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Not surprisingly, bottlers have been embroiled in disputes with local authorities and citizens’ groups in many places over their role in water depletion, and even pollution.
The deeper truth underlying the protests can be found on blogs, where young Indian men and women bemoan the fact that travel guidebooks routinely warn women about pervasive sexual harassment in India, and advise them to move around in groups.
A draconian new bill, introduced by radical pro-life groups and officially supported by the leadership of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, would send women to prison for up to five years for “prenatal murder.”
The abortion bill was not introduced by the PiS leadership, but by a host of radical advocacy groups associated with PiS backbench MPs.
Prepping Gay Men for PrEPLONDON – In October, two groups researching the effectiveness of a potential breakthrough drug in the fight against HIV did something unusual.
Its links to international extremist Islamic groups require that governments review and re-think how they respond to it.
The National Transitional Council, the governing body established in February by the various rebel groups, has functioned fairly well, given the mammoth centrifugal forces and other pressures at work.
It is not ideal by any means, but allowing the streets to be policed by militias and various tribal-based groups would be far more dangerous.
What to do with the various rebel groups that “liberated” the country will probably be one of the main challenges facing any new provisional government.
America’s environmental movement was soon exported to Europe and elsewhere: on one hand, the pragmatic Friends of the Earth and the media-oriented organization Greenpeace , and, on the other hand, eco-fundamentalist groups like Earth First! and the Environmental Justice Movement (EJM) or lobbying groups like the World Wildlife Fund.
Ringo also heads the Apollo Alliance , a coalition of trade unions, environmentalist groups, managers, and local politicians that demands clean energy and good jobs.
On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.
Only two groups of Russians today show some resistance to the all-powerful sway of the media.
Just ask any of the large international banking groups headquartered in financially stressed eurozone countries.
Violent conflicts among Indonesia's myriad ethnic and religious groups continue.
During Megawati's trip to America to support President Bush's policy, indeed, the government in Jakarta was almost incapacitated by these small, noisy and radical Islamic groups.
On her return, Megawati restored her credibility by ordering the security services to act against these groups.
Credit for the absence of a truly serious Islamic challenge, however, should perhaps be given to Indonesia's moderate and mainstream Muslim leaders and groups, such as Nahdatul Ulama and Muhammadyah, who avoided incendiary words and deeds.
Because Indonesia's government will likely be weak for years to come, Mrs Megawati should forge alliances with the many civil society groups that are emerging in Indonesia and which support a democratic regime.
So long as particular groups are willing to abandon the politics of secession and embrace what Habermas calls “constitutional patriotism,” political decision-making can be decentralized.
Study groups can be far more accessible and flexible with the Web.
That is why it is important to have citizens’ groups that can step in to ensure that investments operate fairly.
Though civil-society groups have long monitored the “supply side” – the project financing – they often ignore the “demand side” – namely, the value and impacts of the projects being implemented.
For example, powerful groups and transnational corporations (such as the World Economic Forum, General Electric, and Rio Tinto) are gaining influence within the G-20, the G-7, and the BRICS, whose members compete among themselves for access to resources and markets.
Moreover, Japan’s powerful agricultural interest groups, especially the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, may strengthen their opposition to both a trilateral FTA with China and South Korea and the TPP with the US.
But it, too, will have to face strong opposition from domestic agricultural interest groups and manufacturing sectors, which might mobilize even more strongly than they did in opposing the FTA with the US.
There are also fears that the splintering of Dokubu’s militias has created fertile ground in the Delta for Islamist groups.
Whatever the motivations of the various groups, a surge of militia attacks and kidnappings over the past several weeks has now shut down roughly 20% of Nigeria’s oil exports and killed dozens of people.
Various ethnic and religious groups, based in different regions, are battling for oil revenue and political clout.
The regime benefited from the active support of the Alawite community and the passive stance of other minorities, as well as of the bourgeoisie in Damascus and Aleppo, whose members feared the regime’s fall and its replacement by Islamists or other radical groups.
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