Leather and leather products are among the most widely traded products worldwide, and they are based on a renewable and readily available resource. Production and supply have gradually moved from industrialized to developing countries and emerging economies, which are now becoming major players in the trade. In fact, developing and emerging economies can now manage…
AQUISCENCE According to the Oxford Dictionary acquiescence means “the reluctant acceptance of something without protest”. When it comes to international laws some acts by the states like inactions, silence, non-responses, or omissions results to some kind of legal effects as well. Like when we investigate the Vienna convention of law of treaties, when a party…
In international law, asylum is defined as a state’s protection of a foreign citizen against his home state. The person granted asylum has no legal right to ask for it, and the sheltering state is under no legal obligation to provide it. To be awarded asylum, a person must show that he or she is…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed…
Agenda 21 is a discretional action plan developed by the United Nations and national governments at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is not a binding, discretional implemented action plan of the United Nations with reference to sustainable development. It is an action agenda for the United Nations, other multilateral…
State recognition under the International Legal System can be described as ‘the formal acknowledgment or approval by the established states of the international community of a new state as an international personality.’ It is the acceptance by the existing state that a political entity has the features of statehood. According to Phillip Jessup states that…
A dispute arise when a member’s government believes another member government is violating an agreement or a commitment that it has made in the WTO. The WTO has one of the most active international dispute settlement mechanism in the world. International trade is the exchange of goods and services between the countries. Trading globally gives…
continue from part – I National Liberation Movement:Individuals give loyalty to and identify themselves with ethno-national groups besides nation-states. “Many people pledge their primary allegiances not to the state and government that rules them, but rather to their ethno-national group which shares a common civilization, language, cultural tradition, and ties of kinship”. As a result…
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside…
Non state actors literally mean organizations and individuals that are not affiliated with, directed by, or funded through the government. These include corporations, private financial institutions, and NGOs, as well as paramilitary and armed resistance groups. In the context of human rights and particularly ESCR advocacy, there has been an increasing focus on the human rights responsibilities of transnational corporations and other…
