Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-free WorldHuman Rights Watch, 1999 - 1071 pages International Customary Law and Antipersonnel Landmines: Emergence of a New |
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Common terms and phrases
Abkhazia According activities Afghanistan Africa Angola antipersonnel landmines antipersonnel mines antitank mines AP mines APMs Armed Forces Assembly resolutions awareness Ban Landmines Ban Policy Ban Treaty Belarus border Bosnia Brussels Declaration Cambodia Campaign to Ban Canada Center civilians Claymore mines cleared Conference on Disarmament conflict Convention on Conventional Conventional Weapons countries December demining destruction explosive February Foreign Affairs funding Global Group HALO Trust Handicap International Hidden Killers Human Rights Watch Humanitarian Demining Ibid ICBL ICRC implementation January June Landmine Casualties Landmine Monitor Landmine Problem landmine survivors March military million mine-affected mined areas minefields Minister Ministry of Defense Ministry of Foreign moratorium Mozambique NGOs November October official organizations Ottawa Process pro-ban produced prosthetics Protocol Protocol II ratified region rehabilitation Republic September 1998 Statement stockpile Survivor Assistance transfer U.S. Department UN General Assembly UNDP United Nations victim assistance
Popular passages
Page 1023 - International conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law ; c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations ; d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.
Page 1023 - Article 38 1 . The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply: a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; b.
Page 1064 - Any State Party may propose an amendment and file it with the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. The Secretary-General shall thereupon communicate the proposed amendment to States Parties, with a request that they indicate whether they favour a conference of States Parties for the purpose of considering and voting upon the proposals. In the event that, within four months from the date of such communication, at least...
Page 1061 - Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Page 1060 - Transfer" involves, in addition to the physical movement of antipersonnel mines into or from national territory, the transfer of title to and control over the mines, but does not involve the transfer of territory containing emplaced anti-personnel mines. 5. "Mined area" means an area which is dangerous due to the presence or suspected presence of mines.
Page 1026 - With respect to the other elements usually regarded as necessary before a conventional rule can be considered to have become a general rule of international law, it might be that, even without the passage of any considerable period of time, a very widespread and representative participation in the convention might suffice of itself, provided it included that of States whose interests were specially affected.
Page 221 - Canadians, in operations, exercises or other military activity conducted in combination with the armed forces of States not party to the Convention which engage in activity prohibited under the Convention would not, by itself, be considered to be assistance, encouragement or inducement in accordance with the meaning of those terms in article 1 , paragraph I (c).
Page 1024 - Not only must the acts concerned amount to a settled practice, but they must also be such, or be carried out in such a way, as to be evidence of a belief that this practice is rendered obligatory by the existence of a rule of law requiring it.
Page 8 - To assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention.
Page 1021 - Nothing in articles 34 to 37 precludes a rule set forth in a treaty from becoming binding upon a third State as a customary rule of international law, recognized as such.