But we believe that the declaration helps to address the entire issue by providing essential confidence-building, the key missing component thus far.
The Millennium Declaration tried to address structural and democratic deficits - but still there are no MDGs for good governance, citizens' rights, or levels of social investment; that was left to the Paris Declaration and other international agreements.
The government's argument — that the declaration aims to address the economic crisis of the country — is belied by the targeting of fundamental rights being exercised by the protesters, including their right to peaceful assembly, gatherings, processions and labor strikes.
There have been a few declarations meant to address specific crises, like a swine flu outbreak in 2009 or the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Such a declaration was used to address Irish concerns about the treaty after Ireland rejected it in a referendum in June 2008.
The declaration totally fails to address what we had learned about Iraq's prohibited weapons programs before the inspectors were effectively forced out in 1998.
Representatives of the World Medical Association, who hoped to avoid these costs, began meeting in the early 1960s to develop guidelines, which would become known as the Declaration of Helsinki, to address the perceived shortcomings of the Nuremberg Code (Goodyear, Krleza-Jeric, and Lemmens 2007).
At the turn of the Century, Malaysia adopted the Millennium Declaration and pledged to address, by 2015, extreme poverty and hunger; child and maternal mortality; HIV and AIDS; universal primary education; gender equality; environmental sustainability; and, a global partnership for development.
The declaration provides no information to address these concerns.
The G-20's Pittsburgh declaration outlined the need to address macro-economic imbalances to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis that has thrown the world economy into disarray.
