Sentences with phrase «international treaty in»

The Convention is an international treaty in force among some 90 countries.

Is an international treaty in the cards?

The World Bank says a strong international treaty in 2015 would help revive interest in a global carbon market.

A timetable was accepted to pave the way toward the establishment of a new international treaty in 2015 that will force developed countries to spend untold billions more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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.

Two weeks ago, more than 175 nations signed the Paris Agreement, making it the most - signed international treaty in a single day.

These figures represent a strong recovery of the population since attempts to ban hunting of the Grays were initiated by international treaty in 1937.

The process was one of the fastest ratifications of an international treaty in history.

What kind of government attempts to ridicule the opposition for getting to grips with one of the most important international treaties in years?

The risk that probes could transport microbes from Earth to Mars, and vice versa upon its return, has been seen as a major concern for many years and there are international treaties in place that specifically limit the amount of microbial contamination on any spacecraft bound for other worlds.

Not exact matches

Canada was not in compliance with those treaties so it's a move that's also being forced by international organizations.

«This decision does not break any international treaty, other countries have opted for the same solution,» he said, citing similar barriers on the Greek - Turkish and Bulgarian - Turkish frontiers and around Spanish exclaves in Morocco.

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.

These names are viewed as non-tariff barriers, which matter because they are the last significant friction in international trade, which the Transatlantic Investment Partnership treaty aims to lower.

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.

Moon Express is working closely with the U.S. government to assure our freedom of enterprise in space with due regard to international treaties.

International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, named to cabinet a day before the finalized treaty was made public, reiterated that the Liberals believe in trade, but she was careful to note the deal was negotiated by the Conservative government.

The Versa team has a long and successful track record in production, structured finance, international treaty co-productions, and international distribution, having funded and arranged over 100 loans and other financings in the past two decades for productions with budget sizes from $ 2 million to over $ 40 million.

Putin's actions, in open breach of international law and UN treaties, led to a protracted conflict in Ukraine, the imposition of western sanctions against Russia, and Russia's expulsion from the G8 group of countries.

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

Last summer in Rome, by a vote of 120 nations in favor, seven opposed and 21 abstentions, a United Nations diplomatic conference adopted a treaty to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in the Netherlands.

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.

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.

The intransigence of the United States has in recent years, for the first time since World War II, led to international treaties being ratified without the participation of the United States.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

The foundation for the regime was laid down in United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly) and the two key human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in force since January 3, 1976) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in force since March 23, 1976).

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extenInternational Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and exteninternational organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and exteninternational treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

The U.S. Department of State has designated two accrediting entities for organizations providing inter-country adoption services in the United States that work with sending countries that have ratified the Hague Adoption Convention, which specifies by international treaty requirements for adoption between countries that have ratified the treaty.

@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).

There are treaties and treatises out there that inform efforts to articulate what constitutes international law, but there is no world legislature out there, and there is no court with the power to issue decisions to any country in the world that will be observed without the use of military force on a wide array of issues.

The most difficult part of a Vatican declared war would be its promise, in the 1929 Lateran treaty to maintain perfect neutrality in international relations.

Putting aside, for the moment, that all nations capable of reaching either the Moon or Mars have signed and ratified a treaty recognizing those areas as international territory, America is the only country to have ever placed people on a body outside the Earth, and we haven't even bothered doing it in over 40 years.

In Russian constitution, Article 15, part 4: «If international treaty sets up different provisions than the federal law, then the provisions of the international treaty apply».

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.

He also rightly pointed out that the principle of «diplomatic asylum», while recognized by Latin American states in a treaty from the 1950s, is not established as a general principle of international law.

That's because jurisdiction just controls what that country's courts do — American jurisdiction means that American courts are willing to try the person and American law enforcement can arrest them if they set foot in America, and the only time the US doesn't get to establish jurisdiction is if US law prevents it (e.g. the Constitution) or if an international treaty forbids it (e.g. diplomatic immunity).

Davies has previously suggested «feminsist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it» and in December he spoke for over an hour in an effort to talk out a backbench bill calling on the government to ratify an international treaty on domestic violence.

This week, the Durban Platform working group (ADP) is convening in Bonn, Germany, for the first of three meetings in 2013, moving in earnest towards its 2015 deadline to agree a new international treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol and enter into force in 2020.

Added to these over-arching responsibilities are individual powers to operate the Royal Prerogative (as the de facto chair of the Privy Council)- to declare war (including single - handedly authorising the launch of a nuclear strike), to sign international treaties and to represent the UK at the highest level in international and European negotiations.

If a treaty is in irreconcilable conflict with a Federal law, the one executed later in time prevails, although courts generally try to harmonize domestic and international obligations whenever possible.

(i) As the Institut de Droit International stated in 1995, «There is no a priori hierarchy between treaty and custom as sources of interInternational stated in 1995, «There is no a priori hierarchy between treaty and custom as sources of internationalinternational law.

What does the International laws and treaties say in the matter?

However, in the application of international law, relevant norms deriving from a treaty prevail between the parties over norms deriving from customary law.»

Setting aside the many, many issues involved in this Senate letter affair, it is interesting to see the complete focus in the larger media debate on American constitutional requirements for treaties, largely with complete disregard to international law.

@TexasRed International law is a fuzzy concept that's part treaty and part just what states actually do in practice.

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.

In this case, both would have to re-negotiate any previous international treaties, which would mean they would both drop out of the EU.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

«So, for me, before September 11th, I was already reaching for a different philosophy in international relations from a traditional one that has held sway since the treaty of Westphalia in 1648; namely that a country's internal affairs are for it and you don't interfere unless it threatens you, or breaches a treaty, or triggers an obligation of alliance.»

Mr Hague wants to establish international «norms of acceptable behaviour» in cyberspace which falls short of a formal treaty.