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  • They deliberated intensely on the declaration's wording, in the end crafting an assurance that the new constitution they sought would protect the rights of Syria's multiple sects and ethnicities under a "civil state and a pluralistic, parliamentary and democratic regime."

    Syria Cuts Web Amid Renewed Protests Nour Malas 2011

  • U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the declaration's French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter.

    Global Gay Rights 2009

  • Since the declaration's adoption, Australia and New Zealand have reversed their positions, and Canada announced in March that it would take steps to endorse it.

    Obama Announces Support for UN Indigenous Rights Declaration 2010

  • In the month of the declaration's ten year birthday, the world -- the post-9/11, Iraq War, global recession, economic-turmoil world -- is a different place.

    Caty Borum Chattoo: VIDEO: Using Web 3.0 Technology to Share Stories that can Change the World 2010

  • Likewise, the Secretary and the AGO ignore the declaration's explicit requirement that the signature-gatherer "swear or attest" to the truth of the statements.

    Will Referendum 71 make the ballot? Results of litigation, not Reed's office, will decide 2009

  • The address upgrades the declaration's egalitarian throat-clearings to a "proposition" to which the new nation was "dedicated."

    The Emancipator As Enchanter 2008

  • Deemed hardly worthy of mention in the newspapers of the day, six decades later, the declaration's full significance is clear, as reflected in the ANC's January 8th Statement 2007 which referred to the pact as an "historic milestone".

    The origins of South African unity 2007

  • Last week the Tokyo Shimbun declared Japan's summit strategy to be "haphazard and without solid principle," adding that the declaration's falsehoods amounted to "putting a lid on some-thing smelly."

    Asian Security: Losing Face Over Nukes 2007

  • Deemed hardly worthy of mention in the newspapers of the day, six decades later, the declaration's full significance is clear, as reflected in the ANC's January 8th Statement 2007 which referred to the pact as an "historic milestone".

    CONTENTS 2007

  • Brazil's suggestion the declaration ought to have referred to a transcendent entity was rejected outright during the debate leading to the declaration's adoption.

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Western Construct? 2006

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