Sentences with phrase «human needs of citizens»

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

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If, however, one regards the human person to be social by nature, then the function of the state is not to possess its citizens but to serve their social needs for each other.

I also believe that citizens in a democratic republic have a responsibility to support government attempts to meet the basic human needs of the destitute.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

Cultural practices like aborting female fetuses, female infanticide and the deprivation of nutrition to girls and women, which guarantees that millions of girls are never even born or mature to become second class citizens, needs to be incorporated into the human rights discourse and instruments.85

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

It's hard to see disengaged citizens swayed by a conversation that, in one instance this afternoon, swung from discussions of greenhouse physics by NASA's Drew Shindell to Tara DePorte of the Human Impacts Institute saying, «We need strong global governance.»

Given the human tendency to favor current needs over future risks, some environmental and legal scholars are proposing that governments at various levels appoint a «legal guardian of future generations» to consider the impact of policy choices on citizens yet unborn.

The codes of conduct need to strike a careful balance between allowing freedom of expression (which is a fundamental right of all UK citizens enshrined under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights), and protecting the rights of other individuals and employees not to be subject to harassment or inappropriate comment.

«To succeed in society, children and adolescents need to acquire academic skills, but this focus is not enough for success as citizens and well - adjusted human beings,» explains Ross D. Parke, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of California, Riverside, in his Foreword to the findings.