Sentences with phrase «international policy making»

The Centre was established in August 2007 with Territory funding of $ 2.5 milliion over five years at Charles Darwin University to focus on the role of traditional knowledge in fields such as climate change, water, international policy making, biological resources and marine management.

And federal and international policy making is ground to a halt.

Washington, D.C.'s role as a center of national and international policy makes it an essential location for global law firms.

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Currently, no U.S. carrier has made the change, though a few international airlines — including Air Asia, Malaysia Airlines, and Singapore's Scoot Airlines — have created policies in the last few years.

The White House credited its policy of putting international economic, diplomatic, and military pressure on Pyongyang as having made Kim more willing to meet with foreign leaders.

«The administration had made it very clear they are changing the thrust of U.S. policy to allow the private sector in Cuba to blossom,» said Pedro Freyre, chair of law firm Akerman LLP's international practice.

«What's really going to make a difference is the individual countries» policies, most of which are happening notwithstanding an international agreement.»

Things were going swimmingly, except for two issues: The startup's flash - sales model meant it never had any consistent supply of inventory (making international shipping and fulfillment awfully tricky), and Fab's free shipping policy meant everything going outside of the U.S. was bound to cost a fortune and take forever.

The surprise release of China's first - ever Arctic policy white paper last week made international headlines.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

There was nothing new in their proposed strategy that could not be found in policy statements made by G - 7 leaders, G - 20 leaders, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and most credible Economic think tanks over the past decade.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

Thus, it is clear that leaked data has started to be a significant driver in how countries conduct cross-border tax enforcement and make international tax law and policy.

The CPC list was about six weeks late, frustrating some religious freedom watchers, including the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which is appointed by the federal government to make policy recommendations.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.

Tom Farr, president of the Religious Freedom Institute, told CT that Brownback «has the experience, passion, and gravitas to make the advancement of international religious freedom an all - of - government policy that will engage all US foreign affairs agencies.»

At the level of international policy, it is desirable to fire up the arms race and to create nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, because that activity may make things worse and thereby hasten the end.

This ordering is determined by the need to make payments on debts and by the structural adjustment policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

Early in 2001 an international commission of experts submitted a policy paper to the UN titled «The Responsibility to Protect,» which made the case for international intervention in cases of human rights violations and humanitarian emergencies.

The prevailing terms of trade, monetary policy, and certain conditions tied to bilateral and multilateral aid, which are all perpetuated by the non-democratic decision - making processes of international economic, financial and trade institutions, also frustrate the full realization of the right to development9.

Mars plans to quit industry - funded science group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), and says it will support research regardless of results after making its science policy public.

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The Department has a strong international dimension, with a critical role in both European Union and global policy making.

Todd Kuiken, senior programme associate with the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, speaks with Lisa Palmer on why he is promoting informed policy - making for the emerging food products being produced by synthetic biology processes.

Dr. Siegel's unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy - makers, and clergy.

Nestlé must state in writing that it will make the required changes to bring its baby food marketing policy and practice into line with the International Code and Resolutions (i.e. end its strategy of denial and deception).

A statement from Conflicts of Interest Coalition, endorsed by 145 national, regional and international organizations, calls for the development of a Code of Conduct in public policy decision - making to safeguard against conflicts of interest.

The Conflicts of Interest Coalition / Network is an international campaign by hundreds of groups and networks calling for policy making to be free from commercial influence.

Cadwell, Karin & Cindy Turner - Maffei RECLAIMING BREASTFEEDING FOR THE UNITED STATES Jones and Bartlett, 2002 This book provides an international policy perspective on the progress that has been made toward reclaiming breastfeeding as the cultural norm in the United States.

The other thing I would love to add here is: I have a good (american) friend who said: «when you see anything going on in policies (national / international / health / security / etc e tal) you should always ask: who is making money with it?

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Again, Israel seems to have conducted this policy under a cover of darkness while all the time maintaining to the international community that its plans were to eventually return the lands to the Palestinian inhabitants, as well as making staple assurances that those who were leaving were doing so voluntarily (and temporarily).

For this reason its foreign policy, while ruthlessly self - serving, must also be a fine balancing act wherein competing interests are weighed and compromises made, concerning international and domestic actors alike.

He has authored numerous publications and made presentations in and out of Japan about East Asian international politics, Japanese politico - economic analyses, Asian comparative political system, Japanese foreign policy and international relations theories.

This uncertainty is partially due to the well - known inability of international relations scholars to make assured predictions, but also to the fact that the dynamics of foreign policy shifts are still widely overlooked and generally misunderstood in the scientific literature.

«I will cut your taxes» «We'll make America strong» «I will take a hard line on international policy» and while these ideas sound better in today's light, we should remember that at the time, members of his own party called his economic plan «Voodoo economics».

Rational Realists like Morgenthau did make some concessions on the role of emotions in international politics, but these were mostly seen in the context of garnering support for foreign policy.

3) The EU should make an effort to reconcile climate change, energy and trade policies, both at domestic level (e.g. though inter-service consultations) and at international level.

Speaking to GHOne TV News on the sidelines of the NPP's press conference which analyzed the content of the policy document by its main opponents the NDC on Monday, she revealed that the party is being made to reconsider the date after it emerged that Ghana's senior national football team will be using its marked venue — the Tamale Sports Stadium for an international game.

Speaking at a Breakfast Business Meeting hosted by the Mauritius Minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade in collaboration with the Board of Investment of Mauritius, Dr. Bawumia emphasized the NPP government's determination to make the private sector a major player in Ghana's economy, and called on Mauritian and other businesses to take advantage of the pro-business policies announced in the budget.

That is the context in which I view his foreign trips and the manifesto of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Foreign Relations which promised to: Make the Nigerian national interest the overriding factor in its foreign policy and international relations.

Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

The very big plus side was being right in the centre of decision - making on the future of UK biomedical science, and, on the international scene, the policy - making behind the EU's Framework Programmes.

A wise policy would therefore consider the quality of international students in making visa decisions, write Eric T. Stuen of the University of Idaho, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak of Yale University, and Keith E. Maskus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, in an article published in The Economic Journal in December 2012.

In the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturated.

The commission had recommended ways to improve the integration of science and technology into U.S. government international policy - making circles.

The AOP framework has been developed through an extensive international collaboration between scientists, regulators and policy - makers with the primary goal of making mechanistic toxicological knowledge more readily available to support safety assessment decisions.

International scientific organizations, such as AAAS or SPIE, should take the lead in harmonizing these structures in a very collaborative way, as well as the ethical norms and intellectual property policies that surround them, thus making science more accessible to laymen and policy - makers for a purer and standardized global research environment.

More prestigious still are national and international committees formed to make policy recommendations or set long - term scientific strategy for scientific agencies.