Sentences with phrase «international ban on»

The letter, organized with the support of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots member Pax Christi Flanders, calls on the government and parliament of Belgium to support an international ban on such weapon systems and to resolve as a nation never to develop, acquire or deploy them.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

They are violating an international ban on whaling, illegally slaughtering these intelligent, sensitive, endangered mammals for MEAT not for «science».

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Ethiopian lawmakers likewise recently invoked the 2012 case of a neglected Ethiopian 13 - year - old girl who died of hypothermia and malnutrition in the U.S. to justify their new ban on international adoptions.

In recent decades South Korea, Romania, Guatemala, China, Kazakhstan and Russia - all former leaders in foreign adoption - have also banned or cut back on international custody transfers.

«Belarus is on a special «International Traffic in Arms Regulations» list published by the U.S. State Department, of countries with bans or special restrictions,» Roston writes.

With news of Google banning cryptocurrency - related ads and the International Monetary Fund advising increased regulation on the asset, the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple continued their slide Thursday, wiping out about $ 499.2 billion of the market value of over 1,500 cryptocurrencies since their collective all - time high in early January.

Since the laptop ban is still so new, if you have more details about what has worked on international flights into the U.S., share them on my Twitter feed.

The ban was lifted «effective immediately» on Dubai International, the world's busiest airport for internatInternational, the world's busiest airport for internationalinternational travel.

Next week, there will be additional talks in Washington about imposing the ban on more incoming international flights.

According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts household grocery bills could balloon by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of markets and causes prices to go up even more.»

The ban was lifted «effective immediately» on Dubai International, the world's busiest airport for international travel, after new security measures announced by the U.S. last week were implemented, an Emirates spokeswoman said inInternational, the world's busiest airport for international travel, after new security measures announced by the U.S. last week were implemented, an Emirates spokeswoman said ininternational travel, after new security measures announced by the U.S. last week were implemented, an Emirates spokeswoman said in a statement.

Leading Berlin - based international estate agency Black Label Properties has welcomed the overturning of a ban on second home rentals when owners are absent.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Thursday that it will appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal against the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to lift doping bans on 28 Russians.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the banning of bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The Spanish giants are banned from any transfer activity until January 2016, but could still look to encourage the Germany international to a later switch to the Champions League finalists — having been impressed by his performances since returning from a serious spinal injury that left him on the sidelines for 14 months.

The Turkish international was unable to register until the turn of the year due to a transfer ban imposed on Barcelona by UEFA.

Hopefully now he will come back from his ban after the international break nice and rusty and maybe even think about not trying to get every player on the opposing team sent off or diving to win a penalty or a free kick.

It comes as the Spanish international wasn't allowed to be on the sidelines given his suspension, and so as doubled down by Marca, with no one at Real Madrid informing him of that, he could now be at risk of facing another ban for breaking UEFA rules.

Wenger will be praying that no more Arsenal players join the injury list during the international break, because straight after it we host Man City on Saturday and then play the first UCL group game away to Borussia Dortmund on the Tuesday; a nightmare start especially as we have Mathieu Debuchy banned for the next European game after another harsh red card in the play - offs.

There had been some speculation in recent weeks that, in light of their impending transfer ban imposed by Fifa, Real might have moved quickly to bring the Argentina international to the Bernabeu, while United may be considering the player as an upgrade on Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has made an indifferent contribution since moving to the club from Bayern Munich during the summer.

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.

Sulser went on to confirm that Uruguay have launched an appeal against the ban, which also rules Suarez out of their next eight international games, as they promised they would.

If the Spanish international is to be banned, then it is unlikely to appease West Ham manager Sam Allardyce, who this week bemoaned the retrospective charge of Crystal Palace's captain Mile Jedinak, explaining that the subsequent decision — following an attempted elbow on striker Diafra Sakho — was too late to make any difference to his side, and it appears that history may repeat itself for a second week in a row.

Yesterday, the SA Minister of Sport announced a ban on certain sports from hosting international events because they had not adequately met transformation targets.

Two weeks ago the ITF accepted a special commission report recommending restrictions on under - 16s competing on the world circuit, a ban on pro play by under - 14s and abolition of under - 12 international tournaments.

FIFA imposed a one - year ban on Atletico last year for signing dozens of youth players in breach of rules that prevent international child trafficking and luring youngsters from their home country.

The England international, often prone to high profile slip ups during games, lack of handshakes, and shagging on friend's wives, will be available for selection though, as he still has the right to appeal the ban.

The Gunners are extremely short on midfielder with Granit Xhaka starting a four - game ban after he was issued a red card in Sunday's 2 - 1 victory against Burnley while Mohamed Elneny is away on international duty with Egypt and Santi Carzorla out with an Achilles problem.

The Spanish champions were given the 14 - month ban after being found guilty of breaching rules on signing international players under the age of 18.