The parental responsibility referred to in Article 16 may be terminated, or the conditions of its exercise modified, by measures
taken under this Convention.
Cluster munitions (prohibitions) bill The purpose of the bill is to create prohibitions on the sue, production and transfer of cluster munitions and implement the UK's international obligations
under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) Definition of cluster munitions and relevant explosive bomblets Establishes offences in relation to these prohibited munitions Powers to enter and search premises for prohibited munitions, powers to remove and destroy prohibited munitions
And with that, these two dignitaries left the room, their entourages scurrying after them, and Minister Witoelar turned us to Item 4 on the Agenda — the crux of the Bali Road Map — the «Ad - hoc Working Group on Long - term Cooperative
Action under the Convention.»
The mandate of the ADP is to develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal
force under the Convention applicable to all Parties, which is to be completed no later than 2015 in order for it to be adopted at the twenty - first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and for it to come into effect and be implemented from 2020.
Parties further requested the ADP to intensify its work, with a view to making available a negotiating text for a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force
under the Convention applicable to all Parties before May 2015.
But as of today, for Binyam Mohamed, the British government is halfway toward honoring its obligations
under the Convention against Torture to uncover the truth and to compensate for torture.
In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international
commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, which reviewed Saudi Arabia's treatment of children
under the Convention in January 2005, strongly condemned the government for its practice of imposing the death penalty on juveniles, calling it «a serious violation of the fundamental rights».
In another case, Mr. Mirer assisted with an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to help an individual who is appealing removal from the United
States under Convention Against Torture (CAT) protections.
The court reiterated that there was no place
under the Convention system for automatic forfeiture of rights by prisoners based purely on what might offend public opinion.
On the one hand, obligations emanating from Security Council resolutions displace obligations
arising under the Convention by virtue of Articles 25 (2) and 103 of the Charter (cf. Lockerbie).
In Lima, the COP, by decision 1 / CP.20, reiterated its resolve to enhance ambition in the pre-2020 period in order to ensure the highest possible mitigation
efforts under the Convention by all Parties.
The report also confirms that many of the products are from internationally protected great whale species including fin, sei, minke, sperm and Bryde's whale — all of whom are protected under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of
protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
This UNFCCC fact sheet explains the need for mitigation, lists current mechanisms for emission reduction and highlights commitments
made under the Convention.
A Contracting State may at any time in a declaration deposited with the Depositary of the Protocol list the categories of non-consensual right or interest which shall be registrable
under this Convention as regards any category of object as if the right or interest were an international interest and shall be regulated accordingly.
- Cites: If your pet is not a dog, cat, or ferret, and especially if it is a turtle or parrot, you should verify that it is not
protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
In one bird shop in Hong Kong, the investigators were offered Moluccan cockatoos and Goffin's cockatoos — two species for which all trade is
banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species — provided they ordered at least a hundred birds.
They are also
illegal under the Convention Against Torture of 1984, to which the United States is a signatory, and illegal under the War Crimes Act of 1996 (though the Military Commissions Act of 2006 makes an attempt to shield those who applied the «alternative set of procedures» from legal consequences under this law).
Sri Lanka's Business and Biodiversity (B&B) Platform has emerged as the first from South Asia to gain membership of the Global Partnership on Business and Biodiversity (GPBB)
established under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
In particular, it aims to assist Parties in tracking the Financial Mechanism of the Convention and to inform the intergovernmental process under the UNFCCC and relevant stakeholders on the mobilization of resources to support developing countries in the implementation of adaptation and mitigation projects and other
activities under the Convention.
Annual report on the technical review of information reported
under the Convention related to biennial reports and national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention.
The co-chairs of SBI said that a number of issues had concluded but some need more time and some are politically sensitive, having impact in other areas of
work under the Convention and Kyoto Protocol.
It said: «There is no
place under the Convention system, where tolerance and broadmindedness are the acknowledged hallmarks of democratic society, for automatic forfeiture of rights by prisoners based purely on what might offend public opinion.»
SDM supports the implementation of the three Kyoto mechanisms - the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Joint Implementation (JI), and International Emissions Trading (IET), as well as the elaboration of new
mechanisms under the Convention: Framework for Various Approaches (FVA), Non-Market-Based Approaches (NMA) and the New - Market - Based Mechanism (NMM).
Such
cases under the Convention are referred to as «foreign cases» following terminology of Lord Bingham in R (Ullah) v Special Adjudicator [2004] 2 AC 323.
This action produced a dilemma for pro-life Liberals, such as the Honourable John McKay, who had previously
served under the convention that controversial moral issues, if raised in the House of Commons, would be settled by a free vote so as not to coerce members into violating their consciences.
Furthermore, as more populations are declared protected, and more and more species are
listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the demand for forensic testing in wildlife cases is sure to increase.
The Protocol's monitoring procedures are based on existing reporting and review
procedures under the Convention, building on experience gained in the climate change process over the past decade.
The CSI has comprehensively reviewed POPs emissions from cement plants, and worked closely with the Stockholm Convention (on POPs) Secretariat to help formulate reliable control measures as
required under the convention.
In this case (which concerned a prisoner's right to vote) the ECtHR said that «prisoners in general continue to enjoy all the fundamental rights and freedoms
guaranteed under the Convention save for the right to liberty, where lawfully imposed detention expressly falls within the scope of Art 5».