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Broadly backed by a diverse array of student groups and many notable faculty members the Committee Against Investment in South Africa held numerous teach-ins and demonstrations through the year focused on the trustees ties to the corporations doing business with South Africa.
* Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
* Committee Against Torture
* The Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition is established for the repeal of prohibition in the U. S.
While opinion on the early SD vary, it is generally agreed ( including by the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism and Expo ), that the SD has never been a Nazi party, although various " connections " have existed by members.
He led the World Congress Against Imperialist War ( Amsterdam, 1932 ) and headed the World Committee Against War and Fascism, founded in 1933.
* Rhoodie, DO-Conspirators in Conflict: A Study of the Johannesburg Reform Committee and its Role in the Conspiracy Against the South African Republic, Tafelberg-Uiygewers, ( 1967 )
In 1970 he established the Committee Against Administrative Detentions.
* Jeff Halper, professor of anthropology, author, lecturer, political activist and co-founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
New Orleans historian Keith Weldon Medley, author of We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson, The Fight Against Legal Segregation, said the words in Justice Harlan's " Great Dissent " originated with papers filed with the court by " The Citizen ’ s Committee.
In later life, she assumed an influential role as Co-Chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing.
According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.
According to its official website, the NCAHF evolved from three separate organizations, the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud, Inc. ( LVCAHF, now called Quackwatch ), Southern California Council Against Health Fraud ( SCCAHF ), and an unnamed group in northern California.
* Cofounder Ghassan Andoni was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions by the American Friends Service Committee.
He is a trustee of the charity The Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism, and also President of DebRA, a British national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa ( EB ).
As early as 1997, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ( WGAD ) called for China to allow judicial control over detentions ; in 2000, the UN Committee Against Torture recommended that all forms of administrative detention, including re-education through labor, be abolished ; in 2004, the WGAD called for the establishment of rights to due process and counsel for individuals detained ; and in 2005, the Special Rapporteur on Torture called for the outright abolition of re-education through labor.
A report from a meeting of the United Nations Committee Against Torture states that " The Committee was worried that the use of Taser X26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use.
The ANL National Organiser at the time of the creation of Unite Against Fascism was Weyman Bennett, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party.
In 1947, Randolph, along with colleague Grant Reynolds, renewed efforts to end discrimination in the armed services, forming the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service, later renamed the League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience.

Committee and Investment
Hutchison Whampoa withdrew from its planned purchase of Global Crossing after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States made it clear that purchase by Hutchison would not be approved.
Among other things, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the National Investment Bank, a member of the supervisory boards of OGEM and KLM, and chaired the working party on the Netherlands Antilles, the national advisory committee on the relationship between the electorate and policy-making, the Provisional Council for Transport, Public Works and Water Management and the Interministerial Coordinating Committee on North Sea Affairs ( ICONA ).
However, the manufacturing sector is exempted from the Foreign Investment Committee ( FIC ) Guidelines.
On 24 July, Minister Crean co-chaired the 8th Joint Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee with the Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc in Hanoi.
BAE Systems ' bid was referred to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ( CFIUS ) to ensure there were no national security implications of the sale.
Speller served on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food ( 1994 – 1995 ), served on the Canadian Parliamentary Association International Executive Committee, served on the Parliamentary Steel Caucus ( 1993, 1994, 1998 ), served on the Joint Inter-Parliamentary Council, and was Chair of the Sub-committee on Trade, Trade Disputes and Investment and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ( Canadian Branch ).
Stephen was elected member of the South East Regional Council of the CBI between 1995-8, sitting on the CBI's International Investment Committee and Working Parties on Anti-Corruption ( pan-European ) and Corporate Governance ( UK ).
He was also cosponsor of the Exon-Florio Amendment, which created the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and effectively removed Congress from the approval process on foreign takeovers of US industrial concerns.
Rooth was head of the Investment Committee of the United Nations Pension Fund from 1947 to 1961, and he was also head of the Currency Board in Kuwait from 1960 to 1962.
Specifically these reforms include allowing foreign investors to hold majority stakes in most enterprises excluding " strategic " industries such as banking, telecommunications, and energy, easing insurance regulation, curtailing powers of the Foreign Investment Committee and lowering the minimum quota for Malay ownership in publicly traded companies from 30 percent to 12. 5 percent.
Members of the Executive Committee are Michel M. Liès, Chief Executive Officer ; David J. Blumer, Chief Investment Officer ; David Cole, Chief Risk Officer ; Agostino Galvagni, CEO Corporate Solutions ; Brian Gray, Chief Underwriting Officer ; Christian Mumenthaler, Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance ; George Quinn, Chief Financial Officer and Thomas Wellauer, Chief Operating Officer.
Articles 300 to 309 establish the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for M & T Bank as well as M & T Bank, N. A., and is a member of its Trust and Investment Committee.
Notable committee appointments included Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence, Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs, Chair of the Subcommittee on International Trade, Trade Disputes and Investment ( SINT ) of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade ( FAAE ) and as Vice-Chair on the Standing Committee on Transport.
As Minister of Finance Aziz also headed the Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet, the Cabinet Committee on Investment, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council, and the Cabinet Committee on Privatization.

Committee and South
Governor Gawler took over from Hindmarsh in late 1838 and, despite being under orders from the Select Committee on South Australia in Britain not to undertake any public works, promptly oversaw construction of a governor's house, the Adelaide Gaol, police barracks, a hospital, a customs house and a wharf at Port Adelaide.
When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.
The South American Classification Committee has removed the New World Vultures from Ciconiiformes and instead placed them in Incertae sedis, but notes that a move to Falconiformes or Cathartiformes is possible.
* Central Committee of the South African Communist Party
* 1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
His housemates included Robert T. Hunter ( from Virginia, chairman of the Finance Committee ), James Mason ( from Virginia, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee ) and Andrew P. Butler ( from South Carolina, chairman of the Judiciary Committee ).
NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, parts of South America ( except Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and French Guiana ), Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories ( see map ).
Public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Amnesty Committee were held at many venues around South Africa, including Cape Town ( at the University of the Western Cape ), Johannesburg ( at the Central Methodist Mission ), and Randburg ( at the Rhema Bible Church ).
The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations ( also known as the Fraser Committee ) was a committee of the United States House of Representatives which met in 1976 and 1977 and conducted an investigation into South Korea – United States relations.
The other countries who signed the agreement included: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the French Committee of National Liberation, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.
** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
** In response to the end of apartheid, the International Olympic Committee readmits South Africa to the Olympics.
* January 6 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble in England publishes its findings.
Powell soon became Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee for India and Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command, involved in planning an amphibious offensive against Akyab, an island off the coast of Burma.
By her junior year, she had applied to and was accepted at an American Friends Service Committee program that placed black students from the South in integrated schools in the North.
Finally, in January 1959, under pressure from southern Viet Cong cadres who were being successfully targeted by Diệm's secret police, Hanoi's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing the use of armed insurgency in the South with supplies and troops from the North.

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