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  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade resources

    General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) / World Trade Organization (WTO) resources Legal texts index A-Z Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization Agreement Establishing the WTO: acceptance of and accession to the agreement Agriculture > summary > interpretation Agriculture: measures concerning the possible negative effects of the reform programme on least-developed and net food-importing…

  • Other Environmental conventions

    Other Environmental international conventions Other Environmental multirateral conventions Convention for the Establishment of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (18 April 1951) International Plant Protection Convention (6 December 1951) and the Plant Protection Agreement for the South East Asia and Pacific Region (27 February 1956) Great Lakes Basin Compact (1955) The Antarctic Treaty (1…

  • International Environment resources

    International Environment resources POPULATION Cairo Conference on Population (IISD) Search the Page; Conference Follow-Up; Historical Record of Conference; Preparatory Documentation; Other Background Information World Population Estimates: 1998 Revision (U.N.) Population of All Countries in 1998 and 2050; World Population Growth from Year 0 to 2050; Countries with Population of 50,000,000 (1950, 1998 and 2050); Demographic…

  • War and Peace legal resources

    War and Peace legal resources Chemical And Biological Warfare Chemical Weapons Convention (OPCW) Negotiations, Text, PTS, OPCW Chemical and Biological Weapons Materials (Harvard/Sussex) Includes Geneva Protocol, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Chemical Weapons Convention, Pugwash Study Group, other materials Effective Implementation of the CWC (SIPRI) Signatories; Ratifications; Background Papers; Conference Proceedings; Papers and Fact Sheets;…

  • Law Journals Abbreviations and Acronyms

    Law Journals Abbreviations and Acronyms This is a list of abbreviations and corresponding titles for law reviews and journals. The list may be not comprehensive,but it include many titles, not always american-based. Short list of Law Journals and other legal publications Abbreviations: Utah Reports (Utah USA) 1851-1974 U Balt Intell Prop LJ University of Baltimore…

  • Marine Pollution

    Embracing mainstream international law, this section on marine pollution explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources See Also Transport Transportation Means Transport Law Transport Contract Resources Further Reading The entry "marine […]

  • Marine Pollution

    Embracing mainstream international law, this section on marine pollution explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources See Also Transport Transportation Means Transport Law Transport Contract Resources Further Reading The entry "marine […]

  • Climate Change

    Climate Change in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): For discussion of issues relating to climate change generally, see information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal […]

  • Climate Change

    Climate Change in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): For discussion of issues relating to climate change generally, see information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal […]

  • International Conventions from 1991

    International Conventions from 1991 Conventions: Chronological Index 1971-1990 See also: Conventions: Chronological Index Conventions: Chronological Index : 1951-1970 Conventions: Chronological Index 1971-1990 Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (30 Jan 1991) Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a…

  • Charter of the United Nations

    Charter of the United Nations Introduction and Preamble Introductory note The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral…

  • Maritime Law

    Introduction to Maritime Law Maritime Law, branch of law relating to commerce and navigation on the high seas and on other navigable waters. Specifically, the term refers to the body of customs, legislation, international treaties, and court decisions pertaining to ownership and operation […]

  • Trade Policy

    Diplomacy and International Trade (London, 1994) "Today, the generally accepted view (at least on the part of most states) is that trade, and particularly free trade, is good, notwithstanding the conflicts (and bouts of protectionism) that arise between individual states and between […]

  • Gender Equality

    Gender Equality and the United Nations The United Nations has the responsibility to ensure that all its actions promote and protect gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN efforts to help establish the rule of law for all on the basis of equality are essential to this end. Advancing […]

  • Chemical Weapon

    Traditionally, a chemical weapon (CW) is thought of as a toxic chemical loaded into a delivery system such as a munition (i.e., a complete device for exposing a population to a substance that can cause death or other injuries through its chemical action). The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) […]