Sentences with phrase «flouting international»
Dr. David Berger at Broome Hospital in Western Australia, argues that the only reason to suppress doctors in this way, «is to avoid embarrassing revelations about how Australia is flouting its international humanitarian obligations towards refugees and is subjecting them to treatment that violates the United Nations Convention Against Torture.»
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The tribunal at The Hague has no enforcement mechanism, but Beijing may fear a blow to its global reputation if it is seen as flouting international law.
If it comes to that, Russia has the most to lose by flouting international standards.
«This is a damning condemnation of what was an unjustified invasion which we now know to have flouted international law.»
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Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.
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.
The revelation of US agencies wire - tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phones has strained relations between the two countries primarily because such actions flout the conventions of a higher order social contract, in the international arena.
A state that's erroneously described as the only democracy in the Middle East treats international law and conventions with contempt, flouts them with increasing regularity and maintains a brutal military occupation [of Palestine] while the whole world looks on,» Mubarak wrote.
«Yahoo! should respect international laws rather than offering market access to those who want to profit from flouting these protective agreements,» said Kitty Block, vice president of HSI.
It is also crucial to remember that Iceland's fin whaling operation targets an endangered species and defies the international moratorium on commercial whaling, in addition to flouting a CITES Appendix I listing by trading in whale products.