These discussions culminated in the drafting of a Declaration calling for action on some of the world's biggest challenges, climate change, quality education, development in Africa and the global financial crisis.
South Africa's latest draft of a conference declaration expresses concern about "the plight of the Palestinian people under foreign occupation," but eliminates any description of Israel as a racist state.
In 1997, at the request of bomb survivors, the mayor of Nagasaki at that time deleted words of atonement for atrocities committed by the Japanese military from the final draft of a peace declaration on the 52nd anniversary of that city's destruction.
A draft of the declaration, scheduled for a General Assembly vote on Wednesday, urges all countries to protect the rights of people with AIDS.
In 2010, Marino banded together with other scientists, activists, and philosophers to draft a "Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans" declaring that no whales and dolphins "should be held in captivity … or removed from their natural environment".
On exhibit is a draft of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson's own hand.
Some Islamic countries quickly objected because a draft of the declaration included gays and prostitutes in the groups of people particularly at risk for contracting the disease.
I lost an hour snapping photographs of things like Charles Dickens's cat-claw letter opener and a draft of the Declaration of Independence, and still made it only about halfway through the first of the game's nine chapters.
Although a draft of the declaration has circulated for months, the Islamic countries only recently raised objections to a paragraph that dealt with vulnerable groups, reacting with surprise to what they saw, officials said.
Patriotic potheads love to point out that cannabis was grown at Jamestown, that George Washington might have used hashish, and that Thomas Jefferson wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence on hemp-fiber paper.
