* 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

Many of the basic ideas that animated the movement developed in the aftermath of the Second World War and the atrocities of The Holocaust, culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

The adoption of the Universal Declaration is a significant international commemoration marked each year on 10 December and is known as Human Rights Day or International Human Rights Day.

( The Saskatchewan Bill of Rights preceded the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations by 18 months ).

The inter-American system for the protection of human rights emerged with the adoption of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man in April 1948 the first international human rights instrument of a general nature, predating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by more than six months.

Universal service was not secured until his death, but he laid down the principles and prepared the way for its adoption.

The movement he created continues today in a formal way as Sufi Ruhaniat International, as well as informally through the wide adoption of the Dances of Universal Peace by many other Sufi and non-Sufi groups.

General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations.

The subject of this article is the use of torture since the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ), which prohibited it.

Upon the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity on November 2001, UNESCO encouraged recognition and protection of intangible heritage in the same way as natural and cultural treasures of tangible heritage are protected.

* Universal adoption of IPv6 cannot help either, as it only allows all users to have fixed IP addresses.

The initial work of the Division for Human Rights was the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of which Humphrey created the first draft and remained a champion of until its adoption by approval of the UN General Assembly in 1948.

Thus, IL activists demand the removal of infrastructural, institutional and attitudinal barriers and the adoption of the Universal Design principle.

Reuss, with Bricaud's support, advocated the adoption of the religion of Crowley's Gnostic Mass as the " official religion for all members of the World Federation of Universal Freemasonry in possession of the 18 ° of the Scottish Rite.

The drafting of the Fundamental Rights was influenced by the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U. N. General Assembly and the activities of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, as well as decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court in interpreting the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.

Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, in the United States ( 1776 ) and in France ( 1789 ), leading to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which established certain legal rights.

* 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.

* Day of the adoption of the Declaration of independence ( Latvia )

* 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence.

Eleanor Roosevelt supported the adoption of the UDHR as a declaration rather than as a treaty, because she believed that it would have the same kind of influence on global society as the United States Declaration of Independence had within the United States.

One of the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( also known as the Earth Summit ) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, was the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which contains 27 principles to underpin sustainable development.

However, when Forester decided to write about Hornblower's early career in the sixth novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, he made his hero about five years younger, giving his birthdate as July 4, 1776 ( the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence ).

Many see adoption of Declaration of state sovereignty as a negative historic event which accelerated dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The last town to be granted under the English provincial government, Whitefield was chartered on July 4, 1774, exactly two years before adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

The first celebration of the anniversary of the supposed adoption of the Mecklenburg Declaration took place in Charlotte on May 20, 1825.

Ralph Bunche along with Eleanor Roosevelt were considered instrumental in the creation and adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

The Bicentennial culminated on Sunday, July 4, 1976, with the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

Montenegrin citizens will not be able to have dual citizenship, however those who have before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence had multiple citizenships will keep it, effectively leaving just the Montenegrins in Serbia unable to hold dual citizenship.

" Following the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 66 / 1, the Permanent Mission of Libya to the United Nations formally notified the United Nations of a Declaration by the National Transitional Council of 3 August 2011 changing the official name of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to " Libya " as well as a decision to change Libya's national flag to the original.

National Child Day has been celebrated across Canada since 1993 to commemorate the United Nations ' adoption of two documents centered on children's rights: the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1959, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1989.

A new system of regional coordinators is also set into place, the AIAS Long Range Plan is developed into a finished document, and the Sustainability Declaration is finalized for adoption by the four other collateral organizations.

25 October, the anniversary of the adoption of the " Declaration on State Sovereignty of Kazakh SSR " by the Kazakh legislature in 1990, is now commemorated as Republic Day (), a public holiday in Kazakhstan.

* The Next Step: The adoption of The Plan of Action to specify how the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection, and Development of Children will be realized.

The Human Rights Campaign's priorities include: prevention of hate crimes and HIV / AIDS ; advocacy for healthcare benefits, marriage, and adoption rights for same-sex couples ; lobbying for a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act ( ENDA ) and gender identity anti-discrimination laws ; combating gay bashing in schools ; and building relationships with straight allies, ethnic groups, religious leaders, and youth.

Human Rights First court cases and advocacy campaigns during this time led to improved treatment of asylum seekers and to the adoption of new legal standards for defining a refugee.

This coalition played an active role with Human Rights First in promoting Congressional adoption of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibits all forms for cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees by any U. S. official.

Some have claimed that the adoption of " ELCIC Social Statement on Human Sexuality " openly violates Article 2 of the ELCIC constitution, and have challenged the adoption as a violation of the ELCIC's constitution ; the challenge has been placed before the ELCIC's Court of Adjudication.

* The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the UN's Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders and the African Union's Commission on Human and Peoples ' Rights issued a joint communiqué in which they commended the European Union for its recent adoption of a set of guidelines for protecting human rights defenders and urged the world's other regions to take similar steps in that direction.

Since the adoption of the Constitution in 1993, the UN appointed a Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights opened a Cambodian office.

With the recent enactment of the HITECH Act included in the ARRA, encouraging the adoption of health IT, more detailed case laws for CDSS and EMRs are still being defined by the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ( ONC ) and approved by Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ).

A U. S. Department of Health and Human Services review of what was known as of 2004 suggests that overall, 10-25 % of adoptions are disrupted or dissolved, and that the rate tends to rise with the age of the child at adoption.