The reason they cannot - a reason confirmed in exhaustive detail by UN investigators, human rights groups and defectors - can be summed up in one word: Rwanda.
The nonviolence practiced by men like Gandhi and King may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that they preached -- their faith in human progress -- must always be the North Star that guides us on our journey.
Writing of the Japanese comfort with robots, she allows that human-machine living may be different in a society where even sewing needles are buried.
Just as these beliefs rest on faith, and, supernaturalism or transcendentalism--ideas that supposedly thrive on forces beyond human understanding, but could be rationally explained someday-- like in western religion and past concepts that later was explained or disproved by science, outsiders should not completely dismiss these institutional, African concepts as fallacious or fictitious representations or misrepresentations.
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Under Mr Raab's proposal they would not be allowed to enter Britain or own property here - a precedent he hopes could then be applied to human rights abusers in other countries.
The absolute limits of non-enhanced human athletic performance may well be set in stone.
Under EU law, a European firm can already be sued at home for complicity in human-rights violations committed anywhere in the world.
As the part of the world that shares a vision of democracy and human rights with America, Europe should, in theory, be well-placed to advise and warn America about its policies.
Only a day after their study was published in the journal Nature, the UN's environment and biodiversity agencies warned that some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation.
And of all the sciences brought to bear in modern automobiles, human-factors engineering seems to be evolving fastest.
From pedal-powered computers on bicycles, to self-powered soldiers in militaries, Raaijen predicted human power would be developed widely in coming years.
The reason for this is that many of the causes of the problem are what could be called default human behaviors--what most people are accustomed to doing in a given situation.
Her take: It's simply human nature for everyone -- children, too -- to want to be included in decisions about their daily habits.
Tiffany Ishiguro, who works in human resources in Seattle, shows women how to be chic and also work-appropriate on her blog, I Am Style-ish.
That is partly because the records are good and partly because it is in the atmosphere that the human-induced changes that might be causing it are happening.
International cooperation and solidarity should be promoted to support the implementation of the Convention and the rights of the child should be a priority in the United Nations system-wide action on human rights.
"I felt the tension out there in a situation like that - you wouldn't be human if you didn't feel like that, " said O'Sullivan.
Studying the development of quokkas and crows is one way to go beyond just-so stories in trying to understand how we got to be human.
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Many people here believe in the cycle of birth and rebirth - that a human can be born again as an animal, or an animal as a human.
To be sure you are marking a fundamental change in human society borders on the impossible--such events happen just a few times a century, and (barring things like ecological collapse) rarely with anyone's ability to see at the time that anything has changed.
In a subtle send-up of how very odd human beings can be, Mr Yehoshua evokes thoughts of fate, death and how people come to feel that they belong.
Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.
"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.
As long as a proper cap is in place that creates a value for environmental scarcity, carbon trading can be very effective in redirecting investments towards lower-carbon activities and in making human behavior more environmentally sustainable.
According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.
This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.
America's generals, not noticeably keen on humanitarian wars of intervention in the first place, are going to be doubly resentful if human-rights-minded liberals get them into a humanitarian war and then expose American soldiers to prosecution for what they do in that war.
Rather, Specter and others have argued that such creations could become reliable sources of stem cells -- basic cells that could be manipulated in laboratories to form a variety of human tissues.
While the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission had accepted Jordan's assurances, she suggested the European Court of Human Rights - which is based in Strasbourg - had raised new legal points that had to be addressed.
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