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From an international legal perspective, PMSCs and their personnel raise a number of controversial issues, such as their status under the Geneva Conventions, individual accountability for misconduct in different jurisdictions and the duty of authorities to survey and screen the actions of firms for potentially abusive behavior. Experts from states with a special interest in international humanitarian law and human rights law complemented the list of participants, together with representatives of the PMSC industry and the NGO community. Whenever governments rely on PMSCs in war zones, they retain a responsibility to ascertain that international humanitarian law and human rights law is upheld, and to exercise due diligence.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2011, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Sustainable Trade (IDH) announced today that the new African Cocoa (WCF/ACI), a Global Development Alliance partnership to invest in sustainable cocoa programs in West Africa, will be launched in the coming weeks. Cocoa is one of the most significant crops in West and Central Africa, 90 percent of which is grown on 2 million small family farms. WCF/ACI is a five-year, $13.5 million program in the four producing countries of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria that will develop their cocoa sector in four critical areas: foster public-private cooperative investments in cocoa and agriculture, improve the genetic quali...
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LONDON and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Omidyar Network announced today the opening of a global office in the Shoreditch area of London. The office will serve as the philanthropic investment firm's headquarters for its work in Europe, as well as serve as the global hub for its Government Transparency . Stephen King, investment partner at Omidyar Network, will lead the London office and the global Government Transparency practice. King made the announcement at "The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development" conference in London. Omidyar Network was created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam in 2004. Omidyar Network makes impact investments and grants to the most innovative companies and organizations across five...
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This article reviews and analyzes the goals and approaches espoused in the George W. Bush administration's proposed Strengthening America's Communities Initiative (SACI). Drawing on a variety of materials describing the rationale, purpose, assumptions, goals, and components of the newest policy approach to community and economic development, this paper tries to critically examine the initiative using a capacity-building framework and some of the historical antecedents of Federal grant programs for community development - including some defunct programs to inform current discussion about the proposal. Two conclusions of this analysis are that this proposal has much more in common with previous administrations' proposals for development over the last several decades than its advocates are...
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Critics of a West Virginia University to teach communities about Marcellus Shale drilling say the program is biased because it gets funding from the natural gas industry. The Sierra Club of West Virginia contends that the program, run by the university's Extension Service, doesn't give participants enough information about the environmental damage caused by drilling.
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Over the past decade, drug trafficking and other criminal organizations have grown in size and strength, aggressively seeking to undermine and intimidate government institutions in Mexico and Central America, compromising municipal and state law enforcement entities, and substantially weakening these governments' ability to maintain public security and expand the rule of law.
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Reinforces Lipton's commitment to sourcing all of its tea from sustainably managed, Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) farms by 2015 ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Underscoring its commitment to sustainability, LIPTON(R), one of the world's leading tea and refreshment brands, is proud to announce the "Caring for Communities is Our Cup of Tea" . This program represents Lipton's latest effort in its commitment to sourcing all of its tea from sustainably managed farms, with the goal of having all of its tea bags originate from Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) farms by 2015.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today unveiled a new sustainability initiative dedicated to helping customers run more carbon-efficient Web infrastructure and improve their energy consumption. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100225/AKAMAILOGO )
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Last month, the White House launched a bold new initiative aimed at accelerating high-growth entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the nation. The overarching goal is to help spur innovation, sustainable business growth and the creation of new jobs in an economy that clearly needs all three. Appropriately named "Startup America," the program has a variety of proposed components and is an alliance between a wide array of public and private sector entities that includes federal government agencies, entrepreneurs, corporations, universities and foundations. According to the White House, the following are some of the initial focal areas of the initiative:
