As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.
The World Conference on Human Rights expresses grave concern about continuing human rights violations in all parts of the world in disregard of standards as contained in international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law and about the lack of sufficient and effective remedies for the victims.
"Stephane Hessel was a towering figure in the human rights world, " U.N.
Pressure had mounted on the DoJ from smaller providers, particularly Sprint which would stand as a human in a world of giants if the deal went through.
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Despite only the northern tip of the reserve being open to tourism, safari bus congestion is low enough to make you sometimes feel as if you are the only human in a world dominated by mega fauna.
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
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In 2011, Freedom House listed the regime as one of the seven worst violators of human rights in the world.
This historical adventure novel captures the sweep of human nature in a world that we'll never see again.
It will be next to impossible if Mr Kasparov, the best human player in the world, sweeps his pieces off the board and refuses to play.
Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing.
"The Miss Universe competition is designed to find the one person in the world whose human qualities make them worthy of the Miss Universe crown and title, " Allred said.
Deceptively simple but perfect for this time of year is Adin Steinsaltz's Simple Words , a series of short essays about what it means to be human in a material world.
Following in the footsteps of Robert Peugeot, British industrialist Henry Kremer figured the best way to inspire innovation in the world of human-powered aircraft, was to appeal to the pockets of engineers.
After working in the Human Resources consulting world for a number of years, I was incredibly familiar with the value that personality, cognitive and behavioral inventories add to the selection process, when used appropriately.
The Chief Medical Officer, Prof Sally Davies, said the levels would be so low as not to represent a health risk, although she is deeply worried about the long-term threat of antibiotic resistance in the human and animal world.
In string theory, the forces and particles of which the universe is now composed are actually vibrations of tiny strings made from these ten dimensions (six of which are confined to such strings, and thus are not perceivable in the human-scale world).
In Harare, two Zimbabwean cricket players have worn black arm bands in their opening World Cup game in protest at human rights abuses by President Robert Mugabe's government.
His continued use of deadly violence against his own people in clear violations of human rights are totally unacceptable anywhere in the world.
In that speech he called Americans "morons" and accused them of being the worst human-rights violators in the world, in part because of the Clinton administration's raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.
Britain would become the first country in the world to ban human cloning, according to London's Independent newspaper.
In the world of UN human rights, such insults may count as compliments.
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In the real world of human family relations there can be no justification for government to impose this burden by force of law.
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In a rare statement on the country, Ms Pillay said it had "one of the worst - but least understood and reported - human rights situations in the world".
Ominously, as he might also have noted, in those places where shariah is most completely applied (think Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia), one finds the most abominable abuses of human rights anywhere in the world (including amputation, flogging, stoning, and the death penalty for apostasy-which is hardly "irrelevant" if you're Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who today faces hanging for leaving Islam).
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As you know also, the U.S. government provides support to civil society, democracy and human rights activists around the world in line with our values, among them respecting the fundamental human rights of free speech, peaceful assembly and human dignity.
This heritage may exist in any language, in any part of the world, and in any area of human knowledge or expression.
Millions of people around the world have marched in defense of human rights, Amnesty says, and it's time for the world's leaders to step up to the plate.
In 30 years, HIV has caused tremendous loss and human suffering in every corner of the inhabited world.
Could you have possibly imagined that there are 30 million slaves in the world today, more than any other point in human history?
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Instead, it lies below Yemen in the UNDP's ranking of human-development indicators, at 151st in the world.
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