Since the launching of the declaration, violence against women perpetrated by an intimate partner within domestic life has become one of the most internationally highlighted topics within the field of violence against women.
From the Women Deliver conference in May, to the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting at the end of September, and most recently, the launch of the girl declaration on 1 October, there is a growing movement calling on policymakers to see girls as "critical to the post-2015 development agenda".
Last month saw the launch of 'Rome declaration' (pdf), as part of Italy's presidency of the European Union.
While Adams' prediction turned out to be two days off the mark, there is no more appropriate day than July 2, 2015 to launch The Declaration Project, a comprehensive collection of Declarations from around the world and across the ages -- and to give 'the people' the opportunity to write and share their own Declaration, and as a result to inspire constructive change.
That's why we headed outside, to go and find a place to launch the declaration".
In the spring of 1820, Thomas Jefferson, who, in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, had launched a withering assault on slavery, confessed to an associate that the plight of the American negro was a momentous question, which, "like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror".
The declaration came soon after the launch of the a two-week African Union campaign to end child marriage.
Mr Reid's declaration came three days before the launch of the new-look, slimmed-down department that he had spent months lobbying for.
www.historychannel.com/Declaration A history of the Declaration of Independence.
"The core of the declaration is political.
