Sentences with phrase «of international intervention»

Superman is also a little like America in terms of international intervention: He requires you to trust that his actions are all in the interest of the greater good — because what are you going to do, fight the guy?

After the UN's massive failure to intervene and stop the Rwandan genocide in 1994, there was a new wave of momentum in global NGOs and states to establish some principle of international intervention and to bring perpetrators to justice.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

China's central bank likely spent about $ 90 billion worth of reserves in currency interventions in January, leading to net capital outflows of about $ 113 billion from China during the month, the Institute for International Finance said on Tuesday.

The Syrian government and Russia vehemently deny involvement and accuse rebel groups of fabricating the attack to hinder the army's advances and provoke international military intervention.

Tucker, P (2009): «The repertoire of official sector interventions in the financial system: last resort lending, market - making, and capital», speech at the 2009 Bank of Japan International Conference, Tokyo, May.

The following social democratic successor, George Papandreou, was then accused of claiming the deficit was higher than it really was in order to prompt the intervention of the troika, the tripartite body composed of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund.

The Chinese central bank's heavy - handed intervention in the currency markets earlier this year has triggered a decline in trading of the renminbi and a reversal in the rise of the Rmb in international payments.

The spectacular surge in DFW home prices has been built on the back of unprecedented financial market interventions, including a massive $ 5 trillion in international market injections from 2016 to today.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

This is a form of re-colonization that does not need any military intervention; it is done unceremoniously by a mere legal transfer of ownership of the shares of enterprises, helped by the previously mentioned international agencies built around the UN system.

His argument for «building constituencies for change» is a plea to move beyond the intervention mode that passes for «international cooperation,» beyond the patronizing practices of private aid agencies driven by business competition rather than by civil constituencies and emancipatory agendas shared with others.

Interpretations of where it is «morally imperative» to intervene remain selective, and intervention is never purely based on high moral or humanitarian grounds; there are a number of humanitarian emergencies and nasty dictatorships throughout the world in which the international community has not stepped in.

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.

If that was the case, then the goal of any intervention would probably have to include setting up some sort of international protectorate....

Relief workers from all organizations were caught in a nightmare of warring factions and bloodshed that led most of them to call for international intervention.

At the panel, Too Much Too Soon: Addressing Over-Intervention in Maternity Care, Vedam and other panelists, including Suellen Miller, Director, Safe Motherhood Program and Myriam Vuckovic, Assistant Professor, International Health Department, Georgetown University, addressed the growing rate of unnecessary interventions in birth in the US and worldwide.

He is actively engaged in developing research in novel attachment - and lactation - promoting interventions through his international network of family practitioners, midwives, obstetricians, pediatricians and child psychologists.

Take account of international experience Experience from other countries shows that interventions based on these principles drive up the level of child support paid; help foster constructive relationships between parents and children and between ex-partners; leave parents feeling better treated and also bring substantial savings to the public purse.

He is engaged in developing research into novel parent - infant interventions through his international network of researchers and clinicians within psychology, pediatrics, orthopedics, obstetrics, breastfeeding medicine, health visiting and midwifery.

As a member of Postpartum Support, International, a non-profit organization with volunteer coordinators in each state in the U.S. and 26 countries around the world, Karen and her associates at The Postpartum Stress Center are continuously in touch with the needs of the postpartum community as well as with current research and state - of - the - art interventions.

Interventions to reduce socioeconomic health differences: A review of the international literature

Published by Birth (sponsored by Lamaze International), the Hutton study shows lower rates of interventions such as cesarean section, episiotomy, and medical pain relief for the home birth group.

The team provides CISM intervention following the protocols of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, before, during, and after critical incidents.

Legacy was developed by CDC in collaboration with the University of Miami, UCLA, and RTI International, and designed as a randomized controlled trial to test the idea that the Legacy intervention during early childhood might improve children's development.

Jami M. Furr, Ph.D., is Clinical Director of the Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, and Director of the Selective Mutism Program at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Florida International University, where she is also Clinical Assistant Professor.

For most of these interventions, and to the best of my knowledge, the US did not even make a case for having casus belli under international law.

The international intervention is a defeat for the Libyan revolution because the insurgents have had to seek protection... from those same international powers that up until yesterday had done business with Gaddafi over oil and stopping the movement of migrants.

PACE (29.07.1974, Resolution 573): «The Turkish military INTERVENTION was the exercise of a RIGHT EMANATING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY and the fulfilment of a LEGAL and MORAL obligation.»

The fairly shambolic nature of the response from the west, and the international community as a whole (and the fact that though shamefully belated it managed to avert the imminent catastrophe in Benghazi) shows that we have learnt little or nothing from Bosnia, Kossovo, Kurdistan, where intervention helped, still less from the many other areas where nothing effective was done, and we essentially abandoned people to their fate.

See for example the 2000 Declaration of the South Summit by the G77 composed of about 130 member States [«We reject the so - called «right» of humanitarian intervention, which has no legal basis in the United Nations Charter or in the general principles of international law».

By jettisoning the liberal - illiberal binary and giving international intervention only its due attention, it may be possible to consider a network of fluid and multifaceted «international - local» interactions, much like Frederick Cooper has analysed colonial - subject relations during the imperial era.

So, for the UK to see its vision of international law on humanitarian intervention established, it has to insist that that vision is already established.

If international intervention has a limited place in moulding popular discourses, there is a need to question the extent to which we unduly privilege studying interveners and instead turn towards a nuanced and fine - grained analysis focusing on the inhabitants of war - affected regions, with only proportionate attention to international actors.

The argument that there is a right of humanitarian intervention is usually put as an argument that a rule of customary international law has developed since the UN Charter.

He supervises MPhil and PhD theses for both POLIS and the Faculty of History, which deal primarily with German and British history in its international context, and the history of humanitarian intervention.

The UK is of course one of the few States that does accept that international law provides a right of humanitarian intervention.

International intervention in war - affected regions is the subject of much academic attention.

The argument that international law today allows for unilateral right of humanitarian intervention is very weak.

Significantly, the intimation that international intervention propounded a specific narrative of the conflict that lends legitimacy to Museveni's regime may be true, but it was evident that such a discourse did not gain traction across society.

Russian elites have used Obama's striking change of opinion as proof that Moscow's military interventions in Ukraine and Syria have boosted Russia's international status.

More recently, the use of high altitude bombing by NATO forces during the Kosovo intervention was the subject of criticism (Independent International Convention on Kosovo Report, 289 - 92).

The reasons can be summarized in the following: - > Harsh economic environment of pre-Revolutionary Russia - > Imperialistic Intervention - > Tough international environment during socialist construction (WWI, WWII)- > Opportunistic transformation of the Communist Party (Adoption of capitalistic methods in economy, less power to the soviets, etc..)

The prime minister's comments were rejected by Dr James Smith, chief executive of the anti-genocide Aegis Group, who called for much greater international intervention into Darfur.

The Report highlights the significant shift since 2010 in DFID's international development strategy to increasingly promote private sector involvement in the design and delivery of education services, despite the fact that DFID's own research evidence questions the impact of such interventions in relation to education quality and equity for learners.

Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, reportedly made the intervention after he was asked for help by Anthony Ward, whose firm, Armajaro Holdings, had been banned from trading following allegations that a contractor was involved in smuggling cocoa out of Ghana.

«In terms of the distribution of the satellite boxes, government will make an intervention because as a social democratic government, we believe that the international agreement that is saying that we should migrate from analogue to the digital broadcasting must also be sensitive to the plight of the have - nots.

The House of Representatives spokesman while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday said that the constituency projects funds, also known as zonal intervention funds, were standard international practice.