Human rights cannot be realized in the absence of effective institutions.

But, all too often, clichés become established because they are true.

Good practices in this area would take root and inspire us all.

Where rights are well established, progress in building a civil society will surely follow.

The procedures and guidelines governing the Fund began to be established well over a decade ago and have continued to develop.

The independence of the Administrative Tribunal, emphasized by the Assembly on a number of occasions, is reinforced by both the perceived and actual complete independence of its secretariat in providing services to the Tribunal.

Now, creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it's property that we're all building on, and creations can only take root and grow once that ground has been prepared.

This is a devastating situation with real and lingering impact that continues to undermine international efforts to establish peaceful and secure environments where humanitarian and development initiatives can take root and yield results.

But the administrative borders of these districts were never fully established, and they have changed at least eight times since 1951. In 2007, Libya had 22 sha biya (administrative districts), not three.

Private sector involvement in volunteering is a growing phenomenon in industrialized countries and is starting to make headway in developing countries as notions of corporate social responsibility take hold.

But the harmony stemming from the encounter between different cultures and systems is nowhere near and will not be as long as the rule of law has not taken hold in the emerging world and a culture of modesty has not made headway within the plural West.

The country s rapid economic growth, strategic potential, huge internal market, and enormous investment in infrastructure, education, and research and development, as well as its massive military buildup, will see to that.

The story of humans is the story of ideas scientific ideas that shine light into dark corners, ideas that we embrace rationally and irrationally, ideas for which we've lived and died and killed and been killed, ideas that have vanished in history, and ideas that have been set in dogma.

19th century In the early 18th century the Swedes invaded Norway again, and this time the Norwegian army held its own, setting the stage for nearly a century of peace the longest yet in modern Norwegian history during which time a distinct Norwegian identity began to evolve.