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QUETTA-PAKISTAN: National party women secretary Mrs. Shazia Ahemd Langau speaks to press conference in favor of former chief minister adviser Meer Khalid Khan Langau at press Club. meer Kalid langau was arrested by National Accountability bureau “NAB” at Last week from Balochistan High court in case of mega corruption scandal in Finance Ministry Government of Balochistan
5 May 2023 – ADB has committed to significantly increase its climate change financing. Ensuring its financing is fit for purpose requires much greater transparency, participation, and accountability. CSOs have strengths in all these areas.
This session tackled key issues on enhancing people’s access to information on how climate finance is being allocated, spent, and for what; CSOs and youth’s roles in design, implementation, and monitoring of climate finance projects; and how CSOs can constructively engage with governments and ADB to improve climate finance governance.
The event was held on the sidelines of the 56th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors.
Hani Eskandar, ITU
This session features some of the innovative ICT applications for RMNCH, and highlight efforts of international organizations to foster the use of ICT to better implement the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche
Luis Falcon, GNU Solidario
This session features some of the innovative ICT applications for RMNCH, and highlight efforts of international organizations to foster the use of ICT to better implement the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche
#RejectFear #StopC51
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There has been a call out to protest Bill C-51 on March 14, 2015 in cities across the country.
The proposed legislation Bill C-51 would clearly allow for the violation of Charter Rights, facilitate spying on innocent Canadians, and create a secret police force with little oversight or accountability.
This bill disproportionately targets indigenous communities, environmental activists, dissidents, and Muslims, many of whom are already subjected to questionable and overreaching powers by security officials. This bill will make it easier and ostensibly lawful for government to continue infringing upon the rights of peaceful people.
C-51 is reckless, irresponsible and ineffective.
We are calling on the government to withdraw the legislation.
We are calling on everyone to do what they can to bring attention to this governments attempt to compromise privacy for false security, while promoting a culture of fear and racism.
Please send a message to your MP, share this event, and join us on March 14!
Find YOUR MP using your postal code here: bit.ly/1GlPdaa
==============
TORONTO EVENT
==============
We will gather in Nathan Phillips Square at 12PM NOON for an OPENING CEREMONY led by an indigenous elder followed by a drum song.
Elder Pauline Shirt to do Opening Ceremony at Nathan Philips Square at 12:00 pm.
Speakers will begin at approx. 12:15PM:
Special Performance
by Juno Award winning artist Maryem Tollar
Vanessa Gray, Young indigenous activist of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation
Nasim Asgari, Young spoken word artist
Riaz Sayani-Mulji, and Suraia Sahar
Paul Copeland, Human Rights Lawyer
Peggy Nash, NDP MP
Andrew Cash, NDP MP
Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader
Hassan Yussuff, Canadian Labour Congress
Syd Ryan, Ontario Federation of Labour
Chris Hedges, American journalist, activist, author, Presbyterian minister and humanitarian.
Judy Rebick, Canadian journalist, political activist and feminist
Josephine Grey, Human Rights Activist and founder of LIFT (Low Income Families Together)
Mohammad Ali, Hip-hop & spoken word artist
..............and then join us for a MARCH to 277 Front Street; the CSIS Toronto office building. (Front & John)
More details to come.
Donations Gratefully Accepted
www.gofundme.com/StopC51?fb_action_ids=10152873899049064&...
To be involved in organizing the event message one of the admins or post saying so on the page.
We encourage every one to do what they can on this national day of action, rally, march, take direct action, spread information, write MP's, whatever it is you think will make a difference, do it.
This rally is endorsed by;
Leadnow.ca - À l'Action
OpenMedia.ca
Youth Vote Canada
Action for Civil Liberties - A4CL
Idle No More Toronto
COMER - Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
Toronto 350.org
Millions Against Monsanto Toronto
Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
PipeLeaks
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)
Occupy Canada
Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
Greater Toronto Area Council (PSAC)
LIFT (Low Income Families Together) www.lift.to
Centre for Social Justice
Network for the Elimination of Police Violence
Greenpeace Canada
Elementary Teachers of Toronto
Common Frontiers
Amnesty International Canada
The Zeitgeist Movement Toronto Chapter
The Council of Canadians
If you would like to endorse the action in Toronto let us know!
Go here for information on communicating securely: ssd.eff.org/en
FOLLOW UP EVENT:
Opposing this bill doesn't end with this event, come to our follow up townhall meeting to discuss this Bill and it's implications.
www.facebook.com/events/855612024506128/
======================================
National Event Page:
www.facebook.com/events/1576309639319839
OpenMedia.ca campaign:
Leadnow.ca - À l'Action campaign:
Read The Bill:
www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Languag...
News releases on impact of Bill C-51 by the BCCLA:
Europees Commissaris van Justitie Didier Reynders, de Nederlandse Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en Openbaar Aanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof Karim A.A. Khan.
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European Commissioner of Justice Didier Reynders, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and Public Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Misha Kay, WHO
This session features some of the innovative ICT applications for RMNCH, and highlight efforts of international organizations to foster the use of ICT to better implement the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-164
FEDERAL PROCUREMENT: Smarter Buying Initiatives Can Achieve Additional Savings, but Improved Oversight and Accountability Needed
Note: We excluded spending and savings figures reported by the Library of Congress for the Information Retrieval FSSI because were not able to independently verify the data reported.
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra verzorgt de openingsspeech. De volledige tekst staat op www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... of bekijk de video van de toespraak op youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
===English===
Opening speech Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... or watch the video of the speech on youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Peter A. Bruck, World Summit Award
This session features some of the innovative ICT applications for RMNCH, and highlight efforts of international organizations to foster the use of ICT to better implement the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
#RejectFear #StopC51
********TTC Closure Notice*************************************
The Yonge Line is closed Saturday from Bloor to Osgoode station. We recommend using the University Line and getting off at OSGOODE station. www.ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Subway_closures/Line_1_Bloo...
See you tomorrow! Be colourful, be courteous, be courageous! ♥
*******************************************************************
There has been a call out to protest Bill C-51 on March 14, 2015 in cities across the country.
The proposed legislation Bill C-51 would clearly allow for the violation of Charter Rights, facilitate spying on innocent Canadians, and create a secret police force with little oversight or accountability.
This bill disproportionately targets indigenous communities, environmental activists, dissidents, and Muslims, many of whom are already subjected to questionable and overreaching powers by security officials. This bill will make it easier and ostensibly lawful for government to continue infringing upon the rights of peaceful people.
C-51 is reckless, irresponsible and ineffective.
We are calling on the government to withdraw the legislation.
We are calling on everyone to do what they can to bring attention to this governments attempt to compromise privacy for false security, while promoting a culture of fear and racism.
Please send a message to your MP, share this event, and join us on March 14!
Find YOUR MP using your postal code here: bit.ly/1GlPdaa
==============
TORONTO EVENT
==============
We will gather in Nathan Phillips Square at 12PM NOON for an OPENING CEREMONY led by an indigenous elder followed by a drum song.
Elder Pauline Shirt to do Opening Ceremony at Nathan Philips Square at 12:00 pm.
Speakers will begin at approx. 12:15PM:
Special Performance
by Juno Award winning artist Maryem Tollar
Vanessa Gray, Young indigenous activist of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation
Nasim Asgari, Young spoken word artist
Riaz Sayani-Mulji, and Suraia Sahar
Paul Copeland, Human Rights Lawyer
Peggy Nash, NDP MP
Andrew Cash, NDP MP
Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader
Hassan Yussuff, Canadian Labour Congress
Syd Ryan, Ontario Federation of Labour
Chris Hedges, American journalist, activist, author, Presbyterian minister and humanitarian.
Judy Rebick, Canadian journalist, political activist and feminist
Josephine Grey, Human Rights Activist and founder of LIFT (Low Income Families Together)
Mohammad Ali, Hip-hop & spoken word artist
..............and then join us for a MARCH to 277 Front Street; the CSIS Toronto office building. (Front & John)
More details to come.
Donations Gratefully Accepted
www.gofundme.com/StopC51?fb_action_ids=10152873899049064&...
To be involved in organizing the event message one of the admins or post saying so on the page.
We encourage every one to do what they can on this national day of action, rally, march, take direct action, spread information, write MP's, whatever it is you think will make a difference, do it.
This rally is endorsed by;
Leadnow.ca - À l'Action
OpenMedia.ca
Youth Vote Canada
Action for Civil Liberties - A4CL
Idle No More Toronto
COMER - Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
Toronto 350.org
Millions Against Monsanto Toronto
Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
PipeLeaks
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)
Occupy Canada
Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
Greater Toronto Area Council (PSAC)
LIFT (Low Income Families Together) www.lift.to
Centre for Social Justice
Network for the Elimination of Police Violence
Greenpeace Canada
Elementary Teachers of Toronto
Common Frontiers
Amnesty International Canada
The Zeitgeist Movement Toronto Chapter
The Council of Canadians
If you would like to endorse the action in Toronto let us know!
Go here for information on communicating securely: ssd.eff.org/en
FOLLOW UP EVENT:
Opposing this bill doesn't end with this event, come to our follow up townhall meeting to discuss this Bill and it's implications.
www.facebook.com/events/855612024506128/
======================================
National Event Page:
www.facebook.com/events/1576309639319839
OpenMedia.ca campaign:
Leadnow.ca - À l'Action campaign:
Read The Bill:
www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Languag...
News releases on impact of Bill C-51 by the BCCLA:
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-590G
AGILE ASSESSMENT GUIDE: Best Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation
De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky spreekt via een videoverbinding met de deelnemers van de conferentie.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to conference participants via video link.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Syrian human rights defenders spoke out at a Human Rights Council side event September 21 to appeal to the international community to work to end the conflict in Syria and to ensure justice and accountability for the victims.
The discussion reinfored the essential role of Syrian civil society in the pursuit of a political solution to the war. The
The event was organized by No Peace Without Justice and the Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum, and co-sponsored by the U.S. and other national delegations to the HRC.
Speakers included: Hussein Sabbagh, Secretary General Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum; Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, Secretary General No Peace Without Justice; Riyad Al-Najem, Hurras, Syrian child protection network; Husam Alkatlaby, The Violations Documentation Center in Syria; Ola Aljounde, Women Now for Development; Diab Serrih, The Day After, Ambassador Peter Matt (Liechtenstein); Ambassador Julian Braithwaite (UK) and Ambassaodr Maurizio Enrico Serra (Italy). Ambassador Keith Harper, U.S. Representative to the Human Rights Council delivered concluding remarks.
U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers
President van Oekraïne Volodymyr Zelensky, minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en de deelnemers aan de conferentie nemen samen een moment stilte in acht.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Dutch Minister of Foreig Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and the conference participants observe a moment of silence together.
The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-164
FEDERAL PROCUREMENT: Smarter Buying Initiatives Can Achieve Additional Savings, but Improved Oversight and Accountability Needed
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
Initial Weight: 145 lbs
This Week's Weight: 139.8
Change: -5.2 lbs (-3.2 lbs this week)
I'm currently loving:
Daily Plate: a calorie and exercise monitoring application that a friend clued me into.
I'm really enjoying logging my exercise in the app. I am, quite literally, running my ass off: 34.1 miles as of this afternoon! I celebrated my completion of Week 4 of the Couch to 5K program yesterday by purchasing new running shoes. Today's run (3 miles) felt significantly less sucky than yesterday's: win!
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-488
PATRIOT MODERNIZATION: Oversight Mechanism Needed to Track Progress and Provide Accountability
Note: Long-term upgrade costs includes $364 million for the long-term radar solution which will be a separate major defense acquisition program.
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
South Sudan needs to move ahead now and enforce Justice and accountability, the top United Nations Diplomat, Ambassador Samantha Power, said on Saturday September 3, 2016, shortly after meeting with the council of ministers in Juba.
“For as long as armed actors, rape, loot and kill with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here,” Ambassador Power told the council of Ministers in Juba.
Security Council delegates reiterated that the United Nations and member states remain committed to see an end to violence so that people can begin to recover from years of conflict and alleviate the suffering of the people.
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
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The 31st edition of the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games is set for January 11-22, . The preliminary round will be played in Canton, NY, before moving to Lake Placid’s historic Olympic Center 1980 Rink for the medal rounds
*note* Gold medal game (in fact the whole 2023 FISU tournament ) not shown nor supported by CBC and the other major Canadian media stations ? Canadian Taxpayers donate over $1.2 billion per year to the CBC.
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Results from games played at SUNY Canton Roos House
Thur Jan 12th - UKR 1 vs Canada 6
Fri Jan 13th - SWE 3 vs Canada 10
Sun Jan 15th - Japan 2 vs Canada 8
Tues Jan 17th - Latvia 0 vs Canada 9
Wed Jan 18th - Czech 0 vs Canada 4
Results from Olympic Center Lk Placid : final scores
Sat Jan 21,2023 Men's semis KAZ 1 vs Canada 4
Jan 21, 2023 Women's Gold medal game Japan 0 vs Canada 5
Sun, Jan 22,2023 Men's bronze medal KAZ 8 vs Japan 1
Sun Jan 22,2023 Men's Gold medal game USA 2 vs Canada 7
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UNB selections: Winter World University Games
Brady Gilmour Forward UNB Grafton, ON #19
Austen Keating Forward UNB Guelph, ON #9
Adam McCormick Defence UNB Waterville, NB #8
AUS selections:
Justin MacPherson Defence SMU East Gwillimbury, ON
Matt Welsh Goaltender SMU Halifax, NS
Andrew Coxhead Forward SMU Bedford,NS
Liam Hawel Forward StFX Arnprior, ON
Matthew Struthers Forward StFX Milton, ON
Kyle Maksimovich Forward UPEI Hamilton, ON
TJ Shea Forward UPEI Tignish, PEI
Matthew Brassard Defence UPEI Barrie, ON
Justin Bergeron Defence UQTR Magog, QC
Kyle Bollers Forward Toronto Oshawa, ON
Brett Davis Forward Manitoba Oakbank, MB
Jared Dmytriw Forward Saskatchewan Craven, SK
Kai Edmonds Goaltender TMU Ottawa, ON
Noah King Defence Calgary Winnipeg, MB
Simon Lafrance Forward UQTR Saint-Eustache, QC
Zachary Lavigne Forward UQTR Drummondville, QC
Jacob Paquette Defence Queen’s Ottawa, ON
Roddy Ross Goaltender Saskatchewan Meadow Lake, SK
Scott Walford Defence McGill Coquitlam, BC
Jonathan Yantsis Forward Queen’s
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Some relevant news clippings,,
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to promote men's Hockey like the AHL, ECHL, or University level hockey ? And Canada has just won both Golds at the recent 2023 international University Hockey FISU tournament. But the Gold medal final games, in fact the whole tournament, was not telecast by the CBC ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
Halifax, Canada Jan 2023 - This time around the IIHF men's World Juniors hockey tournament is being held in Canada. No games were shown on CBC, and many Canadians were unable to watch Canada's finest male Junior hockey players incl Connor Badard play in their home Country and win the Gold for Canada ?
However, although CBC ignored and failed to televise any of the IIHF men's junior hockey games played, they were sure to make daily news reports and give loads of air time focused on an alleged past scandal involving a previous men's IIHF Junior hockey team ? cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
New Women's Pro Hockey PWHL - CBC giving support, full coverage, and giving the girls massive air time, TV ads, coast to coast live broadcasts, player bios and a game each week complete with hosting and analysis,, "CBC/Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster of the Professional Women's Hockey League"
However, CBC appears to show a different attitude when it comes to supporting or televising many of the pro sporting events played by male gender athletes such as Grey Cup, FIFA, Copa America international men's soccer football and men's IIHF World Juniors, and so a large Canadian fan base was unable to watch pro athletes like Acadia Axemen footballer Bailey Feltmate in the Grey Cup, or Nova Scotia's Jacob Shaffelburg in the Copa international Men's soccer tournament or Connor Badard in the IIHF World Men's Juniors hockey tournament ?
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-... cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
CBC doesn't seem to promote Men's soccer or Men's CFL pro football ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/album-7...
Jun 11, 2024 - Women's new Pro soccer, the Halifax Tides, - CBC promoting and providing full media support and coverage for the brand new start-up Women's Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female Acadia University athletes like Mya Harnish, who has now turned Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay out $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Breathtaking salaries for CBC/Radio-Canada’s corporate management ? President and CEO Catherine Tait had a base salary range of $390,300 to $459,100 in 2019 ? That's more than the P.M. makes ? tnc.news/2022/01/26/cbc-salaries-include-125-senior-direc...
Huge bonuses for CBC brass in 2022,
nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-employees-paid-16-millio...
Aug 12, 2024 - CBC has paid out $18.4 million in bonuses after staff layoffs ? The bonuses went to nearly 1,200 employees ? $3.3 million went to 45 executives ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-bonuses-catherine-tait-1.729...
Apr 04, 2025 - Mark Carney pledges a $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC ? And,, the new Liberal government will make CBC funding statutory ? Last year CBC received an all time record 1.5 billion in taxpayer funding and their CEO Catherine Tait, made more than the Prime Minister ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-cbc-funding-1.7501902
June 28,2021, O Canada at the Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays an unsettling and unflattering version of the Canadian National Anthem on the World stage ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
July 1, 2021 - the Prime Minister of Canada will not be celebrating Canada Day this year claiming that for some Canada Day is not a day to celebrate." Wha-a-a-a-t -t-t ????? Did I hear that right ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1....
February 20th 2023 Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black makes headlines when she changes the lyrics and sings a politicized and personalized ' our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah ?
www.iheartradio.ca/news/jully-black-sings-o-canada-with-s...
video replay of CBC's unusual version playing O Canada ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529
Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black sings her personalized and politicized 'our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem in a performance at Toronto university graduation.. Black was asked to perform her new way of singing the national anthem to reflect the core values of the law program at Toronto Metropolitan University www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
Calgary Stampede O Canada - The original version "in all thy Sons command" National anthem sung at the 2023 Calgary Stampede, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53044391089
Dec 16th 2023 - O Canada sung in Punjabi at the NHL Jets hockey game in Winnipeg,,,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKifMtbbyJg
Nov 4th, 2021 - Pascale St-Onge is appointed to Trudeau's Cabinet. She is the first out lesbian to become a federal Minister and also the first as Minister of Sport,
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pascale-st-onge-making-history-as...
July 2023 - Katherine Henderson is appointed to take over and thereby become the first female CEO and President of Hockey Canada ,
www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/katherine-henderson-hockey-canad...
No more hockey fights: This league plans to ban them dailyhive.com/vancouver/hockey-fights-ban-qmjhl
Skate Canada Dec 13, 2022 - Canada ys to revolutionize male/female gender rules in international Sport ? Canadian gender trail blazers led by President Karen Butcher push to change Pairs Ice dancing competition rules from the longtime male female separate gender rule ?
theprovince.com/sports/other-sports/skate-canada-redefine...
Federal audit finds Hockey Canada did not use public funds for legal settlements .
discoverhumboldIcom/articles/federal-audit-finds-hockey-...
NHL moves away from the Pride jerseys - advocates are disappointed, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nhl-special-jersey-announcement-re...
Nov 20th, Grey Cup 2022 - Many Canadian households unable to watch the Toronto Argos win the 2022 Grey Cup game by a score of 24 to 23 because CBC/Radio-Canada and Bell media owned CTV do not schedule nor televise this historic Canadian event for broadcast ? CBC programming has instead scheduled an unknown variety show in this time slot being held in the USA ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/photost...
CBC quits Twitter when Twitter calls them, "a government-funded media" ?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-media...
Apr 27th 2023 , Bill C-11 - A controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law. Bill C-11, which will force streaming platforms to contribute to funding Canadian content. Critics say the bill is too ambiguous, many issues unresolved.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314
Nov 11th, 2023 - The Liberal Government has ordered Canadian Military not to use or recite any Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer at this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/gunter-we-will-always-pray-f...
The Grey Cup Nov 19th 2023, Hamilton Canada - Why aren't CTV or CBC broadcasting the 2023 Grey Cup game for Canadians to enjoy on this Grey Cup Sunday ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53338415225
Dec 2023 - Merry Christmas, and a ho ho ho ? CBC plays Scrooge at Xmas time as it looks at executive bonus compensation while laying off 10 per cent of its workforce right at Xmas time ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-cuts-layoffs-exec-bonuses-1....
CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait faces some angry MPs over refusal to rule out bonuses amid looming layoffs' www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGG8quYBb4
Have a very Merry Christmas Canada ? The Canadian Human Rights Commission ( fully funded by the federal Liberal Government) declares that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s colonialist religious intolerance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
Dec 31 2023 - Question on this year's NYE ? Does CBC now view New Years Eve as a public holiday or a tradition that is now inappropriate to celebrate in Canada ? Happy New Year Canadians from your taxpayer owned billion dollar funded CBC ? For the first time ever in memory, CBC will not broadcast the traditional New Years Eve Party, stage show or countdown ? CBC says they can't afford it ? www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/cbc-to-skip-new-yea...
Bill C-18: An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html
Bell media is a proud Canadian Company ? It's Super Bowl LVIII time in Las Vegas Nevada USA. Prior to the big game CTV has already been flooding the North American airways with ads promoting their full TV coverage of the upcoming American Superbowl and they do broadcast 10 straight hours of uninterrupted prime time live T.V. coverage of this American event on Superbowl Sunday 2024 ? However, on the other hand, back home in their home country of Canada, they don't broadcast anything at all, nothing (zero) blanco, zilch, silencio, not even 1 minute of TV coverage of their own 2024 Canadian Grey Cup game for their fellow Canadians to enjoy ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53523500175/in/datepos...
Feb 2024 - Halifax Nova Scotia,
Bell media and CTV have deafened and blindfolded East Coast residents when eliminating many critical hours of local and community news programming in the Atlantic region ?
East Coast Provinces have been the target of Bell Canada Corporate decisions to cancel many prime time hours of local News ? This will leave Maritimers in a weakened and vulnerable position without their critical daily Noon news updates that are always broadcast at the noon hour all week long ? These viewers will now be forced to tune into the other station (CBC) where CBC tends to run world international news along with their own select choice of the Provincial News, along with lengthy news conferences put on by the PM or other liberal party members ?
Aside from terminating the popular weekday ATV Noon hour news show, CTV has also downsized in half the very popular and iconic , 'ATV live at five' 5 P.M. local community news program, (prompting long time popular host Jason Baxter to seek early retirement) ? To add to the devastating loss of so much important news reporting time each and every week, Bell is also terminating all of the weekend Saturday and Sunday local news reporting that is currently running on ATV ? This sudden cancellation of all weekend local news will surely threaten the safety and security of Easi Coast residents especially now that there will be a 24 hour total local news blackout for 2 full days each and every weekend and even for as much as 3 consecutive days every holiday long weekend ? It seems that arch rival CBC has now taken over major share of prime time live local news programming in the Maritimes ? Meanwhile, Bell Canada is blaming the Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash so many prime time hours of news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
Halifax, Feb 1st 2024 - Bell Canada Media blames Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash so many hours of critical local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
the Junos 2024, Halifax, Mar 24th - CBC and new Heritage Minister seem more interested in personal politics than music ? itsthe4thquarter.blogspot.com/2024/03/junos-2024-halifax-...
Angry Canadian - Canadian juno awards ? where ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNieEg-_d1k
Is this a CBC Stanley Cup cruel joke ? June 2nd, 2024 Edmonton ? Fans are upset after CBC had broadcast the first 5 games of the Men's NHL Dallas vs Oilers series, and then, without warning and for no logical reason, CBC blacked out the critical and most important climactic final game that saw Edmonton win and gain entry into the Stanley Cup finals ? It remains unclear why CBC would do this ? Was it arrogance, or was it to be mean spirited, or was it a gender bias issue due to this being Men's pro hockey, or was it maybe a lesson given out to remind Canadians just who is running this Countries main media and who controls the programming ? www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=...
The Koncerned Kentvillian asks, "What kind of a Country would show sad and upsetting images of itself when playing their National Anthem on the World stage in front of an international audience ?" www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874/
July 5th, 2024 Jacob Shaffelburg (Pt Williams Nova Scotia) Men's soccer - Unfortunately, CBC doesn't seem to support or sponsor Men's soccer and will not be broadcasting the Men's Copa soccer tournament ? However, you can still enjoy soccer on CBC as they will be giving support and full coverage to the Women's National team and to the new start-up Women's pro soccer league ? www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ? -
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June 29th, 2024 - Bailey Feltmate (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.). - CBC doesn't seem to support Men's football anymore and so most Canadians won't be able to watch graduating male university athletes like Bailey perform in the pros ? However, fans are able to watch many graduating university female athletes perform as CBC will provide full cross Canada media support and live coverage of the new start-up Women's pro soccer league, the new Women's pro hockey league, and upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC will introduce and include gambling in its coverage of the 2024 Olympic games ?
2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and Sports betting parlor running gambling ads during the Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by the Olympic Games ?
The CBC sport darlings Canadian women's soccer team has been caught cheating at the Paris 2024 Olympics ? The CBC seems unusually silent on this story ? heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
2024 Paris Olympics - CBC's Olympics seems to favor female gender athletes with full game coverage of their events while the male athletes are receiving only limited coverage and short clips from their events ?
www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/olympic-games-paris-2024
Jul 25, the 2024 Paris Olympics - CBC airs entire start to finish Women's team soccer games, Women's beach-ball games, Women's rugby games, Women's basketball games water polo and more ? Watch CBC for live full game coverage from St-Etienne, France heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
Grey Cup Nov 17th 2024 - Everyone else is here, but where's CBC ?
Once again this year CBC will distance itself from a very identifiable and nationalistic long time Canadian sports tradition and will not cover or live broadcast the historic Grey Cup game to Canadians ? However they will be covering a relatively unknown Women's tennis sports event named after Battle of the Sexes winner and Women in sports advocate Billie Jean King currently being held in Spain ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54147303159/in/album-7...
October 27, 2024 - Demand for CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait to refund Canadian taxpayers . Why should a civil servant who works for Trudeau make more than the Prime Minister she works for ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-z1ZNza5Fk
Aug 22 2024, Minister of hypocrisy, oops I mean, Minister of Health, Mark Holland says, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ?
Fans are confused ? After Connor McDavid and other NHL Superstar heroes played starring roles in glamorous new betMGM ads to promote gambling on their websites, numerous complaints were filed. And so they eased up on the image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although the McDavid image itself was not totally disconnected from the gambling vice or the lucrative gambling industry ? A new corrected version will now show Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling whenever you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
Bell Let's Talk ! Feb 4th 2025 - U Ottawa Scotty accuses media mogal Bell Canada of hypocrisy,, www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
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* News Flash * Grey Cup 2024, BC Place Vancouver - Does Bell happen to read the FLICKR comments ? Bell has made a stunning about face ? and it's good news. After years of excluding Canadian pro football CTV will, for the first time in a long time, actually broadcast this years' CFL playoffs and the Grey Cup game to Canadians. Many more CFL games are now scheduled for the CTV 2025 season, www.cfl.ca/2024/09/06/fall-is-in-the-air-the-cfl-on-ctv-i...
March 30th Vancouver B.C. Michael Bublé plugs his own outside private business products while hosting CBC's 2025 Juno Awards ? Is it appropriate for CBC to allow their salaried MC to freely advertise his own outside personal businesses ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54607761592/in/album-7...
2025 Calgary Stampede, CBC distances itself from the Calgary Stampede this year, and will not broadcast any events including the Parade ? You'll have to subscribe to a specialty channel if you are interested in this famous Canadian event ? calstampede.com/calgary-stampede-2025-how-to-watch-date-t...
July 13th 2025 - Men's Pro Rodeo and chuckwagon fans are ignored ? CBC Sports programming ignores and does not include this years fifty thousand dollar finals of the world famous Calgary Stampede, see Sunday's CBC Sports programming,, calstampede.com/shows/calgary-stampede-broadcast-schedule/
Jul 13, 2025 - Men's World Cup soccer is not broadcast on CBC ? FIFA Club World Cup Jun 15, 2025 – Jul 13, 2025 - Chelsea beats PSG 3-0 to win 2025 Club World Cup . Coldplay and Trump and 81,000 attend the final,, but is not televised ? CBC does broadcast an unknown Women's softball tournament ?
apnews.com/live/psg-chelsea-club-world-cup-updates
2025 Toronto Blue Jays - CBC doesn't broadcast Men's baseball ? www.consumersearch.com/fitness-sports/plan-viewing-blue-j...
What Is Truth ?
"If you are strictly one-sided with any opinion, you’re incredibly ignorant" .
UBC Jan 22, 2026 - Many students that attended the Canadian public grade school system during the Trudeau Liberal era ( 2015 thru 2025 ) have now reached post secondary age and are arriving at University in an indoctrinated state with strong coercive and one-sided my-opinion-only attitudes ? Violent gangs of masked and gagged orange shirted student protestors with a herd mentality, angry academic riot squads, tribalism, far left activism, thought police, propaganda posters, totalitarianism and mind control in a dangerous Authoritarian environment where free will, open debate or speaking the truth is a crime are now being seen in Canadian institutes of higher learning ? This may sound like George Orwell's 1984, but it's actually the heavily public funded University of B.C. campus in Vancouver ?
Frances Widdowson, "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die." Frances visits UBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsLPodE9R0
Halifax - Has CBC finally listened to the fans ? News flash ! For the first time ever CBC has decided to live broadcast this year's 2026 U SPORTS Men’s gold medal game at the university U SPORTS Hockey Championships in Halifax, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/55073475114/in/photost...
South Sudan needs to move ahead now and enforce Justice and accountability, the top United Nations Diplomat, Ambassador Samantha Power, said on Saturday September 3, 2016, shortly after meeting with the council of ministers in Juba.
“For as long as armed actors, rape, loot and kill with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here,” Ambassador Power told the council of Ministers in Juba.
Security Council delegates reiterated that the United Nations and member states remain committed to see an end to violence so that people can begin to recover from years of conflict and alleviate the suffering of the people.
The Government of the Netherlands, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission are hosting an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 14 July 2022. European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan QC and Attorney General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova at the press conference.
Accountable Care Organizations and Competition Policy
January 24, 2011, 12:00pm -1:30pm
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org//events/2011/01/aco.html
The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to create integrated, cost effective, high quality health care systems for Medicare recipients—and eventually all Americans—through the creation of Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs. One of the most challenging questions facing ACOs is how to provide integration without sacrificing competition and the decreased cost and increased quality it produces. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice have already been carefully scrutinizing these issues. Will some ACOs threaten competition and eventually raise costs for consumers? To what extent can ACOs overcome the barriers set up by current antitrust regulation? How should the lessons from health care reform educate the role of antitrust enforcement and regulation? How should we approach health care antitrust issues in an era of ACOs?
We were joined for a discussion of these and other questions related to implementing the Accountable Care Act in a way that enhances competition, provides better care, and lowers costs.
Encaustic, oil, embroidery thread, wood, glass, 28" x 19" x 5" 2004 This series entitled “Empire” is an exploration of issues surrounding a conservative vision of America in the 21 Century including a global expansion of US military presence, the prescription of reactionary values to curb decades of “liberal” judicial laws, the reemergence of religion as the defining reasoning for laws involving “moral issues” and the notion that patriotism is defined by ones unwavering support of any military actions in defense of US freedom.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-590G
AGILE ASSESSMENT GUIDE: Best Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation
President van Oekraïne Volodymyr Zelensky, minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en de deelnemers aan de conferentie nemen samen een moment stilte in acht.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Dutch Minister of Foreig Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and the conference participants observe a moment of silence together.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Photo: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
Chambers performance @ Judith Wright Center of Contemporary Art. Detail from Chamber 5: Richelle Spence 'Accountability'.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-23-105450
Thrifty Food Plan: Better Planning and Accountability Could Help Ensure Quality of Future Reevaluations
Note: While the process is presented in this graphic linearly, according to the Thrifty Food Plan, 2021 report, the approach to creating the Thrifty Food Plan Market Baskets was more iterative. After completing initial phases of analysis, initial modeling results led to updates to the model's inputs and constraints.
Laws and money cannot do enough; it will also take profound changes in the way we live. Why? Because the climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle - of character, even. The Big Problem is nothing more nor less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us, and most of the rest of them made in the name of our needs and desires and preferences.
For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problems of how we're living our lives suggests we're not really serious about changing - something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking - passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on specialists - that helped get us into this mess in the first place.
. . . Thirty years ago, Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer and writer, put forward a blunt analysis of precisely this mentality. He argued that the environmental crisis of the 1970s was at its heart a crisis of character and would have to be addressed first at that level: at home, as it were. He was impatient with people who wrote checks to environmental organizations while thoughtlessly squandering fossil fuel in their everyday lives . . . "Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, then we have to choose: we can go on as before, recognizing our dishonesty and living with it the best we can, or we can begin the effort to change the way we think and live."
In the Kingdom of God everybody is accountable to somebody. The Angels in Heaven respond to our command. The book of Matthew states that "he will give the angels charge over thee" which means the Angels are accountable to our command WHEN it lines up with the word of God. We as Christians are accountable to GOD. Romans 12 says "present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable TO GOD" which means we have to be accountable for what we do with our bodies. How we use our hands, eyes, ears, and most importantly OUR MOUTH. But this is the blessed part about accountability. Did you know that even God is accountable? Yes he's King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the King of this World and the World to come and at the name of Jesus EVERY knee shall bow and tongue confess that he's lord. However, this unmatched King, omnipresent God, all powerful Lord and Savior is still yet accountable. He's accountable to his word! Thats why in Isaiah 46 he challenges us by saying "Put me in remembrance of my word", as well as in Malachi when he says "try me and see if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing. The reason God places such a demand on accountability is because the Kingdom of God will always be about serving others. Wives submitted to Husbands, Husbands submitted to God, children obeying the parents, church members submitted to leaders, leaders submitted to Pastors, Pastors to Bishops/Apostles Bishops/Apostle to God. Many christians cant serve others because they dont serve God. They can't submit to leadership because they wont submit to God, and lastly their never accountable to anyone because there not accountable to God. There's always favor and blessings on the life of a Submissive Saint. You can't expect God to be accountable to his word when you're not accountable to NO ONE #stopchurchhoppingandgetstable
A wide view of the Security Council Arria-formula meeting on Accountability in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Security Council members Estonia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, with additional co-sponsors Belgium, Canada, Germany, Georgia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Qatar, Sweden and Turkey holds an informal briefing on the need for increased efforts by the Council to establish full accountability for the most serious international crimes committed in the Syrian Arab Republic.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
29 November 2021
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN7918163
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra verzorgt de openingsspeech. De volledige tekst staat op www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... of bekijk de video van de toespraak op youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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Opening speech Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... or watch the video of the speech on youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Supporting Social Accountability For Better Results Event at the 2012 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2012. Photo by Ryan Rayburn/World Bank
De Oekraïense minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Dmytro Kuleba (op het scherm), Europees Commissaris van Justitie Didier Reynders, de Nederlandse Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en Openbaar Aanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof Karim A.A. Khan.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (on the screen), European Commissioner of Justice Didier Reynders, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and Public Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan.
The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra schudt de hand van Tobias Lindner, de Duitse Minister van Staat bij het Federaal Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.
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Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra shakes hands with Tobias Lindner, the German Minister of State at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Véronique Thouvenot, ITU
This session features some of the innovative ICT applications for RMNCH, and highlight efforts of international organizations to foster the use of ICT to better implement the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche