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Charter for Compassion. Charter for Compassion is a document written in 2009 that urges the peoples and religions of the world to embrace the core value of compassion. [1] The charter is currently available in more than 30 languages and has been endorsed by more than two million individuals. [2]
All Boy Scouts of America units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of the 103,158 units (Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs and Venturing crews) and 3,615,306 youth members in 2010: 65% of all youth members are chartered to faith-based organizations. 23.5% of all youth members are chartered to civic organizations.
Classification of advocacy groups. An advocacy group is a group or an organization that tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government. Advocacy groups are generally classified according to two broad typologies: their core aims (group–cause typology), and their relationship to government (insider–outsider typology).
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is the name of an international agreement signed at the First International Conference on Health Promotion, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and held in Ottawa, Canada, in November 1986. [1] It launched a series of actions among international organizations, national governments and local ...
A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document ( charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The concept developed in Europe during the Middle Ages . Traditionally, the granting of a charter gave a settlement and its inhabitants the right to town privileges under the feudal system.
For example, the Freedom in the World index lists the United States in the highest category for human freedom in civil and political rights, with 83 out of 100 points as of 2021; the Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders, puts the U.S. in the highest category of countries with a "satisfactory situation," the Democracy ...
The Charters of Freedom are flanked by Barry Faulkner ’s two grand murals, one featuring Thomas Jefferson amidst the Continental Congress, and the other featuring on James Madison at the Constitutional Convention. Along the Charters of Freedom is a dual display of the "Formation of the Union", including documents related to the evolution of ...
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. (2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law ...