Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide provides, for the first time, a comprehensive, consolidated source of most major international agreements recognizing economic, social and cultural rights.
Although the monitoring mechanisms established under international human rights agreements do not receive as much public attention as the substantive rights that the agreements recognize, they are equally important.
It's true that prenuptial agreements recognize the possibility of divorce, but to think otherwise is contrary to reality when roughly half of all marriages end in divorce.
Usefully, the Cancun Agreements recognize directly and explicitly two key principles: (1) all countries must recognize their historic emissions (read, the industrialized world); and (2) all countries are responsible for their future emissions (think of those with fast-growing emerging economies).
These agreements recognize wolves as an international species of conservation concern, but are focused primarily on the conterminous US where wolf populations were extirpated by the mid-20th century.
France, in a temporary agreement, recognized the internal autonomy of Laos under the king of Luang Prabang, Sisavang Vong.
As an incentive to Iran, the agreement recognized its right "to enjoy peaceful use of nuclear energy" in accordance with the nonproliferation treaty.
The agreement recognized that the poorest countries could not afford to do much on their own, which is why they were promised extensive financial and technical help.
Union officials said the proposed contract, which succeeds a contract that expired on June 30, left teachers with "a recognition of their professionalism," and the board said the agreement recognized the rising costs it faces.
While northern Sudan is already largely governed by Islamic law, or Shariah, an interim constitution adopted as part of a 2005 peace agreement recognized the country's ethnic and religious diversity.
The agreement recognized the inviolability of the post-World War II frontiers in Europe and pledged the 35 signatory nations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to cooperate in economic, scientific, humanitarian, and other areas.
