Noting the two United Nations International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966, the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 21 December 1965, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 18 December 1979, the United ...

This work was undertaken as part of the project Advancing the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting. This note is part of a series of technical notes, developed as an input to the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting Technical Guidance. The project is led by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme through its The Economics of Ecosyste...

Abstract Indonesia has ratified The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through Law Number 5 of 1994 with considerations that biodiversity, including ecosystems, types, and genetics animals, plants, micro-organisms, need to be guaranteed for their existence sustainability life. However, the management Marine Conservation, which is also one implementations CBD ratification, not provided fir...

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) was opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force on 26 March 1975 with the United Kingdom, the United States and the former Soviet Union as the depositary governments. The Convention is to eliminate biological weapons and prohibit their development, production, stockpiling, acquisition and retention. It has 15 articles. The init...

The book Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives orients gender stereotyping as the underlying cause of much of the discrimination that occurs against women throughout the world. The book discusses the duty and ability of state and non-state actors to dismantle negative gender stereotypes and diminish their effect. The authors, Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack, writing from a tra...

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is an international agreement (adopted on 29 January 2000 as a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity) that addresses the potential adverse effects of living modified organisms. It focuses primarily on transboundary movements and is therefore relevant to international trade. It includes provisions on import decision-making, risk ass...