Sentences with phrase «ban on the destruction»

He ruled that work on existing embryonic stem cell lines derived outside federally funded labs did not violate a ban on the destruction of embryos.

Not exact matches

China has banned exports of items to North Korea with potential dual use in weapons of mass destruction, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday.

I support a global ban on such weapons as part of our commitment to nuclear disarmament, as was successful with other weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

For example, neonicotinoid pesticides, which may have some detrimental effect on bees, are banned, while habitat destruction, which has clear detrimental effects, is not.

Imports of used CFCs into the European Union for recycling or destruction were banned until 1992, when Sweden insisted on sending surplus CFCs back to the manufacturer, ICI, for disposal.

French Green MEP José Bové, an ex-farmer well - known for his destruction of a McDonald's franchise in the south of France and the uprooting of GM crops in Brazil, said that the only protection farmers can have is for a complete ban on GMOs in Europe.

It has called for a ban on all adoptions of healthy dogs if they look like a «pit bull,» supporting a policy requiring their automatic destruction.

* 1 Raj Vasan (SA Best) platform includes: a ban on all new climate - damaging projects in SA as soon as safe - climate alternatives are available * 2 Stephanie Stewart (Greens) platform includes: We are in a climate emergency, with climate impacts already causing heat stroke, starvation, loss of life, and ecosystem destruction.

And the ban on CFCs has gone a long way to repairing the destruction of stratospheric ozone, so this new research doesn't suggest that phasing out CFCs was wrong or ill - informed.

Ivory destruction ceremonies have been a litmus test for where a country stands on the ivory trade ever since Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi torched 13 tons of ivory in 1989, setting the stage for a vote to ban international trade in ivory by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Many of the judgments against Turkey have been leading judgments in their field, contributing valuable principles to the corpus of international human rights law in areas as diverse as torture, killings, disappearances on the one hand and freedom of expression, the banning of political parties, the destruction of villages, expropriation of property, fair trial and the death penalty on the other.