Thus, preventing violence is a necessary requirement for social progress.
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Social justice is based on equal rights for all peoples and the ideal that benefits from economic and social progress are for all people without discrimination.
One of the other things that has been a steep learning curve for us - painfully so, I may add -is that we have come to have unanimity on the fact that security is a precondition not only for the political progress that we have just been talking about the last 15 or so minutes, but also for economic and social progress.
Is it feasible for businesses to promote social progress as strongly as, say, Unilever promotes handwashing?
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For communities and nations, educated citizens provide the foundation for sustainable social and economic progress.
When all these conditions are fulfilled, citizen videos can become powerful catalysts that move people to act, thus realizing their enormous potential as tools for human rights and social progress.
Former President Bill Clinton pointed out on stage during our commitment for Shape the Future that these partnerships are how technological progress is made for social good in the modern world.
Although it is widely recognised that eliminating gender disparities with regards to access to education is essential for long-term social and economic development, progress towards this objective has been limited as evidenced by, for example, the limited range of adult literacy programmes targeting women.
The Annual Ministerial Review is organized each year by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs to assess progress made in the implementation of the MDGs.
Two important milestones for progress towards human rights and social justice occurred in recent days.
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The government, casting around for facts to support its claims of social progress, subtracted that 33% reduction from the 50% increase to claim a net increase in capacity of 17%.
In spite of isolation on the rebate, a real opportunity is emerging for consensus and progress on EU economic and social reform.
Although the Department for Social Development and its agencies had made good progress in encouraging eligible pensioners to claim their benefit entitlements, he said "many older people were still struggling to make ends meet".
Sustainable development as well as economic and social progress are inconceivable without good governance and respect for human rights.
An update was presented to AMs also on the progress made in delivering the 'Sustainable Social Services for Wales: A Framework for Action' document.
For all the economic progress, all sorts of tensions social, cultural, demographic, even religious haunt the regime and help explain why it resorts to nationalism so often.
Yet while liberals have cheered the result as a mark of social progress, it does not necessarily augur plain sailing for the al-Sabah family that has ruled Kuwait since the 18th century.
Afghan civil groups, meeting on the sidelines in Tokyo, demanded stricter conditions attached to the aid to combat corruption, and to guarantee that social progress in the past decade is not sold away for an easier peace with the Taliban.
We are grateful to the president of the United States for getting us to this historic place, which will sit comfortably with Social Security and Medicare - health care for all Americans as a great progress.
Teresa Amabile: Probably the biggest challenge to social sector organizations is obtaining the capital needed to provide the resources for people to make progress in their work.
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She said the difficulties of some families were "so entrenched", that councils would find it difficult "to ensure their progress hits the bar for the payment by results initiative on school attendance and anti-social behaviour".
Nurtured in the atmosphere of committed liberalism generated by the New Deal, and by such musicians as Aaron Copland, for whom artistic progress and the formation of an authentically American artistic identity were inseparable from ideas of social change, Bernstein developed quickly into an able spokesman for American cosmopolitan progressivism's short-lived ascendancy.
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