Sentences with phrase «first multilateral»

When the first multilateral meeting on the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) convened at the U.N. in Geneva in May, not one woman was called to speak on the expert panels that informed the discussions.

The first multilateral discussion on fully autonomous weapons took place at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, but states have not proposed any work to address fully autonomous weapons in this forum.

In the meeting with NGOs, Irish disarmament officials confirmed that Ireland will participate in the first multilateral meeting to discuss concerns over these dangerous new weapons at the United Nations in Geneva next month.

The first multilateral debate on killer robots took place at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, but states have not considered this topic at the Council since then.

It seems unlikely, but one new indicator is seen in the unanimous support given to the first multilateral discussions to be held on the topic of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

At the first multilateral meeting ever held on killer robots, nations have recognized the need to confront the challenge of fully autonomous weapons that could select and attack targets without any human control.

The CCW meeting of experts is the first multilateral meeting on the matter, but it is unlikely to be the last.

After eight years of financial support for REDD + readiness, the first countries are finalizing national REDD + strategies and seeking funding for investments to implement programs to reduce deforestation and degradation as well as the first multilateral performance based REDD + results.

Other signatories to the new Common Principles include the Asian Development Bank, which is the first multilateral development bank accredited as an implementing entity of the GCF, and Germany's KfW Bankengruppe, also just accredited.

I had just returned from a trip to Washington, DC, where, together with other members of the Bitcoin Foundation, we had the first multilateral meetings with the federal government on cryptocurrency.

Not exact matches

President - elect Donald Trump's «America first» philosophy rejects the traditional Wilsonian approach to foreign policy centered on US - backed international alliances and institutions and instead sees multilateral institutions and international affairs as transactional.

The first is between congressional Republicans who support free trade and the hawks advising the President to withdraw from multilateral trade agreements and instill tariffs.

Scott Morris, a former U.S. Treasury official who led U.S. engagement with the multilateral development banks during the first Obama administration, said Washington was paying the price for delay on IMF reform.

said the meeting had historic significance because «for the first time since the multilateral trading rounds began after World War II, a trade expansion effort has ended in failure.»

This is the first great conundrum of trade power politics in the twenty - first century: will the multilateral system successfully accommodate the economic and commercial strategies of Brazil, India, China and Russia and grow, or will the disparity between WTO norms and these countries» growth paths and attitudes to cooperation have become too great for a single set of rules effectively to prevail?

Trump's «America First» agenda — typified by its economic protectionism and rejection of the established multilateral order — is entirely antithetical to the G20's previous commitments to reject protectionism and safeguard the liberal, rules - based, multilateral governance order.

The right to science is articulated both in a multilateral treaty — the 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights — and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which first recognized the right internationally.

The first steps are to catalyse local communities, national governments and multilateral agencies to protect such areas.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

For the first time, the United States and China will work together and with other countries to use the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), among other forms of multilateral cooperation.

The first priority is for Europe to lead on multilateral action to prevent predatory and illicit timber extraction in Burma.

Particularly in today's grim international context, the ratification of even this weakened first - generation climate treaty must be counted as a major victory for democratic, multilateral environmental governance.

The postwar years saw the creation of the United Nations, the Bretton - Woods financial institutions, the first tentative steps toward European Union, and many other multilateral efforts.

When Prof. Heyns presented his first report on killer robots at the Human Rights Council one year ago on 30 May, representatives from twenty nations and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots provided their views on the matter for the first time in a multilateral forum.

The first - ever multilateral meeting held earlier this year on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» marked a key milestone for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, while the consensus agreement by nations to hold another meeting at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) on 13 - 17 April 2015 confirms the matter is now firmly on the international agenda and -LSB-...]

In its statement during the NGO session — its first ever statement in a multilateral fora — the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots welcomed the UN Special Rapporteur and urged all to states endorse and implement its recommendations, including the call for an immediate moratorium on robotics weapons systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human.

To answer this question, it is necessary to analyze first what the legal nature of the Summit of the Americas process is and then to determine whether the summit is an ordinary or extraordinary meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) or a multilateral meeting of States, in the type of conference diplomacy, where the consent of the receiving State is required.