Sentences with phrase «drafting a treaty on»

Our campaign action this week was successful as the UN Human Rights Council voted on 26 June to start drafting a treaty on stopping human rights abuses by transnational corporations.

If some future president calls up the secretary of state or the director of Central Intelligence, and says, «Gee, I have this draft treaty on my desk, should I sign it?

«While much has been said and written about the science of climate change and the economic implications of the proposed Kyoto Protocol, little attention has been given to the effect of this sweeping and hastily drafted treaty on the sovereignty and national security of the United States,» read the the letter from R. Bruce Josten, the Chamber's Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, to Representative Lois Caps.

Not exact matches

The 2014 deliverables included reports on the digital economy and harmful tax practices, as well as draft rules on treaty abuse and the transfer pricing of intangibles.

Some good news to reflect on is we joined other campaigning groups in achieving a significant victory at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week: a treaty is to be drafted to hold corporations accountable for their human rights abuses.

On the 10th December 1991, John Major returned to London from the Dutch city of Maastricht, where he and other European leaders had drafted the treaty that would establish the European Union.

He focused on Europe and after reiterating the party's promise to hold a referendum on the draft EU Treaty he also promised to amend the 1972 European Communities Act «so that if any future government agrees any treaty that transfers further competences from Britain to the EU a national referendum before it could be ratified would be required by law.»

As it stands, the countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have agreed to draft a global treaty by 2015, which would take effect in 2020.

After two weeks of steadily intensifying talks, briefings, speeches and «nonpaper» drafts, the world's major countries early Saturday morning in Bali apparently agreed on a formal two - year schedule for trying to fix a faltering 1992 climate treaty.

The draft text was shaped by rounds of comments and reams of proposed language submitted this spring by parties to the original climate treaty, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins everything from the Kyoto Protocol to whatever comes next in Denmark.

The latest such informal treaty text to speed around the halls at the Bella Center was the most important — a six - page partial draft summarizing the work of what's called the Ad - Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention (which basically means an unofficial compilation of the views of all of 192 countries that have signed onto the original 1992 climate treaty, which serves as a foundation for whatever comes next).

They have been criticized by environmentalists as an end run around the international climate talks aimed at drafting a new treaty on climate by the end of 2009.

The draft plan suggests that despite industry efforts to convince the public that the climate treaty would be costly to carry out and unfair to the United States, the treaty remains popular partly because environmentalists are winning the debate on the science.

The word «uncontentious» in Revkin's article is a hyperlink to a 1998 NY Times article, alleging «Industry opponents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science».

The whole point of a peer review system would be to get on with the work of cutting emissions instead of wrangling over every word of a draft treaty.

Petter Rindforth, Senior Partner of Fenix Legal speaks on protecting your domain names on the internet and the broadcasting copyright treaty draft that the WIPO released earlier last month.

The EU published its draft Brexit withdrawal treaty this week amid escalating confusion about the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), clamour over the transition period, a potentially game - changing move by the Labour Party on the customs union issue and news that the Scottish Government will publish its own Brexit Bill.

The Commission would have to provide the Court with sufficient information on any new draft of ACTA in order to assess the compatibility with the Treaties.

World Intellectual Property Organisation has circulated a new draft text on definitions in the global broadcasting copyright treaty; can you share your thoughts on this?

Because of the limitation of the CJEU «s jurisdiction in the Treaties, according to the Court an accession based on the draft agreement would currently lead to a situation where the judicial control of the relevant acts or omissions of the EU with regard to their compatibility with the ECHR would be exclusively attributed to an organ external to the EU (para 255).

Alexandra advises on a range of international law issues, including international commercial disputes, the application of investment protection treaties, land and maritime boundaries, sovereignty over territory, treaty drafting and interpretation, and international human rights law.

Philip also regularly advises businesses on the structuring of their investments worldwide, and has assisted governments in drafting their investment treaties.

The EU published its draft Brexit withdrawal treaty this week amid escalating confusion about the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), clamour over the transition period, a potentially game - changing move by the Labour Party on the customs union issue and news that the Scottish Government

Publication of the U.K. Guidance also coincided with the UN intergovernmental working group's publication of Draft Content for a treaty on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights.

com APR 2018 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY World Intellectual Property Organ - isation has circulated a new draft text on definitions in the global broadcasting copyright treaty; can you share your thoughts on this?

The underlying assumption of the draft Bill is that the treaty process is an ongoing process in which unresolved issues, such as Indigenous rights to land must be squarely raised and processes put in place for their resolution based on the informed consent of both sides.