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Respecting the most fundamental norms that we have given ourselves to guarantee the protection of humanity is a serious matter.
The precise reasons vary from country to country – but many of them stem from entrenched cultural norms that prevent women from reaching their full potential.
Unless he toughens his policies, the rules and norms that have guaranteed peace for so many for so long could lose their force.
If the countries listed above were to join with China, Mexico, India, and other major labor exporters, they would be holding most of the chips in a collective negotiation about wages, visa terms, and other conditions – some of which would also benefit non-members as global norms changed.
As a result, dysfunctional or failing states suddenly emerged in the 1990’s, constituting a threat to regional and international security by becoming home to transnational pirates (Somalia) or transnational terrorists (Pakistan and Afghanistan), or by their defiance of global norms (North Korea and Iran).
The upsurge of protest across the Arab world raised expectations among Europeans that these countries would, to some extent, emulate Western institutions, values, and norms.
If successful, the case will demonstrate how existing international law can be used to enforce the global norms that are essential for the free flow of information, even though human-rights treaties lack a direct mechanism for enforcement.
As censorship anywhere risks becoming censorship everywhere, global norms must be developed and enforced to protect the worldwide discussion and collective action needed to address the issues of our time.
In pressing its claims under this regime, Al Jazeera is showing how media investors might be able to use the mechanisms of international investment law to stop host countries from interfering with independent reporting, while helping to establish global norms regarding freedom of expression.
But more needs to be done to develop robust global norms protecting freedom of expression.
Criminal, civil and administrative codes that reflect Georgia's contemporary democratic and market-based reality have replaced the old Leninist norms that were an open invitation to corrupt practices.
Of course, censorship is not always carried out to protect the politically powerful; it can also be used to reinforce social and cultural norms.
This is certainly the case in the Middle East, where the challenges women face are typically rooted in social norms, cultural systems, and religious doctrine, and can be enshrined in law.
The result of these norms and structures is that women in the Middle East are often subject to discrimination, isolation, and frustration.
One is that cultural norms may develop that encourage billionaires to share their wealth, even if they are spared taxation.
While Trump’s disclosure may not have been illegal – the president is entitled to declassify just about anything – it violated crucial intelligence-sharing norms.
Its adherents know that key Islamic concepts, beliefs, norms, and values can be harmonized with modern social structures and understandings of justice and human rights.
The saving translations that these figures have offered demonstrate that modern global norms like the UDHR are not only compatible with Islam; they are deeply embedded within it.
Those priorities include the preservation of Europe’s post-Cold War political and security architecture, the protection of the territorial integrity of European countries, and respect for the shared norms embodied by institutions like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe.
With his authoritarian mindset, Ortega instinctively rejects the norms of representative democracy.
But this is different from accusing Beijing of violating international norms or rules and threatening retaliation (for example, by imposing tariffs, which is a violation of international rules).
Both income and college graduation levels match the national norms.
There are legitimate concerns about the competitiveness of Europe’s agricultural sector, for example, and about the technical challenges of harmonizing a long list of norms and standards.
TTIP would impede efforts to divide its member countries or disrupt the institutions, rules, and norms of the liberal international order.
But Trump has undermined all the norms around international trade and how top world leaders relate to one another.
At the same time, US troops in Uganda are subject to legal limits – at a minimum, the Geneva Conventions, whose most important norms include the prohibition of murder, torture, and cruel treatment.
The expected norms of conduct of these students correspond exactly to Wikipedia ’s content policy: one is not expected to do original research, but to know where the research material is and how to argue about it.
Nuclear cooperation between North Korea and Iran is no doubt assisting both countries to flaunt international norms – and now it appears that Burma has joined this axis of illicit nuclear proliferation.
This should be acknowledged and ultimately welcomed, despite conventional diplomatic norms regarding the inviolability of the territorial integrity of existing states.
Of course, such norms are helpful.
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