... Human capital Human rights Economic growth Culture In this article for the foresight special issue, “Is the Middle East the land of the future?”, we will address issues relating to the United National Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG, United Nations, 2000) in the Middle East. We...

... Universal Declaration of Human Rights [6] , or the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the protection of war victims (Benvenuti, 1999). We must now painfully remember the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide (Human Rights Watch, Rwanda, n.d.) and witness every day more and more war crimes and crimes...

...Cornelio Sommaruga Human security is far more than the absence of conflict. It encompasses education and health, democracy and human rights, protection against environmental degradation and the proliferation of deadly weapons. It may be referred to as the concept of “freedom from want and fear...

... the government functions. It is most importantly a set of certain values which prevail in the community of democracies and include, among others, sovereignty of the people, majority rule, minority rights, human rights, equality before the law, constitutional limits on government and civil liberties. Modern...