Between Morality and National Interests: How Long Does It Take to Ratify International Human Rights Treaty?Chung, Kuyoun
The United States, which emits35% of the world’s GHGsaccording to the Kyoto Protocol, saw this as unfair and refused to ratify the treaty. In December 2011, Canada renounced the treaty and thereafter formally withdrew. TheCanadian governmentnoted that since China and the United States never ag...
After diplomats from all countries involved have agreed to and signed the treaty, the President of the United States sends it to the U.S. Senate for its “advice and consent” on ratification. If the Senate approves the treaty by a two-thirds majority vote, it is returned to the White H...
Clearly then, the next global climate change treaty will have to include binding emission limits by industrialized nations, … Senator Byrd, US Senate, May 04, 2001. Although President Bush recently announced that the US would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, both scientific evidence and domestic ...
“I see it as an extension of the fight to save our country and our democracy from extremism,” Emma Brown told me over the phone recently. She had just taken over as executive director of Giffords, the key gun-reform organization founded by former representative Gabby Giffords a little more...
It's barely a thought anymore, unless you're sending something through the US Postal System, about your zip code. The five-digit sequence, which can be expanded to nine with a hyphen, is the last part of your address to make sure your mail gets to you. Have you wondered why the syst...
The United Nations is the second attempt at a global peace initiative. In 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson pushed for theLeague of Nationsafter World War I. The United States was not a member. Congress refused to ratify membership, fearing that it would pull the United States into countl...
is territorial sovereignty. China will therefore neither participate nor accept the arbitration, for we maintain that the tribunal has no jurisdiction in this realm. Besides, it is ironic that the U.S. seeks to use against us a United Nations convention that it itself has refused to ratify. ...
is territorial sovereignty. China will therefore neither participate nor accept the arbitration, for we maintain that the tribunal has no jurisdiction in this realm. Besides, it is ironic that the US seeks to use against us a United Nations convention that it itself has refused to ratify. ...
Does Foxman really think the “Goyim” are going to swallow his spin that the Flotilla civilians could actually “ambush” Israeli soldiers? Try again, dear Abe, ’cause the “Goyim” are catching on to you and your cousins’ Jewish lies....