Sentence examples for common concern of mankind from inspiring English sources

In 1988, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring climate change to be a "common concern of mankind".

On the one hand, the idea of a "common responsibility" spoke directly to the notion of "common heritage of mankind," acknowledged by a 1967 UN resolution that had first emerged as an expression of concern for the loss of natural resources belonging to all (especially maritime, such as whales and tuna).

How nobly free you seem to be of this common failing of mankind".

Countries have declared minerals on the seabed "the common heritage of mankind".

The real "Egypt," deemed a common property of mankind, needed rescuing from the natives.

Wanton destruction of the buried common heritage of mankind is a crime against culture.

Jefferson: "The field of knowledge is the common property of mankind".

Deep-sea minerals are supposed to be "the common heritage of mankind".

Opponents say that genes are products of nature, not inventions, and should be the common heritage of mankind.

Under international law, fishing there is open to all and minerals count as "the common heritage of mankind".

During the 1970s it came to be accepted that the deep seabed is the "common heritage of mankind" and should be administered by an international authority.