Sentences with phrase «from un»

With skittle - coloured buildings, peaceful canals and windmills doting the craggy landscape, you will be unsurprised to hear the Danes have won the title from the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the third time in four years.

United Kingdom About Blog Live reporting from the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

(88) Recent reports from the UN have provided further analysis which leads to a rejection of terra nullius as a legitimate basis for the acquisition of territory.

The terms «free», «prior» and «informed» «consent» were defined in a report from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in may 2005.

And regular Croakey contributor Marie McInerney covered the latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and also posted a report from Dr Mark Braidwood about how climate change will affect mental wellbeing as well as physical health.

strengthening family skills to prevent drug abuse, a report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Mr Zuckerberg also responded to recent criticism from a UN probe into allegations of genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

A total of 89 of the CCW's 123 states parties and a dozen observer states attended the Review Conference held 12 - 16 December 2016, along with representatives from UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

Representatives were also present from UN agencies including UNIDIR, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and registered non-governmental organizations, including the delegation of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

Previously, children that were from an un - married couple often had some big disadvantages to get on with; for example, a smaller amount of alimony which did not include the custody time of the parent in charge.

While treaties are today published electronically in their authentic languages, the goal is also now to publish on line the translations in English and French, as soon as they are received from the UN translation services.

At our conference we highlighted our concerns over the treatment of a Canadian placed on the UN list, who was after our conference removed from the UN List.

In 1947, a joint Senate - Commons Committee on a Bill of Rights was set up, largely in response to a resolution from a UN agency, calling on member countries to consider what we would later call an «entrenched» bill of rights, chaired by Senator Leon M. Gouin (Liberal, De Salaberry), a noted scholar and J.L. Ilsley MP, later to be appointed Minister of Justice.

He has both advised on all recent sanctions schemes, from the UN sanctions directed to Al Qaida, to the more recent EU sanctions schemes applied to Egypt, Syria, Zimbabwe, Iran and Libya, and has been instructed in all the leading cases, including Ahmed v HM Treasury, Bank Mellat v HM Treasury, Youssef v Foreign Secretary, Sarkandi v Foreign Secretary, and Bredenkamp v Foreign Secretary.

It apologized to Aboriginal groups for the nightmarish, state - led practice of residential schools; it contributed $ 500,000 to the ICC to enable the OTP to investigate atrocities in Darfur; under the Liberal Government, Canada decided not to join the «Coalition of the Willing» in Iraq; Canadian forces played an effective and leading role in the intervention in Libya; and, more recently, Canada rightly withdrew from the UN World Terrorism, I mean Tourism, Office after it appointed Zimbabwe's tyrant, Robert Mugabe, as its head.

In concluding, Lord Phillips referred to the recent decision in HM Treasury v A (reviewed here on the UKSC Blog) in which the UKSC held that the government's regime for freezing the assets of suspected terrorists (passed by resolution from the UN Security Council, but not by Parliament) was unlawful, since it breached the common law principle of legality.

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Statistics from UN Habitat say that 760.000 housing units have been destroyed, that 50 % of the hospitals don't function; the numbers are probably much higher.

The EU only delisted him after he was removed from the UN list following the recommendation of the Ombudsperson.

Moreover, in response to the report a Conservative MP has declared it is «high time» that the Canadian government consider withdrawing from the UN altogether.

Fast forward almost eleven years: On 5 October 2012, the Security Council removed Mr Kadi from the UN list, «after concluding its consideration of the delisting request submitted by this individual through the Ombudsperson».

That's the upshot of a major new synthesis report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Yes, the «executive summary» of reports from the UN's International Panel on Climate Change continues to sound the alarm — but the summary is written by the politicians.

Writing from the UN climate negotiations in Bonn Germany, where the AOSIS island nations and EU recently proposed a formal «adding up» of the mitigation pledges to the UNFCCC.

The main reason I distrust the «science» is because it comes mostly from the UN, and the environmentalist loony left.

Citing a major new report from the UN Environment Programme's Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles, Levitt and Moses argue that the central tenets of sustainable lifestyles are actually as much about quality of life, health and happiness as they are sacrifice or self - denial.

A scientist from the UN Safe Planet campaign called Anna Rotander took part in a previous trip measuring the presence of fluorinated chemicals in the water.

If you want to tune - in for a particular event, the following video schedule was copied from the UN Webcast site:

Then again what would you expect from a UN Arabic translator, truck driver, pumpkin picker, marketing director, English teacher, cabbie, Victoria Secret bra salesman, farmer, designer and artist?

Summary: The authors examined the 1992 climate change projections from the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading body of climate scientists.

John Christy wants the IPCC to be removed from UN oversight and adopt an open, continually updating «Wikipedia» structure.

Last week it was house flies at the Mount Everest base camp, now it's mosquitos and malaria in the highlands around Mount Kenya that are in the spotlight, in this video clip from the UN Environment Programme.

I would love nothing more than to hear the environment ministers come away from the UN meeting, announcing that plastic bags, bottles, and straws are no longer allowed anywhere, that every grocery and culinary establishment and homeowner will have to figure out alternatives.

A new report from the UN Environment Programme says what many small - t treehuggers have been saying for quite some time: Stopping deforestation, restoring marshes and peatlands, and practicing more sustainable agricultural

It's difficult to put an exact value on the clandestine trade in timber and animals, but estimates from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Environmental Programme and INTERPOL range from $ 70 to $ 213 billion U.S. dollars per year.

The publication includes commentary from UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, Poland's Environment Minister Marcin Korolec, IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri and Ambassador Moses from the Alliance of Small Island States.

According to 2012 data from the UN World Food Program 2012, Senegal is chronically vulnerable to natural disasters (particularly drought and flooding), its agricultural sector has declined over time, it imports about 46 % of its food requirements, its ground water tables is falling 20 feet per years in many places, and it is vulnerable to food price spikes.

This could still come from the UN's Clean Development Mechanism if money spent is counted towards climate finance obligations and reductions achieved towards the host countries» conditional targets.

If you think the green agenda policies evolved from the UN Climate program will work just look at Ontario where the architect of the plan has already proved they don't.

Such a representative body already exists in the Adaptation Fund Board with its 32 members including representatives from all UN country groupings.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Findings from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn about the consequences of rising CO2 concentrations: «Any CO2 stabilisation target above 450 ppm is associated with a significant probability of triggering a large - scale climatic event.»

This fact sheet brings together a number of findings from UN experts, demonstrating the impacts of climate change on food security.

Agenda topics spanning the two - day event ranged from the UN Sustainable Development Goals to how companies and NGOs can collaborate (what works and what doesn't) to how companies can engage in jurisdictional approaches for addressing supply chain challenges.

-LSB-...] The Economist now discounts the high - end estimates of warming coming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as being unlikely if not far - fetched.

Nonetheless, all the information from the UN climate panel, the IPCC, tells us that it will not end civilisation... The end - of - civilisation argument is counterproductive to a serious public discourse on our actions.

«The current nominal ranking of 2009, which does not account for uncertainties in the annual averages, places it as the fifth - warmest year,» says a statement from the UN agency.

Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's chief climate diplomat, told Climate Home News that the UN has been criticised of being isolated from the «real world», and those taking every - day climate action are detached from the UN diplomats.

GBM was identified as a key regional partner in this new initiative from the UN Foundation, and several members of staff were there to represent GBM at the conference.

I did over 50 Gore - like presentations (mainly in - company) using a) the CO2 1,000 year hockey stick from UN and then b) a temperature one to «prove» global warming.