The Charter is an historic document which brings together, for the first time in the associations 64-year history, key declarations on Commonwealth principles Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA 7.45pm GMT An elderly Syrian woman inspects bodies of civilians who were executed and dumped in the Quweiq river, in the grounds of the courtyard of the Yarmouk School, in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo.
There was also the Ecofin meeting which provided a lot of material for political decisions, in terms of principle and technical bases, and the histories of declarations made by the leading members of Member States' governments which, as rarely happens, fleshed out and clarified options as to coming summits at which decisions must be taken.
The section-by-section drafting history of the declaration in Chapter 9, followed by the section-by-section analysis of the declaration in Chapter 10, might, for the general reader, be too much of a good thing, and could perhaps have been briefly summarized.
www.historychannel.com/Declaration A history of the Declaration of Independence.
Among the best known dividing points in American history, alongside the Declaration of Independence, Pearl Harbor and September 11, there is "Brown v Board of Education".
I only wish that those who reflect on the Fourth of July would acknowledge one of the greatest ironies in history: an American Declaration of Independence that looked past the issue of African slavery.
This chilling account of a three-day slave revolt on sugar plantations around New Orleans in January 1811 also traces the white fear of black violence that pervades our national history, from the Declaration of Independence through the Constitution to the coming of the Civil War.
In response to the many denialist statements issued by Mbeki and others, more than five thousand researchers who had gathered for the conference prepared one of the saddest documents in modern scientific history, the Durban Declaration, which stated that the evidence that H.I.V. causes AIDS is "clear-cut, exhaustive and unambiguous," and meets the "highest standards of science".
Updated at 9.37am GMT 7.44am GMT The phrase "white paper" is not one that normally stirs the passions, but in Glasgow today the Scottish government is going to publish one that has been described in some quarters as the most important document in the nation's history since the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
No document is more iconic in American history than the Declaration of Independence.
