So a Thrasymachean debunking of convention can clear the ground for the development of either Platonic or anti-Platonic moral theory.
"UNICEF is fully committed to supporting the process of ratification of the Convention and the development of a roadmap for its implementation".
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of biological weapons agents or delivery devices for anything other than peaceful purposes.
The convention prohibits the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer or use of chemical weapons.
There have been calls for the development of a framework convention for the control of alcohol [ 144], and of obesity [ 145], and considerable momentum for a framework convention on global health to provide a unifying framework for global health efforts [ 146].
Support was voiced for the development of a nuclear weapons convention - banning nuclear weapons in the same vein as the chemical and biological weapons conventions have done for other weapons of mass destruction.
In 1990, the Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) included queen conch in Annex II of its Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW Protocol) as a species that may be used on a rational and sustainable basis, but that requires protective measures.
These treaties and instruments include the RAMSAR Convention, the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution, CITES, the International Tropical Timber Agreement, the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region and the Convention on Biological Diversity [70], [79].
A Protocol of the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region came in effect into 1986 to protect the endangered marine life of the Caribbean by prohibiting human activities that would result in the continued destruction of such marine life in various areas.
In this regard, we were guided by scientific conventions for HRQL questionnaire development [ 32, 33].
