Sentences with phrase «in draft treaty»

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Leftist governments in Bolivia and Ecuador have enshrined nature rights in their national constitutions, and a similar proposal was offered for inclusion in the draft United Nations global warming treaty.

Some good news to reflect on is we joined other campaigning groups in achieving a significant victory at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week: a treaty is to be drafted to hold corporations accountable for their human rights abuses.

The UK fought in the drafting of the constitution against any merging, but the new treaty will allow for it.

In the coming weeks, the Government will finalise the arrangements and process leading to this referendum, including the establishment of a referendum commission to ensure adequate public information is provided, a referendum Bill which will be debated in the Oireachtas, and draft legislation to provide for the implementation of the treaty's provisions will be publisheIn the coming weeks, the Government will finalise the arrangements and process leading to this referendum, including the establishment of a referendum commission to ensure adequate public information is provided, a referendum Bill which will be debated in the Oireachtas, and draft legislation to provide for the implementation of the treaty's provisions will be publishein the Oireachtas, and draft legislation to provide for the implementation of the treaty's provisions will be published.

«My own view is that in its present form the substantial differences between the draft treaty and the old constitution mean that a referendum is not required,» he clarified.

This January, the group wined and dined donors at a fund - raiser in Oakland, California, and they recently held a workshop in France, the first in a series to hash out a draft United Nations treaty to cope with the asteroid threat.

As it stands, the countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have agreed to draft a global treaty by 2015, which would take effect in 2020.

Clinton's aides have drafted an «interpretive statement» which makes clear that the signing of the treaty will not force drugs companies to provide anything specific to developing countries in return for use of their genetic resources.

Following agreement reached in May, 1988 a Joint Belize - Guatemala Commission has been set up to draft a treaty to resolve the problem.

After two weeks of steadily intensifying talks, briefings, speeches and «nonpaper» drafts, the world's major countries early Saturday morning in Bali apparently agreed on a formal two - year schedule for trying to fix a faltering 1992 climate treaty.

That was the case in 2000, when I was leaked a final draft of the summary for policy makers of the second science report from the panel ahead of that year's round of climate treaty negotiations.

The draft text was shaped by rounds of comments and reams of proposed language submitted this spring by parties to the original climate treaty, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins everything from the Kyoto Protocol to whatever comes next in Denmark.

And so the President's commitment is operative regardless of whether a draft treaty is delivered in Paris this month, or one isn't.

Negotiations are expected to conclude by Saturday, and the draft agreement will continue to evolve until it's offered up as an international treaty in December 2015, when world leaders are expected to gather in Paris in an attempt at a global climate deal.

Citing the importance of forest protection in the climate treaty, the Coalition for Rainforest Nations has fought vigorously to include REDD + in the latest draft agreement text.

Since President Obama can not get a formal climate treaty ratified by the US Senate, he instead plans to sign an «executive agreement» which will commit the United States to most of the same terms included in the original draft of the treaty but will not be called a «treaty».

By Friday, the draft negotiating text had swelled to 60 pages, threatening a reprise of the build - up to the chaotic Copenhagen Summit in 2009, when divisions between major emitters meant world leaders had no workable draft to agree as a climate treaty.

The word «uncontentious» in Revkin's article is a hyperlink to a 1998 NY Times article, alleging «Industry opponents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science».

The challenge is to draft the most workable and effective international treaty that, if implemented, has the potential to increase foreign investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The initiative to replace the Geneva treaties came from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), which issued a preliminary draft convention in 1953.

The only thing the Court requires is «sufficient information» about the hypothetical legal scheme that is going to bind the Union, and in this case it surely has it: there is a draft treaty.

The Commission would have to provide the Court with sufficient information on any new draft of ACTA in order to assess the compatibility with the Treaties.

World Intellectual Property Organisation has circulated a new draft text on definitions in the global broadcasting copyright treaty; can you share your thoughts on this?

Because of the limitation of the CJEU «s jurisdiction in the Treaties, according to the Court an accession based on the draft agreement would currently lead to a situation where the judicial control of the relevant acts or omissions of the EU with regard to their compatibility with the ECHR would be exclusively attributed to an organ external to the EU (para 255).

Despite her criticism of a number of points in the draft agreement, the Advocate General suggested that the Court ought to avoid pronouncing the draft agreement incompatible with the Treaties, but instead hold that it was compatible if certain amendments were undertaken following the Court's opinion (AG view, para 279).

«Extending the draft treaty's 50 year intellectual property - based rights to webcasters... was expressly opposed by the clear majority of countries this week, and has consistently been rejected by WIPO member states in the last two meetings of the Committee in 2004 and 2005.»

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada is to begin hearings Monday in an appeal that could force lawmakers across the country to give First Nations a role in drafting legislation that affects treaty rights.

Philip also regularly advises businesses on the structuring of their investments worldwide, and has assisted governments in drafting their investment treaties.

It contains content that I do not believe is offered in any other publication and is of real practical value to corporate counsel, such as investment treaty planning and drafting arbitration clauses in master agreements, to give only a few examples.

com APR 2018 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY World Intellectual Property Organ - isation has circulated a new draft text on definitions in the global broadcasting copyright treaty; can you share your thoughts on this?

The Council for Reconciliation included in its report to Parliament a draft Bill [61] which forms a framework for the negotiation of unresolved issues between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through a treaty process.

The underlying assumption of the draft Bill is that the treaty process is an ongoing process in which unresolved issues, such as Indigenous rights to land must be squarely raised and processes put in place for their resolution based on the informed consent of both sides.

Martinez also recommends that agreements negotiated in a treaty - making process such as that envisaged by the draft Bill should maintain their character as «instruments with international status».

Not only was the Declaration informed by and drafted with Indigenous peoples, it catalogues all human rights contained in international treaties and mechanisms that are particularly relevant to Indigenous peoples being able access their lands, territories and resources.