The city was the venue for the 1975 Helsinki accords in which Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signed a 35-state declaration that called for respect of sovereign territory and human rights.
In July 1848 they issued a call for a convention to discuss the issue of women's rights; this convention met in Stanton's hometown, Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 20, 1848, and issued a declaration that called for woman suffrage and for the right of women to educational and employment opportunities.
The Baby Friendly Way" World Breastfeeding Week this year commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration that called for implementation of the Ten Steps to successful breastfeeding in all maternity wards.
A sit-in continues on the main square here in favor of the Timisoara Declaration, a 13-point document that calls for temporarily banning former Communist campaigners and secret police officers from running for election.
Their declarations range from an eloquent and moving Declaration of Independence from Silence, a genuine kindred spirit of our original July 4, 1776 document, to a declaration ending police brutality, to one that calls for an end to sexism in all its pernicious forms.
I should like to close with a quote from a declaration adopted at the Forum, one that calls for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and expresses support for all efforts to bring them home.
Balfour Declaration Draft A draft of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document that called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine, sold for $884,000 yesterday at Sotheby's.
Earlier in the day, Australia was one of 40 countries to vote in favour of a non-binding "Florianópolis declaration" tabled by Brazil that called for greater protections for whales, a rejection of commercial whaling and for financial support to further develop non-lethal research efforts.
What Sotheby's is calling the only known surviving autographed draft of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document below that called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine, along with other documents from the archive of the Zionist Leader Leon Simon is to be auctioned in New York on June 16.
It acknowledges the supremacy of the Palestine Liberation Organisation PLOO), which, at least according to public declarations, has abandoned the bits of its charter that called for Israel's destruction.
