Campaign group Fortify Rights also called for an independent investigation.
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That has put Hammond in the crosshairs of campaign group Leave.
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EU campaign group for work, but that no work was undertaken.
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Last Sunday, April 3, theatrical campaign group BP or Not BP?
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 70,000 pound ($95,000) fine for campaign group Leave.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Arron Banks, the founder of Brexit campaign group Leave.
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The survey was commissioned by American Bridge, a liberal campaign group.
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L will be challenged in court, campaign group Avaaz said on Wednesday.
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We will eventually hear claims that a pro-Brexit campaign group called Leave.
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"The fear began to erode," said Jeffrey Smith, from campaign group Vanguard Africa.
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Campaign group Transport & Environment said it was time for regulators to take action.
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And uses an image by the disgraced law-breaking campaign group, BeLeave… pic.twitter.
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" U.S.-based campaign group Human Rights Watch accused South Sudan of "blatant obstruction.
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"The fear began to erode," said Jeffrey Smith from campaign group Vanguard Africa.
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LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - Arron Banks, the founder of Brexit campaign group Leave.
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Nearly all of it goes to China, according to campaign group Global Witness.
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Campaign group We Are Not Surprised (WANS) called for a boycott of Artforum.
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But pro-EU campaign group Open Britain said the government's proposal lacked specifics.
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Campaign group EU Arms said both weapons have featured in confiscations from cartels.
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Tinder partnered with LGBTQ media campaign group GLAAD to develop the app's new feature.
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Matthew Smith, founder of campaign group Fortify Rights, identified the uniform as Myanmar army's.
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It has also said that, while it pitched for work with campaign group Leave.
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Fortify Rights, a Bangkok-based campaign group, welcomed the decision to shutter the mine.
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It has also said that while it pitched for work with campaign group Leave.
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The Best of Britain campaign group confirmed it had received 400,17.43 pounds from Soros.
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That's despite a court case against the force brought by the campaign group Liberty.
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Business Insider approached TikTok, Scarlett Mills and the Find Madeleine campaign group for comment.
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But the campaign group and her family are determined she will not be forgotten.
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The campaign group called on Qatar to abolish exit permits altogether and ban passport confiscation.
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Manana Kochladze of the Georgian environmental campaign group, Green Alternative, called the process "land grabbing".
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The SME Alliance campaign group, meanwhile, said it was "deeply disappointed" with the regulator's findings.
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Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave Means Leave said speculation about a divorce bill was "unhelpful".
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Campaign group Wild Poland Foundation said activists blocked a working harvester in the Bialowieza area.
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The settlement forced Hauser to donate all profits to a Muslim-American relations campaign group.
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The aisle is a joint initiative by Ekoplaza and environmental campaign group A Plastic Planet.
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Masooma Ranalvi, founder of campaign group WeSpeakOut which commissioned the study, said the stories were "heartwrenching".
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Global Witness, a campaign group, hailed the breakthrough as the "biggest move against corruption in years".
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"Generali's move shows coal is increasingly becoming uninsurable," Lucie Pinson of campaign group Unfriend Coal said.
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Campaign group Global Witness also urged Mexico to make sure Baldenegro's killers are brought to justice.
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Globally 12 million girls become child brides each year, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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"The sentence is too light," said Park, founder of the Digital Sexual Crime Out campaign group.
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Dennis Skinner worked alongside Corbyn in the Labour Party's Socialist Campaign Group of left-wing lawmakers.
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Dennis Skinner worked alongside Corbyn in the Labour Party's Socialist Campaign Group of left-wing lawmakers.
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Richard Tice, chief executive of Quidnet Capital and who co-chaired the referendum campaign group Leave.
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EU campaign group broke the law over donations it received during last year's European Union referendum.
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Young Britons are treated especially harshly, according to the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, a campaign group.
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The anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free estimates there are 4.5 million victims of sex trafficking globally.
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She was discharged at her request and the request of the hospital doctor, the campaign group said.
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Lagos-based legal campaign group Justice and Empowerment Initiatives (JEI) said the ruling was unprecedented in Nigeria.
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On Tuesday, Australian anti-marriage equality campaign group Marriage Alliance launched its new Android and iOS app.
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John Longworth, a chairman of campaign group Leave Means Leave, accused May of personally deceiving Brexit campaigners.
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Amika George, founder of campaign group Free Periods, speaks during a period poverty protest opposite Downing Street.
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Corbyn and a small band of socialist M.P.s, known as the "Campaign group," consistently opposed Labour's evolution.
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In 2014, Cuccinelli accused the Strategic Campaign Group and the Conservative StrikeForce PAC — which allegedly operated and controlled by the Strategic Campaign Group — of misleading voters and failing to deliver on promises that it would support his campaign through canvassing, radio ads, and other get-out-the-vote efforts.
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The Remain Labour campaign group, which wants to stop Brexit, said the announcement was "a significant step forward".
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The research was conducted by the campaign group Action on Sugar (AoS) at Queen Mary University of London.
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Americans for Prosperity, an influential campaign group, calls it Obamacare 21; FreedomWorks, an anti-tax group, Obamacare-lite.
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Meanwhile ordinary citizens often foot the bill, argues Jason Braganza of Tax Justice Network Africa, a campaign group.
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Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit campaign group, did not respond to comment requests when contacted by CNBC.
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An NHS campaign group called Docs Not Cops are running a workshop in front of dozens of women.
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Leeds-based campaign group Freedom4Girls is more used to sending sanitary towels to women and girls in Kenya.
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Campaign group Wild Poland Foundation said activists blocked a working harvester in the Bialowieza area earlier on Thursday.
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"He should be a bulwark against the oil and nuclear lobbies," the campaign group said in a statement.
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Dutch campaign group SOMO estimates up to 20,000 children are involved in mica mining in Jharkhand and Bihar.
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Online campaign group Avaaz has gathered over 700,000 signatures so far on a public petition against the decree.
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The SME Alliance campaign group, which represents small businesses, said it was "deeply disappointed" with the regulator's decision.
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"We must hold those responsible accountable," said Dr. Casla, policy director at Just Fair, a poverty campaign group.
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Campaign group Women's Refuge urged local communities to regularly check in with women at risk during the lockdown.
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Investors with $20183 trillion in assets under management have pledged to divest from fossil fuels, campaign group 350.
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In an open letter this week, campaign group Fortify Rights urged Thailand to abandon its "push back" policy.
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At least 90 percent of India's estimated 1.3 million manual scavengers are women, according to campaign group Jan Sahas.
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Dune Ives, executive director of the environmental campaign group Lonely Whale, launched NextWave to engage corporations on the issue.
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And campaign group Girls Not Brides reports that each year 12m girls are married before the age of 18.
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"The Polish government should consider enlarging the national park," said James Thornton, head of the environmental campaign group ClientEarth.
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Campaign group Girls Not Brides says nearly two in five girls in Tanzania are married before their 18th birthday.
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She received psychotherapy sessions, had physical checks and was prescribed some medicines, the campaign group seeking her release said.
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Michael Yangad, director of operations at campaign group International Justice Mission, said prostitution in India had become more covert.
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More than 15 million girls worldwide are married before they turn 18, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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On Wednesday morning, independent campaign group Fishing for Leave organised a fleet of boats to sail down the Thames.
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But now one campaign group wants them to be labeled with a nutrition warning and the worst offenders banned.
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But Eriksson, who heads campaign group Kontantupproret (Cash Rebellion), believes the rush towards a cashless society is becoming political.
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The Get Voting site is a tactical voting site designed by the anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain.
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EU's communications director Andy Wigmore also said on Twitter last year that his campaign group had used the company.
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Another Strategic Campaign Group official, Scott Mackenzie, also pleaded guilty in federal court but has not yet been sentenced.
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"It will be just awesome for Gabriella to have mummy home finally," Zaghari-Ratcliffe said through the campaign group.
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Kimiko Hirata, director of the Kiko Network climate campaign group, said Koizumi's willingness to acknowledge criticism represented a shift.
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Julia Poliscanova at campaign group Transport and Environment said the report had rightly pointed the finger at national regulators.
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About 38,000 people signed a petition, organized by campaign group Republic, against taxpayers' money being spent on the occasion.
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Campaign group Reporters Without Borders ranked Finland third in its 2017 World Press Freedom Index, behind only Sweden and Norway.
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One is taking part in groups dedicated to rediscovering meaning in life (anything from a choir to a campaign group).
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Footage secretly obtained by Animal Aid, a campaign group, in Lincolnshire in 2013 showed caged chickens barely able to move.
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Their anger built on an online movement around #ThisIsNotConsent after the trial, kickstarted by the campaign group I Believe Her.
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Grassroots campaign group Moms Demand Action was also present on the campus Wednesday, voicing its opposition to the new law.
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So incensed was she that she messaged IoVaccino, a pro-vaccination campaign group, to lambast them for inspiring the law.
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Each year more than 15 million girls worldwide are married before they turn 18, campaign group Girls Not Brides says.
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"We are the poorest but we are not cowards," Mayur Dabhia, a leader of the Dalit campaign group in Ahmedabad.
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Vote Leave, which has just been designated as the official pro-Brexit campaign group, claims that business is evenly divided.
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This work has led to her children being attacked, the Dublin-based human rights campaign group Front Line Defenders said.
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Global campaign group ActionAid said the government's u-turn was a "breakthrough" for those calling for greater global financial transparency.
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Power for All, the campaign group, said the products allowed people to live safer, healthier lives and to save money.
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Hacked Off is a campaign group established in 2011 in response to a phone-hacking scandal in the British press.
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The country had 5,600 social enterprises last year, up from 5,199 in 2015, according to campaign group Social Enterprise Scotland.
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Online safety campaign group Internet Matters has published advice for parents amid the current rise of fake, computer-generated characters.
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Environmental campaign group TRAFFIC estimates that at least one million rosewood logs have been illegally shipped from Madagascar since 2010.
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"Gucci's decision will radically change the future of fashion," Simone Pavesi, manager of animal-free fashion at Italian campaign group LAV.
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Malaria in pregnancy also causes about a quarter of all underweight births in Africa, according to campaign group Malaria No More.
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Campaign group Transparency International's 2018 Corporate Political Engagement Index assessed 104 international businesses on their openness with political engagement in Britain.
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Launched in April 2018, the People's Vote campaign group has spearheaded an increasingly vocal push for a second referendum on Brexit.
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The campaign group has said that it plans to appeal the ruling on behalf of the 20,000 people who signed up.
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Re-regulation could help reverse some of that decline, argues Pascale Robinson of Better Buses for Greater Manchester, a campaign group.
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Despite the country's liberal attitude toward homosexuality, Germany languishes at 12th in campaign group ILGA-Europe's annual rank of LGBT+ protection.
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This followed a lawsuit launched by campaign group the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in defense of the inmates' constitutional rights.
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The head of campaign group Amnesty International said the pledge was outrageous and a gift to autocratic leaders around the world.
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London-based campaign group Global Witness said in July that 49 of 200 land activists killed last year were from Brazil.
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"This is great news from Bogor," said Von Hernandez, global coordinator of the Break Free From Plastic campaign group in Manila.
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Ekaterina is a member of United Stateless, a campaign group comprising stateless people from various backgrounds living in the United States.
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Earlier this year, photographer Nan Goldin's campaign group Sackler PAIN led a protest against Sackler funding at New York's Guggenheim Museum.
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Barack Obama's old campaign group, Organizing for Action, is joining the redistricting efforts of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Politico reports.
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Secretive campaign group Democratic Tsunami, which has organised mass protests including at Barcelona airport last month, claimed responsibility for the disruption.
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Last year, campaign group New FIFA Now also called for Annan to be put in charge of an independent reform commission.
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Effective use of social media played a role in the success of Momentum, a grassroots campaign group for the Labour party.
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Campaign group Friends of the Earth described the decision of EU governments a "tremendous victory" for bees and for the environment.
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EU, saying only that his firm had met the campaign group to discuss potential business, but did not reach a deal.
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"I am a targeted person," he told campaign group Fortify Rights in August 2015, according to a transcript reviewed by Reuters.
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EU denies the claim and said the committee had colluded with the campaign group by releasing evidence early from a witness.
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The Socialist Campaign Group had tried and failed to get one of its members on the Labour leadership ballot for years.
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The country also has the fourth-highest prevalence of child marriage in the world, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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The campaign group has denounced water thefts and shortages in Petorca, including before a local court and in the international media.
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Last year, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned a Facebook ad paid for by a US-based anti-vaccination campaign group.
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The houses will be sold for over £1 million ($1.32 million) each, the campaign group said on its petition's webpage in August.
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Cruz then fired off his next question: Why was Palmer Luckey — who secretly funded a pro-Trump campaign group — fired from Facebook?
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Afghanistan is at number 166, second-from-bottom, in campaign group Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions Index, an annual ranking of countries.
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"Boris is a flawed character and flaky but most politicians are underneath," said Ed Costelloe, chair of the campaign group Conservative Grassroots.
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The EU should still do more to "create competition on environmental performance", said William Todts, a spokesman for campaign group Transport & Environment.
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Witness the sad decline of the Heritage Foundation, once a conservative thought juggernaut and now hard to distinguish from a campaign group.
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Andreas Harsono from campaign group Human Rights Watch said the Indonesian government's pledge is "bold" but action must be taken without delay.
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"For some women it's absolutely devastating," said Debbie de Spon, a spokeswoman for the campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI).
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The Fawcett Society, a campaign group promoting women's rights in the workplace, said companies should be obliged to follow the commission's recommendations.
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Eight of those insurers, all European, feature in a scorecard of 25 of the world's biggest insurers tracked by the campaign group.
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"They don't have a comprehensive piece of legislation to act on," said Annie Li, of the campaign group Justice Centre Hong Kong.
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"It might lead to people being outed," Jim Killock, executive director for privacy campaign group Open Rights Group, said earlier this year.
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A tweet from Silkie Carlo, from campaign group Liberty, stated that Farrimond had said the agency could "force" Apple to remove encryption.
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The campaign group Sri Lanka Twins said it had organized the event to raise the profile of underprivileged twins, triplets and quadruplets.
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"This was a very happy surprise after a number of false dawns recently, which had been increasingly unsettling," the campaign group said.
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Rima Tarabay, vice-president of environmental campaign group, Bahr Loubnan (See Lebanon), said the loss of sands would lead to damaging erosion.
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GOOGLE FACES COMPLAINTS TO DATA PROTECTON REGULATORS IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND SEVEN OTHER EU COUNTRIES OVER HOW IT HANDLES ONLINE ADVERTISING - CAMPAIGN GROUP
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David King of the campaign group Human Genetics Alert said the HFEA's move would allow use of a "dangerous and medically unnecessary technology".
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Labour rights campaign group Cividep India fears it will be even worse as the Bangladeshi government focuses on ensuring security in the country.
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AggregateIQ, he says, received payment from a pro-Brexit campaign group before the 2016 referendum when Britain voted to quit the European Union.
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Another is Bridget Tolley, who co-founded a campaign group led by relatives of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada.
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Frontline Defenders, another campaign group, said last month at least 312 activists were killed in 2017, up 11 percent from the previous year.
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Yet a law alone will not be enough to stop girls from being married before 18, said campaign group Girls Not Brides (GNB).
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The privacy campaign group accuses Microsoft of being the only internet company that automatically trusts a root certificate issued by the Thai government.
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SDNY prosecutors are also looking into whether foreigners illegally gave money to a pro-Trump campaign group and to Mr Trump's inaugural committee.
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However, Schroepfer said a Canadian firm called AggregateIQ, which performed work for the official campaign group Vote Leave, spent $2 million on ads.
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"This tells you there is definitely something wrong," says Shenilla Mohamed, the executive director of Amnesty International, a campaign group, in South Africa.
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David King, director of the UK campaign group Human Genetics Alert, said Niakan's plans would eventually lead to "a future of consumer eugenics".
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More than one in five girls in Kenya is wed before the age of 18, according to global campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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"Responsibility of the supply chain and workers lies with brand companies," said Gopinath Parakuni, general secretary at Cividep, a workers' rights campaign group.
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Campaigner Matt O'Connor from equal parenting rights campaign group Fathers 4 Justice said excluding fathers from retail branding was "unacceptable" and "casual sexism".
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Another blow is the designation by the Electoral Commission this week of Vote Leave as the official campaign group entitled to state funding.
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Sheridan, who belongs to a campaign group called "Border Communities against Brexit", has a warning for any politicians who upset the status quo.
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CORBYN'S TURN The Socialist Campaign Group had tried and failed to get one of its members on the Labour leadership ballot for years.
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Banks' snub comes after the communications chief of Vote Leave, which won official designation as the lead Brexit campaign group ahead of Leave.
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Indonesia is among the 10 countries in the world with the highest number of child brides, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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The campaign group alleged Turkey's ongoing state of emergency had created an environment in which the state actively carried out human rights violations.
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Nikki Turner, one of the victims of the HBOS fraud who runs campaign group SME Alliance, said the fine had come too late.
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A petition from campaign group "Tripping up Trump" has also gained almost 0003,000 signatures to stop the luxury homes from being granted planning permission.
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Only a third of candidates endorsed by a left-wing campaign group, Our Revolution, launched by Senator Bernie Sanders, emerged successfully from the primaries.
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Corporate Europe Observatory, a campaign group, claims this is an artificial distinction, because commissioners discuss major policy decisions among themselves before assuming collective responsibility.
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Feathers were ruffled when footage secretly obtained by Animal Aid, a campaign group, in Lincolnshire in 2013 showed caged chickens barely able to move.
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In its 2018 report on global slavery, the Walk Free Foundation, a campaign group, examined supply chains in the G20 group of large economies.
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But America, protective of its tech giants, is "not much interested in making progress", says Alex Cobham of Tax Justice Network, a campaign group.
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"The scale of this abuse is outrageous," Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard in an email.
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Internationally, there are now 491 large-scale farmland deals covering territory in 78 countries, said the analysis from GRAIN, a Barcelona-based campaign group.
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Vicky Bond of the Humane League, an animal-welfare campaign group, says the size of modern chickens is the cause of the worst problems.
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"Regular controls of national authorities is key to changing the culture," said Julia Poliscanova, an expert with Brussels-based campaign group Transport and Environment.
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EU, a Brexit campaign group, but did not do any work for the group after it missed out on the official campaign designation. Leave.
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Campaign group Transport & Environment said loopholes meant that Europe could keep using the same amount of palm oil in diesel that it does today.
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An internal quarterly LIA management report obtained by the anti-corruption campaign group Global Witness in 2011 suggested the fund had suffered heavy losses.
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Balderson has also been backed by Tiberi, whose principal campaign group, Friends of Tiberi, spent more than $45,000 on radio ads backing the candidate.
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Strategic Campaign Group worked for Conservative Strikeforce, which was formed during the 2008 presidential election cycle and lists Scott B. Mackenzie as its treasurer.
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Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra campaign group, was released on bail on Friday after being detained for nearly two years.
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A political campaign group working to elect Democratic senators left on an exposed server a spreadsheet containing the email addresses of 6.2 million Americans.
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"When we get to the 95 gram target, things (fines) could get more interesting," said Julia Poliscanova, policy officer at campaign group Transport & Environment.
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Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically violating national laws to plunder the country's forests, campaign group Global Witness said in a report last year.
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" A spokesperson for campaign group Privacy International told Motherboard in an email that "It's a very popular industry strategy to play security against privacy.
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This protest comes several months after a similar campaign, formally organized by the campaign group Justice for Cleaners surrounding the outsourcing of cleaning staff.
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Banks said the reversal of his decision to appear was linked to legal action in Mississippi, where a pro-EU campaign group alleges Leave.
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"Our dear friend Aderonke Apata has finally been granted refugee status after years of fighting for justice," said UK campaign group Right To Remain.
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"The ICC is adapting to modern dynamics of conflict," Alice Harrison from the UK-based campaign group Global Witness told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"We don't have high hopes that the opposition will be able to win," said Nabourema, director of the democracy campaign group Togo Civil League.
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Andre du Plessis, executive director at campaign group ILGA World praised the move, saying that language was important in allowing people to express themselves.
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The environmental campaign group Europe Beyond Coal has said Bulgarian Energy Holding with its Maritsa East 2 plant is one of Europe's biggest air polluters.
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Men have also joined a social media campaign by Sahiyo, a campaign group in Mumbai focused on ending FGM, known as 'khatna' among the Bohras.
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Yacoubian supports KAFA, a local campaign group calling on Lebanon to pass a law to make 18 the minimum age for marriage - with no exceptions.
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"Grooming is the precursor phase," said Hernan Navarro, head of campaign group Grooming Argentina, which educates parents and children about the risks of social media.
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Rebecca Gomperts set up Women on Web, a campaign group that helps women perform DIY abortions in Ireland and other countries where it is outlawed.
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One reasoned contribution to the whole debate was offered by the National Secular Society (NSS), a campaign group which opposes what it calls religious privilege.
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The distinction between far-right and mainstream discourse has been blurred, according to Nick Lowles, who runs Hope Not Hate, an anti-racism campaign group.
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Together for America, a campaign group focused on building support for Clinton among those groups, launched in August and announced 85033 endorsements at the time.
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"People could carry on pretty much as is," Richard Tice, vice-chairman of pro-Brexit campaign group Leave Means Leave, told BBC radio this week.
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"This is a cause of concern for us," Gerald Santos from Manila-based campaign group Project Red Ribbon told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday.
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Lucy Claridge, who advises rights campaign group Amnesty International on strategic litigation, agreed that winning over the public was just as important as legal victories.
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Strategic Campaign Group earned $579,000 from the PAC during that time, and the PAC spent more than $2023 million on efforts to raise more funds.
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Wylie has said that AggregateIQ received payment from a pro-Brexit campaign group before the 2016 referendum when Britain voted to quit the European Union.
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The 23 pages had a total of more than 85033 million followers, the campaign group Avaaz, which first brought them to the company's attention, said.
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Adtech giant Criteo is under investigation by the French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, following a complaint filed by privacy rights campaign group Privacy International.
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The World Wide Web Foundation, a nonprofit campaign group set up by Berners-Lee, has secured the backing of tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft.
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The teenage birth rate has halved in the past ten years—something that Power to Decide, a campaign group, attributes to less sex and better contraception.
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Civil liberties campaign group Liberty has lost its latest challenge to controversial U.K. surveillance powers that allow state agencies to intercept and retain data in bulk.
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"Motherhood is the key cause of the gender pay gap," Joeli Brearley, founder of maternity rights campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia have the most restrictive LGBT+ equality laws and policies in Europe, campaign group ILGA-Europe said on Monday.
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After a series of conflicting reports on which campaign group had led the protest, U.K. Black Lives Matter released a statement on its social media accounts.
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"We feared the government would take this brazen step to deeply undermine indigenous land rights," said Christian Poirier from the U.S.-based campaign group Amazon Watch.
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The coalition is made up of members of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change and Climate Action 100+, a leading campaign group with 320 supporters.
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A politically-fraught second regulatory review in the UK is also likely to impose further delays, and campaign group Avaaz plans to request a judicial review.
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But none of this should be taken as a sign that change is imminent, says Sam Dick of Dignity in Dying, a pro-legalisation campaign group.
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PETA, the campaign group for the ethical treatment of animals, welcomed Burberry's move to stop using fur, which it said was a sign of the times.
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Campaign group Humane Society International said animal charities would unite during this year's major fashion shows to call on Italian brand Prada to follow Burberry's lead.
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Campaign group ShareAction also disapproved Sorrell's pay on Monday, while PIRC, an advisory firm and LAPFF's research partner, asked WPP shareholders last week to oppose it.
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The new proposal, brainchild of the anti-abortion campaign group Ordo Iuris, would limit abortion to cases where the mother's life was deemed in direct danger.
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"We haven't seen any tangible changes yet," said Evan Jones, program coordinator from the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, a regional campaign group based in Bangkok.
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" RICHARD TICE, CO-CHAIR OF BREXIT CAMPAIGN GROUP LEAVE MEANS LEAVE: "It is regrettable that anti-democracy campaigners have delayed the Brexit process for so long.
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The FBI has raided the Annapolis office of Strategic Campaign Group, a Republican fundraising and campaign consulting firm in Maryland, according to a local news outlet.
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"Today, Strategic Campaign Group is the largest provider of Telephone Town Hall technology for Republican campaigns and conservative organizations in the United States," its website says.
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"Britain stronger in Europe," the campaign group to remain in the bloc, said Corbyn had made "a compelling case for our continued membership of the EU".
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But Tom Murtha, co-founder of social housing campaign group SHOUT, said developing these areas was acceptable provided the majority of properties are low-cost homes.
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" Lucy Gilliam, the aviation and shipping officer from the campaign group Transport and Environment, told CNN that the royals flying private planes "sends the wrong message.
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Diana Sanchez, coordinator at Somos Defensores, a Bogota-based human rights campaign group, said attacks and killings of activists, especially in rural areas, will likely continue.
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"Workers desperate for opportunities overseas have been driven towards ever more dangerous recruitment channels," said Caroline Robinson, director of the Focus on Labor Exploitation campaign group.
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The campaign group specifically urged Western powers with influence over Saudi Arabia — such as the U.S., U.K. and France — to stand up for civil society activists.
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Last month, a London bar was forced to change its name from "The Plantation" to "Burlock" after being called out by campaign group Black Activists Against Cuts.
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"This is unique irony," Richard Tice, a Brexit campaigner who is co-chairman of campaign group "Leave Means Leave," said of the call for a second referendum.
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In May more than 1,000 people joined a pro-independence rally in Cardiff, organised by All Under One Banner, a campaign group modelled on its Scottish namesake.
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The Republican candidate's press secretary confirmed to NBC News that Trump paid a $2,500 fine over the donation to a campaign group linked to AG Pam Bondi.
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While FGM is outlawed in 22 countries, according to the campaign group 28 Too Many, the news about reconstructive surgery has not reached many villages, Magoko said.
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But questions have been raised over whether Vote Leave broke campaign spending rules, with whistleblowers alleging it has illegally co-ordinated spending with a smaller campaign group.
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An image of the message — a large sign spotted at London's Euston Station on Saturday — was shared on Facebook by anti-racism campaign group HOPE not hate.
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The committee has published a legal opinion that Vote Leave might have broken electoral spending law, and the campaign group is under investigation by the Electoral Commission.
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Between 1964 and 1973, about 320,000 South Korean soldiers were deployed to fight alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam, according to campaign group Justice for Lai Dai Han.
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We're a campaign group, a part of the global women's strike and we're a group of women from lots of different backgrounds—lesbian, trans, black, white, etc.
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The campaign group claimed that the current guidelines make it difficult for transgender people to travel abroad because of concerns about receiving intrusive questions at passport control.
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Researchers for Fortify Rights have also gathered testimony that ARSA had abducted at least five Rohingya refugees in recent months, the campaign group said on March 14.
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Today, she is the director of Terminations for Medical Reasons, a pro-choice campaign group she set up to lobby for change to Ireland's restrictive abortion laws.
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Ida Sawyer, senior Africa researcher for the campaign group Human Rights Watch, said by phone from Goma that the protest by about 20 activists was entirely peaceful.
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Campaign group Move Your Money estimated lending growth to small local businesses was down by 63 percent in towns and villages that had lost a bank branch.
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Odey was one of the founding members of "Vote Leave," the campaign group that successfully convinced Britain to vote to leave the European Union earlier this year.
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Now the campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is calling on tourists to boycott all working animals at Egypt's major tourist sites.
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Most girls who have the procedure are cut before the age of five, according to a report on Nigeria's FGM laws by campaign group 28 Too Many.
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The three were arrested shortly after attending a meeting with other peaceful pro-democracy activists to prepare for the strike, the campaign group Human Rights Watch said.
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URGENT DEBATE Andrew Murphy, aviation manager at the Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment, said climate protests led by Thunberg may put more pressure on the assembly.
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The campaign group said the companies' "irresponsible approach" to oil spills had worsened the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta, an allegation both companies have since denied.
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However, Google has also come under pressure after it was revealed that an Irish pro-life campaign group had spent significant amounts of money on YouTube adverts.
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British workers are estimated to be paying over six times more on rail fares than commuters in Europe, according to a study from Action for Rail campaign group.
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Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) campaign group, was arrested in October 2015 on charges of criminal conspiracy and belonging to an illegal society.
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The number of murders so far this year is more than double the same period in 2018, according to the Observatory of Murdered Women, a Portuguese campaign group.
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Little wonder: 18 states and 22 cities and counties raised their minimum wages at the start of 2017, according to the National Employment Law Project, a campaign group.
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A spokesperson for StrongerIn, the lead remain campaign group, confirmed to CNBC on Monday that they have never sanctioned or funded the use of automated social media accounts.
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Cyrille Cormier, a nuclear engineer who is now at Greenpeace, a campaign group that opposes nuclear power, says a total refit could cost EDF an extra €60bn-200bn.
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The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said that Alexander Nix had accepted its summons, but Dominic Cummings, of Brexit campaign group Vote Leave, had refused to appear.
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In a recent interview with Politico Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, an influential Christian campaign group, said Mr Trump's relationship with evangelicals was transactional.
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) was asked to rule in a case brought against Brussels by residents and campaign group ClientEarth over the region's air quality plan.
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Simon Mutui of the campaign group Kenya NGO Council said widows and single parents are particularly worried as they have no legal claim to their land at all.
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Campaign group Transport & Environment said the labeling of palm oil as unsustainable was a milestone in the fight to recognize the climate impact of burning food for energy.
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Elin Sundin, head of Swedish consent campaign group Fatta, said the move came as women globally were stressing the importance of "bodily rights" in the wake of #MeToo.
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Nicolas Hatton, co-chair of campaign group the3million, said he was unhappy that the deal backed Britain's stance of making EU citizens apply to remain in the country.
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In Recife, on Brazil's northeastern coast, around 1,000 female land rights activists occupied the government's social security office, the Pastoral Land Commission campaign group said in a statement.
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Campaign group "Land In Our Hands" said in a 2015 report Kachin, Myanmar's northernmost state bordering China, has the second largest number of land confiscations after Shan state.
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Banks is accused of falsely claiming to be the source of £8 million that was loaned to the campaign group Better For The Country and put towards Leave.
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Dhaka campaign group Save the Society and Thunderstorm Awareness Forum said by its tally 246 people had died between February and August this year, based on media reports.
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Brazil is the world's deadliest country for land rights activists, accounting for one-quarter of 200 deaths in 2016, according to the London-based campaign group Global Witness.
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"Brexit is making Britain a less attractive place to operate and invest," said UK lawmaker Jo Stevens, a member of the anti-Brexit campaign group "Best for Britain."
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From the outset, there were doubts over Kumara, who runs a private anti-corruption campaign group that he says is funded by himself and a few other activists.
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Graham Smith, from Republic which wants to abolish the monarchy, said his campaign group estimated the real cost of the royal family each year was 345 million pounds.
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Previously, he was head of public policy for Twitter in the United Kingdom and before that the director of civil liberties and privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch.
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Also on Tuesday Gina Miller, leader of consumer campaign group, True & Fair, published a report that strongly criticised the FCA for its "poor regulation" of Britain's financial sector.
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"Governments now have no more excuse to force drivers to burn food or palm oil in their tanks after 2020," said Laura Buffet at campaign group Transport & Environment.
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In March of this year, Mumsnet was used to organize against Girlguiding's trans-inclusive membership policy in collaboration with anti-self identification campaign group Fair Play For Women.
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LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Police warned environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion not to use drones as part of a planned protest at London's Heathrow airport on June 18.
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Indeed, just last week, in the aftermath of the Orlando killings, a "Leave" campaign group used the attack to justify leaving the European Union -- in an indescribably cynical fashion.
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On Wednesday, campaign group Sugar Smart announced that activists from more than 83 organizations had signed a letter calling for Coca-Cola to stop handing out free sugary drinks.
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The campaign group Republic, which calls for abolishing the monarchy, circulated a petition calling on the government to disclose how much taxpayer money would be spent on the wedding.
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The issue was highlighted in September, when Public Eye, a Swiss campaign group, said international trading companies were using West Africa as a dumping ground for high-sulfur fuels.
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David Harding, the founder of hedge fund Winton Capital Management, is on the board of pro-EU campaign group Stronger in Europe and has reportedly donated several million pounds.
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The gender equality campaign group says the database should make it easier to find women speakers for conferences, putting pressure on organizers to do away with all-male panels.
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Jade Anderson, anti-human trafficking coordinator for the campaign group, said the Global Slavery Index, produced by charitable organisation Walk Free Foundation, came as a "shock" to some Hongkongers.
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The UK's High Court of Justice has blocked an attempt by a campaign group to sue Google for allegedly tracking millions of users without their consent, reports BBC News.
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David Halsall, the responsible person for Vote Leave, and Darren Grimes, the founder of the BeLeave campaign group, were referred to the police for false declarations of campaign spending.
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The buyers club is following the example of people with HIV and hepatitis C, says Diarmaid McDonald, the lead organiser at Just Treatment, a campaign group supporting the buyers.
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is among 10 countries with the highest number of girls marrying before they turn 18, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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The decision by regulators that Twenty-First Century Fox would be a "fit and proper" owner of Sky will be challenged in court, campaign group Avaaz said on Wednesday.
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In Britain, golf, cricket and soccer are also suffering from wetter weather linked to climate change, according to a 24.4 study by the Climate Coalition, a British campaign group.
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Environmental campaign group Unfriend Coal last week published a scathing report that highlighted Allianz's leadership of a consortium underwriting a large coal-fired power plant under construction in Poland.
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Rachel Krys, co-director of the campaign group, said sexist views and rape myths could influence the outcomes of sexual assault cases in court, especially if jurors were involved.
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Separately, police in Gabon this week arrested three men on suspicion of ivory trafficking after a search that lasted for weeks, the Conservation Justice campaign group said on Thursday.
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"Ready access to electricity will reduce youth unemployment and increase productivity," Ifeoma Malo, Nigeria country director at the global campaign group Power For All, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Since the referendum was announced, it has transformed into an active campaign group, using volunteers to ensure that turnout reaches the 30% needed for the result to be valid.
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In Nebraska, The Fairness Project contributed more than $1 million between March and June of this year to Insure the Good Life, the local campaign group advocating for expansion.
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Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign group called on the authorities to allow the freed girls to also be cared for by their families.
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Her father was partly blinded by the blast, and he was later one of the founders of an antinuclear campaign group, the Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
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A report by campaign group Human Right Watch last September accused the Malian military of conducting extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, torture and arbitrary arrests against suspected sympathizers of jihadist groups.
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"It is incumbent upon the government to review cases that involve defendants who possibly were wrongly convicted under this law," said Matthew Smith, founder of campaign group Fortify Rights.
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In a statement, the campaign group said she was from Askira Uba, a district of Borno state, and was abducted along with her twin who is yet to return.
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Global Witness, a campaign group that has conducted its own investigations, has described the case as one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the oil industry.
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That continued in Bonn, according to campaign group Corporate Accountability, despite a letter signed by 300 environmental, development and transparency organizations calling on the countries to shift their stance.
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"Good progress being made on WTO Brexit arrangements yet deceitful UK (government) refuses to stop the scaremongering," Richard Tice, co-chairman of the campaign group Leave Means Leave, tweeted.
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EU * Vote Leave director has also snubbed lawmakers (Adds response from committee chair) By Alistair Smout LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - Arron Banks, the founder of Brexit campaign group Leave.
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The report was published by Dutch Christian campaign group PAX and the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
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In Cambridge Analytica news: Did a Brexit campaign group violate election laws by not declaring some of its spending with AggregateIQ, a digital marketer with ties to Cambridge Analytica?
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READ: No soap, little water, and no way out: Refugee camps brace for coronavirus The campaign group Doctors For The NHS said much more testing needed to be done.
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Democratic lieutenant governors are forming a campaign group to rival the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association, the latest bid by Democrats to catch up to Republicans in down-ballot fundraising.
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However, the use of the technology has faced criticism, with campaign group Big Brother Watch (BBW) raising £6,685 ($8,440) in a crowdfunder to launch a legal challenge against its deployment.
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Thousands of women have been sentenced to flogging as a result of prosecution under the public order law, according to No to Women's Oppression Initiative, a campaign group in Sudan.
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The report, published by campaign group Global Witness, said the allegedly corrupt deal's terms would stop Nigeria accessing its share of the profits from oil extracted from its offshore block.
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In 2014 the Citizens' Association for the Decriminalisation of Abortion, a campaign group, petitioned the Supreme Court to free 17 women jailed following reported stillbirths or other complications of pregnancy.
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The campaign group Business for Britain concluded that, out of 20 directives imposed on the City's financial markets, the UK on its own would not have adopted 10 of them.
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The UK campaign group Action on Smoking and Health welcomed the report, saying it was part of a growing scientific consensus that e-cigarettes are much less harmful than tobacco.
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Supporters of Stop the War, a campaign group that was heavily involved in the anti-war protests in 2003, read out the names of Iraqi and British people who died.
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LGBT+ campaign group Oogachaga, which has set up an online and phone counseling service, said LGBT+ people who have yet to come out publicly were most vulnerable from the leak.
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The Brussels-based climate campaign group Transport & Environment said the letter added clout to policy debates over using taxes to tackle air pollution from transport, Europe's largest source of emissions.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Amnesty International, a campaign group which has accused the Kremlin of violating human rights with its bombing campaign in Syria, was evicted from its Moscow office on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been transferred from prison to a hospital psychiatric ward, the campaign group seeking to free her said on Wednesday.
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There are some signs of progress -- environmental campaign group Greenpeace says that levels of the most deadly particles, PM2.5, decreased last year -- but also an increasing level of public outrage.
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The committee however said that adverts used online in the campaign were not clearly labeled, and expressed concern about a breach of spending rules by rival campaign group Vote Leave.
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"This ban disproportionately affects girls and it is skewed toward an abuse of the girls' rights to education," said Naitore Nyamu-Mathenge, a lawyer from the campaign group Equality Now.
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The 30 activists, including 23 members of campaign group Greenpeace, planned to stay at the facility until 1000 GMT, said Kiki Taufik, head of the Greenpeace forests campaign in Indonesia.
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"The new Soros-led coalition is planning a coup in Britain, against the democratic will of the people," Richard Tice, who chairs the Leave Means Leave campaign group, told Reuters.
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"Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 would be extremely difficult and much more costly without increasing the 2030 target," said Wendel Trio, director of campaign group Climate Action Network Europe.
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Despite the increase, the average American employee is still not using up his or her annual allowance of vacation days, according to a study from campaign group Project: Time Off.
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A campaign group this week accused the United Nations of letting the Syrian government dictate how aid is distributed, effectively allowing it to use starvation as a weapon of war.
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"This U-turn exposes another self-created shambles in government over Brexit," Pat McFadden, an opposition lawmaker, said in a statement issued by the pro-European campaign group Open Britain.
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Britain's electoral commission said on Tuesday it had fined the officially designated pro-Brexit campaign group for breaching spending rules in the 2016 referendum and referred it to the police.
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Heathrow has said it will work to operate as usual while protesters from the Heathrow Pause campaign group illegally fly the drones within a 5 km radius of the airport.
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A leading Republican campaign group is offering donors — and anyone else for that matter — a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to President Donald Trump's winery in Virginia.
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Also on Tuesday Gina and Alan Miller, leaders of consumer campaign group, True & Fair, published a report that strongly criticised the FCA for its "poor regulation" of Britain's financial sector.
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"The Government of India has almost total control over what information is coming out of the region," said Avinash Kumar, executive director of human rights campaign group Amnesty International India.
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Publish What You Fund, a campaign group, assessed the transparency of 45 organizations worldwide that spend at least $1 billion a year in aid to poor and crisis-affected countries.
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"The clear business case should swing people to act," Lewis, who also chairs Champions 12.3, the campaign group that commissioned the first-of-its kind study, added in a statement.
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In a statement, the campaign group said she was from Askira Uba, a district of Borno State, and had been abducted with her twin, who has not yet been released.
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The Electoral Commission, Britain's election watchdog, said it was looking into a range of issues, including whether the campaign group exceeded spending limits or submitted incomplete or inaccurate expenditure records.
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The committee however said that adverts used online in the campaign were not clearly labelled, and expressed concern about a breach of spending rules by rival campaign group Vote Leave.
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American workers took an average of just over 17 days of vacation in 2017, the highest level in seven years, according to a study from campaign group Project: Time Off.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish campaign group is suing an Argentine newspaper it says breached a new law that makes it a criminal offence to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
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Rini's story is not uncommon in Indonesia, which is among the top 113 countries in the world with the highest number of child brides, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should hold a second referendum to confirm support for a clean break with the European Union, Arron Banks, the co-founder of influential pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.
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LONDON — Millions of Brits are putting their health at risk by unwittingly consuming alarming levels of sugar in flavoured hot beverages from high street coffee chains, a campaign group has warned.
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Jakub Sobik of campaign group Anti-Slavery International welcomed the move to cover travel costs but said victims would still have to pay the costs up front, claiming them back later.
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Ireland was ranked the second-worst performing European Union country, in front of Poland, in terms of climate change action in June by environmental campaign group Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe.
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"Anything that leads to the issue of the Chibok girls not being forgotten is a welcome development," said Aisha Yesufu, a leader of Nigeria's Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign group.
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Peatlands - made up of partially decayed vegetation, typically saturated with water - hold huge amounts of carbon, and are important habitats for endangered species, like tigers, according to the campaign group Greenpeace.
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But campaign group International Rivers has said it would ultimately deliver little or no electricity to consumers inside Congo because of transmission losses and because production would not meet its target.
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Ranked among the least corrupt countries by anti-graft campaign group Transparency International, Sweden and Denmark have been rocked by investigations into Danske Bank and Swedbank, knocking billions off their value.
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U.S.-based campaign group Mighty Earth said in a report that deforestation was continuing at some of the same sites activists had visited in February and then flagged up to traders.
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MeRA25 is a play on the Greek word for 'day' - echoing the name of his EU reform campaign group DiEM25, which evoked the Latin phrase "carpe diem" or "seize the day".
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However, Ayala Ochert from British campaign group Better Breastfeeding said breastfeeding in public was accepted in the "vast majority" of countries and the company was out of step with social norms.
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Companies are training algorithms to recognize not only an identity but also emotions, with far-reaching implications, said Amie Stepanovich, a lawyer specializing in cyber security at campaign group Access Now.
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According to the High Pay Centre, a campaign group, the median annual pay of bosses at the 22015 biggest London-listed companies stands at just under 2885 million pounds ($3503 million).
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UNOPS this month announced it had teamed up with the World Identity Network (WIN), a campaign group, and other U.N. agencies to launch a pilot using blockchain to fight the crime.
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"We need to develop new tools that make it possible to find and root out every parasite in every person," said Martin Edlund, chief executive of campaign group Malaria No More.
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London-based environmental campaign group Global Witness said Kayong's killing "shows the risks faced by activists in Sarawak who stand up to the powerful interests behind land grabbing and environmental devastation".
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That video, in which Latifa launched an excoriating attack on her father, was made public after it went to UK-based campaign group Detained in Dubai and was posted on YouTube.
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Richard set up the "Free Nazanin" campaign group and has lobbied the UK government to secure his wife's release from prison, but those calls have so far been dismissed by Tehran.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Electoral Commission said on Thursday it was investigating campaign group Momentum - which backed the opposition Labour Party at a June election - over whether it breached campaign finance rules.
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"Historically, we have had a very poor record of plastic ban implementation, with most governments only providing lip service," said Pratibha Sharma from the campaign group Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
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Back in the U.K., Momentum, a political campaign group with more than 40,000 members, has urged Britain's Labour party to pledge a four-day working week as part of its official policy.
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Rachel Krys, co-director of the campaign group End Violence Against Women, welcomed the guidelines, but said the law fell short of protecting victims of all forms of "image-based sexual abuse".
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The media campaign group Reporters Without Borders said on Monday that a US journalist and three members of her camera crew had been detained in Bahrain on Sunday, and urged their release.
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Positive Money on Friday delivered a "birthday card" to a London branch criticizing RBS for what the campaign group said was its failure to reform in the ten years since the crash.
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"(Offenders) have become more aggressive and less fearful," said Svetlana Zakharova, a board member with Russian LGBT Network, the country's most prominent gay rights campaign group, which has noted the same trend.
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James Love, head of the transparency campaign group Knowledge Ecology International called the resolution a "solid start" in addressing the issue but said the text made "tortured dances around R&D costs".
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Indonesia has one of the worst records for under-age marriage - its high number of child brides puts it among the top 10 countries worldwide, according to campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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"It is a step in the right direction and we hope other states will follow," said Moritz Prasse, the spokesman of the Third Option campaign group, which backed the original legal challenge.
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"The argument Republicans have been making is fundamentally hollow," Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for liberal campaign group American Bridge, told me, referring to Republican efforts to sell the tax bill to voters.
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Insurers in Europe are leading the way in exiting investments in coal, among the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, and have pulled out $20 billion of investments, campaign group Unfriend Coal said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British parliamentary committee said on Thursday it had summoned the former chief executive of Cambridge Analytica and a director of the official Brexit campaign group to appear before lawmakers.
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More paternalistic interventions are rightly controversial: a right-wing campaign group recently ran an attack ad against the CFPB, portraying it as a Soviet-style bureaucracy crushing the dreams of hapless borrowers.
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It "permanently voids the consultation process with the Waorani undertaken by the Ecuadorian government in 2012, indefinitely suspending the auctioning of their lands," said campaign group Amazon Frontlines, which supported the Waorani.
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Progressive campaign group Health Care Voter is launching a new seven-figure voter mobilization effort against House Republicans in over 20 races, including states like California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Maine.
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The campaign group FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) said on Twitter that Taison's team mate and follow Brazilian Dentinho reported the insults to the referee and a stadium announcement was made.
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Sam Smethers of The Fawcett Society, a campaign group promoting women's rights in the labour market, said gender pay gap between boys and girls reflected the situation they face in adult life.
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Signing up to the UK Plastics Pact, launched on Thursday by sustainability campaign group WRAP, they have pledged that 100 percent of plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
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Ethan Spibey, founder of campaign group FreedomToDonate, said in a statement that the move "marks a world-leading blood donation policy for gay and bisexual men and the other groups previously restricted".
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Leonard, a volunteer with campaign group the Irish Housing Network, said the government must find safe long-term housing for the homeless and low earners and introduce measures to protect vulnerable tenants.
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It's an issue she has campaigned over for decades, as the vice president of the pro-assisted suicide organization ADMD, and a member of the Swiss right-to-die campaign group Exit.
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The account was first spotted by Nandini Jammi from Sleeping Giants, an online campaign group that pressures advertisers from advertising next to racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, or homophobic content on news outlets.
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Last year, 185 land rights activists were killed in 16 countries surveyed in a report by campaign group Global Witness, making 2015 the deadliest year for land and environmental campaigners since 2002.
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"We are pleased to see that the numbers are coming down in a lot of countries," said Emma Lightowlers, a spokeswoman for campaign group 28TooMany, which does research on FGM in Africa.
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A former executive of the official Brexit campaign group Vote Leave was accused of buying social media ads in favor of a smaller party, the Greens, in order to split the left.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Brexit campaign group apologized on Wednesday for describing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a "kraut" who was bossing Britain about in negotiations over its exit from the European Union.
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"Leaders have pushed hate, fought against rights, ignored crimes against humanity and blithely let inequality and suffering spin out of control," the campaign group said in its yearly audit of human rights.
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Campaign Group Liberty said "the order could have a chilling effect on freedom of expression," reports the Manchester Evening News, especially on football fans who travel to the area for match days.
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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is backing a new campaign group calling for a "hard Brexit", a move widely seen in the press as an act of defiance against Prime Minister Theresa May.
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And Green Party Women, an internal campaign group of the British Green Party, confirmed last year that its preferred designation for the constituency it represented was not, in fact, "women" but "non-men".
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Alexei Knizhnikov, Russian oil and gas environmental policy officer for international campaign group WWF, said measures were needed to mitigate the risk of heavy oil from the ship's engines leaking into the sea.
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"All buyers - charities as well as companies - must take contractual responsibility for ensuring decent working conditions in their supply chain," the executive director of the global campaign group told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"Moms are grateful for the leadership shown by Facebook today," said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a part of the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign group.
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A freedom of information request by campaign group Republic asked for a copy of any VisitBritain records detailing the impact of the royal family, the monarchy or major royal events on British tourism.
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Earlier this year, actor Emma Thompson was criticized for taking a first-class flight from the United States to Britain, where she took part in protests organized by the campaign group Extinction Rebellion.
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According to Hacked Off, the campaign group which represents the victims of phone hacking, the publishers involved in the scandal could face a total bill for phone hacking of up to £1 billion.
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Signing up to the UK Plastics Pact, launched on Thursday by sustainability campaign group WRAP, they have pledged that 100 percent of plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by that date.
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On its website, the campaign group said it had seen an 8 percent decline in 2017 in the number of sports fans aged between 18 and 34 who thought homophobic language was acceptable.
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Another Europe is Possible, a left-wing campaign group, is making the case that a Labour government could help to steer the EU in a more social-democratic direction, if Britain stays in.
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Stalled or failed deals have a greater impact on locals who have to deal with the loss of livelihood and environmental damage, according to a report this month from Swedish campaign group Swedwatch.
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Yet realtors in nearby fishing and farming villages report a fourfold rise in land prices, and activists in the Northern Forests Defence campaign group believe the real aim is to erect new suburbs.
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Leonard, a volunteer with campaign group the Irish Housing Network, said the government must find safe, long-term housing for both the homeless and low earners, and introduce measures to protect vulnerable tenants.
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Vote Leave was separately fined by the Electoral Commission in July for co-ordinating its activities with the smaller campaign group, BeLeave, to pay digital services from Aggregate IQ, thereby exceeding spending limits.
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Britain's officially designated Brexit campaign group, Vote Leave, said the Electoral Commission had told the group it could donate to other Leave campaigners without having to count it against its own referendum expenses.
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Adtech giant Criteo is being investigated by France's data watchdog Criteo is under investigation by the French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, following a complaint filed by privacy rights campaign group Privacy International.
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Often, Rogers and others at Strategic Campaign Group reinvested the money they raised into finding more donors, with the help of a circle of preferred vendors that received large sums for their services.
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The environmental campaign group said the timber smuggling should put in question a deal between Vietnam and the European Union to ensure that any timber exports to EU countries from Vietnam are legal.
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"I do think it's a step forward, and a direct result of pressure being placed on it [Facebook]," Rashad Robinson, president of campaign group Color Of Change, told Motherboard in a phone call.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Email accounts for a campaign group supporting Republicans candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives were hacked before this year's congressional elections, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
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A World Bank spokeswoman could not confirm any information regarding Urlaeva's arrest but a spokesman for the campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said they had spoken to Urlaeva's son to confirm the arrest.
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The China Tribunal was set up by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, a campaign group, charged with examining whether crimes had been committed as a result of China's transplant practices.
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Grandi said this was because the number of campaign group rescue boats had fallen from 10 in 2015 to two now, and because people are taking increasingly dangerous routes due to Italy's tough stance.
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In a recent interview with Politico, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, an influential religious campaign group, admitted that Mr Trump had not been viewed by evangelicals as an "ideal candidate".
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Dementia, of which Alzheimer's is the most common form, affects close to 50 million people worldwide, a total set to reach 214.6 million by 215, according to non-profit campaign group Alzheimer's Disease International.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's officially designated Brexit campaign group, Vote Leave, was fined 61,000 pounds on Tuesday for breaching spending rules in the 2016 referendum and was referred to the police by the Electoral Commission.
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Campaign group Greenpeace says the process - known as transshipment - provides an opportunity for vessels to unload illegally caught seafood into supply chains, and allows ships to conceal abuses against crew members away from port.
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"This often silences and isolates LGBTQ people in sport," said Carr, Chief of Staff for the campaign group, which has created an index that ranks college athletic associations for their inclusiveness of LGBT students.
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London (CNN Business)Far-right and anti-EU groups have been using hundreds of "disinformation networks" on Facebook to spread their message ahead of this week's European Union elections, according to campaign group Avaaz.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers have pulled $20 billion out of coal investments, but most are European and none of the top nine U.S. insurers has taken "meaningful action", campaign group Unfriend Coal said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of EU citizens trying to cast their vote for the European Parliament elections in the United Kingdom on Friday have been turned away because of administrative mistakes, a campaign group said.
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LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - Britain's electoral commission said on Tuesday it had fined the officially designated pro-Brexit campaign group for breaching spending rules in the 2016 referendum and referred it to the police.
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Paula Donovan, whose campaign group Code Blue is pushing for changes in how the UN handles sexual harassment complaints, said in March that such investigations should be conducted by "external, neutral, and independent" bodies.
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Campaign group Bellona said any investment in CCS was critical for a company such as BHP, which has huge coal assets, but the amount pledged was tiny compared with the scale of the problem.
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"LGBTIQ activism in the (region) over the past decade has not stopped, and it is moving forward," said the Beirut-based Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality and U.S. campaign group OutRight Action International.
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A campaign group called Apacauvi has sprung up in Paris to combat their "urban anarchy" and mayors, including Anne Hidalgo in the French capital, are starting to impose regulations on their use and storage.
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"We wish to use this occasion to encourage the ACC and all other law enforcement agencies to do their work without any fear or favor," the anti-corruption campaign group said in a statement.
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"Under Public Order acts introduced by Bashir's regime in 1996, police can arrest women and girls for 'indecent or immoral behavior or dress'," said Judy Gitau, a lawyer from the campaign group Equality Now.
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Bahrain did not name the four people detained, but their lawyer and media campaign group Reporters Without Borders identified them as journalist Anna Day and three members of her camera crew, all U.S. citizens.
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In October Human Rights Watch, a campaign group, flagged reports that the party has been sending children of detained parents to government-run orphanages even when other family members are available to care for them.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Major chocolate companies have failed to keep a promise they made a year ago to stop forests in West Africa being destroyed for cocoa production, a campaign group said on Friday.
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Now, a large cache of internal GCHQ documents obtained by campaign group Privacy International provides more information about how these datasets are obtained, what they potentially contain, and how they are handled by intelligence agencies.
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"Oil exploration in Salonga National Park could have a devastating impact on the park's integrity, its biodiversity and the local communities living off its resources," said Peter Jones of London-based campaign group Global Witness.
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" The Times reports that John Lewis made the decision to go neutral after consulting with the Let Clothes Be Clothes campaign group, which is lobbying to "end gender stereotyping in [the] design/marketing of childrenswear.
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A campaign group seeking justice for the victims of a tower block blaze in London have taken a lead from Hollywood, wheeling three accusatory billboards through the British capital to demand accountability for the disaster.
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Two other Conservative politicians who supported Vote Leave, Owen Paterson and Matt Ridley, are "well-known allies of the UK's most prominent climate science denial campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation," according to DeSmogUK.
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Yet the demolition of Otodo Gbame follows years of development in the area by investors who have built apartments and shopping centers, pushing out fishing communities, said local legal campaign group Justice and Empowerment Initiatives.
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Nigeria is listed at number 136 out of 167 in campaign group Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions Index, an annual ranking of countries in which a higher number indicates a higher level of perceived corruption.
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Thousands of girls and women were raped by South Korean troops, said the campaign group which hosted the event late Wednesday in Britain's parliament to call for greater awareness and recognition of the historic abuses.
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"It would be easy for others to violate (the law) if the president himself continuously utters misogynistic statements against women," said Jelen Paclarin from the Philippine campaign group, the Women's Legal and Human Rights Bureau.
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A GOP source said the NRCC this week reserved $1.4 million in TV ads backing Mica in the Orlando market, the first time this cycle the campaign group is spending big in the 7th District.
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Campaign group Human Rights Watch said at least one civilian was shot and killed and at least six others wounded in Goma, including a six-year-old girl, a boy, 12, and a woman, 80.
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Alburnus Maior, the campaign group set up by Rosia Montana villagers, fears Gabriel Resources is using a back door to try to revitalize the project while the government delays decisions that would block the mine.
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Some of Mr Habré's victims, who had campaigned relentlessly to prevent the world from forgetting about his crimes, are now advising Mr Jammeh's victims, who have formed their own campaign group and are gathering evidence.
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That's why the campaign group Republic, which calls for abolishing the monarchy, garnered over 30,000 signatures for a petition calling on the government to disclose how much taxpayer money will be spent on the wedding.
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"There is little or nothing in them that couldn't be learned from the annual reports of different trade bodies," said Pat McFadden, a member of the committee and spokesman for the Open Britain campaign group.
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The first political campaign group committed to the 2020 presidential run of former WWE star and current Jumanji ruiner Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on Sunday, the Hill reports.
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"Unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, and misinformation are being tested across the world," warns civil rights campaign group Privacy International, which is tracking what it dubs the "extraordinary measures" being taken during the pandemic.
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In further news related to the EU parliament the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced today that it's closed an investigation into the former's user of the US-based political campaign group, NationBuilder last year.
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Research by the British campaign group We Can't Consent to This found men avoided charges of murder in more than one in three of 60 killings of women and girls where the defence was used.
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Anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International UK also said 95 percent of donations to the 'Leave' and 'Remain' campaigns in the run-up to the June 23 Brexit vote were made by only 100 donors.
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A decision was first made in 1995 to lift the women's pension age by 2020, but campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) says many women were not informed for more than a decade afterwards.
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A national Latino campaign group has emerged for the first time as a Washington fundraising powerhouse, a sign both of the growing institutional power of Latino voters and of the massive opposition to President Donald Trump.
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From tobacco in Bangladesh and palm oil in Borneo to diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, investors should put pressure on industries and companies to change their practices, said Frida Arounsavath of campaign group Swedwatch.
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Rates of underage marriage are high in southern, rural states with a high prevalence of poverty and religious conservatism, as well as among Orthodox Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Sikhs and Hmongs, says campaign group Unchained At Last.
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Many work excessive hours, sometimes more than 50 hours of overtime a month without rest days, and still struggle to make ends meet, a new study by U.S.-based campaign group Fair Labor Association (FLA) showed.
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"The Commission is proposing dangerous shortcuts to allow national authorities to obtain people's data directly from companies, basically turning them into judicial authorities," said Maryant Fernandez Perez, senior policy adviser at campaign group European Digital Rights.
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"I am hearing from many survivors and their organizations that they are doing their best to make sure the response to survivor reporting is what they deserve," said Nobert, founder of campaign group Report the Abuse.
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In its annual report, the UK-based campaign group said the phenomenon of violence against land rights activists is not only growing but spreading, with murders recorded in 24 countries, compared to 16 nations last year.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi military commanders should prevent militias with records of serious abuses from taking part in a planned offensive on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, campaign group Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.
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According to a new survey from campaign group Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH), the "healthy" dips we've been warding off our hunger pangs/midweek breakdowns with may not be as virtuous as they appear.
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On Aug 25 the country's highest administrative court will begin hearing a request by the French campaign group League of Human Rights for the burkini ban in the Mediterranean town of Villeneuve-Loubet to be overturned.
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James Love, head of the transparency campaign group Knowledge Ecology International called the resolution a "solid start" in addressing the issue of opaque drug prices, but said the text made "tortured dances around R&D costs".
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An official at the Trump Organization said Trump paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty this year after revelations that his charitable foundation gave an illegal political donation in 2013 to a campaign group linked to Bondi.
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Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said it organized the protest in the heart of the capital's banking district, accusing the finance industry of funding climate change and the finance ministry of trying to water down government action.
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"Big arms and security companies are considered strategic assets and are supported in a way no other industry is," Edin Omanovic, who specializes on surveillance exports at campaign group Privacy International, told Motherboard in an email.
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" David Greene, senior staff attorney and civil liberties director at campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard in an email that "in almost all states, upskirt photography will usually meet the definition of criminal nuisance.
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The commission said Vote Leave worked with another campaign group, BeLeave, which spent 675,000 pounds ($893,500) with Aggregate IQ, a company which used social media data to target voters, under a common plan with Vote Leave.
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This follows allegations by a former employee of Vote Leave that the group made a donation of 625,000 pounds ($826,250.00) to another Brexit campaign group, BeLeave, meant it violated spending rules because the groups worked together.
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BP's relationship with Indonesia as well as other repressive governments are currently the subject of a formal complaint to the National Portrait Gallery by the campaign group Culture Unstained, who, along with BP or not BP?
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Campaign group Fawcett Society and legal charity YESS Law said they started the Equal Pay Advice Service to help women without the means to access legal aid, as workplaces come under greater scrutiny for pay disparities.
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The protests reached him there, when a paraglider bearing the logo of environmental campaign group Greenpeace swooped within some few hundred yards of the president as he stood outside the golf course's hotel, television pictures showed.
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Campaign group the Counter Extremism Project said the Commission's proposal was welcome but did not tackle two issues - how to make automated technology widely available and how to stop extremists uploading again content that had been removed.
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Following is a summary of some of the main claims about economics, the cost of EU membership, migration and security from Britain's government and the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign group, and their opponents from Vote Leave.
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Prince Harry and Meghan, who have both spoken out about the need to protect the environment, were "hypocritical" for taking the private jet, said Lucy Gilliam, the aviation and shipping officer at the Transport & Environment campaign group.
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"Incorporating a female view should make for more accurate diagnosis (of problems) and generate proposals that are better suited to the reality of people's lives," said Marisa Soleto, head of the Women's Foundation pro-equality campaign group.
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A report published on January 28th by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a campaign group, estimates that illicit flows to and from developing countries are worth more than a fifth of their total trade with the rich world.
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Marjorie Dannenfelser, the Roman Catholic president of the Susan B. Antony List, a pro-life campaign group, said the president had delivered, "on a key promise to pro-life voters who worked so hard to elect him".
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Data released on Thursday by London-based campaign group Global Witness showed that 2500 of 200 land rights activists killed last year were from South America's largest country, making Brazil the world's most dangerous nation for campaigners.
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The ruling follows the commission's rejection of a demand by German campaign group TestBioTech for a review of a decision to permit the entry into the EU of genetically-modified (GM) soybeans produced by Pioneer and Monsanto.
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Sugar: Why it's so hard to kick the habit A drink you buy at Starbucks could contain up to 25 teaspoons of sugar per serving, according to a new report by British campaign group Action on Sugar.
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The Amaq news agency, which is close to Islamic State, said Abdulkader was the head of a local newspaper and one of the founders of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently", a campaign group against the radical militants.
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Child soldiers were used in Syria, Libya, Nigeria and Colombia - all of which have ratified a United Nations treaty outlawing the conscription of under 18s and their participation in hostilities, the campaign group behind the index said.
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They flooded networks with anti-immigration, anti-Islam and anti-establishment messages, Alto found in results that echoed separate studies by campaign group Avaaz and the Oxford Internet Institute on the run-up to the European election.
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Shahmir Sanni, a former volunteer with the Vote Leave group, told Channel 4 that Vote Leave's donation of 625,000-pound ($883,375) to another Brexit campaign group, BeLeave, meant it violated spending rules because the groups worked together.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly four land and environmental activists were killed each week last year, murdered for opposing large-scale agriculture and mining projects in the deadliest year on record, a campaign group said on Tuesday.
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The women from Northern Irish campaign group ROSA (Reproductive Rights Against Oppression, Sexism, and Austerity) had planned the action to challenge Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws, six days after the Republic of Ireland voted to legalize abortion.
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Campaign group Robin des Bois filed a lawsuit dated July 26 against unknown persons, alleging that authorities in Paris were aware the fire had dispersed large quantities of lead into the air and that lead is toxic.
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But Vote Leave Chief Executive Matthew Elliott said the court's ruling undermined the Electoral Commission's earlier finding, adding that the campaign group would not have made the donation if they had not been advised that they could.
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Laws to regulate the consultation process have yet to be introduced - although the court case could push the government to do this, said Brian Parker, a lawyer with campaign group Amazon Frontlines, which is supporting the Waorani.
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From next month, the soundtrack to our nights out may mellow as Pipedown, a UK-based campaign group fighting for a ban on piped music in public places, joins forces with deafness charity Action on Hearing Loss.
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EU, a Brexit campaign group, but did not do any work for them after it missed out on the official campaign designation to Vote Leave, which is separately being investigated for possibly breaches of campaign finance rules.
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Dementia, of which Alzheimer's is the most common form, affects close to 50 million people worldwide and is expected to affect more than 131 million by 2050, according to the non-profit campaign group Alzheimer's Disease International.
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Paula Donovan, whose campaign group Code Blue is pushing for changes in how the UN handles sexual harassment complaints, has spearheaded Brostrom's public appeal and raised concerns in open letters to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.
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Matt Beard, executive director of campaign group All Out, said despite a Commonwealth commitment to create a "better future for all citizens", there was no plan to discuss lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender decriminalization at the summit.
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A couple of months earlier, two other Syrian activists who worked for Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a campaign group against Islamic State, were shot in the head and beheaded in the nearby city of Sanliurfa.
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In "The Talk," an ad made for "My Black Is Beautiful," a campaign group that started within P&G, parents are shown in different eras talking to their children about the experiences they may have of racism.
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It raised eyebrows with its decision to award the prize to an international campaign group with a relatively low profile, rather than recognize the Iran deal, a complex agreement hammered out over years of high-stakes diplomacy.
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In August, a US-based campaign group called Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE) penned an open letter to PayPal CEO Daniel Schulman claiming that PayPal's restrictions are a major limitation to the Palestinian technology sector.
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DON'T MISS: Alphabet and Amazon wind up 'smokin'' quarter for big tech Why Russian pump prices rise as oil prices fall Democratic campaign group for Congress confirms computer hack The Kremlin denied involvement in the DCCC cyber-attack.
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Despite the show of unity between the Mekong leaders, campaign group International Rivers said there were major concerns about the future of the river, with 20 dams planned on the upper Mekong in addition to eight already built.
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The Vote Leave campaign group raised one of the issues that has fueled much of the opposition to EU membership in Britain, highlighting assumptions in the Treasury's report that migration to Britain would remain unchanged in coming years.
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A report published on Wednesday by campaign group Human Rights Watch found that Islamic State in Sirte had unlawfully executed at least 49 people accused of offences including spying, sorcery, and blasphemy over one year from February 2015.
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The glyphosate row has thrown up concerns about potential conflicts of interest at IARC: It involves an adviser to the agency who is closely linked to the Environmental Defense Fund, a U.S. campaign group opposed to pesticides. (See).
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In a recent study of political messages spread via WhatsApp ahead of last month's general election in Spain, the campaign group Avaaz dubbed it "social media's dark web" — claiming the app had been "flooded with lies and hate".
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"Community policing is a good strategy for protecting girls who are at risk of FGM or child marriage and we saw it work in this case," said Felister Gitonga, program officer for campaign group Equality Now in Kenya.
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DON'T MISS: Alphabet and Amazon wind up 'smokin'' quarter for big tech Why Russian pump prices rise as oil prices fall Democratic campaign group for Congress confirms computer hack The Kremlin denied involvement in the DCCC cyber-attack.
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Led by Save the Children and campaign group LoveYourself, which promotes HIV awareness, the Safe Spaces project has set up 30 dispensers in Manila so far and aims to expand to 150 locations across the country this year.
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was moved to the psychiatric ward of Imam Khomeini hospital in the capital on July 15, the "Free Nazanin" campaign group run by her husband said last week.
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The Community Water Alliance of Zimbabwe, a campaign group that has been monitoring cases, says the worst affected areas are Chitungwiza, Epworth, Ruwa and Norton Town Councils, where residents have not had water for more than three months.
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"It is a clear anomaly that those who are not British citizens should have a vote in the future of Britain," Lord Green, the founder of the campaign group Migration Watch UK, told CNBC by phone on Tuesday.
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" Jamie Williams, staff attorney at campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told Motherboard in an email "We're concerned that LADOT is moving forward on collecting data despite not having answers ready regarding its plans for protecting it.
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"Only when women are equally included in all ordination rites - as deacons, priests, and bishops - and at all Church decision-making tables, can we begin to restore our Gospel values of equality and justice," the campaign group said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly four people were murdered each week last year while defending their homes, lands and forests from mining, dams and agricultural projects, a campaign group said Thursday, making it the deadliest year on record.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers took the rare step on Thursday of ordering a director of Brexit campaign group Vote Leave to parliament to answer questions about campaign spending and advertising after he refused to comply with earlier requests.
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Among the four killed was Abdulkader's 27-year-old brother, Ibrahim, a member of the same campaign group who was shot in the head and beheaded along with a fellow activist at his home in Sanliurfa last October.
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Iran's plan to isolate and monitor all internet services within the country will place huge limitations on Iranians' ability to safely express themselves online, according to a report published today by freedom of expression campaign group Article 19.
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The bot is the work of official Clinton campaign group, Hillary For America, and develops on Literally Trump — a site built by the same team that surfaces Trump quotes in response to issues mentioned during the presidential debates.
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Last month the Guardian reported on changes Facebook had made to its platform that restricted the ability of an external political transparency campaign group, called WhoTargetsMe, to monitor and track the flow of political ads on its platform.
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At an event organized by campaign group LBQWomen in the Victorian Gothic splendor of one of the British parliament's grand state rooms, Baroness Barker, LGBT spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrat party in the House of Lords, is adamant.
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That burden falls harder on Nigerians in rural areas, where just one in four people are connected to the national grid, according to campaign group Power for All, which promotes decentralized, renewable energy, and which funds Solar Sister.
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Graham MacGregor, a professor of cardiovascular medicine and chairman of the Action on Sugar campaign group, said it was "an insulting response" to Britain's obesity and diabetes crisis which "will bankrupt the NHS unless something radical is done".
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On the other, some people have brought forward plans to emigrate so that they can be grandfathered into whatever system emerges after Brexit, says Roger Boaden of Expat Citizen Rights in EU, a campaign group registered in France.
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Banks questioned why only his campaign group was being singled out for investigation and alleged all the commissioners at election watchdog support staying in the EU. "The Commissioners are fully signed up 'Remainers,'" he said in the letter.
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Most respondents in the survey by the Norwegian campaign group Radi-Aid found the representations accurate, but said they would like to see more pictures of older generations, of racial diversity and of positive aspects of their lives.
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Religious officials occasionally raid hotels in search of unmarried Muslim couples and other deviants (Justice for Sisters, a campaign group, says that at least 63 transgender women were arrested between January and May); Shia Muslims are also persecuted.
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Vote Leave was fined 61,000 pounds and the Electoral Commission referred David Halsall, the responsible person for Vote Leave, and Darren Grimes, the founder of the BeLeave campaign group, to the police for false declarations of campaign spending.
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BOGOTA, Jan 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Latin America is the deadliest region for human rights activists with scores killed defending land rights, the environment and the rights of LGBTI and indigenous people, a campaign group said on Wednesday.
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"Discussions in ICAO on boosting climate ambitions have been stuck in neutral for years — Greta's presence could inject much needed urgency to the debate," Andrew Murphy, aviation manager at the Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment, told Reuters.
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To help them, the Scottish government has been offering free land grants to community groups, so long as they live and work in the area, said Peacock who is also Policy Director of campaign group, Community Land Scotland.
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"As time ran out, the COP looked more and more like a hostage situation inside a burning building -- together with most negotiators, people and planet were held captive," said May Boeve, Executive Director of climate campaign group 350.
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Extinction Rebellion, a campaign group seeking rapid action to curb global warming, rose to prominence after it mobilized thousands of people in a peaceful civil disobedience campaign that brought parts of central London to a standstill in April.
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While the new campaign group may seem uncontroversial — Johnson and Stuart were both major figures in the Vote Leave campaign after all — Johnson's support of it has been interpreted as a dig at Theresa May in the press.
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Members said they had heard clear evidence forced organ harvesting had taken place over at least 20 years in a final judgement from the China Tribunal, an independent panel set up by a campaign group to examine the issue.
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That sort of sensibility is voiced by a campaign group based in Washington, DC called In Defense of Christians which lobbies for the rights of religious minorities in places ranging from Egypt to Iraq and has chapters across America.
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The court's decision is part of a continuing shift away from a legal system based on the idea of the "sanctity of life", towards one based on "patients' autonomy", says Thomas Davies of Dignity in Dying, another campaign group.
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The North Korea crisis has brought nuclear weapons to centre stage again and the campaign group has succeeded in producing a nuclear-ban treaty, which reached the United Nations in July when 122 out 193 countries voted in favour.
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"Unless we strengthen and accelerate our work in the coming years, because of population growth, we might not be able to end child marriage in one generation," said Mabel van Oranje, who chairs the campaign group Girls Not Brides.
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Britain has lost nearly two thirds of its bank and building society branches over 30 years, with the number falling to just over 7,500 last year, down from 20,500 in 1988, according to research by consumer campaign group Which?
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's vote on its EU membership was a legitimate democratic exercise, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday after the officially designated Brexit campaign group was referred to the police over breaching spending rules.
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Once it is filled, Ilisu will completely or partially flood 199 villages and the 12,000 year-old town of Hasankeyf, which is home to 78,000 people, according a report from a campaign group, The Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The leader of the campaign group that won last year's Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday urged Japan to join a United Nations treaty to prohibit nuclear arms, saying a nuclear deterrence strategy would not bring about peace.
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Bangladesh and China both have high rates of children dying by drowning, with girls especially vulnerable, according to campaign group Teach a Girl to Swim, which says the skill is important for responding to flooding linked to climate change.
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"These countries are failing to protect their girls and women," said Ann-Marie Wilson, executive director of campaign group 28 Too Many, which worked with 125 lawyers around the world to compile the study, the largest of its kind.
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European trading firms have been exploiting weak regulations in West Africa to export fuels with levels of sulphur up to 300 times higher than is permitted in Europe, campaign group Public Eye said in a report published in September.
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"Public pressure is stronger than ever because we are in the midst of a climate emergency, and we know the EIB must finally stop funding all fossil fuels," the letter, coordinated by the campaign group Oil Change International, reads.
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Although the store's campaign went awry, Paul Foulkes-Arellano, a member of an antiplastic pollution campaign group, A Plastic Planet, explained that the backfire was actually a "great piece of anti-plastic P.R." because it caught the public's attention.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Vote Leave, the officially designated pro-Brexit campaign group in the 2016 referendum, said there was no evidence of any wrongdoing after Britain's Electoral Commission on Tuesday fined and referred it to the police for spending breaches.
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A further 11 failed to meet minimum standards in the key categories of policy, due diligence, staff training and mitigation against slavery, the campaign group said in a report, adding that no company received top marks in all areas.
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The Love Equality campaign group said in a statement that Belfast couple Robyn Peoples, 26, a healthcare worker from the city, and Sharni Edwards, 27, a waitress originally from Brighton, would be the province's first gay couple to wed.
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It's not a nativity without a huge stunner of a dog Available as an ornament on Zazzle for $18.95, these images made by retired lesbian pastor Kitteridge Cherry caused a highly conservative Christian campaign group to accuse her of blasphemy.
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In the years that followed, the Baka continued to complain of assaults by forest rangers, and an indigenous rights campaign group called Survival International that had long been critical of WWF's human rights record began collecting and publicizing their allegations.
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The present "outdated, unpopular" law serves to "prevent people like Noel from dying in a time, manner and place of their choosing," says Thomas Davies of Dignity in Dying, a campaign group that has helped Mr Conway with his case.
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Campaign group Open Stadiums has been lobbying for access to venues for women in Iran, and representatives of the organization met with FIFA general secretary Fatma Samoura this week to hand over a petition signed by more than 200,000 people.
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In a statement on the Justice 4 Grenfell website, the campaign group accused the authorities of failing to deliver take appropriate action over the June 14 blaze at the 24-storey tower block which killed 71 people and left hundreds homeless.
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"They go into other abusive situations, without passport or visa, or any knowledge, and are too afraid to speak out or come forward for fear of being deported," said Marissa Begonia, founder of campaign group The Voice of Domestic Workers.
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However, campaign group International Rivers said last month that Inga 3 would incur massive debts and that the plant would deliver little to no electricity to consumers inside Congo because of transmission losses and because production would not meet its target.
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Jon Liebling of the United Patients Alliance, a campaign group, recalls being busted a few years ago for growing a plant for him and his friends to treat illnesses, including anxiety and MS. "The government had taken my medicine," he complains.
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"The Council is right not to let Germany stand in the way of compromise, as the country has so far failed to penalize VW and yet continues to oppose any EU controls," a spokeswoman for campaign group Transport and Environment said.
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Crowdfunded campaign group Led By Donkeys released helicopter footage showing a tractor putting the finishing touches on 40-metre (130-foot) high letters plowed into a field belonging to an anti-Brexit farmer in the county of Wiltshire in southwest England.
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Some 155,000 children with TB are set to benefit across 18 countries that have already ordered the new medicines and are preparing to roll them out, starting with Kenya, according to the TB Alliance campaign group that oversaw their development.
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Pianporn Deetes, at the International Rivers campaign group, who has worked on the Mekong for two decades, said there was a lack of political will among the countries that share the river to acknowledge the cross-border impact of such projects.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Much of Africa's population is being choked by deadly fuels that are banned in Europe and the United States, a campaign group said on Friday, blaming the international trading firms that sell high-sulfur fuels to the continent.
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LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - Vote Leave, the officially designated pro-Brexit campaign group in the 2016 referendum, said there was no evidence of any wrongdoing after Britain's Electoral Commission on Tuesday fined and referred it to the police for spending breaches.
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Vote Leave made a donation to another Brexit campaign group, BeLeave, that then channelled the money to a digital services firm, violating election rules because the groups worked together, the opinion published by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said.
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Britain's officially designated Brexit campaign group, Vote Leave, was fined in 2018 for breaching spending rules in the run-up to the vote, handing ammunition to opponents of Brexit who have repeatedly called for a re-run of the referendum.
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"Civil rights for LGBTQI+ people is still a pipe dream, but still I would say this is a welcome move," said Ram, who goes by one name and works with a campaign group pushing to make India's education policy more inclusive.
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Members of Bite the Ballot, a youth campaign group, along with representatives of Google and BuzzFeed, the news website, were also at the meeting last week, which was chaired by Daniel Korski, a special adviser to the prime minister on Europe.
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In Hong Kong, laws stipulate recruiters cannot charge more than 313 percent of a helper's first month salary but a study by campaign group Rights Exposure showed in reality maids are often overcharged, sometimes 25 times the legally permitted amount.
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The five nations had promised cleaner fuel rules under pressure from campaign group Public Eye, which criticized them and international trade houses for allowing cars, trucks and households to burn fuels banned in much of the rest of the world.
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"Seeing the quantity of unfinished works and the privileges this company was given, we suppose it was better to receive bribes than to see the works through," said Mercedes de Freitas, local head of anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International.
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"The eastern part of Uganda had experienced long periods of violence and insecurity that made it difficult to enforce the law as effectively as it had ought to be," said Jean-Paul Murunga of campaign group Equality Now in Nairobi, Kenya.
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"It's really important that people see how easy it is to lose the rights we have gained, how fragile our hold on human rights is," Lisa Power, one of the founders of British campaign group Stonewall, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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HARD-TO-REACH GLOBAL GOAL Women account for an estimated 71% of slavery victims worldwide but 99% of those enslaved for commercial sex, with sex trafficking estimated by campaign group Equality Now to be a $99 billion a year industry.
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"We believe this is a human rights issue, and it should be treated like a human rights issue," said Paula Jojart, gender expert with campaign group Freedom of Choice, one of the organizers of a demonstration against the reforms in Bratislava.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Facebook is failing to rein in a "tsunami" of hate posts inflaming ethnic tensions in India's Assam state, campaign group Avaaz said on Wednesday, with content about "criminals", "rapists", "terrorists" and "dogs" shared almost 100,963 times.
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LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Britain's finance ministry should review its appointment of Andrew Bailey as the next Bank of England governor because of several financial scandals on his watch at the markets regulator, a consumer campaign group said on Tuesday.
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Crowdfunded campaign group Led By Donkeys released helicopter footage showing a tractor putting the finishing touches on 40-metre (130-foot) high letters ploughed into a field belonging to an anti-Brexit farmer in the county of Wiltshire in southwest England.
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In Peru's Madre de Dios province, in one mining area alone, known as Delta 1, around 2,000 sex workers were employed in 100 brothels, 60 percent of them children, according to 2010 estimates by Huarayo Association, a local campaign group.
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Among the second group is musician and activist Blythe Pepino, who set up global campaign group BirthStrike for those who have vowed not to have children due to the "severity of the ecological crisis and the current inaction of governing forces".
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The campaign group said Donald Trump's effort to restrict travel to the US was "transparently hateful" and listed the US President alongside authoritarian leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as global threats to human rights.
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Muhammad Rabbani, 36, the international director of campaign group CAGE was found guilty of wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search, and given a conditional 12-month discharge, and was ordered to pay a 620 pound ($830) fine.
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The changes are the biggest shift in Brazil's environmental policies since it adopted a new constitution in 1988 at the end of a military rule, said Adriana Ramos from the Social and Environmental Institute (ISA), a Brasilia-based campaign group.
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"We've been treating the whole thing as a bit of a general election dry run, really... refining campaigning techniques and trying to come up with new ones," said Joseph Todd, a spokesman for the influential pro-Corbyn grassroots campaign group Momentum.
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One of the many questions Lamour and her campaign group Blak Sox are trying to answer is why the criminal justice system was seen as an appropriate choice for Reed, who had previously spent time in a secure mental health unit.
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Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said it had organized the protest in the heart of the capital's banking district, accusing the finance industry of funding climate change and the finance ministry of trying to water down government action to mitigate it.
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"There is a risk that some sectors of the EPP (mainstream European People's Party) will be drawn further to the right by the stronger presence of the far right," said Kenneth Haar, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, a campaign group.
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"I suspect it will get to parliament and parliament will vote it down and once that happens it will be game on for a People's Vote," said Hugo Dixon, deputy chair of the People's Vote campaign group, which wants another referendum.
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But satellite images of Ivory Coast's southwest cocoa-growing region showed about the same amount of forest had been lost in the 12 months since the pledge was made as in the previous year, campaign group Mighty Earth said in a report.
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"These figures blow a hole in the remain campaign's key tactic: to do down Britain and wrongly suggest that we can't get a free trade deal after we say no to Brussels," Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave campaign group, said.
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Although no official records have been collected, a report by campaign group Justice for Iran in 2014 found over 10 years nearly half a million women were cautioned and more than 30,000 women arrested in cities across Iran over the hijab law.
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"What has been proposed is extremely squeamish about the real lives that young people are living and does not factor in the needs of girls, young women and LGBT+ people," said Rachel Krys, co-director of campaign group End Violence Against Women.
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"We welcome the news, but the marriage act needs to be amended to reflect the court's judgment that the minimum age of marriage in Tanzania should be 18 for both boys and girls," said Jean-Paul Murunga from campaign group Equality Now said.
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"Today, there are more countries without malaria than with (it), and more countries than ever have fewer than 10,000 malaria cases, putting elimination within reach," Abdourahmane Diallo of the campaign group Roll Back Malaria said in a statement about the WHO's report.
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The huge truck-mounted banners, mimicking those in the Oscar-nominated movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," were driven through London by the campaign group Justice 4 Grenfell on Thursday afternoon, in a bid to keep the tragedy in the national consciousness.
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His closest allies are internal exiles of the same generation: John McDonnell, his shadow chancellor; Diane Abbott, his home secretary; and, outside Parliament, Jon Lansman, the architect of Momentum, a campaign group, who made his name as Tony Benn's fixer in the 1980s.
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Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley have already donated six-figure sums to the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign group, sources have said, as some of the world's biggest banks fear the impact on their UK operations of a British exit.
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" Earlier this month, Fahrenthold reported that Trump paid the Internal Revenue Service a $2,500 penalty this year after it was made public that the foundation "violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida's attorney general.
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"The ostrich-like approach, where some authorities try to hide the real extent of pollution rather than ensure their citizens breathe clean air, must stop," Jens Muller, air quality manager at Brussels-based campaign group Transport and Environment, said in a statement.
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Further inflaming the row is the presence on the college's governing council of a handful of prominent supporters of Dignity in Dying, a campaign group which backs assisted suicide and which wants the college to take a neutral position on the issue.
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"It's the first time in a decade that we have openly hosted such a function," said Farzana Jan, a leader of Trans Action Pakistan, a campaign group that estimates there are at least 500,000 transgender people in the country of 190 million.
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While there is no direct evidence of food industry influence over the obesity strategy, Kawther Hashem, a nutritionist from the health campaign group Action on Sugar, told MUNCHIES that food companies know what is at stake from a Government crackdown on sugar.
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Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley N> have already donated six-figure sums to the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign group, sources have said, as some of the world's biggest banks fear the impact on their UK operations of a British exit.
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LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - A former pro-Brexit activist has accused a group which campaigned to take Britain out of the European Union of breaking spending limits before the 2016 referendum, Britain's Channel 4 television reported, a charge denied by the campaign group.
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The worst reported violence happened along the Brazilian border, where armed groups of Maduro loyalists — known as "colectivos" — opened fire on protestors in the town of Santa Elena de Uairén, killing at least four people, according to the campaign group Foro Penal.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 300 communities across four West African countries with some of the world's highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) are this month declaring themselves free of the practice in public ceremonies, a campaign group said on Tuesday.
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Latin America fared worst, accounting for three in every five murders with the highest recorded death toll in any country reported in Brazil with 57 deaths, followed by 24 in Colombia and 15 in Mexico, the campaign group said in its annual report.
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LONDON (Reuters) - News that billionaire financier George Soros is a backer of a campaign group seeking to keep Britain in the EU added fire to Britain's Brexit debate on Thursday, with supporters of quitting the bloc accusing opponents of plotting a "coup".
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The arrival of a baby box full of useful products is a rite of passage for expectant Finnish parents - but they are tainted by abuse of workers creating many of the goodies inside, said a campaign group on Tuesday.
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"The government has not been receptive to any type of dialogue, including engagements by other parties, calls by other organizations, and bilateral discussions by different actors - over the issue of sexual minorities," said Judy Gitau, a lawyer with the campaign group Equality Now.
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In order to make a point about how hard life is for those who haven't been taught basic literacy skills (the video states that 3.6 million refugee children are denied an education, for example), the campaign group ONE took a slightly unconventional approach.
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" Earlier in the day, Willie Sullivan, chair of campaign group Citizens Basic Income Network Scotland, said: "Local government gets this reputation that it's risk averse, a bit bureaucratic, not open to new ideas, and certainly not at the radical edge of social transformation.
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The study, which was conducted by the university's Action on Sugar campaign group (AoS), compared the nutritional data of 67 cake varieties from markets and cafes across the UK., and found that the most egregious nutritional offenders were some of the most unsuspecting.
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Alex Cobham, chief executive of Tax Justice Network, a campaign group, said the criteria did not go far enough, as some countries such as Switzerland and many OECD countries were planning to extend transparency further than absolutely necessary, excluding many lower income countries.
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The tension over Brexit spiked again on Tuesday, when Britain's election watchdog, the Electoral Commission, ruled that the official pro-Brexit campaign group Vote Leave had broken the law on political spending during the 2016 referendum campaign over membership in the bloc.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nobel Prize winning anti-nuclear campaign group ICAN has offered to pay for the cost of the historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, including the hotel bill for the impoverished state's leader.
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In an open letter to the government, the campaign group Morar em Lisboa or 'Living in Lisbon' said local communities that give color and life to the city are on the verge of collapse and called for rent controls to be introduced.
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"When even the daughter of a co-founder cannot report his sexual abuses and be heard, what chance the black working class woman in Ethiopia or Pakistan?" said Alexia Pepper de Caires and Shaista Aziz of the NGO Safe Space campaign group.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous tribes in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, who have had little or no contact with the outside world, are facing "annihilation" from illegal loggers, ranchers and miners who want their land, a campaign group said on Tuesday.
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"If you go on Facebook, you have a lot of interest groups, migrant workers, sharing information about jobs or workers, trying to recruit each other through the internet," said Klara Skrivankova, UK and Europe program manager at Anti-Slavery International, the campaign group.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's top-flight Serie A soccer league launched a new anti-racism campaign on Monday by presenting artwork featuring three side-by-side paintings of apes but the move has been described by campaign group Fare as a sick joke.
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In the U.K., Justice 4 Grenfell, the campaign group for the survivors and families of the 71 people killed in the Grenfell residential tower fire in London, parked three billboards outside British Parliament buildings in February, asking why no arrests had been made.
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Farzana Riaz, a leader of campaign group Trans Action Pakistan, told a news conference that sources in the transgender community in Saudi Arabia had told her the two Pakistani women were packed in sacks by police and then beaten to death with sticks.
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PayPal is battling a growing chorus of opposition to its refusal to serve customers in the Palestinian territories, as British politicians join a US campaign group and hundreds of Palestinian nationals in calling for the payments service to lift its Palestinian blackout.
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"This 1 percent figure pales in comparison with the amount of money Big Oil spends blocking climate initiatives and regulations, and invests in fossil fuel projects that have no place in a well-below 2 degree Celsius world," said Jeanne Martin of campaign group ShareAction.
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Campaign group Greenpeace said in 2015 that three times the 2,700 MW of coal capacity needed closing to hit the 40 percent target, but the utility industry has hit back and said the reductions should come from other areas, such as transport and heat.
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Last year, anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International said nearly 200 million pounds ($260 million)of money believed to be the proceeds of foreign corruption had been spent on British properties since 2004 and that amount was probably just the tip of the iceberg.
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Campaign group Action on Sugar (AoS) warned of the dangerously high sugar content of popular flavoured drinks — including matcha and chai lattes, hot chocolate, and variations on coffee — with some containing up to 25 teaspoons of sugar; the equivalent to three cans of Coca Cola.
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In the United States, hackers accessed Democratic computer networks and stole large amounts of data ahead of the 2016 presidential elections and a campaign group supporting Republican candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives said it was hacked before last year's congressional elections.
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However, if you're a new father, a baby comes with a bonus, as many of your peers will likely think your commitment to work has actually increased, said the poll by the Fawcett Society, a campaign group promoting women's rights in the labor market.
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The bogus mainly far-right disinformation networks were not identified by Facebook — but had been reported to it by campaign group Avaaz — which says the fake pages had more Facebook followers and interactions than all the main EU far right and anti-EU parties combined.
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Her campaign group to save the original cinematic medium has found a high-profile ally in the form of Christopher Nolan, who shoots on film, and who even arranged for his recent blockbuster, "Dunkirk", to be projected on traditional 70mm in many cinemas last year.
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Michael Gibb, conflict resource team leader at campaign group Global Witness, welcomed the fact that checks would be mandatory, but said the EU had appeared to allow sizeable trading exempt from checks - such as up to 100 kg of gold (220 pounds) per year.
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The World Transformed grew out of Momentum, a campaign group which drummed up support for veteran leftist Corbyn to lead Labour and acted in his defense when centrist members in the party tried to oust him, unconvinced his leftist views could ever win over voters.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of lesbian, gay and transgender characters on U.S. television shows have reached record highs, and campaign group GLAAD said on Thursday that their stories were more important than ever given moves in the United States to roll back LGBT acceptance.
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The campaign group Transport and Environment quoted research published this week by another consultancy, Ricardo, which showed an integrated approach was inadequate and a new 2025 target for cars and fuel efficiency technology for trucks would have far more impact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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"It's very sad that the Russian government is closing the UN's human rights office, as it has done a great deal of good work," Rachel Denber, the deputy director for Europe and Central Asia at campaign group Human Rights Watch, told CNBC by email.
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Nicolas Hatton, co-chair of the 3million, a campaign group supporting the rights of EU and British citizens with around 35,000 members on Facebook, said he was unhappy that the deal backed Britain's stance of making EU citizens apply to remain in the country.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Activists from the online campaign group Avaaz tore down a cardboard wall near the site of the former Berlin Wall on Friday to urge American expats in Germany to vote against Republican nominee Donald Trump in the U.S. election on Nov. 8.
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Four local councils and environmental campaign group Greenpeace have six weeks from the date of the vote in the House of Commons to make the case for a judicial review, something they tried last year but were told to wait until the NPS was published.
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Campaign group Global Witness and others say much of the $1.3 billion in payments for the block did not go to the state but instead went to Etete, convicted of money laundering in a 2007 French case related to his time in the Nigerian government.
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NEW DELHI, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The State Bank of India (SBI) has defended financing a U.S. cluster bomb manufacturer, saying its investments were legal, after being put in a "Hall of Shame" along with several other major banks by a Dutch campaign group.
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OSLO/GENEVA (Reuters) - A campaign group seeking a global ban on nuclear arms won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, given the award by a Nobel Committee that cited the spread of weapons to North Korea and said the risk was growing of nuclear war.
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"In many cases, girls are from low income, rural families and are exploited sexually by teachers who offer to pay their school fees, pass their exams - or even buy them basics things like sanitary pads," said Naitore Nyamu-Mathenge, a lawyer from the campaign group Equality Now.
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Positive Money, a campaign group set up after the crisis, welcomed the prospect of a wider range of financial services providers but said the BoE should go further and create its own digital currency for the public - something the BoE has not deemed appropriate so far.
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On a crisp morning in January 22018, Casaleggio Associates received some unusual visitors: Farage, Raheem Kassam—then a UKIP strategist, later a Breitbart London editor and aide to Steve Bannon on his European missions—and Liz Bilney, the future CEO of pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.
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But a British human rights campaign group says it has uncovered documents that show the US is also conducting its military drone operations from within Royal Air Force (RAF) bases in the UK, an act that would be deemed in breach of international laws, argues the group.
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A report by campaign group Avaaz examining how Facebook's platform is being used to spread hate speech in the Assam region of North East India suggests the company is once again failing to prevent its platform from being turned into a weapon to fuel ethnic violence.
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The UK-based campaign group is one of more than 30 groups that have signed the open letter — calling for Facebook to stop what they couch as "harassment of good faith researchers who are building tools to provide greater transparency into the advertising on your platform".
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" This week, in sharp contrast, his campaign backed a super PAC, declaring in a statement that "there is one approved outside, non-campaign group, America First Action, which is run by allies of the President and is a trusted supporter of President Trump's policies and agendas.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea are welcome, but the bullying and threats that led up to them were reckless and it is South Korea that should get credit, the Nobel Prize winning anti-nuclear campaign group ICAN said on Thursday.
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"Without the participation of civil society and an analysis of the root causes of persistent insecurity, such processes will continue to fail to take into account the link between gender inequality and conflict," said Solange Lwashiga, a spokesperson for Nothing without Women, a Congolese women's campaign group.
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"The idea that someone's aspiration should be to marry into someone else's wealth and status, the idea that Meghan Markle wasn't already successful in her own right, I don't think that's ok," Graham Smith, the chief executive of the anti-monarchist campaign group Republic, told Reuters.
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Her husband Richard, who has set up the "Free Nazanin" campaign group and lobbied the British government to secure his wife's release, said in a statement she had been temporarily released on furlough from Evin Prison and was now staying at her parents' home in West Tehran.
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Rebel: Russia has green light to kill Syrians That is also why Medics Under Fire, a new Campaign Group that aims to bring together NGOs, donors, medical organizations and governments is here to push for accountability for these crimes, and enshrine and protect medical workers in conflict zones.
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The tech leaders are signatories to the aims of new tech business group Tech For UK which is backing anti-Brexit campaign group Best For Britain in its fundraising campaign for a meaningful vote on the terms of Brexit and the option to "Remain and lead in the EU".
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Graham MacGregor, who led the UK study as professor of cardiovascular medicine and chairman of the Action on Sugar campaign group, said the positive impact of calorie reduction could be dramatic across a large population over several years, even if its effect was not strong on an individual level.
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"Whether it was the Nice attacks, whether it was the Bataclan attack in Paris, whether it's Manchester, [...] they have all had a direct link to online extremist content," says Lucinda Creighton, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a campaign group that has helped shape the legislation.
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"Congratulations to William and Kate but it is a private matter and if people are happy for them then fine but I think the media should just move on and talk about something more important," Graham Smith, chief executive officer of the anti-monarchist campaign group Republic, told Reuters.
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Erik Olson of the Rail Security Alliance, a campaign group made up of American freight-wagon builders and their suppliers, claims that CRRC threatens to wipe out his members' businesses through predatory pricing, just as he reckons the company did in Australia after it set up shop there.
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Donald J. Trump for President The Republican National Committee Two joint fundraising committees with the RNC: The trump Make America Great Again Committee and Trump Victory There is also one approved outside non-campaign group: America First Action Go deeper: Axios' full investigation into David Bossie's fundraising mirage
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"Over the longer term, (the treaty) has to decrease the validity of the product - you will have fewer people wanting or being able to buy tobacco and that has to impact the investment appeal of the producers," said Rachel Melsom, UK director of campaign group Tobacco Free Portfolios.
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"Over the longer term, (the treaty) has to decrease the validity of the product – you will have fewer people wanting or being able to buy tobacco and that has to impact the investment appeal of the producers," said Rachel Melsom, UK director of campaign group Tobacco Free Portfolios.
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An investigation by The Times of London found that the company helped fund a supposedly grassroots campaign group called OpenMedia, which called for people to spam politicians with automated messages; OpenMedia claimed that its backers did not influence its actions, even though it listed Google as a major donor.
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BRASILIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rio de Janeiro's homeless are being forced out of tourist areas in the middle of the night as the city hosts the Olympic Games, according to a Brazilian campaign group, but authorities said the homeless were being accommodated in shelters on a voluntary basis.
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"Businesses want certainty as soon as possible, which is why Britain must leave the EU within a maximum period of two years after triggering Article 50 – no EU deal is better than a bad deal," said Richard Tice, a businessman and co-chairman of campaign group, Leave Means Leave.
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"The American people know that the Republicans who control Washington sold them out with a disastrous tax giveaway to the rich and big business that the rest of the country is being forced to pay for," said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the liberal campaign group American Bridge.
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The campaign group said that if there is another referendum, there is a strong case for EU citizens living in the United Kingdom, expatriate citizens who have lived outside the UK for more than 15 years and young people aged 16 and 17 to be given a vote.
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Employment agencies – Some of Hong Kong's 1,300 domestic helper employment agencies will often illegally charge workers anything from HK$5,000 to $21,000 to sign up, compared with the standard rate of 10 per cent of their first salary, or about HK$431, according to campaign group Helpers for Domestic Helpers.
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Archaeologists in the city of Vienne in southern France have discovered a 75,000-square-foot Roman neighborhood dating from the first century CE. The Artist Pension Trust revealed plans to charge a monthly storage fee for artists, prompting many of its members to launch an online campaign group opposing the fees.
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"Facebook U.K.'s accounts show specific issues, but point also to the real problem: that major multinational companies appear to be able to pick and choose, unlike the rest of us, where and how much tax they will pay," the campaign group Tax Justice Network said in a statement on Sunday.
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One person familiar with the meeting between GOP leaders, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and his wife Lara said that the Trumps voiced frustration over the questions and scandals swirling around the administration and sought to explore how the Republican campaign group could rally Trump's political base, according to the Post.
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And he criticized Mr. Trump over his own foundation, referring to a Washington Post report that found that his charitable organization paid the Internal Revenue Service a $2,500 penalty this year after improperly giving a political contribution to a campaign group with ties to the attorney general of Florida, Pam Bondi.
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"We at BADASS, are so thrilled to see that a law enforcement agency has heard our pleas, and has finally done something against this website," Katelyn Bowden, creator of anti-revenge porn campaign group BADASS, and who has had her images shared on Anon-IB, told Motherboard in an email.
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" Financial Times quoted Alex Cobham, chief executive of Tax Justice Network, a campaign group, stating that the United States was "the elephant in the room … If you were going to produce a tax haven blacklist with only one member, it wouldn't be a small Caribbean island — it would be tax haven USA.
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According to the Equality Trust, a campaign group set up to reduce economic inequality, the chief executives of companies in the FTSE 20163 share index take home on average 5.3 million pounds ($6.6 million), 386 times more than a worker on the minimum wage and 190 times the average salary in Britain.
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Cities account for about three-quarters of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions But the benefits of people choosing to cycle, walk or stay home to avoid coronavirus could be cancelled out if others opted to use cars instead, said Carlos Calvo Ambel, a director at Transport and Environment, a Brussels-based campaign group.
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Silkie Carlo, director of civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, told Business Insider: "This decision represents an enormous expansion of the surveillance state and a serious threat to civil liberties in the UK."She added that the Met police&aposs earlier trial was "81% inaccurate", citing findings by an independent report.
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O'Rourke, a progressive Democrat backed by Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE's Our Revolution campaign group, raises his money without accepting donations from PACs.
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A later explanation given by the government to parliament said he had appeared to compare homosexuality to paedophilia and had spoken alongside figures from CAGE, a campaign group that gained attention for contacts with Mohammed Emwazi, the now-dead British militant known as "Jihadi John" who appeared in Islamic State videos beheading foreign captives.
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Privacy campaign group Privacy International says documents it has obtained through a legal challenge to the UK security agencies data-harvesting practices illustrate the extent to which spies have systematically and secretly amassed a cache of data on UK citizens for the past 15 years — regardless of whether a particular individual is suspected of a crime.
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The British government denies this however, stating, "the US does not operate RPAS [remotely piloted aircraft systems] from the UK." Publicly available job listings and résumés, shown to Motherboard by human rights campaign group Reprieve, show that US military personnel based in the UK have been working on drone missions at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire near London.
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Shell's acknowledgement that it always knew that the Nigerian government would pay some of the money to Malabu also follows a report released this week by campaign group Global Witness, which said it had proof that Shell executives were told payments would go not only to Malabu but also to a string of Nigerian business people.
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What's needed most is forceful, honest reporting — as The Times has produced about conflicts circling the foundation; and as The Washington Post did this past week in surfacing Trump's violation of tax laws when he made a $25,000 political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida's attorney general as her office was investigating Trump University.
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Kelley Rogers, former president of the consulting firm Strategic Campaign Group, pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud in one of the first cases of its kind, a sign federal authorities are beginning to crack down on "scam PACs" that raise money from donors in the name of political causes but keep most of those funds for profit.
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In fact, says Robert Berschinski of Human Rights First, a campaign group, it magnifies the power of GLOMAG by loosening or deleting criteria for action written into the original law, which in turn went further than a first, Russia-focused Magnitsky Act passed in 2012 to honour a Russian tax lawyer and whistle-blower, Sergei Magnitsky, who died after torture in official custody.
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Vote Leave says it would be in the EU's interests to agree a favorable trade deal with Britain after a Brexit vote, and that Britain would find it easier to do trade deals with non-European countries on its own, rather than as part of the EU. The most detailed estimate of benefits from leaving the EU comes from the campaign group Economists for Brexit.
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" Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and who has worked extensively on how malware is abused in domestic situations, said in an online chat, "I am generally wary of calls for platform censorship, including censorship of financial platforms such as PayPal, but this is clearly a violation of PayPal's terms of service and they're welcome to show HelloSpy the door.
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Mark Malloch-Brown, a former British diplomat who is chair of the Best for Britain campaign group, said the group had never hidden its aims, which include staying in the EU. "George Soros's foundations have along with a number of other major donors also made significant contributions to our work," Malloch-Brown said in a statement, confirming Soros had contributed 400,000 pounds through his charitable foundations.
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"The issuing of new logging concessions sends a clear signal ... that the DRC government is abandoning any pretence at reducing emissions from deforestation," said Simon Counsell, Executive Director of Rainforest Foundation UK. London-based campaign group Global Witness, another signatory to the statement, said in a 2015 report that the degradation of Congo's forests is getting worse due to logging outside of permitted areas and over-exploitation.
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Though far from a done deal, the need to relocate the medicines agency, the British withdrawal from the bloc and the recent election of the reform-minded Emmanuel Macron as president of France have created a historic opportunity, said Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, a European lawmaker from Sweden who is the chairwoman of a campaign group called Single Seat, which advocates one venue for the Parliament.
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The most familiar is a Marxist ideologue who got his training in politics in three engines of the hard left: the National Union of Mineworkers, where he worked as a researcher; the Greater London Council, where he served as deputy leader under "Red" Ken Livingstone until he was sacked for being too hard-line; and the Campaign Group of left-wing MPs, where he first forged links with Mr Corbyn.
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