We've prohibited torture and strengthened partnerships from the Pacific to South Asia to the Arabian Peninsula.
Gay couples were permitted to register their relationships as civil partnerships from 21 December 2005.
But ministers insisted that police and local authorities must fund the partnerships from their mainstream budgets.
Belgium offered limited rights to same-sex couples through registered partnerships from 1998 onwards.
Most partnerships, from Lennon and McCartney on down, are destroyed by a lethal cocktail of ego, greed and lust.
About partnerships, from the fan perspective it just means there are more places to discover music online.
Scores of fledgling Israeli business partnerships from North Africa to the Persian Gulf were instantly and angrily severed.
Hundreds of vital public-private partnerships, from power plants to roads, are in financial distress but no mechanism yet exists to restructure them.
EVAN OSNOS: "Strengthened partnerships from south asia to the pacific" is a bit generous, but it's not for lack of trying.
We need to learn from these experiences so we can integrate the conditions for scale and sustainability into the design of partnerships from the very beginning.
