Sentences with phrase «international ban»

This would be a first step towards a comprehensive international ban on these fully autonomous weapons.

As he prepares to return to international football after serving a nine - match international ban for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup, an unrepentant Luis Suarez remains convinced that he was harshly treated by football's governing body.

Given the 18 - year international ban on international ivory trade, the 12th Conference of the Parties decided in 2002 that a second international auction of ivory from these southern African stockpiles could go ahead but only if a number of conditions had been met.

FIFA imposed the four - month ban from all football, which also included a nine - month international ban and a # 66,000 fine, after he bit Chiellini on the shoulder during Uruguay's 1 - 0 win on June 24.

Now the governing body of the World Cup have decided to take matters into their own hands and if found guilty, the 27 - year - old could be looking at a lengthy international ban.

Some bioethicists have called for a new international ban that would clearly prohibit the implantation of a human clone in part because of the tantalizing research uses for nascent embryos.

A broad, sweeping international ban on all of the above would be a major jolt to everyone, but it would force companies, governments, and consumers to seek alternatives — many of which already exist.

The first international ban on finning was instated in 2004 with sponsorship from the United States, the European community, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Panama, South Africa, Trinidad (Tobago) and Venezuela, and support from Brazil, Namibia and Uruguay.

«Four months without being able to play a competitive game and a two - year international ban is too much.

Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have expressed concern about the «erosion» of the international ban on chemical weapons in discussions, according to the German government.

It was not too long ago that Luis Suarez's character was in question, yet even with his international ban still in full effect, the narrative around him has completely changed.

That defeat did snap a four match winning streak from Uruguay though, but they are now trying to get through without Luis Suarez, who is still serving out his international ban for that bite at the 2014 World Cup.

Florent Malouda will be making an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over his international ban.

The UN security council will meet later to discuss North Korea's latest move, which breaks an international ban on the testing of technology for long - range ballistic missiles.

The amount of carbon - 14 in the atmosphere peaked in 1962 just before the introduction of an international ban on surface testing of nuclear weapons.

First sighted over Antarctica in the mid-1980s, the so - called ozone hole led to an international ban on CFCs in 1987.

THE Pentagon armouries include at least ten different types of laser weapons intended to blind enemy soldiers, according to Human Rights Watch, a New York - based pressure group which wants the US to agree to an international ban on such weapons.

Within this framework, the international ban on the ivory trade has created an environment favourable to the conservation of elephants.

In October 1989, in an attempt to halt the otherwise inevitable demise of the species, the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) declared an international ban on all trade in elephant products.

A French - German effort to craft an international ban on human reproductive cloning stalled yesterday in the United Nations as the United States, joined by 36 other countries, refused to support a proposal it said was too narrow.

The BMA also believes that the government should take an active part in moves to negotiate an international ban.»

I do hope that someday the international ban might be lifted, both because I fear for the wellbeing of wild salamanders around the planet and because my favorites are two European animals: the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), a terrestrial animal of vivid black and yellow coloration and an outgoing temperament, and the crested newt (Triturus cristatus), an aquatic newt in which the males develop a spectacular Godzilla - like crest when in breeding mode.

An international ban on commercial whaling was instituted in 1964 and the whale population has since rebounded.

Last year, some 24 tons of ivory was seized around the world — the product of an estimated 2,500 elephants — making it the worst year for elephant poaching since an international ban on commercial ivory trading began in 1989, according to Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network.

Though this decline was slowed after the international ban on the ivory trade, elephants are being slaughtered at an alarmingly rate again.

Some ship operators are still looking for ways to skirt an international ban on the release of oily waste into ocean waters, in some cases using a tool known as a «magic pipe» to bypass cleaning devices, despite a crackdown on the practice.

By persisting in whaling, Japan defies both an international ban and United States law, which commits this nation to enforcing the ban.

The governments of Iceland and Norway keep ignoring the international ban on commercial whaling and continue to unilaterally...

Since our founding, we have achieved lasting successes, such as the international ban on ivory trade in 1989 and the passage of the 2008 Lacey Act amendment in the United States.

Under an exemption to the international ban on commercial whaling, Greenland can hunt whales for local consumption.

This international ban, however, has proven to be more posturing than action since only the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Namibia, South Africa and the European Union (EU) have actual laws in place.

In 2006, the Icelandic government stated it would no longer respect an international ban on commercial whaling; it issued permits for the commercial hunting of nine endangered fin whales and 30 minke whales.

In 2006, Iceland controversially announced it would no longer respect an international ban on commercial hunting that had been in place since 1986.

He said they hunt them in a sustainable way and would continue doing so with or without an international ban.

Liberia has lost 95 % of its elephants to poaching since the 1980s — when the international ban on trade in ivory went into effect, and prior to which half of Africa's elephants had already been killed for their tusks.

A stark reminder of the scale of the illegal trade in elephant ivory, as well as the huge financial rewards for flouting the international ban on its trade: CNN reports that four tons of elephant ivory, originating in Africa and worth $ 3.4 million, has been seized in Hong Kong.

One of the justifications the Japanese whaling industry gives for violating the international ban on whaling is that killing minke whales will help larger baleen whales recover.

From the outset of their large - scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death...

From the outset of their large - scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death of nearly half a million great whales.

African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989, says a researcher from the University of Washington (UW).

The Campaign has been advocating for an international ban of LAWS — fully autonomous weapons that can target and make life / death decisions without human intervention.

It will work to foster greater international and regional cooperation to convince governments concerned about retaining meaningful human control of future weapons systems to agree to an international ban.

By doing so, our government can reclaim its position of moral leadership on the world stage as demonstrated previously by the Ottawa Treaty — the international ban on landmines initiated in 1996 by our then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, who was originally appointed to the federal Cabinet by your father.

When asked about an international ban across different types of lethal autonomous weapons for missions on land, air, and sea, 67 % of our participants indicated that all types of lethal autonomous systems should be internationally banned, while 14 % said that none of such systems should be banned.

Massive pressure is needed to convince states to take a strong stance support this this objective and focus and move faster towards concluding an international ban.

The first, a November 19 report from Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School Human Rights Clinic, calls for an international ban on killer robots.