Sentences with phrase «international watchdog»

The easiest way to fix the situation is to simply disband the IPCC and an international watchdog group needs to be created to ensure Eco-loons don't run out and hack the climate.

The decision to allow China to buy ivory has indeed sparked more ivory trafficking, according to international watchdog groups and traders I met in China and Hong Kong.

A new international watchdog will be set up to help British taxpayers understand how their money is being spent abroad.

A respected international watchdog, the Financial Stability Board, has regularly praised Canada's financial management for its effectiveness in policing against risky speculation.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

International watchdog warns G20 countries that they are «weak» and falling short in tackling tax havens

Not exact matches

The competition watchdog plans to grant a regulatory exemption to WA Chip & Pulp Co, which will allow the Japanese - owned woodchip exporter to continue its partnership with international grain trader Bunge at the Port of Bunbury.

On June 4, the ITC, the U.S. agency that serves as a watchdog on international trade, ruled in favor of Samsung's patent and limited the ability of Apple to sell some older smartphone products.

Mark Carney watches above the world's sixth - biggest economic climate as governor of the Financial institution of England and heads a international banking watchdog, but somehow nonetheless finds time to train for a marathon.

The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a dose of liquid nerve agent as large as 50 - 100 grams, according to the director general of the international chemical weapons watchdog.

Regulators have taken a closer look at cross-border currency transactions since US and European watchdog agencies fined seven banks $ 10 billion for manipulating international currency markets last year.

In December, Bezos gave $ 250,000 to the U.S. branch of the international press freedom watchdog group Reporters Without Borders so it could open an office in San Francisco.

The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), which is the nuclear watchdog for the United Nations, has suggested that Japan should widen the evacuation area around the damaged Fukushima power plant.

New legislation proposed by a leading congressional watchdog would push the State Department to make international religious freedom a greater priority.

H.R. 1150 serves as an update of the 1998 bill that established a religious freedom office in the State Department and an independent watchdog panel, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

(UPDATED) A roundup of the good and the bad reported by international religious freedom watchdogs.

«We have transformed the way the department manages its finances, so spending is attached to tangible results on the ground, which are rigorously scrutinised by the new independent aid watchdog,» international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said.

The decision to lift the sanctions against Iran came on Sunday after the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said Iran had complied with a deal designed to prevent it developing nuclear weapons.

Associated Newspapers, News International, The Telegraph Media Group and Express publishers Northern & Shell said they were taking «high - level legal advice» about whether to join the new watchdog, with the mood music suggesting several senior figures are planning on calling parliament's bluff.

The Conservative party will not face an official inquiry into allegations that it broke electoral law by failing to declare News International «s payments to its former head of communications, Andy Coulson, after the elections watchdog concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a breach.

The country's anti-graft watchdog has ruled out any corruption in the leasing of the international airport to GMR.

Global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, AI, has revealed that Nigerian security forces got advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards...

Global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, AI, has released a video showing how security agents killed 150 peaceful pro-Biafra agitators.

In November 2016, Amnesty International, human rights watchdog, released a report alleging extra-judicial killing of 150 pro-Biafra protesters by the army.

More than 50 percent of the reservoir area is affected by erosion and an additional 500,000 people will need to be relocated,» says Peter Bosshard, policy director at International Rivers, a dam watchdog group.

At 29, Nangonya, an engineer, is the youngest - ever nuclear inspector at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the organisation known as the United Nations» nuclear watchdog.

Australia's consumer watchdog will investigate major online dating websites as part of an international initiative, media reported on Monday.

Budd Wilkins is a film critic, essayist, and historian with published work in Slant Magazine, The House Next Door, Film International, Video Watchdog, Not Coming to a Theater Near You and others.

There are reports for all education stakeholders by national agencies (U.S. Department of Education), watchdog groups (Education Week), international collaboratives (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and academic think - tanks (Stamford History Education Group).

This is particularly true when it comes to corruption: it ranks 33rd out of 176 countries — much better than its neighbors — on the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index from the nonprofit watchdog Transparency International.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the international industry watchdog, certifies and inspects the project every six months.

In a new filing to the IRS — adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity — the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions.

According to two reports released yesterday by the world's energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency, by the middle of this century, the sun could be the world's largest source of electricity.

The International Energy Agency, the energy watchdog for western economies, has projected 2030 world oil demand of 116 million barrels a day.

In a document released in May, Oil Change International, the NRDC and another watchdog group called Earth Track calculated that the tar sands exemption could be worth more than $ 66 million a year by 2017.

If there's any watchdog out there, it should be us, and if there is anybody who's held accountable for decreasing tiger numbers and eventually possible tiger extirpation on this world, it is us as the international conservation community.

«If rogue geoengineer Russ George really has misled this indigenous community, and dumped iron into their waters, we hope to see swift legal response to his behavior and strong action taken to the heights of the Canadian and US governments,» said Silvia Ribeiro of the international technology watchdog ETC Group, which first discovered the existence of the scheme.

(09/10/2013) Japanese companies are failing to keep illegally logged timber from entering their supply chains, international human rights and environmental watchdog Global Witness said in a report released today.

But Russia and China said that as an international security watchdog, the 15 - member council was not the right forum to debate climate change.

International U.S. and Iran argue over inspections at nuclear watchdog meeting, Reuters Duterte invites UN rights body to open Philippine office as drug killings climb, Reuters

Some, like Freedom House (a human rights watchdog) and International Bridges for Justice accepted his offer.