approving the children’s protecting laws, we confront with the samples of criminal and ethic policies taken in order to keep children safe against any discrmination. taking a short brief of issues disscussed in this framework, we can recognize that the lawmakers are under the influence of children rights convention and the facts related to it. the law which is based on children abuse, brings th...

* The author is employed at the United Nations Environment Programme’s Regional Office for Europe. The paper is presented by the author in her personal capacity, however, and opinions expressed in this paper should be attributed to the author. They are not meant to represent the positions or opinions of UNEP or the State Parties to the Framework Convention on the Protection of the Marine Enviro...

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...

This paper employs panel data to estimate the effects of awareness and political partisanship on post-convention candidate evaluations. The theoretical framework proposed by John Zaller (1992) is employed; however, a functional form that differs greatly from Zaller’s proposed model is derived from Zaller’s assumption and then estimated using standard OLS regression. I find that partisans of the...

Since the U.S. Bush administration took its position against the Kyoto Protocol, growing concerns for the facts behind and security of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have appeared on the horizon. However, this pessimistic mood will not stay long, once the global community pays attention to what the intention of the U.S. is. The U.S. never refused the Climate ...

With the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol in 2010, an additional legal instrument under the Convention on Biological Diversity (1992), the legal landscape surrounding the access to and utilization of genetic resources will change. This is likely to impact working procedures for scientists, turning pre-existing ethics into legal obligations. The aim of this article is to inform scientists on the ...