Sentences with phrase «in universal human values»

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The present regime claims to be secular, deriving its values from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and «neutral» in respect of the different religions of Ethiopia.

The finer values are withering away; the vision of a universal human family is vanishing; and Eccelsiastes which tells us: the Lord is full of compassion and mercy... and forgive the sins and saveth in time of affliction is now anathema to those who wield power, accumulate wealth and crave after sensual pleasures.

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

It was in this ardent zone of growth and universal recasting that all that makes man what he is today was discovered — or at least must have been rediscovered, for even those things which had long been known elsewhere achieved their definitive human value only when they were incorporated into the system of European ideas and activities.

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

Political Theology and Ethics (Fortress, 1984), and Walter Harrelson, who in The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980) embraced the Universal Declaration as a modern statement of biblical values.

Unencumbered, he could indulge in generalities that committed him only to his own opinion: «Novelists must be heroic in affirming life»; there are such things as «human nature,» «universal values,» and «a universal human morality.»

While appreciating the immense value of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights we must work for its amplification to include global racial justice, in relation to population and land and resources.

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

But to be of full value for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of universal human experience.

In an age when God is often sidelined and self - worship is often conducted under the aegis of nationalism, it is particularly important to take every opportunity to call attention to the dignity and value of all human beings, and in particular to the universal ideas of the ToraIn an age when God is often sidelined and self - worship is often conducted under the aegis of nationalism, it is particularly important to take every opportunity to call attention to the dignity and value of all human beings, and in particular to the universal ideas of the Torain particular to the universal ideas of the Torah.

In our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job losIn our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job losin short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job losin the end of career advancement or even job loss.

Also, Aspiration 3 states it in a different way, «Africa shall have a universal culture of good governance, democratic values, gender equality, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law».

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospehuman rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospeHuman Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

France's revolutionary tradition would at first seem to offer ripe soil for liberal - minded thinkers to stand up to a system perceived as falling short of the Universal Rights and values enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights.

Every society has its own internal system of values which often are in conflict with the universal values of human rights.

A digital magazine inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs), which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO -LSB-...]

Civil society organizations — also known as non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- are critical actors in the advancement of universal values around human rights, the environment, labour standards and anti-corruption.

Since the same design (whether architectural, in hardware or software) could not work for everyone, people recognized that «universal design» was not a precise litmus test for new technology but rather a set of principles for design that «recognizes, respects, values and attempts to accommodate the broadest possible range of human abilities, requirements and preferences» (Stephanidis, 2001).

In this way, Lee has questioned the nature of human beings and their notions of ideal society with the aim of arriving at universal values.

Here «spacial immersion» takes a different direction: restrictive, office - like cubicles colored in dark tones host video stations where different human scientists (ethnographers, psychiatric and philosophical practitioners and theorists) from Europe and Africa discuss topics that bear different universal and cultural value, from «Genocide» to «Trance».

Even though China's «one child per family» policy is implemented in ways that are incompatible with my personal values and, I believe, with universal human values, I do believe this policy can be implemented in humane and voluntary ways that provide a remarkably robust response to the human - induced global challenges which loom ominously before humanity.

The programs by which leaders of the world's most populous country have gone about instituting a «one child per family» regimen in China are incompatible with my personal values and also not in keeping with what I believe to be universal human values.

There are 1,031 World Heritage sites around the world, representing sites of «outstanding universal value» because of their importance in capturing human cultural traditions, creative genius, history or exceptional natural phenomena.

Tony D'Costa of Pax Christi Ireland warned that the weapons cross an unacceptable threshold that is most dangerous to our shared morality: «Autonomous weapons have nothing good to offer us as they threaten global peace and international security» and «undermine the whole landscape of those basic universal human values which protect innocent civilians from harm in times of war or other conflict.»

They undermine the whole landscape of those basic universal human values which protect innocent civilians from harm in times of war or other conflict.»

Even though the authors of Character Strengths and Virtues reviewed literature from major cultures around the whole world to select character strengths that reflect universal human values, the paragon stories in the book are predominantly Western.

By particularizing the rights of indigenous peoples, the Declaration seeks to accomplish what should have been accomplished without it: the application of universal human rights principles in a way that appreciates not just the humanity of indigenous individuals but that also values the bonds of community they form...