Sentences with phrase «violation of international law»

57, just family household member in violation of international law and its only a feeling.

Despite all the talk of potential violations of international law, what all this comes down to is money.

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

«We call on the Israeli military to end their violent use of live gunfire on unarmed protesters, in clear violation of international law.

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

Conor's book, Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) explores the ICC's regime of victim redress and the role it plays within the context of other systems of remedies for grave violations of international law at the national and international levels.

The firing of rockets and other munitions of war into Israeli territory from Gaza constitutes serious violations of international law and of international humanitarian law.

Syrian state media called the attack a «flagrant violation of international law.»

The Russian role in the devastating violence in eastern Ukraine is clear to the global community; so is the grave violation of international law involved in Russia's annexation of Crimea.

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

The West of course never adopted such a view, in its own opinion there were never any such minor violations 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.

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.

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».

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.

Expert Consultant, British Institute of International and Comparative Law: external expert consultant on a donor - funded project concerning remedies for victims of violations of international law causing harm to education.

Inter Press reports on a statement issued by groups representing more than 300 international lawyers, jurists and physicians warning that a military attack on Iraq would not only be a blatant violation of international law but could kill over 260,000 people.

If an individual is a Convention Refugee, then the Courts will intervene to determine whether his deportation to his country of origin would expose him to the risk of torture, in violation of the international law principle of non-refoulement.

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.

Delivering the Annual Grotius Lecture, Lord Bingham, said the invasion has been a «serious violation of international law».

In that case, the Supreme Court will be considering the controversial decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the Alien Tort Statute (which allows lawsuits in U.S. courts for violations of international law) does not create a legal basis for such suits against corporations.

The next year the court declared that the U.S. had violated international law in a variety of ways in its actions toward Nicaragua — the «first time in the history of the Court that the United States was found in violation of international law in a matter involving the use of force against another nation,» Moynihan notes.

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

But after being presented with evidence gathered by Google's machine learning algorithms, he realized he had been caught red - handed and admitted the violation of international law.

While acknowledging Israel's serious security concerns and asserting that the construction of the barrier on its own territory would not have been a violation of international law, the statement called on «member Churches, Ec umenical Councils of Churches, Christian World Communions and specialized ministries of churches to condemn the wall as an act of unlawful annexation.»

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.

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

Similarly, we are constantly told that we are not engaging in war in Central America, or taking any part in the fighting there, even though our own CIA has mined harbors in international waters — an act of war (and a violation of international law) if ever there was one.

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

«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...»

The humanitarian group described the suicide attack as a violation of international law and warned it could lead to reprisals putting further civilians at risk.

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.

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

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.

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.

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».

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

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.

The Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is the first citizens» effort in the country to appeal directly to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international law and human rights.

Conflating the events on the battlefield and the violations of international law that occurred afterwards may be self - serving, but it misses the point.

Mr Rivkin commented: «President Erdogan's fierce and unrelenting assault on Turkey's democratic institutions in violation of international law and the nation's Constitution has removed any credibility for his actions.

The ongoing representation of a US oil and gas drilling company in US and Venezuelan litigations against the Republic of Venezuela and the Venezuelan national oil company for takings in violation of international law and breaches of contract under the expropriation and commercial activities exceptions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

An AAA arbitration, sited in Washington with District of Columbia law applying, involving claims of expropriation and violations of international law in connection with an investment in the Middle East.

In a December 30, 2013 decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the FSIA because the dispute was purely a domestic Venezuelan matter and thus there was no violation of international law.

In each case, the plaintiff alleged that Venezuela, SUDEBAN, and other Venezuelan agencies and officials had expropriated assets in violation of international law.

The Court held that because the predecessor was a Venezuelan entity, there was no violation of international law.