Sentences with phrase «for international treaties»

That is why the Clinton administration never submitted Kyoto to the Senate for approval, a step required by the Constitution for international treaties.

It complained parliamentary scrutiny was «inadequate» for international treaties and was no substitute for direct consultation with disabled people themselves.

• Canada's Defense Department has issued a paper condemning the use of human clones for military purposes and calling for an international treaty to ban any attempts toward that end.

But with Obama in office, there's at least the faint glimmer of possibility for an international treaty.

Oct: ICRAC convenes its first workshop in Berlin where its members call for an international treaty to prohibit development, acquisition, deployment, and use of armed autonomous robot weapons.

Not exact matches

«This decision does not break any international treaty, other countries have opted for the same solution,» he said, citing similar barriers on the Greek - Turkish and Bulgarian - Turkish frontiers and around Spanish exclaves in Morocco.

Given that the issues are seemingly unavoidable in NAFTA, the lecture then highlights the preferred approach (relying on international treaty standards) and identifies many of the most important issues up for discussion including copyright term, fair dealing, intermediary liability and digital issues such as net neutrality and data localization.

The Versa team has a long and successful track record in production, structured finance, international treaty co-productions, and international distribution, having funded and arranged over 100 loans and other financings in the past two decades for productions with budget sizes from $ 2 million to over $ 40 million.

However, the Ad Hoc Committee on Complimentary Standards, a rogue UN body with a nebulous and expansive mandate, is currently reviewing a proposed amendment that would criminalize defamation of religion to the International Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), a treaty to which the United States is a signatory.

See paragraph 89 of the Center's lawsuit, which alleges that «CRLP advocates» for «interpretations of existing treaties and other international human rights agreements that favor protection of reproductive rights, including abortion, as internationally recognized human rights.»

The intransigence of the United States has in recent years, for the first time since World War II, led to international treaties being ratified without the participation of the United States.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

The foundation for the regime was laid down in United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly) and the two key human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in force since January 3, 1976) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in force since March 23, 1976).

CEDAW is one of two ostensible human rights treaties that the «international community» has been trying to coax the United States Senate into ratifying for years.

I have just joined the call for a binding international treaty to address corporate human rights abuses!

The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting at the moment (10 — 27 June) and an international civil society campaign is calling for it to set up a Working Group to draft this treaty.

At this session some countries will be calling for the UN to begin developing an international treaty on business and human rights.

The U.S. Department of State has designated two accrediting entities for organizations providing inter-country adoption services in the United States that work with sending countries that have ratified the Hague Adoption Convention, which specifies by international treaty requirements for adoption between countries that have ratified the treaty.

@Andy international treaties such as UN charter are part of the legal system of the member nations (in Russia for instance, international treaties have precedence over federal laws except the constitution, in the US AFAIK the treaties have the same weight as federal laws).

This illustrates how technology changes, specifically low cost orbital launches, pose a problem for which current international treaties don't cover.

Putting aside, for the moment, that all nations capable of reaching either the Moon or Mars have signed and ratified a treaty recognizing those areas as international territory, America is the only country to have ever placed people on a body outside the Earth, and we haven't even bothered doing it in over 40 years.

Under the Vienna Convention, for example, a «fundamental change of circumstances» is grounds for withdrawing from an international agreement, provided «the existence of those circumstances constituted an essential basis of the consent of the parties to be bound by the treaty».

They call for «an international treaty -LSB-...] national laws and other measures.»

Davies has previously suggested «feminsist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it» and in December he spoke for over an hour in an effort to talk out a backbench bill calling on the government to ratify an international treaty on domestic violence.

This week, the Durban Platform working group (ADP) is convening in Bonn, Germany, for the first of three meetings in 2013, moving in earnest towards its 2015 deadline to agree a new international treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol and enter into force in 2020.

A ray of hope is that the international treaties and institutions Trump might like to withdraw from enjoy sufficient support from other states that the costs of doing so would be too great for the U.S., or they will continue to function despite withdrawal by the U.S. Let's hope that IR's preference for international explanations is warranted this time and that we can conclude that international norms and institutions matter more than we previously thought.

The US was the catalyst for the adoption of a plethora of international treaties and rules after World War II, yet there is a perception that it may ignore its commitment to this legal regime when not convenient.

The Geneva Convention allows them to be «detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action; subject of course to international treaties on justice and human rights such as everyone's right to a fair trial.»

Setting aside the many, many issues involved in this Senate letter affair, it is interesting to see the complete focus in the larger media debate on American constitutional requirements for treaties, largely with complete disregard to international law.

He can not be deported, and he can not be extradited except to face charges for crimes enumerated by international treaty.

«So, for me, before September 11th, I was already reaching for a different philosophy in international relations from a traditional one that has held sway since the treaty of Westphalia in 1648; namely that a country's internal affairs are for it and you don't interfere unless it threatens you, or breaches a treaty, or triggers an obligation of alliance.»

«The board reiterates its concern that action by the government to date with regard to the legalisation of the production, sale and distribution of cannabis for non-medical and non-scientific purposes in the states of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington does not meet the requirements of the international drug control treaties.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

The examination of a state's report under a treaty can provide an occasion for exerting international pressure on the state (McQuigg, 813).

The attorney general sacked by David Cameron over his dogged support for the European convention on human rights (ECHR) says he fears the prime minister will use next week's party conference to dilute the UK's commitment to the international treaty.

The President may conclude an international agreement pursuant to a treaty brought into force with the advice and consent of the Senate, the provisions of which constitute authorization for the agreement by the Executive without subsequent action by the Congress;

The reinstatement bill continues to be improved and sharpened, including an important adjustment to ensure any international trade deal ro treaty would require parliamentary approval if legislating for the NHS.

It is not enough for a sovereign state to ratify a treaty in the international community framework; it is more important for such a state to adopt it into her domestic -LSB-...]

What kind of government attempts to ridicule the opposition for getting to grips with one of the most important international treaties in years?

For example, a scientific study can set out the relevant evidence to help solve a disagreement between two countries, or can provide benchmarks by which international treaties are regulated.

The treaty has two appendices for listing species: Appendix I results in an almost complete ban on commercial international trade; Appendix II requires all international trade in that species be monitored and subject to permits.

350 ppm, while merely a number, represents humanity's potential capacity to solve the most pressing problem it has faced; it also represents a target for international negotiators to aim for in forging an effective global warming treaty.

Although no region of Mars is banned for exploration, international treaties set the allowable levels of microbial contamination on robotic spacecraft destined for other planetary environments.

The international London Convention antidumping treaty is working on specific rules for ocean fertilization techniques.

An international treaty approved on 27 June is a major victory for people with visual impairments.

To track potential violations, the treaty calls for a four - pronged international monitoring system, which is currently about 90 percent complete.

The report's «Top 10» list of recommended actions includes a new international treaty with strong monitoring and enforcement mechanisms; domestic and local regulatory actions, such as bans of the most common and damaging types of plastic litter; extended producer - responsibility programs; and the creation of an «ocean friendly» certification program for plastic products.

Instead, the treaty provides a framework for negotiating specific international treaties (called «protocols») that may set binding limits on greenhouse gases.

Besides his congressional fellowship, he has been an adviser to Congress and President Bill Clinton on nuclear arms control and treaty verification and a reviewer for the Council on Foreign Affairs to improve how scientific information is used to formulate international policy.