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  UNODC - Measures to Enhance International Cooperation to Counter
International and regional bodies should continue to advocate implementation of the extensive framework of international treaties, as well as resolutions or decisions addressing various aspects of the problem of amphetamine-type stimulants, adopted by the Economic and Social Council, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the International Narcotics Control Board.
International bodies such as the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, the International Narcotics Control Board and the World Health Organization should strengthen their work on the technical and scientific dimensions of the problem of amphetamine-type stimulants and disseminate the results in regular publications for States and the general public.
Controls do not serve their purpose if all States facing similar situations with regard to the trafficking of precursors do not take similar practical steps to ensure that diversion attempts are identified or do not share their experiences in implementing controls.
www.unodc.org /unodc/resolution_1998-09-08_3.html   (6951 words)

  
 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, March 1996: Chemical Controls
The CATF noted that international cooperation between enforcement and regulatory agencies is essential to the effective implementation of the national laws and regulation.
Chemical control is complicated by the nature of the chemicals involved and, in many cases, their availability from many sources.
International cooperation among enforcement agencies also improved, particularly when it was directed at specific, identifiable cases of diversion.
www.hri.org /docs/USSD-INCSR/95/ChemicalControls   (2172 words)

  
 CDC - Emerging Trends in International Law Concerning Global Infectious Disease Control
The role of international law in horizontal and vertical governance responses to infectious disease control is conceptualized; the historical development of international law regarding infectious diseases is described; and important shifts in how states, international institutions, and nonstate organizations use international law in the context of infectious disease control today are analyzed.
The increased volume and speed of international trade and travel moved states from national to international governance in the mid-19th century, and the 1851 International Sanitary Conference marked the beginning of international governance on infectious diseases (11).
States created international health organizations to facilitate horizontal cooperation in public health; however, unlike the classical regime, the organizational regime’s legal duties in regard to infectious disease control are few (14).
www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol9no3/02-0336.htm   (4357 words)

  
 The beginnings of international drug control UN Chronicle - Find Articles
The second International Opium Convention, concluded in 1925 and entered into force in 1928, introduced a statistical control system to be supervised by a Permanent Central Board.
A group of manmade substances outside the scope of the 1931 Convention was brought under international law and control by the 1948 Protocol.
The functions of the League's Advisory Committee were transferred to the United Nations Commission and a subsidiary body on Narcotic Drugs (CND), established in 1946 as a functional Commission of the Economic and Social Council.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_2_35/ai_54157834   (834 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : International Control of Atomic Energy
The plan provides that the schedule of stages of application of control and prohibition over all the many phases of the entire nuclear industry is to be written into the treaty, with the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission as the body to supervise their orderly implementation.
The Soviet representative argued that international management and operation were equivalent to international ownership; and that neither international ownership nor international management and operation was essential to control.
In order to be effective such a convention should be supplemented by the establishment of a universal system of international control, including inspection to ensure that the provisions of the convention are carried out and "to protect States observing the convention from possible violations and evasions".
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/decade/decad245.htm   (3237 words)

  
 PO: International Commission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With the competition among the principal powers of the capitalist world to intervene in the process of restoration of private property in the old USSR and East Europe, detonated in the decade of the nineties in the last century, the EU began to be shaken by internal divergencies, naturally stimulated by the yanquis.
It was also put forward in the international commission that included in this point should be the massive protest movement in Putin's Russia against the policy of definitively abolishing free public transport.
One of the most interesting conclusions of the discussion on the international capitalist panorama is the following: the fall of the EU translates into the breakdown of the national States of the Old Continent and the advanced state of decomposition of their governments and political regimes.
po.org.ar /poen/2005/poen905/poen905005.htm   (833 words)

  
 International Joint Commission Summary
The International Joint Commission is an independent binational organization established by the United States and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.
The purpose of the Commission is to help prevent and resolve disputes relating to the use and quality of boundary waters and to advise Canada and the United States on questions related to water resources.
In the west, the Commission has established conditions for dams on the Kootenay, Osoyoos, and Columbia rivers, which cross through the states of Washington, Idaho and Montana, and the province of British Columbia.
www.bookrags.com /International_Joint_Commission   (1588 words)

  
 National Drug Control Strategy 2000 - ONDCP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
International programs confront illegal drug cultivation, production, trafficking, abuse, diversion of precursor chemicals, and the corrosive effects of the illegal drug trade — including corruption, violence, environmental degradation, damage to democratic institutions, and economic distortion.
The international community's mature understanding of the scope of this problem is helping dissolve the myth that the U.S. market is the engine driving the global drug trade.
In addition to working with other countries to develop international forfeiture cases, DOJ actively promotes international cooperation to halt the flow of illegal proceeds across borders and into foreign financial institutions through the negotiation of bilateral forfeiture cooperation and asset sharing agreements.
www.ncjrs.gov /ondcppubs/publications/policy/ndcs00/chap3_6.html   (3794 words)

  
 International Boundary Commission
The Commission was founded under the Treaty of 1908 for one specific purpose: the complete reestablishment and mapping of the boundary from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
The Commission also regulates, under the provisions of the 1960 International Boundary Commission Act, all construction within 3 metres or 10 feet of the boundary and is responsible for defining the boundary location in any legal situation involving the border.
The Commission is responsible for determining the position of any point on the boundary necessary to settle questions that might arise between the two governments.
www.internationalboundarycommission.org /ibcpg2.htm   (2395 words)

  
 Moïse's Bibliography: The International Control Commission
A new body, the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), was established under the Paris Peace Agreement of 1973.
International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam.
He was a member of the International Control Commission set up to enforce the Geneva Accords of 1954, serving in Vietnam in the mid 1950's and again in the mid 1960's.
www.clemson.edu /caah/history/facultypages/EdMoise/icc.html   (1197 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : General Findings and Recommendations Approved by the Atomic Energy Commission and Incorporated in ...
Ownership by the international control agency of mines and of ores still in the ground is not to be regarded as mandatory.
That an effective system for the control of atomic energy must be international, and must be established by an enforceable multilateral treaty or convention which in turn must be administered and operated by an international organ or agency within the United Nations, possessing adequate power and properly organized, staffed, and equipped for the purpose.
Such an international system of control and inspection should be established and its scope and functions defined by a treaty or convention in which all of the nations Members of the United Nations should be entitled to participate on fair and equitable terms.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/decade/decad240.htm   (1533 words)

  
 The Fourth International-ch10
She was a founder of the Second International but broke with it after its capitulation to chauvinism in 1914, helping to launch the Communist Party and the Third International.
She was also an early advocate of birth control; as a doctor, she wrote two handbooks on the subject, and in 1928 was arrested for exhibiting contraceptives.
In 1938 Cannon participated in the founding congress of the Fourth International, and in 1939-40 he collaborated with Trotsky in the famous struggle against the petty-bourgeois opposition in the SWP led by Shachtman and Burnham.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/frank/works/march/ch10.htm   (5576 words)

  
 Negotiating International Control, 1945-1946
They agreed that the commission should be set up by the United Nations General Assembly, but, counter to the American plan, they insisted that the commission report to the Security Council and be accountable to it “in matters affecting security.” This was no mere procedural difference.
The proposed international authority would have a world-wide monopoly in most of the major areas of atomic energy.
The concept of control relied not so much on safeguards and inspections as on a dynamic international organization of scientists and administrators committed to developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes and exercising proprietary authority over facilities, materials, and processes required for making atomic weapons.
www.mbe.doe.gov /me70/manhattan/international_control.htm   (824 words)

  
 International Law Commission - Analytical Guide: Responsibility of international organizations
Surveyed the previous work of the Commission relating to the responsibility of international organizations beginning with the work of the Commission on the topic of relations between States and international organizations in which the question of responsibility of international organizations was identified as early as 1963.
Dealt with the existence of a breach of an international obligation on the part of an international organization and with the responsibility of an international organization in connection with the act of a State or another international organization.
The Commission subsequently considered and adopted the report of the Drafting Committeee on draft articles 1 (Scope of the present draft articles), 2 (Use of terms) and 3 (General principles), and adopted commentaries on those articles.
untreaty.un.org /ilc/guide/9_11.htm   (1166 words)

  
 International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
International attention and cooperative efforts are imperative to prevent the diversion of essential chemicals--those chemicals which are most recently regulated and most subject to diversion by virtue of the large volume of international commerce in them.
In addition to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution, the United States in 1993 undertook a number of bilateral and multilateral initiatives to promote and assist the adoption and implementation of effective chemical control regimes based on the CATF recommendations.
The key to effective implementation of control regimes is for governments to exercise forcefully the authorities contained in their own laws and regulations to identify and suspend suspicious shipments.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/law/inc/1994/10.html   (5307 words)

  
 Commission information
The regulations adopted by the Commission are implemented through the national legislation of the member states, who appoint inspectors to oversee their whaling operations and may also receive international observers appointed by the IWC.
However, because of uncertainties in the scientific analyses (in part due to the difficulty in obtaining the complex data required) and therefore the precise status of the various whale stocks, the IWC decided at its meeting in 1982 that there should be a pause (the ‘moratorium’) in commercial whaling on all whale stocks from 1985/86.
The Commission has since its inception regulated the catches of the large whale species, but the smaller species of whales, dolphins and porpoises (commonly known as 'small cetaceans') are also members of the same zoological order of Cetacea.
www.iwcoffice.org /commission/iwcmain.htm   (1869 words)

  
 International Control Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The International Control Commission (ICC) was the international force established in 1954 that oversaw the implementation of the Geneva Accords that ended the First Indochina War with the Partition of Vietnam.
Although supposedly neutral, the members of the ICC often took sides in the Second Indochina War and even offered aid to both sides.
With the signing of the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, the ICC was dissolved and replaced with the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Control_Commission   (303 words)

  
 Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER)
International Commission has complained strongly to PVV/PL that information from them on date and route of withdrawal and number and identity of units continue to be either inadequate or notified insufficiently in advance to permit proper supervision.
The Government has indicated to the International Commission its increasing concern that forcibly recruited Laotians are being secretly withdrawn along with PVV/PL forces on the jungle route.
Commission has renewed its demand to French and New Delhi representative being supplied information our minimum requirements are 4 helicopters, 2 or 3 light aircraft and 1 Dakota.
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/history/dcer/details-en.asp?intRefId=966   (528 words)

  
 Mandating and Delivering : Report - Analysis by programme priorities: Drug Control
The work of the United Nations system in the areas of drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism is highly fragmented, partly because of the manner in which mandates are issued in these areas.
With regard to drug control and crime prevention, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice were created as separate bodies and as such issue mandates separately.
While a unified commission might not bring significant savings - since the treaty, normative and budgetary responsibilities of the new body would require as much discussion and documentation as they do in the existing commissions - there are potential gains to be made from having strategic direction and policy guidance emanate from a single commission.
www.un.org /mandatereview/drugcontrol.html   (732 words)

  
 Greater Moncton Pest Control Commission
While adopting these methods individually will not yield sufficient control, they serve an important role and are effective when complimented with targeted mosquito larviciding.
One method is to use one teaspoon of powdered sulfur to one teaspoon of 0.5% Rotenone in the nest.
The first symptom of the histoplasmosis is a cough, which later evolves into a flu-like condition and is followed by symptoms similar to tuberculosis.
www.greatermonctonmosquitocontrol.com /pmartin.htm   (873 words)

  
 International Opium Commission Summary
The commission was the first effective step taken by the international community to combat drug abuse.
The International Opium Commission was a meeting convened in 1909 in Shanghai that represented one of the first steps toward international drug prohibition.
According to Release, "The formal designation of the meeting as 'commission' reflects the fact that the United States had been unsuccessful in its attempts to convene a 'conference': this latter status would have conferred upon the meeting the power to draft regulations to which signatory states would be bound by international law"[1].
www.bookrags.com /International_Opium_Commission   (425 words)

  
 International control of opioids for medical use
Differences may be due to several factors, such as the specific control regulations in a particular country, the development and manufacture of the respective opioid drug by a pharmaceutical industry established in that country or the physicians' prescribing practices with respect to opioid analgesics.
The operation of the international drug control system is based on the principles of national legislation and enforcement by states and their co-operation between other states and United Nations' bodies.
Considering the efficacy that the international narcotics control system is demonstrating in preventing the diversion of drugs, while at the same time facilitating the development of pain relief programmes, it is important that all agents involved co-operate with the licit control effort.
www.medsch.wisc.edu /painpolicy/internat/selva.htm   (2714 words)

  
 AI REPORT 1997: Iraq (the Republic of)
The complete edition of the Report, covering 151 countries and territories,is published in several languages and is available from Amnesty International sections or, in case of difficulty, from the International Secretariat.
In March, the un Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution condemning "the massive and extremely grave violations of human rights for which the Government of Iraq is fully responsible" and extended for a further year the mandate of the un Special Rapporteur on Iraq.
Amnesty International continued to raise serious human rights violations with the government, including the detention of prisoners of conscience; arbitrary arrests and incommunicado detention of political suspects and their relatives; unfair and secret trials; the widespread torture and ill-treatment of prisoners and detainees; "disappearances"; and executions.
www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar97/MDE14.htm   (2234 words)

  
 Sri Lanka: Amnesty International urges effective action to end impunity - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Amnesty International is concerned that the current terms of reference of the IIGEP will undermine its independence, effectiveness and ability to publish its reports at its own discretion.
While Amnesty International recognizes that in certain instances security issues may arise, the organisation is concerned that this provision is excessively broad and allows for censorship of the Group’s report or parts of it.
The Commission of Inquiry must have the credibility and confidence of all parties to the conflict and sections of society to be able to conduct meaningful investigations, obtain critical testimony or information from witnesses and gain the acceptance of its recommendations by all relevant parties.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGIOR410262006   (710 words)

  
 International Organizations | Joint Commission
Through both international consultation and accreditation, Joint Commission International helps to improve the quality of patient care in many nations.
The International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety is a not-for-profit professional organization of healthcare security and safety executives around the world.
The International Society for Quality in Health Care has hundreds of members in over sixty countries and offers a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations with a common interest in quality in health care, to share expertise and experience in an international, multi-disciplinary forum.
www.jointcommission.org /GeneralPublic/Links/int_links.htm   (274 words)

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