Respect for human rights underpins the attainment of development because if a person's human rights are not safeguarded and respected that person's well being is undermined.

Alarmed that acts of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations aimed at the destruction of human rights have continued despite national and international efforts,

Alarmed that acts of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations aimed at the destruction of human rights have continued despite national and international efforts,

Might it be possible for China to establish limits on arbitrary executive power and strengthen creditor rights sufficiently without undertaking a full fledged transition to democracy?

Thus, self protection has assumed increased importance, which carries with it the potential to undermine cooperation on such critical issues as human rights, gender equality and health care.

Of course, a common EU security strategy is not meant to undermine the rights of individual member states to choose their internal energy policies.

1. Reaffirms that hostage taking, wherever and by whomever committed, is a serious crime aimed at the destruction of human rights and is, under any circumstances, unjustifiable

1. Reaffirms that hostage taking, wherever and by whomever committed, is a serious offence aimed at the destruction of human rights and is, under any circumstances, unjustifiable

A balanced framework needed to be defined to allow those two principles to be reconciled, for which a human rights approach was required to ensure that democracy and freedoms were not undermined.

Reaffirms that hostage taking, wherever and by whomever committed, is a serious crime aimed at the destruction of human rights and is, under any circumstances, unjustifiable, including when committed under the pretext of achieving the goal of promoting and protecting human rights

They are the result of a Bush administration that has trampled on human rights and international law, including the Geneva conventions, and tried to undermine basic democratic protections, ever since it took office.

In Afghanistan, she had been particularly disturbed by the continued existence of multiple normative systems that undermined the establishment of the rule of law in that country, which was an essential element of the protection of women's rights.

The problem undermining society in her view is feminized men .

2. Declares its firm opposition to acts of foreign military intervention, aggression and occupation, since these have resulted in the suppression of the right of peoples to self determination and other human rights in certain parts of the world

Declares its firm opposition to acts of foreign military intervention, aggression and occupation, since these have resulted in the suppression of the right of peoples to self determination and other human rights in certain parts of the world

This undermined Khatami s authority even further.

Yet he was jailed for inciting subversion of state power.

But Griesa s ruling undercuts prospects for cooperation.

The bomb was trying to undermine the stability of the Syrian government it must be the Americans

This in turn can undermine public confidence and trust.

(e) To ensure that the conditions of pre trial detention do not undermine the fairness of the trial

(e) To ensure that the conditions of pre trial detention do not undermine the fairness of the trial

The failure to supply reports will only serve to undermine the Committee's efforts.

Moreover, some informal institutions based on longstanding cultural traditions lead to discrimination and violation of human rights, while undermining the authority of formal institutions like the judiciary, police, or military.

Even today, Europe s military weakness is working to undermine the transatlantic relationship.

With that, Hezbollah threw away its political position in Lebanon.

The politics of greed and grievance replace more far sighted policymaking.

Such situations invariably undermine the objective of promoting sustainable security.

The danger of undermining the NPT regime also exists outside the framework.

His Government firmly believed that human rights could not be imposed from outside and that country specific resolutions only undermined trust among potential partners and politicized the United Nations human rights machinery.

Consequently, the resolution in its entirety represents one of the major factors contributing to the serious undermining of the credibility of the Commission on Human Rights in whose activities the principle of non politicization, objectivity and impartiality should be thoroughly observed.

The whole exclusion simply undermines the multilateral trading system.

But foreign aid also undermines the development of local state capacity.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

Yet there remains a danger that this positive progress can still be undermined.

Taylor has undermined a string of peacekeeping interventions in the region.

All of them can undermine States as the basic unit of the international system.

The scale and proliferation of these activities undermine development, the rule of law and effective governance.

Terrorism seeks to destroy our way of life and to undermine freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

Worldwide broadcasts of the beating and killing of protesters have undermined the regime s religious credentials.

To Hamas, however, they appear to undermine its very raison d'etre.

Hard and soft power can reinforce or undermine each other.

Those weapons have helped to prolong conflicts and to undermine stability, social peace and security.

This is denting confidence and holding back spending, investment, and job creation.

Both terms originated as criticisms that were supposed to undermine and subvert the political tendencies they described.