Sentences with phrase «as un»

Her work was in collaboration with organizations such as UN, USAID, and World Vision.

Planned Parenthood congratulates former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on her new role as head of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, better known as UN Women, and applauds UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon on this appointment.

In addition, as the UN Special Rapporteur on Treaties has noted, the process has much to offer such as: The creation of new juridical standards negotiated and approved by all parties The building of mutual trust based on good faith Mutual understanding of the other party's vital interests, and A deep commitment from all to respect the eventual results of the negotiations.

There are a range of developments / processes for engagement — such as the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Expert mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, human rights treaties, Human Rights Council and Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues

His research interests include inter-state tensions, narco - insurgent movements and drug cartels, arms sales, the development of Latin American military industries as well as UN peacekeeping operations Frequency about 3 posts per month.

This will, in turn, allow them access to foreign cash — something they're in dire need of for their pre-war funding efforts, especially as UN sanctions dry up their reserves.

It adds KAIST's involvement is «regrettable» — especially as the UN will hold a meeting next week on concerns about autonomous weapons.

UNIDIR held a side event on Tuesday, 22 October that featured a presentation by Professor Christof Heyns, who in his capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, issued a report earlier this year on fully autonomous weapons that raised moral, ethical, legal, policy, technical, and other concerns with the weapons.

Professor Christof Heyns of South Africa, who serves as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, presented the report on «the proper management of assemblies» issued jointly with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots supports a continuation of the CCW process and welcomes efforts in other fora, such as the Human Rights Council, as well as by international agencies such as the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon announced on 24 March that Kane will soon step down as UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, a position she has held since March 2012.

Open letter by leaders of leading robotics & AI companies is launched at the world's biggest artificial intelligence conference as UN delays meeting till later this year to discuss the robot arms race.

Representatives from more than 90 countries as well as UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the campaign convened at the Convention on Conventional Weapons -LSB-...]

Representatives from more than 90 countries as well as UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the campaign convened at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to engage in five days of substantive deliberations with invited experts on ethical, legal, operational, security, technical, and other challenges raised by these weapons.

As the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights» «Human Rights and Disability Report» notes, from this perspective, barriers to dignity are not located in the person, but rather in how society accommodates the difference of disability.

Denis Le May was more succinct but equally critical when he described it as un systeme incoherent.

One can think of three levels of applicable rules for e-communications that affect identification (the list is from Thomas Smedinghoff of the US, a tireless advocate of identity management principles): the most general level is legislation validating electronic communications generally, such as the UN Model Law on Electronic Commerce, widely implemented around the world, including in Canada.

Lecturer (as a UN consultant) on arbitration training course for Yemen judges and government officials, Sana'a, 2004.

He also spent five years as a UN appeal judge, acting as President of the War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone and handing down trailblazing judgments regarding child soldiers and war crimes.

The UN Human Rights Council has appointed Ben Emmerson QC as UN special rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights.

What were the obligations the EU Member States found themselves under in their capacity as UN members?

Turnbull's lame duck status was made farcically clear by Cabinet's non-decision on Kevin Rudd's proposed nomination as UN Secretary General.

Even as UN theories crumble amid 17 years with no warming, climate alarmists are calling for, among other measures, more population - control schemes and even Communist Chinese - style despotism to supposedly battle human CO2 emissions.

Increasingly losing the battle for public opinion as UN «climate» theories self - destruct in the face of reality, the man - made global - warming theorists are quickly revealing their true colors.

As UN Environment (UNEP) chief Erik Solheim told indiaclimatedialogue.net during the November 6 - 17 climate summit in Bonn, Germany, «An environmental problem is solved when it becomes a business opportunity.»

It seems that the Obama administration, which has increasingly turned to unconstitutional «climate» edicts and decrees as the UN's global warming theories crumble, agrees with Figures and other alarmists about the Chinese model.

Having identified the key reasons for water scarcity, it is chilling to read the World Wildlife Fund's report «World's Top 10 Rivers at Risk» because it identifies ten rivers under serious threat for exactly the same reasons as the UN has defined.

Celebrate actor and environmental activist Aidan Gallagher's designation as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador for North America!

Key Human System variables, such as demographics, inequality, economic growth, and migration, are instead driven by exogenous projections, such as the UN population tables.

Even policy responses get defined at the end of the pipe, such as the UN's focus on emissions cuts.

I intellectually know that these talks would quickly descend into the same sticky morass as the UN climate talks have if the words «legally» and / or «binding» had been involved.

It's even more disturbing that he does not even have the imagination of creating a SECOND body which tries to make an equally profound assessment of the economic issues of global warming, as the IPCC does of the scientific issues of climate change (or as the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment did of all ecosystems).

Our graphs show that the climate is responding normally, and that neither CO2 concentration nor temperature is rising anything like as fast as the UN's climate panel had predicted.

It is endorsed by the International Energy Agency and the International Monetary Fund, as well as the UN.

There'll be plenty of each, no doubt — to say nothing of Leonardo DiCaprio's speech as UN messenger for peace on climate change, a treat for cynics of all nationalities.

News of the project comes as the UN General Assembly meeting in New York focuses on the theme of a sustainable planet.

Climate Action works in partnership with prestigious organisations such as UN Environment (UNEP) with whom it organises the Sustainable Innovation Forum, and UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP - FI), with whom it organises the Sustainable Investment Forum held in New York in Climate Week.

As the UN shipping body meets in London next week, «Paris spirit» is needed to spur action in the sector.

All States as well as UN institutions are bound by human rights obligations.

Although organisations such as the UN may have been established for good reasons, in times of deep geopolitical conflict, their mandates and missions shifted.

Doctor Tobis, just as the UN and the IPCC are able to create statistical projections of increased mortality due to climate change, it is easy to project the increased mortality due to additional increases in energy costs and the subsequent placement of more people in fuel poverty.

For example, are we facing «oblivion» if the temperature rises 2 °C and CO2 levels double, as UN president Ban Ki - Moon told the Bali climate conference in 2007?

Again, in terms of a fundamental lack of attention to detail, Prof. Muller et al. have shown incompetence by overlooking WMO station siting standards, which as a UN organisation they can hardly criticise now even if they may wish to do so.

Herding cats might be easier, but Figueres, having been submerged in often - turbulent diplomatic waters for most of her professional life, has remained remarkably buoyant as the UN climate chief.

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

As the UN space and the COP loose legitimacy, it is time for a unified social movement to emerge and deliver the changes that more than 21 years of negotiations have failed to achieve.

ArtCop21 and Good Energy staged a live and loud cultural takeover of St. Pancras International Station as the UN...»

As long as the UN gets money with no accountability, this vileness will persist.

Scientific bodies such as the UN's climate science panel have concluded that climate change is underway and caused by humans, Prof Philippe Sands QC told an audience at the UK's Supreme Court.

As the UN information at Cairo notes,