Sentences with phrase «human solidarity in»

This document briefly introduces the UNDP's Human Development Report 2007/8, Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world.

United Nations Development Programme (2008), Human Development Report 2007 / 2008 - Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World, UNDP, New York

This analytical report is a youth summary of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report (HDR) on Climate Change 2007/2008 «Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World».

The report is called «Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World.»

Out of this union was born Trinity's mission to witness human solidarity in a racist society and church.

The support — caring even where there is no curing — affirms human solidarity in both directions: care - giver and care - receiver.

The theologians of hope, on the other account, pushed the collective aspects of human life; they analyzed human solidarity in oppression and expressed faith in political terms.

Changes may foster human solidarity in local and global networks and thus must be a part of our ethics - in - communication reflections.

Not exact matches

Through on - and off - campus events, we provide a sense of social solidarity and cohesiveness among students interested in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources.

Networks from Canada and Quebec, representing labour unions; Indigenous, farmers, and migrant groups; environmentalists; women's organizations; international solidarity groups; student movements; and human rights organizations will join their American and Mexican counterparts at the historic Antiguo Palacio de Escuela de Medicina in Mexico City.

In reality, institutions by themselves are not enough, because integral human development is primarily a vocation, and therefore it involves a free assumption of responsibility in solidarity on the part of everyonIn reality, institutions by themselves are not enough, because integral human development is primarily a vocation, and therefore it involves a free assumption of responsibility in solidarity on the part of everyonin solidarity on the part of everyone.

«The United States stands in solidarity with Pastor Nadarkhani, his family, and all those who seek to practice their religion without fear of persecution - a fundamental and universal human right.»

(2) Put in place institutions that support economic activism and solidarity among all human persons, the rich, the middle - class, and the poor.

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

«I stand in solidarity with human beings because, well, they are created in my image and I love them,» God said.

But human closeness in these moments gives us strength, solidarity.

How many mothers like Erik's, in the time of the early church, became models of the great high priest, whose solidarity with us in all things human inspired bold witness and teaching of the paschal mystery?

So difficult is the achievement of balance in human thought and experience that one sees even the Bible moving from an original sense of social solidarity, lacking adequate recognition of individuality, to a sense of the value of the single human soul, in danger of lacking adequate consciousness of social obligation.

Taken for granted here is that family and friends share a conviction that living virtuously is the only truly good human life, and that we need friendship and social solidarity in pursuing that great good.

The Church also believed that these gods, for all their bluster and ongoing involvement in human affairs, could not answer the deepest human need: deliverance from our enslavement to sin and death, not mere solidarity and fellowship in the midst of that enslavement.

Benedict Rogers, East Asia team leader at religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said the vote is an «extremely significant development, which will in all likelihood mean a continuing crackdown on human rights generally, and religious freedom in particular».

The suggested developments cover respectively, Creation, the humanity of Jesus Christ, The Cross, and the Church - corresponding to four key God - centred concepts which are underplayed in Alpha: reason, human nature, solidarity and communion.

«authority would need to be regulated by law, to observe consistently the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, to seek to establish the common good, and to make a commitment to securing authentic integral human development inspired by the values of charity in truth» (n. 34).

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

But if the twentieth century's experiments in a brave new world have taught us anything, it is that attempts to institutionalize a revolution in global human solidarity have a way of repeating and amplifying the permanent problems of humanity.

Linking prayer to your day - to - day activities in solidarity with other humans around the world can bring a new perspective and depth to our prayers.

And in Africa, prayers for human rights have been explicitly incorporated into stations of the cross, as J. M. Waliggo reports in his article «A Prayer of Solidarity with the Suffering and the Oppressed of the World» (African Christian Studies, December 1986, p. 59)

Therefore, communication must be expressed as»... God's unique gift to humankind, through which individuals and societies can become more truly human» (Manila Declaration, 1980) and be constructed as a forum for dialogue with all those who are working to build that community in solidarity.

Both are basic building - blocks of human nature, but it is in universals that human cooperation and solidarity are grounded.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

What was really at stake in the «60s was a new vision of human selfhood as corporate selfhood — not identification with success but solidarity with the poor.

These qualities, while not necessarily categoreal, are indisputable factors in human feelings, either accounting for or contributing to the ambiguous impulses which both individual solitude and social solidarity manifest.

According to James Massey the core of the act of the incarnation of God in Jesus was God's «acting in solidarity with human beings, particularly the oppressed of this world.

The cross is certainly a many - sided event and symbol, and contexts alter meanings; but in our context at least, I believe, it should be seen primarily, not as a divinely managed human sacrifice to a righteously wrathful God but as God's own solidarity with the creature and the decisive statement of One who would be «with us» unreservedly.

They have contributed the idea of subsidiary of the state and public authorities to the other smaller agencies in society, and the solidarity of the human race.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

For Kierkegaard there is no «solution» to this paradox, other than the greater paradox of the God - man, who, without ever making the leap into sin, became sin for us, i.e., accepted his human solidarity with us, so that in him we might be reconciled with God through the Atonement.

A better alternative is scientific skepticism and humanism with a moral founding based in human solidarity and a systematic way to distinguish truth from fiction.

For innumerable convergent reasons (the rapid increase of ethnic, economic, political and cultural links) the human individual finds himself definitely involved in an irresistible process tending towards a system of organo - psychic solidarity on earth.

While congregations and other types of society possess obviously different intentions, they nevertheless work through analogous forms of culture in which a local church might recognize its deeper solidarity with other human groups.

Schleiermacher, however, built a theory of the solidarity of humankind in sin upon an evolutionary view of human nature.

It is fallacious to think that each of us is an entirely separate person; as human beings we are members one of another in the solidarity of our race.

Vatican II's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, a document the Pope helped write, offers a description of the Catholic attitude towards the modern world as one of solidarity with the whole human family.

There is also a humanitarian question — one that should raise in our minds values, such as solidarity, that are just as distinctively human as Hitchens's romanticism.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

Inevitably the manipulator comes to see himself in the same light as those his theory has made manipulable; and in the self - inclusive solidarity with the general human lowliness amidst the splendor of human power his charity is but self - compassion and that tolerance that springs from self - contempt: we are all poor puppets and can not help being what we are... 29

He spoke on the value of the human person made in the image of God, on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that are fundamental to a just society, and on the dangers consumer culture poses to spiritual values.

For example, it seems that there have been a series of «bottleneck events» in the history of the human genome, which could explain the close genetic solidarity among all living human beings.