The United Nations, 1976: Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States SenateU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 29 páginas |
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Página 21 - Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, longlasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party.
Página 29 - There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
Página 3 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 9 - Nations shall promote . . . higher standards of living, full employment and conditions of economic and social progress and development...
Página 15 - Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Página 13 - To ensure accelerated development two general conditions are necessary: first, far-reaching internal changes of a social, political, and institutional character in the developing countries, and second, significant changes in the world economic order ...
Página 29 - States the basic proposition that collective-security arrangements should be based upon "continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid." The United Nations Charter also establishes that all peace-loving states should stand ready to contribute armed forces, assistance, and facilities for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.
Página 17 - As a result compliance with human rights standards is measured not by the standards themselves, but by vote-gathering ability. Those imprisoned for political dissent, those tortured because they refuse to abandon what they know to be true, cannot await the day their case might happen to come under the international political spotlight. For the literally hundreds of thousands suffering and denied their dignity as humans, the damage is irreparable. In short, in the field of human rights, justice delayed,...
Página 15 - Charter included the encouragement of respect for ".human rights" and "fundamental freedoms" as one of the purposes of the...
Página 6 - Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be "a form of racism and racial discrimination.