Some global supporters of gun control, in particular, say the Connecticut shootings underline the urgent need to implement a proposed treaty curbing the international trade in small arms, in part to prevent such tragedies.
With the exception of obliging the U.S. to new public finance contributions, since he needs Congress to appropriate new money, Obama doesn't need legislation to implement a climate treaty.
The drug wars of the past are just that, but the narcotic trade is still strong in the countryside of Colombia and it still has a negative impact on society as the Colombian government works to implement a peace treaty and more.
The failure of global governmental negotiations to implement a climate protection treaty is mirrored at each failed global summit by corporate commitments.
To receive them, Goode had to get special permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which implements a multilateral treaty known as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES.
I wouldn't say the legal footing for signing and implementing a climate treaty enjoys consensus, but it's far surer than the basis for killing people abroad with drones, or tapping foreign leaders' mobile phones.
Without a clear indication from Congress to the contrary, an act implementing an international treaty "does not cover the unremarkable local offence at issue here".
Neither the 1980 « Lagos Plan of Action » - which imagined the division of Africa into five regional economies - nor the 1991 Abuja Treaty, which proposed to implement a single currency across Africa by 2028, can be honestly qualified as "successes".
