Sentences with phrase «international treaties such»

the international protections for human rights through international treaties such as the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

This may, in part, arise from our greater openness to international treaties such as those that established the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights.

It is bound by strong minimum standards set under international treaties such as the Berne Convention.

Countries that have signed onto international treaties such as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Convention on the Rights of the Child have a legal obligation to provide education for children in their countries regardless of nationality or legal status, which should also be reflected in their national laws.

@Andy international treaties such as UN charter are part of the legal system of the member nations (in Russia for instance, international treaties have precedence over federal laws except the constitution, in the US AFAIK the treaties have the same weight as federal laws).

Not exact matches

While patent requirements and rules differ from country to country, several international treaties (including the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Paris Convention) allow U.S. inventors to obtain patent protection in other countries that have adopted the treaties if the inventors take certain required steps, such as filing a patent application in the countries on a timely basis and paying required patent fees.

Given that the issues are seemingly unavoidable in NAFTA, the lecture then highlights the preferred approach (relying on international treaty standards) and identifies many of the most important issues up for discussion including copyright term, fair dealing, intermediary liability and digital issues such as net neutrality and data localization.

But even with this restriction, there should be considerable opportunity to argue that international law might inform such matters as: the content of the duty to consult, the significance of the right to culture, the respect that should be accorded to indigenous conceptions of property, and the question of what might constitute an unjustifiable infringement of an aboriginal right or title or a treaty right: see my post on the Supreme Court's Grassy Narrows decision here.

International treaties have become far less important than trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA, which progessively erased national boundaries, and created such transnational institutions as the World Trade Organization.

The US has committed itself to a variety of international treaties, such as the United Nation's Convention Against Torture, that prevent it from returning anyone to circumstances in which they are likely to be persecuted or tortured.

Obviously I am asking inspired by the China's actions but I am more interested in the international law and treaties on such cases on on general level.

However, there is no such automaticity where treaties that establish international organisations are concerned.

The Geneva Convention allows them to be «detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action; subject of course to international treaties on justice and human rights such as everyone's right to a fair trial.»

However the institution of the following policy changes can reduce both inter-state tensions and the associated recurring costs: a concerted effort to increase transparency in each nation's territorial claims; a US declaration on the status of disputed territory conflicts in its mutual defence treaties; and internal enforcement of international agreements such as the Code of Conduct.

Like all such states, Pakistan enters into international treaties with other states.

It is not enough for a sovereign state to ratify a treaty in the international community framework; it is more important for such a state to adopt it into her domestic -LSB-...]

Gene drives spreading through wild populations would not respect international boundaries, so they might run afoul of international treaties, such as the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that governs cross-border movement of genetically engineered organisms.

The industry has dodged tax strategies and international treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol.

The report's «Top 10» list of recommended actions includes a new international treaty with strong monitoring and enforcement mechanisms; domestic and local regulatory actions, such as bans of the most common and damaging types of plastic litter; extended producer - responsibility programs; and the creation of an «ocean friendly» certification program for plastic products.

Facilities such as CERN and ITER are governed by international treaties, which required heroic efforts of diplomacy to put together.

Now, more than a hundred nations have signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international treaty to reduce mercury emission levels through measures such as banning new mercury mines.

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may issue international offset credits in exchange for instruments in the nature of offset credits that are issued by an international body established pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to a protocol to such Convention, or to a treaty that succeeds such Convention.

-- The term «most vulnerable developing countries» means, as determined by the Administrator of USAID, developing countries that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, considering the approaches included in any international treaties and agreements.

As part of BIOACID, Ekardt's Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy assessed political instruments against ocean acidification and climate change such as the different treaties of international law, the Paris Agreement or regulations for marine conservation as well as human rights.

Although there is no such thing as an international copyright, many countries have signed treaties that provide reciprocal recognition of copyrights.

They include international instruments such as treaties and declarations; nationally based standards such as constitutional provisions and national laws; certification schemes such as the Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP); and voluntary initiatives that are adopted by businesses on a voluntary basis (Report 4).

[T] he divisions between wealthy countries and poorer countries that are making such a treaty difficult, and have long bedeviled international climate talks, were on display yet again in Berlin.

In very general terms, this is because the agreement does not legally bind the US to any new commitments that it does not already perform under the UNFCCC (an international climate treaty signed and ratified by the US in 1992), such as fulfilling requirements to monitor and report on GHG emissions.

The UNFCCC would benefit from collaboration with human rights bodies, including UN bodies, such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; the United Nations Human Rights Council; human rights treaty bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child; regional bodies, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and People's Rights; and non-governmental organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross.

And it was widely expected that the Obama administration would not be willing to negotiate a new international climate treaty in December without such a bill.

Impact of international treaties or accords on businesses, especially for registrants with operations outside the United States that are or will soon become subject to such standards;

The Montreal Protocol, hailed as the most successful international environmental treaty, regulated ozone - depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) worldwide.

Note that while, legally, rights might not apply equally internationally, morally, if the rights are good rights to have, then we should act like they do apply, except wherein there is some problem in that which justifies a different position (ie different national policies, international treaties — such that require different treatment in order to achieve justice).

When considering a special meaning of the expression «waters falling within the sovereignty» of Morocco as including Western Saharan waters, the Court pointed out that agreeing to such a special meaning would be contrary to the EU's obligations under international law, ie self - determination and the relative effect of treaties, stopping short of reprimanding the EU for potentially recognising Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara (Judgment paras 63, 71).

So maybe some attorneys who wouldn't normally be inclined to attend such an event, even for the valuable credits, might just show up to see «Congressman Bob Barr, Esq.'s» keynote speech about international arms control treaties.

Jeff handled all types of contested matters such as complicated insurance trials and appeals, technical review of DNA evidence in rape cases, and interpretation of an international treaty before the Ohio Supreme Court.

In particular, as part of a more qualitative approach, one needs to have a look whether the current perceived «turbulences» have also by now reached the more fundamental layers of international law, i.e. meta - rules such as the ones on sources, State responsibility, State immunity, treaty interpretation, or res judicata effect of international court decisions must be abided by the parties involved, to name but a few, the general acceptance of which is indispensable for a functioning international legal system.

As well as having to keep abreast of maritime treaties and laws, maritime lawyers often need to have a good grasp of other areas such as employment, trade and commercial law, private international law and the international law of the sea.

In fact, a possible decision of the court to the effect that such an agreement is, either by reason of its content or of the procedure adopted for its conclusion, incompatible with the provisions of the treaty could not fail to provoke, not only in a community context but also in that of international relations, serious difficulties and might give rise to adverse consequences for all interested parties, including third countries.

Under international treaties, the owners of a copyright in any of the party countries may generally sue infringers found violating such rights in any of the other countries.

Studies on other major constitutional issues, such as treaty - making powers and related international matters, are very well advanced.

For the European Union, to the continued chagrin of the more federalist among the Europhiles, its main Treaties represent such an «other international agreement».

An example the human rights treaties such as — International Human Rights Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

In brief, the approach conceives of investment treaty arbitration as a form of public law, and calls for tribunals to draw on comparative domestic constitutional and administrative law, as well as other regimes of international public law such as WTO law and human rights law, to give content to the often vaguely - worded standards of typical investment treaties.

If the children have been taken to a country with which the UK is a signatory to a relevant international treaty (such as The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980) then the left behind parent can seek the children's return usinginternational treaty (such as The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980) then the left behind parent can seek the children's return usingInternational Child Abduction 1980) then the left behind parent can seek the children's return using this treaty.

Picking up on a report by Flight International, Londin explains that if a U.K. space - tourism company — such as, say, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — is going to launch from U.S. spaceports, international space treaties would require it to have the approval of the British National International, Londin explains that if a U.K. space - tourism company — such as, say, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — is going to launch from U.S. spaceports, international space treaties would require it to have the approval of the British National international space treaties would require it to have the approval of the British National Space Centre.

Entitled Research Guide on Transboundary Freshwater Treaties and Other Resources, the document provides information about major global and regional treaties, databases of international, regional and bilateral agreements, non-treaty instruments, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, international water commissions such as the Canada - US International Joint Commission as well as sources of Treaties and Other Resources, the document provides information about major global and regional treaties, databases of international, regional and bilateral agreements, non-treaty instruments, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, international water commissions such as the Canada - US International Joint Commission as well as sources of treaties, databases of international, regional and bilateral agreements, non-treaty instruments, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, international water commissions such as the Canada - US International Joint Commission as well as sourceinternational, regional and bilateral agreements, non-treaty instruments, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, international water commissions such as the Canada - US International Joint Commission as well as sourceinternational water commissions such as the Canada - US International Joint Commission as well as sourceInternational Joint Commission as well as sources of caselaw.

From the outset, it should be noted that such a presumption runs contrary to the rules that treaties are not self - enforcing in Canada, 103 and that customary international law can be displaced by legislation.

One such international treaty is the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Read More