"At some point the world community needs to come together and draft some new convention or treaty, " said Paul Dempsey, director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and McGill University in Montreal.
Last year, after Senate hearings on the Chemical Weapons Convention revealed that the treaty is unverifiable and could have a negative impact on U.S. national security, its ratification was sidetracked for a time.
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These include such onerous and invasive agreements as the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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In addition, Russia continues to violate its international arms control obligations, including -- but not limited to -- the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, the INF Treaty, the START I Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and various chemical weapons conventions.
Cuba does not have an extradition treaty with the US and is not a signatory to the international treaty, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
From their it gets a little too lawyerly for me getting into whether the treaty is a covenant or a convention and if it is self-executing or not.
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The target this time was a draft scheme to enforce the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), a 1972 treaty banning germ war.
The Bush administration is urging the Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing and other ocean activities.
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Chief among these are the agreements on Multilateralization and Demarcation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, and the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Convention on Climate Change.
The U.S. Senate should reject ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a treaty that purports to ban chemical weapons and forbid their production, stockpiling, and use.
Against all these grounds for rejecting the Chemical Weapons Convention, the administration and other proponents have been reduced to claiming that the treaty will establish an "international norm" against the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.
Since 1976, trade in rhinoceros horn has been regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a treaty signed by more than 175 countries to protect fish, wildlife and plants that are or may become imperiled as a result of demand in international markets.
Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and others.
It is unclear whether the court's move is compatible with the terms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an international treaty that grants diplomats immunity from criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction in the country that hosts them.
And, if the Clinton Administration has its way, they are unlikely to find out until it is too late, given that the implementing legislation and other particulars of treaty compliance will not be considered until long after the Convention is ratified.
If these were not grounds enough to sack the Chemical Weapons Convention, another one looms large: The treaty will impose substantial new cost, inspection and reporting requirements on a host of industries that have nothing to do with chemical weapons or even chemical manufacturing.
If these were not grounds enough to sack the Chemical Weapons Convention, another one looms large: The treaty will impose substantial new cost, inspection and reporting requirements on a host of industries that have nothing to do with chemical weapons -- or even chemical manufacturing.
The question of extinction most recently surfaced at the talks on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) - the treaty meant to save endangered species from the devastating effects of trade.
This is something that unfortunately, the United States is not in a position to do because we have yet to ratify that convention and it's one of the reasons why we are interested and supportive of having that treaty be ratified by the U.S. Senate.
For some reasons that treaty supporters acknowledge and some they do not the Chemical Weapons Convention must be defeated.
For some reasons that treaty supporters acknowledge -- and some they do not -- the Chemical Weapons Convention must be defeated.
The main international treaty which governs archaeology in occupied territories is the Hague Convention of 1954, which deals by-and-large with the preservation of culturally significant sites.
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