Sentence examples for drafting of the convention from inspiring English sources

After study of the British and American archives, and drawing on his fascination with the residue of empire, he showed that the origins and drafting of the convention need to be seen from the perspective of a British government obsessed with the colonies, a corrective to the popular view that the convention was simply a response to wartime brutalities.

This group greatly influenced the drafting of the Convention, and it was their determined campaigning that convinced UNICEF in 1986 that its full engagement was essential to the realization of child rights.

The importance of respecting children and their opinions was the main message of the Polish writer, doctor and educationalist, Janusz Korczak, whose teachings came to inspire the drafting of the Convention.

At 19 years old she addressed the UN during the final drafting process of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is now a member of UNICEF's Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities.

The concerns expressed in the first of the two assessments issued during Dr. Bolin's chairmanship, in August 1990, led to the drafting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the first international document bringing nations together to deal with the issue.

Since the drafting of the Geneva Conventions, the International Committee of the Red Cross has played a special role in safeguarding the rights of prisoners of war.

These negotiations should begin perhaps with the drafting of a convention banning the use of nuclear weapons.

It was the "clandestine crossings of land frontiers" by refugees across Europe after the second world war that led to the drafting of the 1951 Refugee convention in the first place, and the "rather novel" way Haroun had entered the UK, by walking, was in tune with the original convention, he said.

Author: The text for this book was prepared by Victor Santiago Pineda, founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation and youngest government delegate of the Ad Hoc Committee that drafted the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

I supported Australia's participation in the drafting of a Disability Convention, which was initially opposed by the Howard government.

IN THEIR preamble to the draft European Union, the members of the convention that wrote it modestly included a vote of thanks to themselves.