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This legislation provides for universal jurisdiction over any or a combination of the following: (a) grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I thereto (primarily States members of the Commonwealth); (b) crimes specified under the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (for example, Cyprus, Japan and the Netherlands); (c) other violations of international humanitarian law where no treaty requires universal jurisdiction, such as war crimes committed in non-international armed conflict (Belgium, Canada, New Zealand and the Philippines) and violations of treaties

After considering the report of the contact group set up to discuss the issue, the Executive Committee noted that the anticipated actions required by Article 5 countries to meet compliance obligations after 2010 provided an indication that funding support for institutional strengthening would likely be needed after 2010, and that possible funding arrangements and levels for institutional strengthening support beyond 2010 would have to be examined,

In addition — although this is not a crucial factor — the matter relates not to article 73 of the 1969 Vienna Convention but to article 74, paragraph 1, of the 1986 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations.9 Moreover, as the wording of the provision indicates, international organizations as such do not wage war; there will probably be few cases in which the obligations of States members of an organization have to be considered in the light of an armed conflict between them, and such cases could,

A few delegations reiterated that dynamic interpretation was legally possible and that they were not ready to accept a “blanket prohibition” that would preclude the effective

The major challenge encountered in this process has been how to maintain UNESCO’s specificity, hence strength, as a specialized agency with its complex composites of intergovernmental committees with its own political and

It is indeed urgent that the Security Council respond to the various national and

The trade unions have sent repeatedly to the Government proposals to include criminal and administrative liability for the breach of the

During the second half of 2003, the renewal of the website became far more noticeable and the coherence of all the efforts made became more apparent with the posting of the new home page for the opening of the

If Christianity did not exist at all in Upper Egypt before AD 150, then we must come down to the date of Demetrius as the earliest possible date of the version; but if, as is more likely, the Christian religion had spread by means of the Nile immediately after it began to be preached in Alexandria, and had already become infected by heretical and semi-pagan superstitions in the second century, we may provisionally conclude from the character of the Sahidic version that

Next in order was the Geneva version (1557-1560) (the first version to recognize the division of the text into verses); the Bishops' Bible (1568); the Rheims and Douai versions, under Roman Catholic auspices (1582, 1609) (still the standard Roman Catholic Bible); the Authorized Version (1611) (the most broadly distributed version, also called King James Authorized Version [KJAV]; the work of fifty-four scholars from Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster; a number of revisions were soon made, in

KIT digital is headquartered in Prague, and maintains principal offices in Atlanta, Beijing, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cambridge (UK), Chennai, Cologne, Delhi, Dubai,

On the question of specific funding, Ms. Omoigui-Okauru informed the Committee that €15,000 had been provided by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ),

While some WTO members had underlined the positive aspects of private standards on quality and access to high quality markets, many other members had expressed the following concerns: the application of private standards at the import stage resulted in de facto barriers to trade, and created difficulties especially for developing countries; complying with these standards required multiple certification by private bodies, with a high cost for small producers; in

Two major projects have been implemented, one to improve teacher-training modules, the other to promote preventive education for children in difficult situations, in particular street children, with the dual aim of: (i) giving children, in particular underprivileged