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.»
Not exact matches
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.