And I was thinking, was Ghana searching for its identity like I was looking for my identity?

The more sophisticated a product or service is, the more its national identity tends to disappear.

Japan has been successful in coexisting with different cultures while maintaining its own identity.

Some warned even before EU accession that their nations could lose their identity.

Consequently, a qualitative change took place in the women's movement that helped diversify their activities and broadened their gender identity.

It should be every person's right to seek his or her identity that is a question of human dignity.

Use of the word Turk or Turkish represented an attempt by 50 per cent of the minority to impose its identity on the other half.

In Kuwait, the High level Coordinator inquired about a number of mortal remains that had been exhumed but remained unidentified.

It tried to redefine itself as a more normal financial institution, less committed to holding long term strategic stakes in companies.

Consultation to articulate effective mechanisms to protect the rights of all people to maintain their cultural identity, while facilitating their integration into their social environment.

Founded on the notion of separateness, Pakistan has continuously had to affirm its Islamic identity, as well as its opposition to India.

Betty promises to help Rita remember her identity, and the two of them find a large amount of money and an unusual blue key in Rita's purse.

A prime example of this would be the first generation Honda Odyssey being rebadged as an Isuzu Oasis because Isuzu needed a minivan, while the Isuzu Rodeo was rebadged as the Honda Passport because Honda had the need for an SUV.

It was the Bank's hope that through that continuous process of dialogue, exploration and understanding, it could help to promote the development of indigenous peoples and ensure respect for their identity and culture.

The category of national minority would then have still stronger rights relating not only to their culture but to the preservation and development of their national identity.

As the United States prepares to celebrate the inauguration of its first African American president, it showcases again one of the best aspects of its national identity.

The author of the blog is a Spanish designer residing abroad that wants to maintain her anonymity and dedicates her attention to the creative talent that has risen as a result of the indignant movement.

The Praetorians become aware of Angela's knowledge of them and steal her identity, placing her new identity on the F.B.I.

Israel has simply stopped seeking to reconcile its Jewish identity with its commitment to democracy, for it has stopped addressing the contradiction that the Israeli Palestinian question represents.

The abandonment of ethnography by medicine happened when social anthropology adopted ethnography as one of the markers of its professional identity and started to depart from the initial project of general anthropology.

The draft recognizes such key aspects of the promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous peoples as respect for their identity and implementation of their own development projects.

The new Russia has transcended its Soviet identity and managed to put down uprisings in the post Soviet space as far away as Tajikistan.

According to unanimous reports from several sources, torture by the police is routine, widespread, and carried out with total impunity.

De Gaulle agreed. As he once put it, somewhat ironically, Britain would lose its identity as a member of a European union, and this would be a great pity.

Since reports emerged that a Syrian blogger named Amina Arraf, known as Gay Girl in Damascus had been seized by authorities on Monday, 6 June 2011, serious doubts have surfaced that the blogger may not be who she claims.

The 1948 election also marked Maryland's permanent defection from the Solid South as the expansion of the federal government led to a population explosion in the state that changed Maryland politically into a Northeastern State.

Surely, everybody must know that Turkey has always identified itself as a European state and was recognized as such by the rest of Europe decades ago.

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live.

They view themselves as counter forces to cultural domination by the West, asserting their religious identity in the face of what they regard as imperializing ideas like secularism and human rights.

The law should set forth rules governing the priority of security rights in goods that are physically united with other goods in such a way that their identity is lost in a product or mass of goods.

Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.

Sunni clerics in Syria and throughout the Arab world are issuing fatwas to give the Free Syria Army the halo of holy warriors fighting the Alawite infidels who have denied Syria its true Sunni identity.

The results of searches conducted both within the UN Women campaign and Global Voices revealed popular attitudes not only about women s social and professional roles, but also about their sexuality, appearance and relationships with men.

Although RTRS is, above anything else, an information media, its production role is of particular importance in preservation and fostering its own musical identity.

As to the role of the United Nations, it is essential that cooperation among its members be strengthened in order to affirm its identity as an entity that embodies human aspirations for peaceful coexistence and mutual interest among nations.

So the Bush administration s leak of her identity ended not just her career, but also a sensitive program that had kept us all safe.

The Secretary General shall inform the author of a communication of the procedure that will be followed and in particular that, provided that the individual or individuals consent to the disclosure of her identity to the State party concerned, the communication will be brought confidentially to the attention of that State party.

Turkey seeks to re establish its Islamic identity and Ottoman influence over the Middle East, thereby flexing its diplomatic muscles for a European Union that has all but rejected Turkish membership.

Given to the fact that women do not have any control on their sexuality and reproduction, they redefine maternity as an element of identity that makes them feel women, being a mother, which is translated into high fertility rates.

(c) The search for the whereabouts of the disappeared, for the identities of the children abducted, and for the bodies of those killed, and assistance in the recovery, identification and reburial of the bodies in accordance with the expressed or presumed wish of the victims, or the cultural practices of the families and communities

(c) The search for the whereabouts of the disappeared, for the identities of the children abducted, and for the bodies of those killed, and assistance in the recovery, identification and reburial of the bodies in accordance with the expressed or presumed wish of the victims, or the cultural practices of the families and communities

The Declaration on Minorities makes it clear that these rights often require action, including protective measures and encouragement of conditions for the promotion of their identity (art. 1) and specified, active measures by the State (art. 4).

While completely legal, studies suggest that Wal Mart s labor policies exploit regulatory loopholes that, for example, allow it to sidestep the burden of healthcare costs for many workers (Wal Mart provides healthcare coverage to less than half its workers). And the entry of big box stores into a community crushes long established retailers, often traumatically transforming their character.

Since indigenous peoples historically identify with Mother Earth and base their cultural identity primarily on their long association with the earth and its fruits, when this relationship is disrupted or eroded, situations arise that impair their human rights.

The network appeals to the group which has kidnapped him to release him immediately or make itself known and state its demands. We also appeal to all the brigades of the Free Syrian Army, the rebels and the judicial entities to identify his kidnappers and demand his immediate release.