A London art gallery is running a series of events called "Turning the Page on the Balfour Declaration", focusing on Arab culture and identity in Palestine before 1948.
To celebrate the opening of its $41 million new home, the ICA has mounted an exhibition called "Declaration," focused on established and emerging artists who use their work to explore political and social issues.
With no history to be made thousands of miles from Camp David and no crises to distract them, the leaders aired issues that have traditionally taken a secondary place at the annual gathering, and released a declaration focusing on the importance of getting the developing world hooked up with the Internet.
Most high-tech giants already have their own principles, and civil society has worked on documents, including the Toronto Declaration focused on human rights.
The J8 Rome Declaration focused on four key areas: children's rights in the context of the global financial crisis; climate change; poverty and development in Africa; and education.
Although Yung Lean is almost totally unknown in Sweden, his music, a stream of near-monotone observations and declarations focussed on his own social discomfort and rapped in the vernacular of American Top Forty rap ("I'm nervous that she's upset / She don't want me / Bitch, I'm flustered"), has drawn enough of a following in the United States to support a nationwide tour.
This is why the declaration focuses mostly on civil and political rights, such as the rights to vote, to a fair trial, freedom of speech and so on.
UNICEF monitors all objectives, but in the context of the Paris Declaration focuses primarily on monitoring impact rather than inputs and process.
