Tag: Canada

  • UN Security Council

    UN Security Council The Council is composed of fifteen member states, five of them permanent members and specified by name in the Charter. These are the United States, Russia (replacing the Soviet Union in 1991), China, the United Kingdom, and France. The rest are elected for two-year terms […]

  • Bank For International Settlements

    Bank For International Settlements Summary of Bank For International Settlements An international bank owned and controlled by the central banks of twenty-four European and five non-European central banks. The BIS was formed at the Hague Conference of 1930 in response to pressures for the […]

  • Un Framework Convention on Climate Change

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Conference of the Parties in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): The United States participated in the Seventeenth Session of the Conference of the […]

  • Un Framework Convention on Climate Change

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Conference of the Parties in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): The United States participated in the Seventeenth Session of the Conference of the […]

  • Group Of Ten

    Also known as the Paris Club, the ten principal trading nations. The group, consisting of the United States, Great Britain, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, and Sweden, derived the name from a 1962 General Agreement to Borrow signed to make U.S. $6…

  • Group Of Ten

    Also known as the Paris Club, the ten principal trading nations. The group, consisting of the United States, Great Britain, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, and Sweden, derived the name from a 1962 General Agreement to Borrow signed to make U.S. $6…

  • Unicef

    The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) UNICEF supports governments and civil society in some 155 countries to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international standards. UNICEF’s rule of law work includes support to child rights legislative reform; justice […]

  • United Nations

    Introduction to United Nations United Nations (UN), international organization of countries created to promote world peace and cooperation. The UN was founded after World War II ended in 1945. Its mission is to maintain world peace, develop good relations between countries, promote […]

  • United Nations

    Introduction to United Nations United Nations (UN), international organization of countries created to promote world peace and cooperation. The UN was founded after World War II ended in 1945. Its mission is to maintain world peace, develop good relations between countries, promote […]

  • International Energy Agency

    Summary of International Energy Agency An autonomous group within the organization for Economic Cooperation And Development (read this and related legal terms for further details) established in 1974 to coordinate the responses of the developed, oil-importing countries to the 1973 oil […]

  • International Energy Agency

    Summary of International Energy Agency An autonomous group within the organization for Economic Cooperation And Development (read this and related legal terms for further details) established in 1974 to coordinate the responses of the developed, oil-importing countries to the 1973 oil […]

  • Un General Assembly

    United States Remarks at the General Assembly in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On July 27, 2011, U.S. Representative to ECOSOC Frederick D. Barton addressed the plenary meeting of the United […]

  • Un General Assembly

    United States Remarks at the General Assembly in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): On July 27, 2011, U.S. Representative to ECOSOC Frederick D. Barton addressed the plenary meeting of the United […]

  • United Nations Development Programme

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Development Programme (in the Human Development Area) UNDP is the UN’s global development network – an organisation advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a […]

  • United Nations Volunteers

    UNV – United Nations Volunteers Further Reading A concise encyclopedia of the United Nations (including United Nations Volunteers , H Volger, KA Annan -2010) The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (TG Weiss – 2007) International Law: A Dictionary (including United Nations Volunteers […]