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The biggest milestone came in December 2007, when it, along with other developing countries, signed the Bali Roadmap, agreeing to work together on a new global deal by 2009 in Copenhagen.
Reversing the verdict on June 4, 1989, will not only be a milestone towards establishing democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in China, it will be a global victory for human peace and justice.
India’s elimination of active trachoma was another milestone, as it marked an important turning point in the global fight against a leading infectious cause of blindness.
The Extraordinary Chambers marks a milestone in Cambodia’s effort to come to terms with an exceptionally violent period in its past.
And today, they are approaching a milestone: a declaration of self-determination in the form of a free state in which all citizens will be able to live in liberty, their heads held high.
And Africa has reached a critical milestone: each year, there are now more Africans starting HIV treatment than being infected.
All that is left now is for the North to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to be deliverable by such an ICBM – a milestone that is thought to be not more than a few years off.
Once both sides reached that milestone, they would begin to progress toward the next one, and so on.
But it is a milestone, not a turning point, in what remains an ongoing struggle with no foreseeable end.
But low-income countries are still far from meeting the goal of ensuring that all children complete primary school: only 63% of children in those countries achieve that milestone.
African Misrule on TrialTHE HAGUE – As the world focuses on the inauguration of America’s first black president and celebrates an important milestone in the ongoing struggle for racial equality, recent developments across the Atlantic represent significant progress in a related global campaign to end impunity for mass crimes.
With little fanfare, January 25, 2004, marked a milestone in the history of the protection of human rights in Africa: the entry into force of the Protocol for establishing an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
South Africa’s potential decision to enable access to medicine may be an important milestone on the road toward that goal.
Yet something is stirring in the hemisphere; as its “marijuana moments” arrive with greater frequency, can a milestone be far off?
The many other Africans who lament their nations’ flagging democratic transitions would do well to draw strength from Kenya’s milestone.
This time last year, Oxfam predicted that the wealth of the top 1% would overtake that of the rest of the population by 2016; that milestone was reached two months ahead of schedule.
The coming year will be a milestone on this path: France is targeting a 3%-of-GDP budget deficit in 2013, down from 5.2% in 2011 and 4.5% in 2012, and a lower debt/GDP ratio from 2014 onward.
Iran is surely his finest moment, a historic milestone that demands full-throated approval.
The vaccine’s introduction for Indian infants next year will be a major milestone.
Then, in 1997, in what will surely long be remembered as a historical milestone for modern man, IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer stunned the world by defeating the world champion Garry Kasparov.
Initially signed in July 2005, the agreement is a major milestone in the growing partnership between the world’s oldest and largest democracies.
The growing congruence of strategic interests led to the 2008 Japan-India security agreement, a significant milestone in building a stable geo-political order in Asia.
In 2014, leaders in my native Africa and elsewhere challenged the objectivity and effectiveness of the International Criminal Court, the creation of which was a major milestone in the struggle to end impunity for national leaders.
One of India’s more astute young commentators, Sreeram Chaulia, captures this heady exuberance well: “Every milestone in advanced rocket science,” he writes, “is a shot in the arm for national self-confidence, showing that India is headed for global leadership.
Hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved, and the international community now is redoubling its efforts to reach the 2015 milestone.
The Global Obesity ThreatLONDON/MELBOURNE – In 2010, humanity passed an important milestone.
Despite past pledges to abandon nuclear-weapons development, the government has lately been pursuing new research, evidently in the hope of proclaiming the achievement of some new technological milestone.
Amid the cheers, however, few noticed a potentially even greater health milestone for Africa’s most populous country: the enactment of a new National Health Bill, which now awaits President Goodluck Jonathan’s signature.
And as we pass each milestone, the landscape in which we are operating changes, not because we have willed the change, but because this is the direction in which the bus is traveling.
For example, Pakistan’s thriving jihadist factions arose under two military dictators: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who used them to confront the Soviets in Afghanistan, and Pervez Musharraf, who fled to London in 2008 under threat of impeachment and was subsequently charged with involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007 – a milestone in Pakistan’s slide into chaos.
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