Sentences with phrase «ratify international treaties»

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.

The starting point is the fact that, under the U.S. Constitution, two - thirds of the Senate, or 67 votes, are needed to ratify any international treaty.

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The report included a recommendation that Canada ratify several international patent and trademark treaties, which came as a surprise (particularly to opposition members of parliament) since no witness had raised the issue before the committee.

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.

CEDAW is one of two ostensible human rights treaties that the «international community» has been trying to coax the United States Senate into ratifying for years.

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.

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.

She will, I earnestly hope and confidently believe, give fresh proof of her sincere adherence to the cause of international friendship by ratifying the several treaties of arbitration awaiting renewal by the Senate.

But Mr Murphy warned: «Attempting to reopen negotiations on a Treaty ratified by every member state would put the Tories into the extraordinary position of repudiating an international treaty, reopening and renegotiating Britain's terms of EU membership.»

International human rights treaties ratified by Nigeria and the country's own constitution obligate the government to safeguard the rights of freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.»

Poor Policy Implantation: Nigeria has ratified a few international treaties on health that could ameliorate her health sector but majority of them are usually not domesticated.

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-...]

«The idea that you would trigger exit from an international treaty of the importance of our relationship with the EU without any negotiation, without any sense of what our negotiating position would be, without any sense that we're going to ratify that through Parliament just showed how completely incompetent and out of touch he was.

To be enforced by international law, the world's 44 nuclear nations must ratify the treaty.

The first international astronomical organization, the ESO, 16, 17 was created by international treaty on October 5, 1962, ratified by the Netherlands, Sweden, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and Belgium.

Negotiate and ratify a binding, international climate treaty of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce carbon emissions;

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.

Later in the article, Li Jing again tries to explain the inscrutable U. S. methods for ratifying a treaty: «US law allows the nation to join international agreements in a number of ways, including through the authority of the president.»

It continues to oppose the Kyoto Protocol, the international global - warming treaty that limits emissions from industrialized countries that have ratified it.

As seen in similar campaigns in 2009 to pass a climate bill in the United States and to ratify an international climate treaty in Copenhagen, the system is rigged against us.

One way to prevent an ill - regulated drilling spree would be to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a treaty designed to manage a crowded ocean — including disputes over Arctic oil as well as international fishing and ocean pollution.

The Kyoto Protocol did pass its own thresholds to come into force as an international agreement (> = 55 countries totaling at least 55 % of emissions), but it was vitiated by the refusal of the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty, highlighted in the July 1997 Byrd - Hagen Resolution: http://www.nationalcenter.org/KyotoSenate.html

The case is a global first in seeking enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty ratified by 180 countries, including Canada.

In fact, article 425 of AML, in its first clause, establishes that international arbitration is regulated by treaties, conventions and protocols signed and ratified by the Ecuadorian State.

5 Art. 42, Arbitration and Mediation Law (1997): «International arbitration is regulated by the treaties, conventions, protocols and all other acts of international law executed and ratified by the Ecuadorian Republic -LRBInternational arbitration is regulated by the treaties, conventions, protocols and all other acts of international law executed and ratified by the Ecuadorian Republic -LRBinternational law executed and ratified by the Ecuadorian Republic -LRB-...)».

In reality, international treaties have had limited impact on Canadian law or policy, even after they are ratified.

Moreover, under Article 238 of the UAE Law of Civil Procedures, the terms of treaties between UAE and foreign countries and international conventions ratified by the UAE are applicable in law in connection with the enforcement and recognition of foreign arbitration awards.

Equally under Article 238 of the Law of Civil Procedures, the terms of treaties between UAE and foreign countries and international conventions ratified by the UAE are applicable in law in connection with the enforcement and recognition of foreign arbitration awards in the UAE.

UN CAT is an international treaty which sets out the responsibility of governments who ratify it to prevent their citizens being subjected to torture and ill - treatment.

Known as investor - state dispute settlement, or ISDS, it is written into a vast network of treaties that govern international trade and investment, including NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, which Congress must soon decide whether to ratify.

Ireland has ratified many international treaties and conventions, including the 6 core human rights treaties of the United Nations Organization (UNO) as well as treaties and conventions emanating from bodies such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Trade Organiinternational treaties and conventions, including the 6 core human rights treaties of the United Nations Organization (UNO) as well as treaties and conventions emanating from bodies such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Trade OrganiInternational Labour Organization (ILO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Trade OrganiInternational Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

While, for instance, responsibilities for education and health are shared between the Commonwealth, States and Territories, responsibility for record - keeping and access resides separately with each jurisdiction; that for juvenile justice and welfare lies with the States and Territories, and the Commonwealth has «special» responsibility for Indigenous people under s 51 (26) of the Constitution (the races power), as well as for Australia's international human rights obligations by way of its Executive power to ratify treaties and its power to «incorporate» them into domestic law under s 51 (29) of the Constitution.

That the Commonwealth government ensure universal ratification of individual communication processes under international human rights treaties by ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

n light of the current state of international law in respect of the rights of Indigenous peoples, and Australia's international legal obligations arising from both customary international law and ratified multilateral treaties, it is incumbent upon Australia to provide positive legal recognition and protection of sea rights for Indigenous Australians.

22 Australia has agreed that the international treaties it joins, including human rights treaties, should be implemented throughout the nation and that the existence of different levels of government provides no reason for Australia's international obligations to be neglected in any part of the country (art 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1155 UNTS 331, Australia ratifietreaties it joins, including human rights treaties, should be implemented throughout the nation and that the existence of different levels of government provides no reason for Australia's international obligations to be neglected in any part of the country (art 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1155 UNTS 331, Australia ratifietreaties, should be implemented throughout the nation and that the existence of different levels of government provides no reason for Australia's international obligations to be neglected in any part of the country (art 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1155 UNTS 331, Australia ratifieTreaties, 1155 UNTS 331, Australia ratified 1974).

While the International Labour Organisation Convention 169 (the ILO Convention) has not been ratified by Australia, its significance lies in the fact that it is the only international human rights treaty dealing specifically with IndigInternational Labour Organisation Convention 169 (the ILO Convention) has not been ratified by Australia, its significance lies in the fact that it is the only international human rights treaty dealing specifically with Indiginternational human rights treaty dealing specifically with Indigenous rights.