The answer should begin by noting that Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of a great social movement for equality for African Americans — a nonviolent struggle against segregation to make the promise of the Declaration of Independence a reality.
This United Nations Day, let us urge the UN to confront the Saudi abuses against Shia citizens – and to ensure the freedoms enshrined in the Declaration soon become a reality for them.
When the Declaration was adopted, UNICEF's Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman noted that "to become a reality, the Declaration must be accompanied by a strong political will and public policies and budget allocations must reach Indigenous peoples, so that Indigenous children can overcome poverty, discrimination, and exclusion, which affect the overwhelming majority".
In such places, the Universal Declaration describes an aspiration, not a reality.
"We envision a world in which a special initiative for girls' education is no longer needed, a world in which all girls and boys are empowered through quality education to realise their full potential and contribute to transforming their societies, so that gender equality becomes a reality," the declaration said.
"We envision a world in which a special initiative for girls' education is no longer needed, a world in which all girls and boys are empowered through quality education to realize their full potential and contribute to transforming their societies, so that gender equality becomes a reality," the declaration said.
Roaring 20s opens with This Means War, a sketch about pint-sized gangbangers on their north London estate; it's followed by Lost Generation, a jaunty ska declaration that reality TV is used as "morphine" by young people like them.
It is 15 years since the Berlin Declaration and Open Access is still far from being a reality.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said states now have a responsibility to turn the 2013 declaration into reality.
2. Virtual reality becomes a reality.
