He pushed for a human approach to economics, emphasizing jobs and social indicators as much as inflation targets.
The World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNES CO, USAID, and others have recognized Tostan for its ability to bring about social change and mobilize communities to improve their own lives, and in Senegal the government has officially adopted a national action plan that calls for using the human rights approach pioneered by Tostan to totally end FGC by 2015.
Meanwhile, Japan's Astellas Pharma is in early human trials of another approach to stimulate cancer-cell suicide.
But this past January Aventis broke off its deal with Chiron to pursue a different approach using human retinal cells.
That is why we must strengthen our compact on human rights through an approach rooted in an awareness of culture, time and place.
Firms now in human trials of this approach include Dendreon of Seattle, Cell Genesys in South San Francisco, England's Onyvax and Therion Biologics near Boston.
It is the only UN agency which has invested in systematically developing, training, and successfully testing a unique three-pronged programming methodology: combining gender equality, cultural sensitivity and the human rights-based approach.
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Uganda's many small non-governmental groups also take a street-level approach to human rights, offering training to local leaders, policemen and prison warders on topics ranging from prisoners' rights to inheritance law.
Design, implement and evaluate capacity-building courses on, including distance learning and training of trainers, where appropriate, and assist intersectoral cooperation and, in particular with UNESCO Chairs, contribution in support of efforts to promote a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in UNESCO's programmes.
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It contains information about how the popular legal advisors may contribute to facing human trafficking, clarifies the main questions on the topic, offering suggestions of practical activities that can be developed to approach the subject of human trafficking.
There is a way out of the Valley of Death, however, but it will require both human doctors and technology to approach the problem differently.
The waves conceal whales, dolphins and sea turtles, and the western beaches are covered with armies of blue-backed soldier crabs that rear up on their hind legs and flee in panic at the approach of a human foot.
The Scottish Human Rights Framework outlines a comprehensive approach to ensuring effective access to justice, remedies and reparation for childhood abuse.
"We basically took one chromosome from the Human Genome Project and took our approach, and we roughly figured that they were missing at least a third of the genes, " says Love.
Just as DARPA and other humanoid robot developers have drawn on biology for design inspiration, the agency hopes that robotic actuation can approach the efficiency of human and animal actuation where muscles, tendons, and bones cooperate in highly efficient ways.
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They approach the primeval mystery of human attraction with a systematic and almost Promethean hand.
Still, Dr Michel and his team hope that their approach will spur a more rigorous, quantitative approach to the study of human culture.
Because of these human conditions, the command and control approach which rarely listens to employees, or if listening rarely responds to their satisfaction, treats employees with great disrespect and leads them to treat their work with the same level of disrespect.
Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham, head of major crime and public protection, said the new approach aimed to identify victims of human trafficking rather than criminalising them.
Hacker ethics rejected a capitalistic, profit-oriented approach to work, eschewing idleness but favoring a flexible, creative approach that was respectful of the human dimension and natural rhythms, he said.
In the light of the comprehensive approach, the World Conference on Human Rights emphasizes the importance of giving special attention including through intergovernmental and humanitarian organizations and finding lasting solutions to questions related to internally displaced persons including their voluntary and safe return and rehabilitation.
Juran focused more on the human-relations aspects of quality, while Deming's approach involved demonstrating that all business processes are vulnerable to a loss of quality through statistical variation.
The reason involved human emotions, which cause many investors to bail on a good approach and jump onto hot stocks or strategies that are often overhyped and overpriced.
High temperatures can destroy biofilms, as can some chemicals, but neither approach is safe to use inside the delicate interior of a human tooth.
An integration of ICC (Integrated Cognitive Creation) technology, developed by I3 (I-cubed) Research Center, and Sharp large-screen panel technology that gives a resolution four times that of conventional full HD LCD panels, the ICC-LED TV reproduces the cognitive process by which the human brain interprets light stimuli, resulting in on-screen images that approach true-to-life quality.
ENGADGET: Sharp 'Moth Eye' LCD Panel demo shows off future HDTVs with less glare
As the ingredients of food become ever more characterised and understood, and their links to human health established, the EFSA has a difficult problem applying a scientifically rigorous approach to health-related claims without assuming the weighty bureaucracy of a pharmaceuticals regulator.
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The Symposium called for an evidence-based, comprehensive and systemic approach to meeting the rights and multi-faceted needs of teachers as human beings.
The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.
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