Sentences with phrase «of violations of international law»

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The U.S. has declared Russia's incursion into Crimea a violation of international law and does not recognize its annexation of the peninsula.

Jen makes an announcement and requests that everyone refrain from throwing the poop bags overboard as it is a violation of international maritime laws.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: «President Putin regards the U.S. attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped - up pretext at that,» according to the Russian Tass new agency.

«It would be a flagrant violation,» said Alan O. Sykes, a professor of law at Stanford and an expert on international economic relations.

In September, Roskomnadzor warned CNN International over alleged violations of Russian media law.101 In October, the Ministry of Justice warned Radio Svoboda and Nastoyashcheye Vremya — the Russian - language outlets of U.S. - funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL)-- about the possibility of being designated as foreign agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

US considering limits on China's tech investments The US Department of the Treasury is considering deploying a little - used law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to potentially block transactions and seize assets if President Trump declares China's violation of US intellectual property rights a national emergency.

ICRC president Peter Maurer says the attack was a «flagrant violation of international humanitarian law» and «totally unacceptable».

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.»

They stated that the «brutal aggression» is a «clear violation of the international laws and the UN Charter», and was an «unjustified assault» on a sovereign country that is a member of the United Nations.

The resolution, passed every year at the United Nations since 1999, claims that speech deemed offensive to another faith is a violation of international law.

Violates or encourages the violation of any municipal, state, provincial, federal or international law, rule, regulation or ordinance; iv.

The Company web site may not be used in connection with criminal or civil violations of state, federal, or international laws, regulations, or other government rules or requirements.

The use of mustard gas is a violation of international law.

Would the existence of a permanent international criminal court deter violations of the laws of war, or would it prolong conflict?

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.

Last September, the Nordic Ombudsmen for Children issued a joint statement declaring non-therapeutic circumcision of boys a violation of international human rights law.

The Holy See has referred obliquely to the violation of international law in speaking about the situation in Ukraine.

The Arab League says Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a «dangerous violation of international law».

While abundant, dramatic violations of human rights still dominate the headlines, the last half - century has seen explosive growth in human rights consciousness and activism and in international humans rights laws and institutions.

«The Palestinian sites of al - Haram, al - Ibrahimi / Tomb of the Patriarchs in al - Khalil / Hebron and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque / Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem: the Board voted 44 to one (12 abstentions) to reaffirm that the two sites are an integral part of the occupied Palestinian Territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law...»

U.S. violations of international law, failure to curb covert activities, refusal on «national security grounds» to release key evidence in the Iran - Contra and related trials, cooperation with drug runners in pursuit of illegal foreign policy objectives, and an obedient press all point dangerously towards a national security state.

And this is the problem: the measures he proposes would and could only be enforced at the cost of massive violations of human rights, and by dismantling the fragile but promising structures of technological know - how, international law, trade, and communication by which we are building up a still - feeble sense of what it means to be a single humanity on a single globe, under God and responsible for a common world.

The Islamabad - based NGO The Network for Consumer Protection (The Network) claimed formula milk had been distributed in camps, in violation of the International Code and Pakistan's own laws.

Now he's looking at the prospect of being the president who, in effect, sanctioned the use of chemical weapons, a violation of international law.

UK arms export rules are clear that licences for military equipment should not be granted if there is a «clear risk» that they «might» be used in violation of international humanitarian law.

Human Rights Watch reports claim that while West African forces helped restore security in these crises, which took place over a decade ago, they were also complicit in serious violations of international humanitarian law, including looting, harassment, and arbitrary detention of civilians, as well as — in the case of Sierra Leone — summary executions of suspected rebels.

Those assembled demanded an immediate halt to American drone attacks in the tribal regions, a severe violation of human rights and international law.

Under orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin, on February 28th, Russian forces entered the Ukraine's Crimean peninsula — in violation of international law.

Democratic Assemblyman Alec Brook - Krasny (D - 46th Assembly District - Brooklyn), the first Soviet - born, Russian - speaking Member of the Assembly, has signed onto Tedisco's resolution as a co-sponsor and is urging his counterparts in Washington, D.C. to send a crystal clear message to Russian autocratic President Vladimir Putin, that invading a sovereign nation is an unacceptable violation of international law.

It really isn't the UN's job to decide how countries will protect themselves or what relationships they'll have with other countries, unless there's a clear violation of international law.

«Would you accept that the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion was largely due to your failure to ensure: (1) that system was in place to ensure a transparent and accountable spending of budget for military operations in strict accordance with the standards of international law including the UN Convention against Corruption; (2) that any such system was operating in a continuous and effective manner; and (3) that violations of the standards were punished when detected by that system?

It is an assault on UK sovereignty and any such use by a state party is a clear violation of the chemical weapons convention and a breach of international law.

«There are serious allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law against Nigerians and other African women, men and children in Libya with absolute impunity.

Each country has full control over its own borders unless otherwise negotiated or in violation of international law.

Every militant group is located in a sovereign nation, by bombing that group, you are also bombing the nation, which might cause some violations of international laws.

For the past decade, trade unions representing thousands of workers, student unions, faith groups and local councils have mobilised to end UK complicity with Israel's repeated violations of international law in its policies against Palestinians.

While all combatants are obliged to comply with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, violations of these rules shall not deprive a combatant of his right to be a combatant or, if he falls into the power of an adverse Party, of his right to be a prisoner of war, except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 4.

«The Nigerian Army through this action want to assure the nation and international community that we shall not condone cases of violation of laws of armed conflict in the discharge of our constitutional responsibilities.»

Thornberry stressed the importance of investigation and accountability for violations of international law in Gaza, asking Alistair Burt:

Watson said the deployment of 59 Tomahawk missiles «appear to be a direct and proportionate response to a clear violation of international law by the Syrian regime».

To call out workers on «essential services» for a national strike without any major trade dispute with their direct employers will be tantamount to blatant violation of our extant labour laws and international labour standards.

The Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, viewed the action taken by Trump as an «aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made - up up pretext».

Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the US for launching missile strikes against the Assad regime in Syria - hours after his deputy called the strikes a «direct and proportionate response to a clear violation of international law».

Undoubtedly, Western interests are at stake in Syria and the region more widely, but we are not going to advance or protect them by unilateral military action — not only because such action would be in violation of international law but also because it can not achieve desirable outcomes.

The attack on the Skripals was a violation of international law prohibiting such use of these chemicals.

One way of achieving this might be to empower women to confront the state committing such human rights violations against them, through international and domestic forums coupled with the ability to directly challenge men in society who harm them.83 It must be recognized in law that the violation of women sexually and reproductively is a «form of unequal treatment.»

Thus, when men employ these liberties socially to deny women their rights, a human rights violation is not seen to be committed.21 History dictates the subordination of women to men and thus women's «enforced inequality» 22 is a reality of which is mirrored in domestic and international law preventing the protection of women in conflict and peace and the pursuit of accountability.

And as I said earlier, people who care about the rights of Palestinians are labeled anti-Israeli, whereas people, especially U.S. Congressmen, who enable Israel's daily violations of international law, are friends of Israel who simply want peace between the two sides.

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During the last fifteen years, the United States imprisoned at least 780 Muslim men, nearly all without charge, at Guantanamo Bay in violation of international law.