Sentences with phrase «un under international law»

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The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Interestingly enough, regarding climate change, there are efforts to have a resolution passed in the UN General Assembly that would ask the ICJ for an advisory opinion that would define states» obligations and responsibilities with respect to greenhouse emissions under international law (see policy brief issued by The Hague Institute for Global Justice).

Of course, states would still be violating their UN Charter obligations if they did not comply with Security Council resolutions, and hence their obligations under international law.

and submissions to UN bodies seeking to hold Canada to its commitments to human rights under international law.

Advising an international organization that functions as a Central Bank on its legal personality and immunity under both international law and UK law and on UN and UK economic sanctions

Not even the UN Charter is capable of interfering with that guarantee, notwithstanding the Charter's primacy under international law, a primacy which the Court accepts.

Our public international law practice finds us advising on claims under the European Convention of Human Rights, disputes involving the application of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the rules and principles concerning dealings with the effective government of a State, the customary rules of the Law of the Sea and the effects of termination of and withdrawal from international treatilaw practice finds us advising on claims under the European Convention of Human Rights, disputes involving the application of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the rules and principles concerning dealings with the effective government of a State, the customary rules of the Law of the Sea and the effects of termination of and withdrawal from international treatiLaw of the Sea and the effects of termination of and withdrawal from international treaties.

It is simply not the case that global public law — the legal practices emerging under the UN Charter, the practices of the ICC, the ECHR, the WTO, or the contemporary conception of customary international law, which no longer mirrors the idea of quasi-universal state consent — are troubled by structural problems of coherence, efficacy or legitimacy of a kind that national law does not suffer from.