Sentences with phrase «first international ban»

The first international ban on finning was instated in 2004 with sponsorship from the United States, the European community, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Panama, South Africa, Trinidad (Tobago) and Venezuela, and support from Brazil, Namibia and Uruguay.

Not exact matches

International bookings to the U.S. since the first travel ban was announced had dropped by 6.5 percent, according to travel monitoring platform ForwardKeys.

The ping of aluminum won't be heard in Sydney, however; metal bats were banned from international competition in 1999 to suit the wood - wielding pro players who'll be in the Olympics for the first time this year.

Wenger will be praying that no more Arsenal players join the injury list during the international break, because straight after it we host Man City on Saturday and then play the first UCL group game away to Borussia Dortmund on the Tuesday; a nightmare start especially as we have Mathieu Debuchy banned for the next European game after another harsh red card in the play - offs.

With the two Manchester clubs facing each other in the first round of games after the internationals, however, we could really do with a draw and that is why I think that the ban almost certain to be given to Sergio Aguero could be great news for Arsenal.

While all the campaigns noted above were developed or at least supported by most European states, the nuclear ban - treaty movement marks the first time an instrument of international humanitarian law is forced into existence against a kicking and screaming European core.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

Stephanie Miner speaks to a group of demonstrators at Syracuse Hancock International Airport during a protest of President Donald Trump's first travel ban.

In one of his first acts as president, Trump has reinstated a federal ban on U.S. funding for international health organizations that counsel women on family planning options that include abortion.

First sighted over Antarctica in the mid-1980s, the so - called ozone hole led to an international ban on CFCs in 1987.

The delegates approved an initiative calling on member countries to pass laws banning the live capture of whales and dolphins for commercial purposes — the first time that an international body has demanded that this practice cease.

But behind the scenes, another crisis is unfolding: the first ever test of whether the international treaty banning these weapons can be used in a world for which it wasn't designed.

The International Game Developers Association was one of the first in the games industry to speak out against Trump's immigration ban.

In 1989, in response to the first global elephant poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, the international trade in ivory was banned.

Japan has been violating the ban on commercial whaling since it first went into effect in 1986 — by using a loophole in the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling that allows countries to kill whales for scientific purposes.

Given that context, the right mode for organizing isn't to stop Google from working with the Pentagon, it is to encourage Google, which is among the most effective lobbying forces in Washington, to push for more international negotiations to ban these sorts of offensive weapons in the first place.

The first, a November 19 report from Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School Human Rights Clinic, calls for an international ban on killer robots.

China for the first time called for new international law on killer robots, providing the precedent of the CCW protocol banning blinding lasers.