Is America doomed to the same fate? Answering this question requires understanding the reasons behind Britain s lack of technological progressiveness.

Mass organizations, particularly the Women's Union, Fatherland Front and Labour Union, have shown strength in informing, educating and communicating with the people on gender equality, on building a cultured life, and building families of prosperity, equality, progressiveness and happiness .

(a) The principle of progressiveness in the development of principles and norms must not serve as a loophole or a pretext for procrastinating and obstructing the desired development process, especially since, as we have seen, the question of that development has remained a live issue on the floor of the United Nations from the mid 1970s to the present