Sentences with phrase «illegal under international law»

You are absolutely right, of course, that torture is always illegal under international law.

Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, undermine trust and threaten the viability of the two - state solution.»

Those pressing for an inquiry argue that the war may have been illegal under international law and that Tony Blair made a wholly inadequate case for war by overblowing the case against Saddam Hussein, based on dubious intelligence.

Your assumptions that someone is or isn't «illegally occupying» territory, or that something is or is not illegal under international law, isn't really how international law works.

The Palestinian football association has fought a long battle at FIFA over football played in Israeli settlements, which it argues is illegal under international law.

In 2011, the World Trade Organization (WTO) declared European subsidies to Airbus illegal under international law.

Not exact matches

Pot remains illegal under U.S. federal law as well as international trade rules.

According to the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), 4.7 million Palestinians are living under an occupation of Gaza and the West Bank that is illegal under international humanitarian law.

A third party country that uses force in territory controlled by another sovereign state, without the express or implied consent of a sovereign state with a legitimate claim to that territory, is an illegal aggressor under international law, rather than a participant in a collective security effort which international law recognizes as a legitimate reason to use military force.

Just because the constitution says secession is illegal, it doesn't mean it is under international law.

Under international law, therefore, these settlements are illegal.

In response to campaigns launched by climate activists to impose regulations and controls on U.S. exports of coal, liquefied natural gas and oil, corporate trade lawyers and dirty energy apologists are insisting that government controls on fossil fuel exports are illegal under international trade and investment law.

Torture is illegal under both United States and international law.

There was acknowledgment that international humanitarian and human rights law applies to all new weapons but views were divided as to whether the weapons would be illegal under existing law or permitted in certain circumstances.