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But in 2009 – just six years after the World Health Organization adopted the FCTC and 15 months after Colombia ratified it – the Colombian government enacted one of the strongest tobacco-control laws in the world.
Most likely, it would be adopted through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council, with the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon serving as precedents.
Still, Islamist rhetoric, adopted by Ahmedinejad among others, is deliberately designed to stir up memories of the Shoah.
At the turn of the century, the international community adopted an ambitious set of targets: the Millennium Development Goals.
To address them, it needs an economic program that is more likely to work than the measures policymakers have recently adopted – and which have failed to achieve their inflation target, restore confidence, or boost growth to the level desired.
Their proposal was subsequently co-sponsored by 95 countries and adopted unanimously in a UN General Assembly resolution.
One example of this was the citizen-based movement that fought WTO intellectual-property rules, adopted at the behest of the US and other rich countries, that were sustaining high prices for anti-AIDS drugs in Africa.
But in 2012, the African Union adopted the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa, which kick-started more than 400 energy, transportation, water, and communications projects.
For the first six years, the new framework will apply only to flights between countries that have voluntarily adopted it, which means that the ICAO will have to encourage adequate participation for the program to be effective.
Meanwhile, health authorities and governments have adopted a fear-based approach, scrambling to regulate – or even ban – PNVs.
There are many practical policies that can be adopted to reduce inequality, in addition to a progressive consumption tax.
Whereas the British resorted to the ballot box, the French have adopted a mixture of barricades, marches, and stone throwing.
This is the ultimate ambition of the sustainable development agenda that will be adopted at the United Nations in September.
This conviction underpins the Incheon Declaration, adopted by 120 ministers and representatives from 160 countries in May at the World Education Forum (WEF) in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Britain may or may not join the Euro, but the policies adopted by Labour – privatization, low budget deficits, low inflation, an independent central bank – are precisely those it would need if it did decide to join.
Today’s system is plagued by cycles of confidence in the dollar and by periodic shocks due to American policies that are adopted independently of their global impact and thus imposed on the rest of the world.
A similar institutional design could be adopted for prudential policies.
Fortunately, the need for inclusive and sustainable industrialization is reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals, which will be officially adopted by the United Nations later this month.
Another approach to solving problems of innovation – adopted by the computer software industry, for example – is pre-competitive openness and collaboration.
Many large pharmaceutical companies are now espousing the virtue of these strategies, but will they work if adopted inconsistently by the industry and not at all by academia and funders?
Likewise, the European Union adopted the ETS in 2003 as a cost-effective way to achieve the commitments it had made under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
But, by the time Obama adopted it, it had become anathema to Republicans, forcing Romney, the party’s presidential candidate in 2012, to run against his own record.
In the decade since the global financial crisis, advanced-country central banks have adopted unprecedentedly active monetary policies.
Third, signatory countries will share their best practices, so that enforcement systems that have proven efficient and effective in one country can be adopted in others.
When China’s market transition started in 1979, Deng Xiaoping adopted a pragmatic, dual-track approach, rather than the “Washington Consensus” formula of rapid privatization and trade liberalization.
Last year, when world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to succeed the MDGs, they included targets for both education (to ensure that all children “complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education”) and child marriage (to eliminate “all harmful practices” against girls and women, “such as child, early, and forced marriage”).
A ban on battery cages in the EU was eventually adopted in 1999, but, to ensure that producers would have plenty of time to phase out the equipment in which they had invested, its implementation was delayed until January 1, 2012.
For all of the previous regime’s misdeeds, Tunisians are proud of their country’s liberal institutions, such as women’s rights and a progressive family code, adopted in 1956.
In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others.
Just as the Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, have proved highly effective in the fight against poverty and disease, the SDGs (which will succeed the MDGs in two years) promise to address the global challenges that we face in areas including energy, food, water, climate, and jobs.
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