The production designer, Patrick Tatopoulos, has come up with some inspired creatures, but the slight suggestion that the links are stand-ins for oppressed human minorities is probably a heavier burden than this slight enterprise can bear.
Like that 1982 film, it examines the possibility of humans' falling in love with androids, and vice versa, while using robots as a stand-in for persecuted, voiceless human minorities, in this case Japanese teenagers.
Her passions include human rights, minority protections, refugee rights and conflict resolution.
The disciplines include observance of human and minority rights, rule of law, democratic institutions, etc.
It added it would in future promote "the rule of law, social justice, civic democracy, human and minority rights and freedoms".
The draft had been criticised for its ambiguous language on human rights, minority rights and freedom of expression, as well as its concentration on enshrining sharia law as the basis for legislature.
A genuine project of democratization also involves helping to make Iraq's neighbor Turkey worthy of membership in the European Union -- itself an international community with demanding standards of respect for human and minority rights.
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo reported that there was progress in the development of viable government institutions and that Kosovo was consistent in reaching international standards with regard to human and minority rights.
Aside from the European Union, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with 55 members, works in similar areas: defending human and minority rights, building democratic institutions.
After finally being accepted as a candidate in late 1999, Turkey has worked hard to meet the union's criteria for membership, most notably with the passage of a major domestic reform package last August that abolished the death penalty, expanded human and minority rights, and allowed for the teaching and broadcasting of the Kurdish language.
