 2017, men received 63% of bylines and TV credits—one percentage point higher than their share the previous year.
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He is also a pillar of "progressive" Europhile Toryism: he is one of the most Europhile members of the Tory party and a leading member of Bright Blue, a reforming Tory pressure group in which Ms Maltby was also active.
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A libertarian who came to prominence as a campaigner since founding the TaxPayers' Alliance pressure group in 2004, Elliott admits he is thrilled to be at the center of what he says is the world's most important vote this year.
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Campaigners from the #MuteRKelly pressure group delivered a petition signed by some 217,000 people to Sony headquarters in New York City earlier this week asking the record company to drop the musician Kelly, 52, released his last album in 2016.
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Pressure group ShareAction said the new rules would give "a new level of protection" to the millions of people automatically enrolled into company pensions in recent years and give them a chance to say which ethical investment issues matter to them.
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"It also demands a check into whether the atmospheric radionuclide monitoring system is sufficiently prepared for possible accidents, and whether public health around a possible release of Ruthenium 106 was sufficiently protected," the environmental pressure group said in a statement.
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"He'll meet with victims, and he's done that many times and if it contributes to the healing of those survivors, that's an important reason to have done it," said Anne Barettt Doyle, co-director of the U.S. pressure group BishopAccountability.org.
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A living wage is supposed to cover the cost of normal family life - from rent and food to healthcare - plus allow for modest savings and be paid within a normal working week, according to the Clean Clothes Campaign, a pressure group.
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Fair Cop, a pressure-group set up by Mr Miller and others concerned about the way police deal with so-called "non-crime hate incidents" and especially statements deemed to be transphobic, expressed outrage at the ruling in Ms Forstater's case.
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Just three working days into 2018, pay for the average FTSE 100 chief executive will pass the median worker salary of 28,758 pounds ($13,855), the report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and pressure group the High Pay Centre showed.
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Yet coach Gernot Rohr has entrusted him with the gloves for the tournament, including Friday's high-pressure Group D game against Iceland in Volgograd, a match that the manager says Nigeria have to win after their opening 2-0 defeat to Croatia.
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Greenpeace and another pressure group, Nature and Youth, allege that by issuing licences to explore for oil in the Arctic, Norway's government has breached its constitutional obligation to preserve an environment that is "conducive to health" and to maintain environmental "productivity and diversity".
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Such worries were brought to a head when the government recently reinstated Ahmadu Mohammed, a major-general accused by Amnesty International, an international human rights pressure group, of involvement in the deaths of more than 8,000 detainees held by the security services.
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Global Athlete, a pressure group, said the organization's leaders have long politicized sport when it suited them, citing the efforts of the I.O.C. president, Thomas Bach, to support a joint North and South Korean team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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"The People's Assembly is a hard-left pressure group that has put together a rather long-winded attack ad of the kind that is more familiar with elections in the United States than in the United Kingdom," he wrote in an email statement.
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In addition to serving as principal of the kindergarten, Mr. Kagoike heads Moritomo Gakuen and is a director of the Osaka branch of Nippon Kaigi, a prominent right-wing pressure group that includes Mr. Abe and other influential conservative politicians as members.
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" Hong Kong (CNN)At the start of this year, as Zimbabwe cut off internet access across the country following anti-government protests, the internet pressure group Keep It On warned that such "shutdowns must never be allowed to become the new normal.
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According to John Prendergast, an activist who co-founded The Sentry, a pressure group which investigates corruption and human-rights abuses in Africa, Mr Trump's use of the Global Magnitsky Act to go after crooks and murderers has been "a game changer".
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Just three working days into 2018, pay for the average FTSE 100 chief executive will pass the median worker salary of 73,758 pounds ($38,855), the report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and pressure group the High Pay Centre showed.
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More than 40 volunteers are also trying to immobilize cars parked at Sheerness port in the southern English county of Kent by removing the keys and are sticking labels to engines, calling on VW to stop making diesel vehicles, the environmental pressure group said.
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" Joan Nyanyuki, director for East Africa at human rights pressure group Amnesty International, said: "This verdict is outrageous and flies in the face of Uganda's obligations to uphold the right to freedom of expression ... and demonstrates the depths of the government's intolerance of criticism.
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"This verdict is outrageous and flies in the face of Uganda's obligations to uphold the right to freedom of expression ... and demonstrates the depths of the government's intolerance of criticism," said Joan Nyanyuki, director for East Africa at human rights pressure group Amnesty International.
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Tax reform sets up the ultimate duel between power brokers in the White House and Capitol Hill leaders, and lobbyists, special interests, industry groups, liberal campaigners, conservative think tanks, deficit hawks and any other pressure group that fears seeing a treasured tax break wither.
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Families have already set up a pressure group known as Moms and Dads Against Smog, but after the protests they organized in Ulaanbaatar were ignored, the group decided to focus on encouraging residents to take action to protect themselves, said Mandakhjargal Tumur, a group coordinator.
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The report also showed that Finance Ministry officials had removed the names of several Liberal Democratic lawmakers from the land sale documents, as well as a reference to Nippon Kaigi, a prominent right-wing pressure group of which Mr. Abe and other influential conservative politicians are members.
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According to the International Humanist and Ethical Union, a pressure group, Saudi Arabia is one of only 19 countries in the world that criminalises apostasy, the turning away from one religion to another one, or to none; it is one of 12 countries where it is punishable by death.
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"It's ironic that this news comes the same week the Trump administration chose to roll back the Clean Power rule that would have reduced power plant climate-altering pollution," said Ilan Levin, Texas Director of anti-pollution pressure group the Environmental Integrity Project, in a statement on Friday.
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The phrase has its origins in a 1930s-vintage pressure group of the same name that opposed America's entry into World War II. The America Firsters were isolationists, whose overarching belief was that America needed to disconnect from the world in order to preserve its independence and prosperity.
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Rally Alumni 212, one of the movements behind the campaign that put Mr. Basuki in jail, and the Islamic Defenders Front, an Islamist pressure group that sometimes acts as a sort of Islamic morality police, held the forum of Islamic scholars that recommended Mr. Prabowo as a presidential candidate.
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The phrase has its origins in a 1930s-era pressure group of the same name that opposed America's entry into World War II. The America Firsters were isolationists, whose overarching belief was that America needed to disconnect from involvement in European affairs in order to preserve its independence and prosperity.
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"With its criminal complaint, Public Eye is calling on the Office of the Attorney General to investigate whether Credit Suisse Group AG fulfilled its corporate responsibility to oversee its subsidiary and prevent unlawful conduct as required of companies by the Swiss criminal code," the pressure group said in a statement.
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Working with the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a pressure group in Berlin, and Anwar al-Bounni and Mazen Darwish, two lawyers who spent years in Syrian prisons before escaping to Germany, the refugees have lodged criminal complaints against several high-level officials for crimes against humanity.
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Initially caving to complaints from a Christian pressure group — One Million Moms, an offshoot of the American Family Association (AFA) — the channel pulled the advert with Crown Media Family Networks CEO Bill Abbott saying the commercial had been "aired in error," according to a blog post on One Million Moms.
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The Giffords Law Centre to Prevent Gun Violence, a pressure group co-founded by Gabrielle Giffords, a former congresswoman who was shot in the head in 2011, found that between 2009 and 2012 states with universal background-check requirements on handguns had 35% fewer gun deaths per person than states with looser regulations.
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German environmental pressure group Urgewald and BankTrack, an NGO focused on banks and the activities they finance, said an analysis of the 10 most active European lenders to companies which are still planning or developing new coal plants indicated total debt funding had risen to $56 billion between 2017 and the end of September 2019.
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To many, Mr Corbyn looked like an occupying force, supported largely by a small group of faithful hard-leftists in his office, notably Seumas Milne, his chief strategist, and, outside Parliament, by Len McLuskey, the boss of the Unite trade union, and by Momentum, a grassroots pressure group of activists, many of them until recently members of other parties.
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Two big unions, Unite and the GMB, voted as a bloc against the motion, the left-wing pressure group Momentum whipped its delegates to oppose it and, in a Soviet moment, Wendy Nichols, the chairwoman of the session, reversed her decision that the vote had passed after an intervention from Jennie Formby, the party's general secretary.
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He was speaking at the launch of a group called LEAP UK — Law Enforcement Against Prohibition — a collection of former undercover drugs officers, military figures, and police who are campaigning for drug law reform in the UK. A new British branch of an existing international pressure group — originally founded in 2000 by five police officers from Canada and the US — LEAP UK aims to raise awareness of what the organization says is the failure of current drug policy based on evidence gleaned from their experiences of enforcing it — saying prohibition is costly, ineffective, makes millions for organized criminals, and doesn't tackle the root causes of addiction.
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He was speaking at the launch of a group called LEAP UK — Law Enforcement Against Prohibition — a collection of former undercover drugs officers, military figures, and police who are campaigning for drug law reform in the UK. A new British branch of an existing international pressure group — originally founded in 12 by five police officers from Canada and the US — LEAP UK aims to raise awareness of what the organization says is the failure of current drug policy based on evidence gleaned from their experiences of enforcing it — saying prohibition is costly, ineffective, makes millions for organized criminals, and doesn't tackle the root causes of addiction.
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