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During the civil war, he and his family were forced to flee to Nigeria.
It's a suit for civil disobedience.
It's because in Africa, we have weak institutions, like the judiciary, the constitution, civil society and so forth.
In addition to this, we also decided to sue for civil damages, again using a law that's never been used, but we used it for her case.
At the end of it all, the court unanimously agreed that her in-laws should be arrested for what they did to her, her fucking brother should also be arrested for selling her — (Applause) — and they agreed that she did have a right to civil compensation.
In the process, I became a civil society diplomat.
Civil society diplomats do three things: They voice the concerns of the people, are not pinned down by national interests, and influence change through citizen networks, not only state ones.
But many people still ask, "Can civil society really make a big difference?
I never thought I would ask myself these questions, but here I am to share some lessons about two powerful civil society movements that I've been involved in.
It may seem obvious, but a key ingredient to civil society diplomacy is first changing and then controlling the narrative.
This is something that veteran politicians understand, but that civil society groups generally do not do very well.
Governments and civil societies are experimenting with new approaches.
I was as far removed from the world of civil society diplomacy as you can imagine.
No matter what the issue, and no matter how hard the fight, civil society is central to the blueprint for change.
That young man wasn't a politician, he wasn't a businessman, a civil rights activist or a faith leader.
And with this detailed information about the real quality of life in this part of the country, Imazon and other partners from government, business and civil society can work together to construct a development plan that will help really improve people's lives, while protecting that precious global asset that is the Amazon Rainforest.
Imagine if we could measure what nonprofits, charities, volunteers, civil society organizations really contribute to our society.
Imagine if we could work together — government, business, civil society, me, you — and make this century the century of social progress.
We've heard extraordinary activities of civil society groups who are engaging in local and global collective action, and this is leading to digital protest and real revolution.
I think this poses a serious civil liberties threat.
In El Salvador, both sides that withdrew from their civil war took moves that had been proven to mirror a prisoner's dilemma strategy.
The Global Environment Institute, a Chinese civil society group, found that in the last 15 years, China has invested in more than 240 coal-fired power plants in more than 68 countries affiliated with the One Belt, One Road Initiative.
And together with other teammates in the National Forest Department, we were assigned a task to join a team and find out the causes of deforestation, and make a plan to combat that at a national level, involving the local governments, the civil society, business, local communities, in an effort that could tackle those causes.
And fifth and last, we need to share responsibility between governments, business and civil society.
During the past eight years, fighting in the eastern provinces has regularly reignited full-scale civil and international war.
Instead, it is that both macro-level and micro-level peacebuilding are needed to make peace sustainable, and local nongovernmental organizations, local authorities and civil society representatives should be the main actors in the bottom-up process.
But it’s a deeply rewarding one, with an epic assortment of intense romances, civil war, political intrigue, globe-trotting adventurers, and more characters named Aureliano than you’d think possible.
Strange prophecies and visits from mysterious gypsies give way to the skirmishes and firing squads of repeated civil wars.
Until the beginning of the civil war in Somalia in the late '80s, humanitarian aid workers were sometimes victims of what we call collateral damages, but by and large we were not the target of these attacks.
Could I use art like these old, discontinued firehoses from Alabama, to talk about the complexities of a moment of civil rights in the '60s?
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