Sentences with phrase «guaranteed by international law»

A delegation of Canadian civil society groups, including CCLA, was in Geneva last month to participate in a UPR pre-session — CCLA updated States on our concerns about Canada's actions regarding rights and liberties guaranteed by international law and binding upon Canada.

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Their human rights must be respected and upheld, as guarantee under the Peruvian Political Constitution, the precautionary measures granted by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on May 5, 2014, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and as supported by the latest determination of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmentalInternational Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmentalinternational law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmental destruction.

In its judgment, the SCC explained that even though EU law is not itself part of the constitutional canon, «both international treaties and agreements, including European secondary legislation, may provide valuable interpretative criteria of the meaning and scope of the rights and freedoms that the Constitution recognises,» taking into account the interpretive decisions rendered «by the bodies of guarantee established under those same international treaties and agreements.»

Fourth, it remains questionable whether the autonomy of EU law must really be secured by imposing on non-Member States that they have to expressly guarantee the respect of the monopoly on dispute settlement of the CJEU within the EU in the provisions of an international agreement.

While the Human Rights Committee has not determined that «extraordinary» tribunals or «special» courts are incompatible with the requirement that tribunals be established by law, it has taken the position that the provision is intended to ensure that any court, be it «extraordinary» or not, should genuinely afford the accused the full guarantees of fair trial set out in Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

«The necessity to guarantee the interpretation and application of European Union law and not harmonized national law to the ECJ or a supreme court can not be given away by an international treaty.

Rather, the right to negotiate is a reflection of traditional law and as such is an inherent property and cultural right protected by the international guarantee of substantive equality.