Sentences with phrase «rights under international law»

Even the Law Society of Upper Canada was upset and issued a statement, which began: «The actions of President General Pervez Musharraf are blatant violations of fundamental human rights under international law and unacceptable attacks on the independence of the judiciary, the bar, and the rule of law.»

and submissions to UN bodies seeking to hold Canada to its commitments to human rights under international law.

There are other concepts (such as «recognized belligerent») that have fewer rights under international law than a «state», but still have some rights and responsibilities under international law.

Not exact matches

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

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«We urge the Iranian government to uphold this right for religious minorities in Iran, in line with its obligations under international law and the provisions upholding the rights of religious minorities in its own constitution.»

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of ChriInternational Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Chriinternational law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

Regarding Zhang's case, Christian Solidarity Worldwide's chief executive Mervyn Thomas said his advocacy group welcomed the release and restated its call to «allow Zhang his freedom without condition, upholding his right to freedom of movement and association, and all the rights and freedoms guaranteed under international and Chinese law.»

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.

It found that despite a child's right to freedom of religion or belief under international law, students still face verbal, psychological and even physical abuse from students and teachers.

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Member states (MS) must ensure that the Commission is not granted the power to undermine a human right international law and thus misinterpret duty / obligation under it.

Also, I'm no expert on international law but from the little I do know about law: An action, which does not infringe on a party's acknowledged rights under effective law, also does not constitute a wrong committed against said party which might legitimize perpetrating wrongs in retaliation.

While the government in some limited cases can legitimately place restrictions on the public's right to access certain information, attempts of the Nigerian authorities to justify the total closure of information related to the names of public officials from whom funds were recovered on the basis of «ongoing criminal investigation» and «presumption of innocence goes far beyond the limitations allowed under international law, and would promote secret recoveries.»

The Geneva Convention allows them to be «detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action; subject of course to international treaties on justice and human rights such as everyone's right to a fair trial.»

Doing so would be at best unnecessary and at worst give the UK government cover to weaken core rights of people in the UK protected under international law, such as their rights to privacy or family life.

The PDP called on «all lovers of democracy especially the international community to note the fact that rule of law and respect for citizens» rights, essential ingredients of civil liberty have taken flight in Nigeria under Buhari's watch».

If a state can meet these conditions, under current international law it is permissible to give priority to human rights obligations over the obligations of the U.N. drug conventions.

Even if continental shelf extensions were conferred all the way to the North Pole — unambiguously in the overlying water column — high seas still would exist beyond sovereign jurisdictions, where more than 160 nations have rights and responsibilities under international law.

The Rights of Refugees Under International Law, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005.

CITIZENS RIGHTS WATCH (CRW) or «The Citizens» is an independent, non-governmental, non - profit, and goal - oriented organization promoting internationally recognized human rights under the principles of International human rightsRIGHTS WATCH (CRW) or «The Citizens» is an independent, non-governmental, non - profit, and goal - oriented organization promoting internationally recognized human rights under the principles of International human rightsrights under the principles of International human rightsrights laws.

A distinction has to be made between national identity building legitimate under international human rights law and a propagandistic ideology formation serving limited interests of people in power.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Leaving aside the question about justicability, it could be claimed that the right to education (especially right to self - determination and right to receive impartial information in education) is being infringed because of the inconformity of the described practice with state's obligations under international law described above.

Within this perspective, Paul Weis describes refugees as «a vessel on the open sea, not sailing under any flag ’23 while Hannah Arendt observed that refugees are without rights because each nation - state has primary obligation to protect the rights, interests and expectations of its own citizens first, no matter where they are.24 However, both international and national refugee laws are adopted with the sole aim to ensure entitlement of the basic rights, proclaimed under a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and punder any flag ’23 while Hannah Arendt observed that refugees are without rights because each nation - state has primary obligation to protect the rights, interests and expectations of its own citizens first, no matter where they are.24 However, both international and national refugee laws are adopted with the sole aim to ensure entitlement of the basic rights, proclaimed under a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and punder a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and pUnder these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and peace.

www.citizensrw.org CITIZENS RIGHTS WATCH (CRW) or «The Citizens» is an independent, non-governmental, non - profit, and goal - oriented organization promoting internationally recognized human rights under the principles of International human rightsRIGHTS WATCH (CRW) or «The Citizens» is an independent, non-governmental, non - profit, and goal - oriented organization promoting internationally recognized human rights under the principles of International human rightsrights under the principles of International human rightsrights laws.

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How would the court trying Oxfam's fictional case under «international law» (whatever they think that is) determine and make a distinction between «natural» and anthropogenic shifts in climate, resulting in the injured party's loss of a «right» to a stable climate?

Their human rights must be respected and upheld, as guarantee under the Peruvian Political Constitution, the precautionary measures granted by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on May 5, 2014, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and as supported by the latest determination of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmental destrurights must be respected and upheld, as guarantee under the Peruvian Political Constitution, the precautionary measures granted by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on May 5, 2014, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and as supported by the latest determination of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmental destruRights (IACHR) on May 5, 2014, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and as supported by the latest determination of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmental destruRights, and as supported by the latest determination of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmentalInternational Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmentalinternational law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmental destruction.

Executive Summary Countries» obligations under international human rights law are well established.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

The Court further pointed out that as «the duration of an asylum procedure may be relevant and that, in particular in periods of substantial surges in applications for international protection, the time laid down by EU law are often exceed it» making the right to family reunification depend upon the moment when the asylum procedure is closed would de facto have the effect of nullifying that right and the protection under Article 10 (3)(a)(para 57).

In its judgment, the SCC explained that even though EU law is not itself part of the constitutional canon, «both international treaties and agreements, including European secondary legislation, may provide valuable interpretative criteria of the meaning and scope of the rights and freedoms that the Constitution recognises,» taking into account the interpretive decisions rendered «by the bodies of guarantee established under those same international treaties and agreements.»

One excellent example of the use of social media to disseminate research findings is a 165 - page report by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic) released this week, Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan.

It also argues that the cuts fail to comply with Canada's obligations to protect the rights of refugees under international law.

Subject to paragraph 2, a Contracting State may at any time designate an entity or entities in its territory as the entry point or entry points through which there shall or may be transmitted to the International Registry information required for registration other than registration of a notice of a national interest or a right or interest under Article 40 in either case arising under the laws of another State.

The Hungary v Slovakia - case discussed here makes an exception for international law: even though the fundamental status of Mr Sólyom is his EU - citizenship, the fact that he falls under international law as President of Hungary may limit his free movement rights.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

Urgenda argued that the Dutch state had therefore breached a duty of care owed to them (and to Dutch society generally), had infringed their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights («ECHR»), and had contravened various obligations under international law and the Dutch Constitrights under the European Convention on Human Rights («ECHR»), and had contravened various obligations under international law and the Dutch ConstitRights («ECHR»), and had contravened various obligations under international law and the Dutch Constitution.

Under this presumption, the ECtHR did not fully release EU Member States of their responsibility for having transferred their activities to the level of an international organisation like the EU, but established after a thorough investigation that the EU's system of fundamental rights protection according to the state of the law at the time was appropriate in the sense of the ECHR.

In a nutshell, a Hague Convention application may be made when a child is taken or retained across an international border, away from his or her habitual residence, without the consent of a parent who has rights of custody under the law of the habitual residence, if the two countries are parties to the Convention.

Garzon v. Spain, ECtHR: Produced an expert opinion with James Crawford SC on permissibility under international law of application of limitation periods in respect of grave violations of international human rights law.

We focus on the domestic and international protection of trademarks, trade secrets, trade dress under the Lanham Act and other laws and copyrights, rights of publicity and privacy.

If it formulated its ruling in such a way as to highlight the exceptionality of the circumstances that would force Member States to apply Article 25 (1) of the Visa Code to issue LTVs despite the fact that there might be reasons to refuse a visa according to Article 32 of the Visa Code, the EU would honor its obligations under international and European refugee and human rights law, without endangering the functioning of the CEAS.

Atlas Bulk Shipping A / S v Navios International Inc (2011) Instructed on an appeal to the Court of Appeal concerning rights of set - off under Article 21 of the UNCITRAL Model Law and Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 and the ability of the English Court to grant additional relief upon recognition of a foreign insolvency proceeding (with Richard Snowden QC).

This claim is particularly significant, says Doley, «Because Egypt's infringement of the rights of Al Jazeera and its employees to freedom of expression (as guaranteed under international law) plays such an important role in its mistreatment of our Al Jazeera» sinvestment».

Public law children: Acting for local authorities, parents, and children, Charlotte receives instructions in all areas of public law children proceedings, as well as cases involving non-accidental injury; international and national adoptions; and those under the inherent jurisdiction involving the right to life or medical treatment for children.

The author aptly highlights that the interaction between the freedom of establishment, the internal market mechanisms and investors» rights under public international law has proven not to be self - evident.