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Human values

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Abuse

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Abusiveness
Self-abuse
Misusage
Misuse
Misuses
Misused
Overuse
Over-use
Overused
Ill-used

Broader

Respect-Disrespect

Improvement-Impairment

Goodness-Badness

Approval-Disapproval

Problem

Unethical practices in politics

Trafficking in children for adoption

Technological doping

Substance abuse during pregnancy and breast-feeding

Substance abuse

Short-term profit maximization

Sexual abuse of children

Sex-selective abortions

Restrictive business practices in relation to patents and trademarks

Overexploitation of underground water resources

Misuse of resources

Misuse of pharmaceutical stimulants

Misuse of electronic surveillance by governments

Misuse of antibiotics

Inhaling of solvents and anaesthetic drugs

Inefficient use of resources

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide

Inappropriate use of low frequency acoustic sound

Genetic discrimination

Drug abuse in sports

Drug abuse by adolescents

Drug abuse among athletes

Destructive fishing methods

Denial of human rights

Cruel treatment of animals for research

Chronic alcoholism

Bias in United Nations response to human rights

Abusive workplace surveillance

Abusive experimentation on humans

Abuse of opiates

Abuse of heroin

Abuse of hallucinogens

Abuse of coca and cocaine

Abuse of agricultural techniques

Waste of resources

Violation of trade union rights

Violation of medical confidentiality

Use of inappropriate technologies

Untested use of hormones

Unsystematic use of powerful relationships by rural communities

Unfulfilled treaty obligations

Unethical sporting practices

Unethical practices of regulatory inspectors

Unethical practices of public service employees

Unethical practices of priesthood

Unethical practices of government leaders

Unethical practices in the legal system

Unethical practices in the apparel industry

Unethical practices in religion

Unethical practices in education

Unethical practices by police forces

Unethical practices

Unethical practice of health professionals

Unethical financial practices

Unethical consumption practices

Underutilization of renewable energy resources

Underutilization of labour force

Undercapitalized waste use schemes

Uncontrolled use of virtual reality equipment

Uncontrolled immigration

Tobacco smoking

Threatened family farms

Telephone fraud

Telephone bugging

Substance abuse during control of complex equipment

Substance abuse by the elderly

Substance abuse by role models

Substance abuse by physicians

Substance abuse at work

Socially irresponsible programmes of transnational banks

Social costs of substance abuse

Sexual harassment in the workplace

Sexual abuse of wards

Sexual abuse by women

Rival claims for conservation land

Restrictions on use of personnel

Rape by military personnel

Radiological warfare

Protectionist anti-dumping procedures

Private ownership

Politicization of scholarship

Political party manipulation of elections

Physical maltreatment of children

Personalistic use of training

Overuse of industrial subsidies

Overuse of de-icing salt

Overuse of chemicals to control pests

Overtrafficked residential streets

Organized sexual abuse of children

Neglected young children

Multi-drug abuse

Monopoly of the media

Misuse of video surveillance

Misuse of veterinary drugs

Misuse of public health funds

Misuse of psychiatric diagnosis

Misuse of postal surveillance by governments

Misuse of personal authority for political purposes

Misuse of language

Misuse of grassland and rangeland

Misuse of government surveillance of communications

Misuse of free production zones and export enclaves

Misuse of food as a political weapon

Misuse of evolutionary theories

Misuse of chemicals

Misuse of animals for warfare

Misuse of animals for toxicological experiments

Misuse of agricultural resources for production of animal feed

Misuse of agricultural land for fuel production

Misuse of agricultural chemicals

Misuse of aerial surveillance by governments

Military use of animals

Maldistribution of water

Lack of international accord on water use

Journalistic irresponsibility

Irresponsible scientific and technological activity

Invasion of Internet privacy

Insufficient use of natural resources

Insecticides as pollutants

Indoctrination by repetition

Inconclusiveness of scientific and medical tests

Inappropriate use of the mail service

Inappropriate transfer of technology

Inadequate use of visual imagery for societal learning

Inadequate use of referenda

Inadequate control of weapons of mass destruction

Inadequacy of contraceptive methods

Inadequacy and insensitivity of intelligence testing

Improper financing of political parties

Health hazards of artificial birth control

Hazards of cosmetic use

Hazardous medical use of silicon gel

Harmful drugs used during pregnancy

Governmental abuse of extradition

Government complicity in environmental abuse

Ghost employees

Fraudulent acquisition or use of passports

Fear of drug overuse

Family violence

Failure to to observe contractual terms of payments

Exploitation of trust

Excessive portrayal of substance abuse in the media

Excessive military usage of land

Excessive land usage by transport systems

Excessive consumption of vitamins

Environmental poverty

Environmental impacts of the use of wind power

Environmental damage by climbers

Economically controlled political power

Drug abuse at work

Detention of family of testifiers

Destruction of wilderness

Denial of rights to students

Denial of right of peoples to use their own language

Denial of economic and social rights to refugees

Deliberately unused farm fields

Dehumanization of health care

Degradation of cultivated land systems

Cruelty to children

Corruption and mismanagement of foreign aid

Computer piracy

Compulsory use of biometrics

Compounding effect of treating genetic diseases

Children of drug addicts

Capture and use of wild animals as pets

Air traffic congestion

Agricultural use of draught animals

Adverse environmental consequences of depressed agricultural prices

Accumulation and misuse of religious property

Abusive treatment of the aged

Abusive treatment of patients in psychiatric hospitals

Abusive traffic in immigrant workers

Abusive psychosurgery

Abusive national leadership

Abusive exploitation of cultural heritage

Abusive exemption from legal requirements

Abusive distribution of political patronage

Abusive collection of specimens

Abusive behaviour modification

Abuses of legal immunity of intergovernmental organizations

Abuses by private police forces

Abuse of traditional cultural expressions of peoples

Abuse of tourism for sexual purposes

Abuse of tax havens

Abuse of sub judice

Abuse of state immunity

Abuse of sedation for behaviour modification

Abuse of science and technology in capitalism

Abuse of science

Abuse of project-tied migration

Abuse of privileges and immunities by diplomats

Abuse of prison labour

Abuse of prescription drugs

Abuse of plant drugs

Abuse of native peoples

Abuse of international cultural, diplomatic and commercial exchanges

Abuse of influence

Abuse of government power

Abuse of economic power

Abuse of dominant market position in international trade

Abuse of computer systems

Abuse of brothel legislation

Abuse of authority

Abuse of antibiotics and vaccines in factory farming

Abuse of antacid drugs

Vulnerability to abuse of strategically distributed products

Violation of the rights of unborn children

Use of unsterilized equipment

Use of recycled water

Use of offensive symbols

Use of medically suspect remedies

Use of eggs from aborted foetuses

Unparliamentary behaviour

Unjust allocation of government contracts

Unimaginative facility use

Unfamiliar use of equipment

Unethical use of language

Unethical professional practices

Unethical practices relating to development

Unethical practices of government

Unethical practices of environmentalists

Unethical practices in communication

Unethical practice of the life sciences

Unethical practice of anthropology

Unethical practice in historical disciplines

Unethical personnel practices

Unethical personal relationships

Unethical media practices

Unethical interpretation of regression therapy

Unethical documentation practices

Underutilization of wind energy

Underutilization of facilities due to daily or seasonal peaks

Uncoordinated use of community property

Tools for criminal use

Socially acceptable excuses for environmental abuse

Sense of impermanence

Satanic rituals

Rural drug abuse

Restricted beach use

Repressed memories

Religious fraud

Psychic warfare

Premature exoneration of human rights abuses

Preemptive naming abuse

Predominance of fast food

Positive discrimination

Placement of the burden of proof on the disempowered

Overuse of bullet-proof glass

Offensive microwave weapons

Misused ambulance service

Misuse of trust funds

Misuse of the law

Misuse of statistics

Misuse of societally-endorsed professions to conceal socially unacceptable initiatives

Misuse of satellite surveillance by governments

Misuse of rodenticides

Misuse of non-interference principle

Misuse of international forums

Misuse of excrement as fertilizer

Misuse of advertising during education

Misappropriation of terms

Misapplication of principles to oppose social innovation

Medicinal use of occupational carcinogens

Limited access to natural resource use decisions

Lack of international policy on specific issues

Irresponsible policy-making

Irresponsible experts

Invasion of privacy by media

Inequitable use of medical resources

Inefficient use of educational resources

Inconsiderate telephone use

Inappropriate use of innovative management techniques

Inappropriate arguments

Inability to make use of evening time

Hedging in the financial futures market

Government misuse of personal records

Government misrepresentation of human rights abuses

Fear of abuse of power

Fatalistic attitudes to the use of time

Exploitation of confusion between public and government interest

Excessive use of land by automobiles

Excessive use of acronyms and abbreviations

Drug and alcohol abuse in prisons

Drug abuse in animal sports

Drug abuse by young drivers

Drug abuse by military personnel

Drug abuse by government officials

Distortion of justice in practice

Dissatisfaction with skin colour

Disrespect for the land

Discriminatory biological theories

Discouragement of bicycles

Dialect discrimination

Dependence of national economies on a single source of finance

Dependence of government revenue on substance abuse

Defective development planning

Deceptive misuse of research

Criminalization of drug use

Connivance of authorities in human rights abuses

Air pollution from agricultural land use

Abusive use of trademarks

Abusive sales techniques

Abusive police interrogations

Abusive deregulation

Abuse of scientific power

Abuse of rights of veto

Abuse of right to appeal

Abuse of photograph copyright

Abuse of performance enhancing drugs

Abuse of liberty of conscience

Abuse of laxative drugs

Abuse of in kind payments

Abuse of human growth hormone

Abuse of herbal remedies

Abuse of health welfare benefits

Abuse of cultural values

Abuse of confidentiality

Abuse of bureaucratic procedures

Abuse of banking secrecy

Abuse of analgesic drugs

Abuse in government policy

Strategy

Recycling materials

Providing access to genetic resources

Promoting sustainable use of biodiversity

Promoting contraceptive use

Practicing corporate environmental self-assessment

Ensuring sustainable agricultural development

Developing sustainable land use policy

Utilizing leisure

Using the Internet

Using saline water for agriculture

Using hallucinogens

Using computer-based technology

Supporting use of environmentally sound technology

Reviewing pesticides used on genetically modified crops

Researching easily operated and maintained hand-held farming equipment

Reducing youth smoking

Reducing use of toxic products in farming

Reducing pollution from energy generation

Reducing pesticide use

Reducing fossil fuel use

Reducing discriminatory use of language

Recycling plastics

Providing incentives for sustainable use of natural resources by farmers

Providing incentives for biodiversity conservation

Promoting wise use principle in wetland biodiversity management

Promoting utilization of renewable biofuels

Promoting use of common world language

Promoting sustainable use of forest biodiversity

Promoting sustainable energy consumption

Promoting renewable energy

Promoting effective use of fertilizers

Preventing nuclear proliferation

Preventing drug and alcohol misuse in the work place

Preventing alcohol abuse

Planning for bicycle use

Managing wetlands

Managing organic wastes

Managing natural areas

Managing fresh water use

Managing agricultural lands

Making effective use of medicinal plants

Legalizing community rights to resource use

Introducing environmentally sound products

Improving health care for the poor

Identifying national priorities for conservation of biological diversity

Farming with multipurpose tree species

Expanding research on plant genetic resources

Ensuring local authorities use environmentally sound building materials

Educating home-owners to use renewable energy

Educating children to prevent drug taking

Educating about safe sex practices

Disseminating information on agroforestry

Developing pesticide and herbicide tolerant crops

Developing methods for conserving biological diversity

Developing management strategies for biodiversity conservation

Developing civil nuclear industry technology

Developing available community resources

Decriminalizing drugs

Decreasing waste packaging

Creating environmental monitoring and assessment systems

Countering exploitation of women's image

Controlling use of herbicides

Controlling drug abuse

Conserving energy in transportation

Combatting sexual abuse in countries of refugee origin

Building capacity for conserving biological diversity

Being impetuous

Banning growth hormones in meat

Assessing environmental impacts

Analysing land cover change

Accelerating use of agricultural water use technologies

Using wind power

Using synthetic pesticides with care

Using public environment

Using potential of dual-use technologies

Using plant genetic resources

Using local markets

Using knowledge

Using information technology

Using environmentally sound land-use practices

Using economic instruments to reduce unsustainable use of agrochemicals

Using economic instruments to encourage sustainable use of land resources

Using audiovisual methods to increase awareness of environmental issues in rural areas

Undertaking research on land use

Undermining opposition to use of natural energy sources

Undermining misuse of insecticides

Treating long-term effects of cocaine abuse

Treating drug abuse and alcohol dependency of the aged

Translating minority languages

Transferring information for sustainable resources use in construction

Training people to use credit

Training decision-makers in use of environmental economics

Training decision makers to make effective use of early warning systems

Taxing use of toxic products

Systematic model building

Supporting use of local handling in provision of urban water supply

Supporting regional centres on the effective use of economic instruments

Supporting lesser used languages in Europe

Supporting drug use

Supporting conservation of biological diversity on private lands

Studying use of chemicals to control pests

Studying fertilizers

Studying criminal use of transport services

Studying criminal use of science

Strengthening national capacities to collect, assess and use environmental data in decision-making

Strengthening national capacities on sustainable forest use

Strengthening national capabilities to use chemical classification and labelling systems

Strengthening models on linked impacts of population, resource use and wealth distribution

Strengthening local understanding and sustainable use of marine living resources

Strengthening international institutional capacity for sustainable use of forest resources

Strengthening institutions for conserving biological diversity

Strengthening efforts to ensure communities get adequate benefits from the use of local resources

Strengthening capacity of developing countries for sustainable use of marine living resources

Strengthening capabilities for biotechnology research and application

Stipulating use of property

Standardizing nomenclature

Stabilizing energy use in economic growth sectors

Simplifying legal language

Shifting patterns of engagement in resource use

Sharing international water resources

Setting quality criteria for agricultural water use

Reviewing advances in medical technology

Restricting use of personnel

Restricting use of elements of production

Respecting pharmaceuticals

Resolving competing land use requirements

Resisting taxing fossil fuel use

Resisting domestic violence

Resisting commercialization

Researching sexual abuse by women

Researching local anaesthesia

Researching land use

Researching fuelwood use

Researching energy efficiency

Researching charcoal use

Requiring use of resources

Requiring proof of abuse

Requiring particular knowledge before implementation of resource use

Representing lead industry

Reporting sources of environmental information used by international organizations

Removing parliamentary immunity

Releasing additional usable land

Rehearsing use of abilities

Regulating use of radio frequencies

Regulating use of funds

Regulating resources use

Refusing to issue foreign currency for use abroad

Reducing use of theatre as propaganda

Reducing use of foreign programmes for media

Reducing use of film as propaganda

Reducing use of addictive drugs

Reducing unethical investment

Reducing underemployment

Reducing threats against voters

Reducing threat of police reprisals

Reducing private vehicle use

Reducing petroleum fuel emissions to the atmosphere

Reducing mortality due to alcohol and drug use

Reducing military threats to vulnerable countries

Improving media literacy

Reducing inequality of use of medical resources

Reducing inequality in energy use

Reducing incidence of threat

Reducing incidence of death threats

Reducing discriminatory use of medical resources to heal the privileged

Reducing discriminatory use of health facilities

Reducing amount of undercapitalized waste use schemes

Recording terminologies

Reaching policy consensus on human rights abuses

Raising awareness of water

Providing technological information for better use of forest products

Providing symbology prowess

Providing sustainable water resource planning

Providing sufficient manpower planning

Providing public information on improving rational use of water resources

Providing opposition to use of natural energy sources

Providing legal framework for use of nuclear power

Providing incentives for industry to use cleaner production technology

Providing impunity to violators of human rights

Providing essential power to use material resources

Providing economic incentives

Providing access to appropriate technology

Protesting use of inhumane and indiscriminate weapons

Protesting sale of tropical timber

Protecting against abuse in the distribution of strategic products

Promoting use of unleaded fuel

Promoting use of labour-based technology

Promoting use of film

Promoting rational use of petroleum products

Promoting cruel sports

Preventing substance abuse by physicians

Preventing excesses in individual behaviour

Preventing drug taking at work

Preventing child abuse

Preventing abuse of environmentally sound technology intellectual property rights

Preserving inequality of use of medical resources

Planning for park use

Phasing out banned chemicals still in stock or in use

Organizing cooperative use plan

Organizing community space

Opposing abuses

Monitoring use of agrochemicals

Monitoring drugs

Minimizing use of harmful chemicals

Measuring water use

Maximizing use of local natural resources

Maximizing effective space use

Maximizing effective automobile use

Manufacturing multiple-use machines

Manipulating use of referenda

Managing land use

Managing degraded river basins

Managing computer stress

Making use of evening time

Making multiple use of water through integrated agro-livestock-fishery programmes

Making full use of external relations

Making effective and multiple use of existing school facilities

Making economic agreements for biodiversity conservation

Making appropriate use of bio-fertilizer in national programmes

Maintaining use of elements of production

Maintaining integrity of building use

Maintaining databases on agricultural land use

Linking financial services to biodiversity conservation

Limiting water supply

Limiting access to natural resource use decisions

Licensing use of public goods

Legislating water use

Learning up-to-date equipment use

Introducing variations of using common resources

Intentionalizing use of resources

Intensifying use of industrial equipment

Intensifying existing resource use

Integrating use of land resources

Integrating urban land use and transportation planning

Increasing use of resources

Increasing use of nongovernmental resources

Increasing use of new technology in water investment strategy

Increasing use of environmental research

Increasing trained personnel for conserving biological diversity

Increasing productivity of use of human resources

Increasing efficient use of marine living resources for food

Increasing efficiency of use of available health care

Increasing efficiency of labour use

Increasing effectiveness of water usage

Increasing effectiveness of governmental use of nongovernmental resources

Increasing combined use of surface and groundwater

Improving use of visual imagery for societal learning

Improving use of language

Improving use of human resources

Improving standards to encourage use of environmentally sound recycled materials

Improving soil management

Improving natural resource use

Improving mixed-use urban redevelopment

Improving land use practices to prevent land degradation and erosion

Improving forest utilization

Improving coordination of scientific satellite missions

Improving capability for environmentally sound use of biotechnology in developing countries

Improving analysis of data on land use

Improving action plans for conserving biological diversity

Improving ability to use land for agricultural purposes

Improving ability to make use of evening time

Imposing priorities on natural resource use

Illuminating possibilities for resource use

Identifying obstacles to efficient utilization of time

Humanizing use of technology

Holding fatalistic attitudes to the use of time

Heightening efficiency of industrial processes

Guarding judicial process from misuse

Guaranteeing rights of victims of abuse of power

Giving attention to natural resource product expansion

Forbidding use of foul language

Finding alternatives for chemical research methods which use test animals

Failing to use diplomatic protocol

Failing to obey orders

Facilitating collection of geophysical data

Extracting natural resources

Exposing criminal involvement in travel abuses

Exposing abuse of bureaucratic procedures

Exposing abuse of banking secrecy

Exploring use of traditional energy alternatives

Exploring new forms of debt relief including greater use of debt swaps

Expanding use of local construction technologies

Expanding use of information technology for law

Expanding use of environmentally less harmful agrochemicals

Expanding use of biotechnology to conserve biological diversity

Expanding use of biotechnology for environmental conservation

Expanding training on the environmentally sound use of biotechnology

Expanding integrated use of rural water supply infrastructure

Expanding functions of international agencies on environmentally sound technology transfer

Expanding distribution and use of monitoring data

Exchanging information on national use of economic instruments

Exchanging best practices for information technology

Evaluating relevance of language forms

Establishing rent control systems

Establishing land use classifications

Ensuring water programmes use local expertise

Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources under national jurisdiction

Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources of the high seas

Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources

Ensuring land users implement improved land use measures

Ensuring effective transport use

Ensuring economical usage of natural resources by industry

Enlarging resource use capability

Encouraging use of virtual reality equipment

Encouraging use of technology

Encouraging use of computer data

Encouraging use of biochemical weapons technology

Encouraging rational water use

Encouraging free use of property

Encouraging environmentally sound land use practices

Encouraging abusive prison detention

Enabling equitable resource use

Enabling effective leisure use

Enabling domestic water use

Emphasizing reusable packaging

Emphasizing effective use of technical resources

Educating public health impact of domestic use of biomass and coal

Educating about diarrhoeal diseases

Economizing on use of government resources

Doing without adequate tools

Documenting use of agricultural products

Diversifying land use

Disseminating land use information

Discrediting firearms use

Discovering new possibilities for use of natural resources

Disciplining use of time

Disapproving use of vulgarisms

Developing profitable public land use practices

Developing methods of natural resource extraction

Developing environmentally sound technology for sustainable use of marine living resources

Developing effective pesticide policies

Developing creative use of by-products

Developing biotechnologies for environmentally sustainable use of mineral resources

Developing agricultural resources

Determining use of public spaces

Determining applicable technology

Denying right of peoples to use their own language

Demonstrating profitable resource use

Demonstrating need for effective use of resources

Demonstrating creative space use

Demanding use of most advanced technologies

Demanding use of best capabilities

Demanding innovation of natural resource use

Demanding exploitation of common resources

Defining publicly used spaces

Criticizing ineffective medical techniques

Creating imaginative vision of local resource use

Covering up human rights abuses

Correcting professional misconduct by psychiatrists

Correcting defective land use planning

Coordinating use of nuclear materials

Coordinating use of community property

Cooperating in the use of outer space

Controlling use of virtual reality equipment

Controlling use of natural resources

Controlling use of fertilizers

Controlling use of computer data

Controlling use of biochemical weapons technology

Controlling public land use

Conniving in human rights abuses

Compensating developing countries for use of environmentally sound technologies

Comparing economic feasibility of aquaculture with other water resource use

Combatting sexual harassment in the workplace

Combatting sexual abuse in countries of refugee asylum

Combating fraud against governments

Collecting drug abuse data

Claiming intimidatory use of radioactive materials

Campaigning against the use of pesticides

Campaigning against drug abuse in sport

Broadening irrigation water development

Attacking verbally

Assessing radiation for safe and effective use

Assessing costs and financing to ensure sustainable land use planning and management

Arming citizens

Applying land use policies to protect environmentally sensitive areas

Applying ethical considerations during biotechnology transfer

Applying energy taxes

Advocating use of mother tongue

Advancing environmentally sound technology and management systems

Adopting legislation to guide sustainable land development

Abstaining from use of public archives

Abstaining from respect

Abstaining from accord on water use

Abolishing unethical veterinary practices

Abolishing unethical use of telephone service

Abolishing unethical use of statistics

Abolishing unethical use of language

Abolishing unethical taxes

Abolishing unethical tactics

Abolishing unethical sporting practices

Abolishing unethical practices of radiology

Abolishing unethical practices in the arts

Abolishing unethical practices in religion

Abolishing unethical practices in historical disciplines

Abolishing unethical practices

Abolishing unethical military practices

Abolishing unethical media practices

Abolishing unethical insurance practices

Abolishing unethical industrial practices

Abolishing unethical financial practices

Abolishing unethical entertainment

Abolishing unethical commercial practices

Abolishing unethical catering practices

Abolishing abuse of professional confidence

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Medicine » Pathology

Societal problems » Maltreatment

Economics » Resource utilization

Individuation » Individuation

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 2, 2024