After missing the April deadline, the agency in October conducted a roundtable for its commissioners to hear directly from manufacturers, mining companies, advocacy groups and institutional investors.
Mine awareness is a vital component in each, in conjunction with the other four elements of mine action - advocacy; mine survey, marking and clearance; victim assistance; and destruction of mine stockpiles.
In the region, UNICEF specializes in education, health, water and sanitation, child rights' advocacy, mine action, psychological rehabilitation and promotion of peace and tolerance.
Such customers are a gold mine of hidden wealth, whose advocacy can generate 10x, 30x or more the amount of revenues and profits they would generate simply from purchasing your products and services.
Karla had always been a hero of mine for championing veteran's advocacy.
A spokesman at Transportation for America, the nonprofit advocacy group that mined federal statistics to write the report, said it should serve as a "wake-up call".
"They believe that the CDC guidelines — that advocacy groups like mine — that what we're really after is stopping drug abusers, and that they're being made to pay the price.
The mining magnate Twiggy Forrest's anti-slavery advocacy is represented by a brick given to the Western Australian nominee by Indian villagers who had escaped bonded labour.
Impugning their patriotism or mine is not scholarship or policy advocacy.
The last few years of LNP government have seen the dismantling of environmental checks and balances, and constant advocacy of the interests of mining companies over those of local communities and ecologies.
It sounds like a boring technicality but it seems to represent a significant victory in the long-running campaign by the mining industry and conservative politicians to hobble advocacy for the environment.
