solas convention is the most comprehensive international convention relating to safety of human life at sea. although detailed regulations of the convention, cover different aspects of marine safety, according to article 1, paragraph (b) of the convention the contracting governments have undertaken to promulgate any national regulations to give the convention complete effect, so as to ensure th...

By the Aarhus Convention (1998) it is recognized the right of citizens to get access to and influence decision-making in respect to issues affecting the state of the environment. More specifically, in Article 8 it is stated that public authorities are forced to engage public participation when preparing regulations or legally binding rules that have a significant environmental impact. Towards t...

The Tobacco Convention was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003. Nikogosian and Kickbusch examine the five potential impacts of the Tobacco Convention and its Protocol on public health. These include the adoption of the Convention would seem to unlock the treaty-making powers of WHO; the impact of the Convention in the global health architecture has been phenomenal globally; t...

the first international convention on maritime transportation is thebrussels’ convention of 1924. this convention was widely acceptedthroughout the world and; thus, lasted for a long time due to the widespreadsupport of the countries possessing fleet for this convention and the lack ofexistence of a legal document in terms of maritime transportation. thepassage of time together with innovations...

Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003, 81 (8) “In this one bowl, there is rice from a thousand households.” The saying of Zen poet Ryokan (1758–1831) well describes the contribution of many parties towards the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: WHO, other UN agencies, Member States, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academia, the media, and even the tobacco industry. The ...