Sentences with phrase «human numbers worldwide»

A mere 108 years ago, at the beginning of the 20th Century, human numbers worldwide were between 1 and 2 billion.

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Second, as moral inspiration, the Universal Declaration has helped launch nongovernmental human rights groups across the planet, including the influential organization Amnesty International, which numbers more than one million members worldwide.

Uncountable numbers of women took to the streets worldwide to march in solidarity in what was formerly known as the Women's March on Washington for women's — and human — rights.

Regardless of one's perspective, Marshall reminds us that worldwide membership to religious organizations dwarfs civil society in terms of numbers; given this reality, her efforts to bridge understanding between communities of faith and non-believers is particularly relevant to promoting human development.

Since its formation the UN has been extensively involved in a number of worldwide operations including peace keeping and security, human rights and humanitarian assistance and social and economic development.

A full - time human rights forensics workforce does exist, but it numbers perhaps several dozen scientists worldwide.

Indeed, according to a 2009 study published in Human Reproduction, the number of ART procedures is on the rise and so - called test - tube babies account for an estimated 250,000 births every year worldwide.

8 The number of dogs worldwide is estimated at 400 million, roughly the human population of the United States and Mexico combined.

The site's newest sections describe the growing number of fly genes known to have close relatives in other animals, including humans — evidence, researchers are discovering, that the animal kingdom is interwoven genetically by its own worldwide web.

Given the very small number of reliable records of human fatalities from eating cane toads worldwide over many decades, it would be awful indeed if two people in East Timor died within the first few years after toad arrival.

Our approach is to develop scientific formulas that can end the number one cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats worldwide, and at the same time save human lives.

Please consider that human civilization and life as we know it could be put at risk by not providing reasonable, sensible and moral ways of regulating worldwide the currently unrestrained and skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers.

Any force, such as worldwide biofuel production or oil price hikes, that significantly raises food prices also raises the number of human deaths due to malnutrition.

In fact, human activity is the largest driver of tree numbers worldwide, said Crowther.

It's the number one thing that a human life needs to exist, and it should be the number one issue that's focused on worldwide.

In truth, there is a growing worldwide movement to reduce the human release of CO2 into the atmosphere, because a growing number of us are not going stand idly by and let deniers such as yourself destroy the world.