Sentences with phrase «international scrutiny of»

Social Justice Report 2000: Chapter 3: International scrutiny of Australia's Indigenous Affairs policies

Social Justice Report 2000 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reconciliation and human rights Chapter 3: International scrutiny of Australia's Indigenous affairs policies Chapter 4: Achieving meaningful reconciliation Chapter 5: Reparations Appendix 1: Information concerning Australia provided by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to United Nations Committees in 2000 Appendix 2: Concluding observations on Australia of the...

It is similarly unlikely that India, China and others would have accepted formal international scrutiny of their emissions cutting efforts had that been made part of a system for enforcing legal obligations.

The government also censors the internet; maintains highly repressive policies in ethnic minority areas such as Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia; systematically condones — with rare exceptions — abuses of power in the name of «social stability»; and rejects domestic and international scrutiny of its human rights record as attempts to destabilize and impose «Western values» on the country.

The accord has no enforcement provision, though it does require participants to allow international scrutiny of their efforts.

But as the sex abuse scandal continues to embroil the Roman Catholic Church in more than a half - dozen countries across Europe - and with allegations being raised that the pope himself responded inadequately to abuse allegations before he began leading the church in 2005 - Benedict's anniversary celebration has been overshadowed by international scrutiny of his leadership.

Not exact matches

«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

In addition, sales of our products are affected by pricing pressure, political and public scrutiny and reimbursement policies imposed by third - party payers, including governments, private insurance plans and managed care providers and may be affected by regulatory, clinical and guideline developments and domestic and international trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment.

«The power of international law is primarily reputational and measured in terms of legitimacy,» Mira Rapp - Hooper, a senior fellow in the Asia - Pacific Security Program at the Center for New American Security, told CNBC earlier this year, when China's island - building in the region came under scrutiny.

Today, 8 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases more than 1 million searchable emails from the Italian surveillance malware vendor Hacking Team, which first came under international scrutiny after WikiLeaks publication of the SpyFiles.

Even as Goldman Sachs is gaining a more prominent profile in the administration of Donald J. Trump, the Wall Street investment firm is undergoing scrutiny in an investigation in a sprawling international money laundering and embezzlement scheme.

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters)- A small cadre of employees at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International were deeply involved in directing the daily operations of a specialty pharmacy that has drawn scrutiny for its billing practices, according to four former employees at the pharmacy and company documents reviewed by Reuters.

Given a number of high profile international developments on the same day, the Update has received little public scrutiny.

«The flow of foreign money, either from the developer or international condo buyers, could also be sparking scrutiny.»

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

In her first public address since a bloody military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been described as «a textbook example of ethnic cleansing» by the United Nations, Aung San Suu Kyi didn't criticise the army and said she did not «fear international scrutiny».

Perhaps the overwhelming oddness of the position — the shadows of 1966, the constant scrutiny, the on - again, off - again calendar, the increasing irrelevance of international football when set against the all - consuming Premier League, the insistence from the FA that the England manager stand as some kind of moral paragon — drives those that inhabit it to do strange things, to kick out against common sense.

The decision was always going to be questioned but after the Colombian international dropped a real clanger and the ball and had a huge part in our defeat, the scrutiny of his selection has been intense.

Take international trade secretary Liam Fox and the controversial EU - Canada business deal CETA: after five years of secret negotiations on CETA, Fox signed the UK up to the deal by intentionally side - stepping parliamentary scrutiny.

Yet if public policies are to be measured by the extent to which they cement Britain's place at the top table of international diplomacy, then nuclear weapons policy should not be singled out for scrutiny.

As part of the Department of Politics and International Relations» «Engagement with Theory» alumni conference day (full audio here), aimed at bringing theoretical scrutiny to bear on pressing modern political issues, Professor McLean presented a paper entitled «A Codified Constitution for the (Rest of the) United Kingdom» (Podcast).

Transparency International UK has called for legislation to allow for scrutiny of political reporting by the end of this year.

«Sunshine is the best disinfectant,» says Peter Bosshard of International Rivers in Berkeley, Calif. «Without public scrutiny, it is much easier to get away with cutting corners.»

Once this detailed work is completed in a few years» time — a required part of the process in seeking formalisation of the term by a number of geological bodies — it will first be submitted for scrutiny to the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy.

But the project is moving forward again with almost the same cyanide - leach extraction plans as the original proposal, without the scrutiny of international funding organizations or attention of organizations that sought to protect the region in the 1990s.

Recently education is under scrutiny in the US, we compare our student's performance in international tests to other nations, we ponder about the advantages of private, public or charter education, we discuss teacher quality and preparation, and so on.

By and large, education programs are coming under heavy scrutiny as a result of the teacher quality debate and international student achievement comparisons.

Duncan has dispensed plenty of tips: Lift restrictions on the growth of charter schools; build data systems that show individual student progress under specific teachers and principals; seek out new ways to turn around perennially struggling schools; and sign on to efforts to develop common academic standards that are tough enough to withstand international scrutiny.

This is one of the world's safest airlines to travel on, so you can expect high scrutiny even on outbound flights in international airports everywhere.

Too often, digital media has seemed above scrutiny — the dilemma of what the International Center of Photography calls «Public, Private, Secret.»

Ever since Greece accepted a $ 240 billion ($ 308 billion) bailout from the E.U. and I.M.F. in 2010, relations between Germany and Greece have been the focus of international scrutiny.

Duty - Free Art, 2015, reveals the international Freeport as perhaps the most critical site for art in our era: an increasing number of giant storage facilities that allow artworks to be legally in perpetual transit, thus avoiding scrutiny and tax.

In a discussion last week at the Americas Society / Council of the Americas, Mr. Babbitt decried the lack of public scrutiny of the road plan even as international lenders and investors were poised to pour in more money.

«To help us regain a small shred of relevance to the AGW debate, may I politely suggest you submit your criticism for peer review, preferably to the International Journal of Climatology, and allow it to withstand scrutiny there?»

Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said: «This illegal boarding of a peaceful protest ship highlights the extreme lengths that the Russian government will go to keep Gazprom's dangerous Arctic drilling away from public scrutiny.

With growing discontent among Cambodians and increasing international scrutiny, the government in 2014 canceled 23 land concessions covering 220,000 acres of forest.

The hope for California REDD is that it will set a high bar for social and environmental safeguards, and by submitting subnational efforts to the light of international scrutiny, will prevent any further abuses of this sort.

The effort to AVOID scrutiny of this is ALSO apart of the «theatre» yet the BLACKOUTS are now mentioned in News «Lampoon / Comic» shows seen in International Media.

Afrimex has persistently failed to recognise the negative impact of its activities in the DRC, despite scrutiny by non-governmental organisations, a UN Panel of Experts, and the UK Parliament's International Development Committee.

BRASILIA (Reuters)- Cattle ranchers are far bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, a study showed on Tuesday, as the environmental record of Brazil's commodity exporters comes under increasing international scrutiny.

Far - reaching national and international climate policies have been enacted with minimal opposition or scrutiny within Parliament, and in spite of sceptics» arguments and public opinion.

Even though the AG agrees that the scrutiny of an international agreement such as the EU - Canada PNR Agreement should not be looser than that of an ordinary adequacy decision or that of an EU Directive, and considers that both Schrems and Digital Rights Ireland should apply in this case, he doesn't apply in all instances the rigorous scrutiny the Court uses in those two landmark judgments.

Along with Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Exiting the European Union and International Trade Tom Brake MP, Sir Keir Starmer is now to give evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee as part of its legislative scrutiny of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.

The tax rulings under scrutiny were granted in favour of Apple Sales International (ASI) and Apple Operations Europe (AOE), first in 1991 and then in 2007.

The nature of the Internet as an interprovincial and international communications system posits a strong argument in favour of federal jurisdiction over related works and undertakings - notwithstanding the possibility that Internet telephony and Web broadcasting, for example, may also fall under traditional federal regulatory scrutiny.

Three things strike me about international law in the work of a government lawyer today: first, it is all - pervasive; second, the questions that arise and the context in which they are considered are extraordinarily complex; and, finally, I am struck by the intense scrutiny these legal issues are subjected to by states and courts around the world, academics and the public.

The more troubling aspect of Chevron is how courts will effect international comity, and how much scrutiny will be applied to the underlying decision which is being enforced.

My blog work facilitates the exposure and scrutiny of my legal ideas to a national and international readership that includes not only judges, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels in many jurisdictions, but also academics from other disciplines, journalists of all stripes, many nonlawyers interested in criminal justice issues, and also — perhaps most valuably — the real people whose lives are most impacted by the policies and doctrines that I discuss.»).

Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, who acted for the claimants, says: «[The court] has found that the Ministry of Defence have not complied with international and domestic law requiring there to be proper public scrutiny of these cases and the systemic issues arising from them.»

Third - party funding remains in the spotlight in international arbitration and will come under renewed scrutiny following publication of the draft report of the task force established in 2013 jointly by ICCA and Queen Mary University of London.