Sentences with phrase «under the treaties signed»

Palmater argues that the federal government has failed to meet its obligations under the treaties signed with Canada's Aboriginal peoples.

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[77] The Rashidun caliph Umar ibn al - Khattab signed a treaty with Monophysite Christian Patriarch Sophronius, assuring him that Jerusalem's Christian holy places and population would be protected under Muslim rule.

Indians are subject to the treaties that us white folk made you sign under the threat of annihilation.

they can also litigate it: internal laws generally favor countries who signed unfair treaties under duress.

But with the US's signature on the treaty, industry and government will be under strong moral pressure to obey any rules set by Third World governments — a far better situation than if the US had continued to refuse to sign the treaty.

Such claims, however, have little practical effect under the treaty, which does not recognize, dispute, or establish territorial claims, and establishes an access system to the continent governed by the 50 nations that have signed the treaty.

HFC's are cousins to chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC's), two other classes of refrigerants which are being eliminated under the Montreal Protocol, a 21 - year old treaty signed by 195 nations to control the gases that opened up a hole in the earth - protecting ozone layer of the atmosphere.

The latest such informal treaty text to speed around the halls at the Bella Center was the most important — a six - page partial draft summarizing the work of what's called the Ad - Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention (which basically means an unofficial compilation of the views of all of 192 countries that have signed onto the original 1992 climate treaty, which serves as a foundation for whatever comes next).

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.

The idea I'll deal with in this post is that developed countries would sign an entirely new treaty under the LCA, leaving the Kyoto Protocol behind and starting afresh, while developing countries would take on their own commitments as per their abilities.

The United States could sign a treaty with Canada under which it undertook to eradicate the death penalty throughout the nation.

This isn't malicious as the United States will only sign extradition treaties where the crime has a similar crime and penalty under both legal systems.

It should be noted that by the said treaty not the whole territory of the Vilnius region which had to belong to the Republic of Lithuania under the Peace Treaty signed by Lithuania and Russia on 12 July 1920 was transferred to the Republic of Lithuania.

The Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment, and it states that treaties signed by the U.S. are the «supreme Law of the Land» under Article Six.