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Akira Matsubara of an NPO lobby group calls it a dramatic change.

That, at least, is the conclusion of a report published by Wetlands International, a lobby group, this week.

The Financial Services Forum, a financial sector lobby group, said the decision not to cite China in the report was "the prudent call. "

A lobby group, Family First, is agitating to reverse that change, saying at least half the population supports the right to smack.

Friends of the Earth, an environmental lobby group, thinks offshore lagoons might be a useful compromise.

Geoff Taylor, chief executive of a British music industry lobby group, BPI, urged officials to move quickly.

An ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi is a cancer risk and should be banned, an influential lobby group has claimed.

French cheese, says the Association Fromage de Terroirs, a lobby group, is not just food, but a "theme of national importance" .

The Confederation of Indian Industry, a business lobby group, said more should have been done to increase private-sector investment.

Dharmendra Kumar is a spokesman for a lobby group which opposes foreign investment in India.

The main business lobby group in Brussels is opposed as well.

The self-explanatory lobby group Republic is offering to console some of the most monarchy-allergic.

John Daly, a board member of the lobby group Americans for UNESCO, says that the review was timely and necessary.

Amnesty International, a human-rights lobby group, accuses the Thai army of continuing to torture suspected Muslim insurgents in the south.

Yet Piers Bannister, the lobby group's death-penalty specialist, believes that the world is gradually inching its way towards abolition.

Heyday, the membership organization of lobby group Age Concern, had complained Britain wasn't applying the EU law properly.

Both countries do badly in the annual corruption rankings put out by Transparency International, a Berlin-based lobby group.

Freedom House, an American-based lobby group, talks of "the most significant backslide in Hungary's democratic development since 1989" .

Compassion in World Farming, a lobby group, says that half the sheep killed in France are conscious when their throats are slit.

The International Cremation Federation, a lobby group based in The Hague, advises against commercialising the products of cremation.

Anti-smoking and health campaigners are happy, but smokers' lobby group like Forest said it stepped too far.

BusinessEurope, a lobby group, said China's curbs on raw materials exports may violate WTO rules.

retaliates the Center for Consumer Freedom, a business-funded lobby group.

Compassion in World Farming, a lobby group, fears that crowded-in heifers will be stressed and unhappy.

On March 17th Universities UK, a lobby group, published research into the likely impact of various changes.

The Death Penalty Information Centre, a lobby group, lists eight executed men for whom there is "strong evidence of innocence" .

Indeed, some ecologists, such as Mike Townsley of Greenpeace, a lobby group, say talk of a renaissance is overdone.

Human Rights Watch, a lobby-group, talks of "nursing homes with razor wire" .

But Italy's press freedom is a cause for concern according to Reporters Without Borders, an industry lobby group.

Growth Energy, a lobby group, is spending $2. 5m on America's first national television campaign for the stuff.

The study was written and researched by Britain's National Consumer Council (NCC) for lobby group Consumer International.

The campaign was led by the animal rights lobby group Prou! (Enough! ).

London is the world's leading centre for cross-border bank lending as well as marine insurance, according to CityUK, a lobby group.

It is hardly surprising that a green lobby group should decry the practices of the logging industry.

Many will be in worse shape in 2010 and 2011, according to the National League of Cities, a lobby group.

When ISDA was first created back in 1985, it had two functions: one was to champion the cause of OTC derivatives, as a lobby group;

The year also saw 15 attacks on media offices, up from two in 2009, according to Article 19, a free-speech lobby group.

In Hong Kong, animal rights lobby group Animals Asia Foundation is also trying to change eating habits.

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