The French National Center for Scientific Research participated in 2003 in the creation of the influential Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
The highly credible, well respected and influential signatories of this declaration are diverse in many of their political views but all agree that the United States should never use torture again.
Each sport's governing body and the International Olympic Committee have ultimate authority over sanctioning athletes, but the antidoping regulator's declarations are influential, and the agency has the power to appeal cases.
Bishop Ahern was also influential in Pope John Paul II's Declaration of the Doctorate of Saint Therese of Lisieux in 1997.
By all accounts Manning was an influential figure in ensuring a declaration that would empower the pope to speak "infallibly".
In 1948, a group of influential Finnish researchers published a declaration against the destructive impacts of selective logging on Finland's forests.
One of her most influential books, "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence," published in 1997, was inspired by a visit to the National Archives in Washington, where in looking at the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, she was struck by the thought that the documents, encased under bulletproof glass, seemed "pretty dead," she recalled.
This insight was to be echoed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the influential statement of human rights and fundamental freedoms drafted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under the Chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Still, many powerful Southern Baptist leaders and agencies did not sign the declaration, including the convention's influential political arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
George Mason's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights was more influential, and its language was echoed in state constitutions and state bills of rights more often than Jefferson's words.
