It is believed that if the international agreement is adhered to‚ the ozone layer is expected to recover by 2050. Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol" It has been ratified by 196 states. OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES: What are ozone depleting substances? Ozone depleting
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1. Introduction The New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards‚ 1958 (“Convention” or “NYC”)‚ at its basest level‚ is a mutual understanding between signatory states that their legal systems will make genuine efforts at recognising and enforcing an arbitral award that is jurisdictionally linked to another signatory state. As it is first and foremost a creature of international law‚ this agreement obliges each signatory state to apply only the rules specified
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Position Paper Guideline Position papers for all committees should: be one page in length‚ single spaced (for all committees except Press Corps; see Special Instructions for Press Corps below) have one-inch margins use size 12 Times New Roman font be in black print only have the Committee Name‚ Topic Area‚ Country Name‚ School Name‚ and Delegate Name(s) headings in the upper left corner of the page appear untitled include citations (not considered to be part of the one page paper
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their daily search for clean water‚ women in rural sub-Saharan Africa literally and symbolically walk the social‚ economic‚ and geographic paths along which‚ scholars argue‚ the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be mapped." Link It was back in 2002 when Kofi Annan identified women as the backbone of Africa‚ and sounded the dire alarm that the combination of famine and AIDS was disproporationately impacting African women "who keep African societies going and whose work makes up the economic foundation of rural
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After the 2001 September 11th attacks‚ the Bush administration needed a secure place to keep its enemies captured in the “war on terror”. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had already established “black sites”‚ or secret detention centres‚ all over the world. However‚ the Bush administration needed a location outside of international law so they could keep detainees indefinitely while interrogating them without legal intervention. They also needed a location that would not become a target for
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2007 PIA Dongtan Eco-City‚ Shanghai National Congress Perth‚ WA Roger Wood Arup 4th May 2007 2007 PIA Why Dongtan ? Ch o Ya ng tze ng mi ng Ri ve r Isl an National Congress Perth‚ WA d Dongtan N 1 2007 PIA What Dongtan ? National Congress Perth‚ WA 8‚400 Hectares No Infrastructure Ramsar Site 3 Hours to Shanghai 2007 PIA How Dongtan ? National Congress Perth‚ WA 2 2007 PIA National Congress vision and
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Introduction The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia‚ bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West‚ Turkey to the North‚ Iraq to the East‚ Jordan to the South‚ and Israel to the Southwest. In March 2011‚ the Syria conflict has begun due to various reasons and is still going on today. This outbreak is one of the key factors which resulted the Arab Spring (Arab Uprising). Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab
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jacob stevens P R I S O N S O F T H E S TAT E L E S S The Derelictions of UNHCR T here are currently over 20 million people ‘of concern’ to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Just over half of those are internally displaced or stateless‚ with 8 million having fled across an international border. Established in 1950‚ unhcr was charged by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with the protection of their interests: full political and economic rights in
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Introduction This essay will begin by arguing that the responsibility to protect concept (hereafter R2P) is political in nature‚ not legal. The is mainly due to the lack of legal liability for the main body responsible for carrying out the duties of R2P‚ the Security Council‚ if it fails in those duties. Furthermore‚ the Security Council is not subject judicial review of actions that it does take. Critics of the concept argue that it can be used as a legitimate justification for states with imperialist
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The International Criminal Court and the United States of America Ee Wenyang‚ Jonathan S8811568F I. Introduction The United States of America has a long history of support for international criminal justice that can be traced from the Nürnberg War Crimes Trial through to the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia (“ICTY”) and Rwanda (“ICTR”).[1] Towards the close of the century‚ the United States proved itself as an ardent supporter for the creation of a
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