The idea of an ATT is to create basic international standards for how conventional weapons and munitions move from one state to another.
Human-rights groups accused it of failing to meet basic international standards.
Chaining patients is common, as is confinement without consent, practices that Human Rights Watch says violate "basic international standards prohibiting ill-treatment, and may constitute torture".
And we're organizing trade relations with countries other than China so that China starts feeling more pressure about meeting basic international standards.
"We're organizing trade relations with countries other than China so that China starts feeling more pressure about meeting basic international standards," Mr. Obama said.
Hamas kidnapped an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, from Israeli territory and has held him for four years without giving the Red Cross any access to him, in violation of the most basic international standards of conduct.
In 2008, a United Nations Human Rights Council report on "extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions" stated that Alabama systematically rejects "concerns that basic international standards are being violated" and that government officials "seem strikingly indifferent to the risk of executing innocent people".
Mijatović said: "It is quite clear that this wave of restrictions against media groups does not meet the basic international standards concerning restrictive measures even in times of emergency.
"Rather than railing against their critics, the Saudi authorities should overturn the sentence against Badawi, pardon and release him and end the routine use of corporal punishment, as well as court processes that flout basic international standards".
Labor and human rights negotiators would grant access to our markets, but only on the condition that other countries agree to basic international standards for labor rights, human rights and public health.
Steve Trent of the Environmental Justice Foundation said the findings demonstrated how little Thai vessels had applied basic international labour standards.
