Sentences with phrase «conventions on»

«It exposes in a very stark way that the present conventions on accountability between civil servants and ministers to Parliament and the public aren't working,» PAC chair Margaret Hodge told Today.

Accepting his first IMF package in 1991, Mubarak had established a neoliberal order which flouted several international economic rights conventions on unionisation, child labour, gendered wage discrimination, and migrant labour.

With luck and some hard preparatory work, nations will face these issues at Rio and sign conventions on climate change, forests, biodiversity and biotechnology.

Shaou's congressman can introduce a bill to grant permanent stay; he could receive a presidential pardon; or the court could determine deportation would betray conventions on torture or treaty obligations under the Inter American Convention on Human Rights.

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

Of note, China's emphasized in the white paper that countries should respect «the rights and freedom of non-Arctic States to carry out activities in this region in accordance with the law,» specifically pointing multiple times to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The announcement was welcomed by Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Jake Byrd of California dances on the convention floor on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

Michael Bloomberg will address the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, at which point he is expected to endorse Hillary Clinton for president.

As well, Canada is party to the 1992 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.

You and we agree that the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to your use of our online services or this Terms of Service.

But Harrison, who was largely responsible for shepherding the ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in Canada in 2003, sees progress.

Now, as the Oracle of Omaha prepares to kick off this year's Berkshire shareholder convention on Saturday, the opposite is true: The vast majority of the stocks Warren Buffett owns have made money over the past year, helping his portfolio gain some $ 16 billion dollars in value.

He has accused the state of breaching two clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights, one which prohibits «inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment», and one which guarantees the right of respect for «private and family life» and «correspondence».

«In 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] was established, you had developed and developing countries,» says Stewart.

President Trump will speak to the Farm Bureau convention on Jan. 8, an address that may hold some tea leaves for how he plans to approach this month's slate of decisions.

Message boards might sound like a dated Internet convention on par with webrings and chat rooms.

That goes back to the (United Nations Convention on the) Law of the Sea discussion (which has never been ratified by the Senate).

Since the Liberal government feels it has checked climate - change financing off its long environmental to - do list, Ottawa is expected to shift its funding focus to other international obligations on the environment, such as the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

Only two countries — Nicaragua and Syria — of the 197 at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change refused to sign the agreement.

Donald Trump hugs his son Barron Trump near his wife Melania Trump at the end of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Philippines brought an arbitration case in 2013 over the South China Sea, eventually lodging 15 claims against China related to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea — a critical piece of international law that both countries have ratified.

In 1961, the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, a treaty that aligned 154 countries with the same impossible mission — to rid the world of drugs and drug addiction.

Melania Trump, wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves during the evening session as Barron Trump (L) looks on on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

The National Association of Concessionaires (NAC) presents «Building and Energizing Results Oriented Relationships» featuring Mark Hunter at the North Central NATO Convention on May 14th, 2018.

As well as the WTO case and other trade action Canada has taken to expand markets for existing GMOs, Canada is notorious internationally for trying to undermine the de facto moratorium on «terminator seeds» in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

If you purchased a day pass, it is good for either Saturday or Sunday, to pick the day you just need to show up at the convention on that day with your ticket.

It was created at the 21st Conference of Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Toronto biopharma company Armour Therapeutics is releasing exciting new research surrounding the treatment of reproductive cancers, to be presented at Chicago's BIO International Convention on April 24, 2013.

At the Convention on January 20th, 1914 the following motion was passed:

Ms. Notley will now take the report and the made - in - Alberta plan to address climate change to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers tomorrow and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris next week.

The new kid on the political block, the Alberta Party will be holding their policy convention on November 13.

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide describes genocide as «a crime under international law» which signatories, including the United States, should «prevent and to punish.»

Mr Ngole will argue the decision to exclude him is illegal under the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

Powell's speech to the AIPAC convention on March 30 included a warning to Iran and Syria — an indication Sharon's vision is alive in U.S. policy.

Simply put, the assumption is that the best route to the truth is to assemble a wide variety of persons who have some personal involvement with aspects of a particular issue, hold hearings and meetings, write papers, and then vote in committee and convention on what the Christian position ought to be.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a state fostering agency must recognise the «desirability of continuity in a child's upbringing and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.»

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

In the negotiations over the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, now accepted by virtually every nation except the U.S., the minimum age at which the fetus becomes a child was hotly disputed.

You guys should have a convention on some small island, that can easily be bombed with tomahawk missiles.

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

They will, he says, be powerless to stop same - sex couples demanding the same weddings as heterosexuals under the European Convention on Human Rights.

This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognised also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration inevery case.»

His desire to wash the Apostle's feet turned the convention on it's ear and gave the example providing the lesson that «He who would be greatest must serve».

Mr Ngole had argued that his rights to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.

All Saints Church in Pasadena will host the Muslim Public Affairs Council's 12th annual convention on Dec. 15, which is expected to draw about 1,000 people.

The daily speeches and writings of admirals and generals and defense ministers overlook one essential thing the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide is still world law.

«Employees who face work requirements incompatible with their faith, and have the option of resigning and seeking alternative employment, can not claim for a breach of Article 9» of the European Convention on Human Rights, Britain will argue.

«A diplomatic note was sent to the State Department in Washington, asking them to tell us what happened — how come consular access was refused and how come the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations was left aside, although Mr. Baloch had requested consular access and was denied access to legal counsel,» he said in an interview on Tuesday.