Sentences with phrase «adopted by consensus»

This view of development was reaffirmed in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by consensus at the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993.

We hope that — as in previous years - the resolution will be adopted by consensus.

The product of this socioeconomic research resulted in my attending the 2001 United Nations World Conference on the Elimination of Racism in Durban, South Africa, at which I successfully advocated as a credentialed member of a NGO, for the inclusion of mediation processes based on my Transformative Voice and Global - Meta Power Structural Arrangements models, in the conference's Declaration and Programme of Action, which was adopted by consensus by the international member states of the United Nations.

In diplomatic speak: an outcome document containing a draft of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) had been adopted by consensus.

A resolution to examine human and whale health issues due to contaminations in the oceans was adopted by consensus.

Adopted by consensus by an international group of experts in 1997, these principles provide a framework for cooperation, while at the same time safeguarding transparency.

Not exact matches

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

Canada has also not moved to align itself with the growing international consensus that the term of copyright protection is more appropriately the life of the author (known as pma, or post mortem auctoris) plus 70 years, as adopted by the US, all EU countries and a number of others.

But there is no such consensus that can be taken over and adopted by the Christian theologian.

The Code was adopted by international consensus.

The four states chairmen: Davies Ikanya, Rivers; Joseph Fafi, Bayelsa; Etim John, Cross River; Amadu Attai, Akwa ibom stormed out of the south - south zonal caucus meeting held at the Edo state government house on Monday in protest of what they said were plans by Godwin Obaseki, governor of the state, and Hilliard Eta, zonal vice-chairman of the APC, to adopt Oshiomhole as the consensus chairmanship candidate of the region.

Pandemonium broke out in less than one hour after the Party's electoral chairman, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi began to announce «consensus» candidates adopted by the party

When it comes to political parties, the consensus in Britain is that UKIP, followed by the Conservatives, take the most right - wing position, while the Greens, SNP and Labour adopt a position furthest to the left.

The study included 1,341 people, data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and focused on a specific partisan issue on which scientific consensus has been widely adopted by Democrats but challenged by Republicans.

The NRC panel hopes to help defuse such internal conflicts by developing a long - term consensus plan similar to those adopted by astronomers and physicists.

The court adopted the growing consensus that drastic reductions in CO2 emissions are necessary to prevent a temperature rise of more than 2 °C — starting with a reduction between 25 % and 40 % by 2020.

To protect whale sharks from this harm, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) adopted a resolution, by consensus, in 2013 prohibiting the placement of a purse seine net around whale sharks and requiring the release of whale sharks unharmed in the event that they are inadvertently encircled by a net.

We support the consensus - based, bipartisan energy code provision contained in S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which strengthens national model codes that are already certified, adopted and in - use by 44 states and several localities around the U.S.

What we have not had is the dialogue and political pressure to get it adopted by our universities and colleges, whose curriculums are controlled by the parochial interests of their own faculties rather than by professional consensus.

FRA plans to issue an additional NPRM based on the consensus recommendations of the Securement Working Group and approved by the full RSAC that would prohibit certain unattended freight trains or standing freight cars on main track or sidings and require railroads to adopt and implement procedures to verify securement of trains and unattended equipment for emergency responders.

Given the rarity of a consensus - overturning event, the only sensible prior is to assume that a consensus is probably valid absent very strong evidence to the contrary, which is incidentally the position adopted by the arch-sceptic Bertrand Russell.

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Lock - step, politically - correct, consensus science is an unfortunate by - product of the system of anonymous reviews of research proposals that NSF adopted in 1951:

I could not help but ask how it was that the IPCC assessments of 1990, 1995, and 2001, which were unanimously adopted by the nations of the world, did apparently not represent a consensus of the scientific community, especially when also backed by the endorsements of all the major national academies of science in the world.

Perhaps it is because the same procedures have been adopted by many other assessments in many other contexts; the National Academies of Science, for example, produces consensus documents from diverse committees and panels that are subjected to expert review from selected external scholars (and it is perhaps noteworthy that NAS reports occasionally feature signed dissents on particular points).

Five Resolutions were adopted on day four of the IWC plenary, two by consensus and three by vote.

Rather than imposing sound scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle to: «concentrate its activities on the tasks allotted to it by the relevant WMO Executive Council and UNEP Governing Council resolutions and decisions as well as on actions in support of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process» (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle to: «In taking decisions, and approving, adopting and accepting reports, the Panel, its Working Groups and any Task Forces shall use all best endeavours to reach consensus.»

It is also can mean there is a body of information or data that a group of scholars have adopted as truth, not by consensus but by application.

As a lukewarmer, Dr. Curry is asked (to put it nicely) to adopt a) by consensus advocates and b) by skeptics.

The use of words like «denier» to ridicule opponents to their «consensus» should have been stopped, instead reputable institutions like the Royal Society, and popular «science» journals like New Scientist fanned the flames by adopting this lexicon of abuse to smother debate.

Where consensus can not be reached, the amendments must be adopted by a three - fourths majority vote (Article 15 UNFCCC and Article 22 Paris Agreement).

The consensus seems to be rather that letting any countervailing obligations under another agreement prevail over those of the Charter, including and especially the implementation of resolutions adopted by the Security Council under Chapter VII, would be in violation of Article 103.

These points are only the basic building blocks — the format eventually adopted by the group's members would be more detailed and would vary widely according to members» consensus preference.

The Statement of Principles are not by themselves incredibly controversial, and reflect consensus principles found in human rights adopted throughout our courts and tribunals.

Which leads, then, to the question of whether the statutory test adopted by the Legislature materially departed from the consensus scientific view about the impact of commercial wind turbines on human health.»

It was highly commendable to have adopted the final document by consensus.

The decision will be taken by consensus when nations adopt the final report of the CCW's 2014 annual meeting on the afternoon of Friday, 14 November following a week of deliberations.

Decisions at the Convention on Conventional Weapons are taken by consensus, meaning that a single nation could block agreement and prevent the mandate from being adopted.

An effort by Bitcoin Core developers that started in 2014, libconsensus should enable alternative implementations to easily adopt the code required to remain in consensus with the rest of the network.

Initiated by an European team, Lightning, the project will become the first forked - coin that adopts the DPOS consensus mechanism.