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UNCLOS – now generally accepted as customary international law even by countries that have not joined it, like the US – is the only acceptable framework for resolving these issues.
China would still be effectively bound by its terms, now almost universally recognized as customary international law, irrespective of who adheres to it.
This is a central part of Israel’s policy, in flat defiance of international law and customary norms of civilized behavior.
And boosting exports is, of course, China’s customary response to weaker domestic demand.
The American Comeback KidVIENNA – As is customary at the start of a new year, imposing statistics and trend forecasts are being trumpeted worldwide.
In 1999 and 2000, two young Tanzanian tailors, married in their teens and widowed in their twenties with four children between them, were dispossessed of their homes under their ethnic group’s customary laws of inheritance.
Those customary laws give male relatives a greater claim to the deceased’s possessions than female members of his family, and typically bar wives altogether and give short shrift to daughters.
In 2006, the High Court concluded that customary laws on inheritance were “discriminatory in more ways than one,” but it refused to overturn them.
The committee asserted that, in order to comply with the treaty’s human rights mandate, Tanzania would have to repeal and amend customary inheritance laws that discriminate against women.
It also recommended that the country educate women about their rights under CEDAW and train judges, lawyers, local authorities, and traditional leaders in order to build support for removing discriminatory practices from customary law.
The UN ruling has buoyed the hopes of women worldwide that their countries will be forced to address the injustices that may be found in some customary law and where bias hinders implementation of progressive legislation.
As is customary, many Russian businessmen pledged their shares to borrow money for stock purchases.
To mark the anniversary, it is customary for the Czech president to speak at public gatherings.
In China, and other remaining areas of Asian authoritarianism, it has become customary, even among some self-professed “liberals,” to argue that democracy may be fine for Europeans and Americans, but is unsuited to Asian conditions.
It is customary to link Africa's failures to slavery and colonization, and no one can deny such claims.
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump, with his customary charm, thought it appropriate to refer to the brilliant and scholarly Roberts as a “dummy.”
But the idea that such interventions can become customary, that great powers (and only great powers have the resources to act effectively) will commit their troops to kill and die in endless wars of altruism is utopian in the worst sense of the term--it is utterly unrealizable.
This is the commission’s 11th report, and, as is customary, it concludes with a long list of recommendations, which, unfortunately, are unlikely to be implemented any time soon.
As Hatoyama could not keep his promise to safeguard the interests of the Okinawan people, he followed up with a customary resignation.
Overheating having been avoided, the Chinese economy can keep motoring ahead at its customary 10% annual pace.
There is no civilian vice chairman, which had become customary over the last decade.
Then the whole country laughed when, during his customary visit to a patriotic summer camp run by Nashi (a pro-Putin youth movement), he demonstrated his physical prowess by scaling a rock-climbing wall, only to find that he couldn’t climb down.
In his now customary New Year’s address, a preening Putin celebrated 2013 by recalling how Russia had outplayed the US and Western Europe.
In the meantime, Germany can hardly play its customary role as Europe’s anchor of stability.
While the discussion of the Geneva Conventions and procedural rights is important, the more profound portion of Justice John Paul Stevens’ majority opinion addresses the boundaries of the law of war, and specifically whether the conspiracy charge against Hamdan constitutes a violation of this body of customary international law.
On the morning of December 21, Ceausescu stepped onto the balcony of the Central Committee in the heart of Bucharest to address the people – cadres of state workers assembled, as was customary, to cheer on cue.
When it comes to analyzing what ails Africa, it is customary to dwell at length on the continent’s traumatic past.
But, because China has ratified UNCLOS and the US respects it as customary international law, there is a basis for serious direct negotiation over clarification of the ambiguous nine-dashed line and the preservation of freedom of the seas.
But the flip side of the cash nexus is the freedom and self-determination that comes from overturning customary social relations such as slavery and serfdom, which totally subordinated the individual to the will of a master.
But if their actions were customary in their place and time, we should not judge them too harshly.
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