Sentence examples for international principles from inspiring English sources

"It not only contradicts Afghan laws, it contradicts the international principles of freedom of speech".

International principles for banking regulation had already been set out by the Basel Accord in 1988.

The report also identified a failure to meet international principles on how the process should be led.

The organisation has endorsed a set of international principles on the application of human rights to communications surveillance.

It is those concerns that underpin the constitutions of most developed countries, and inform international principles of human rights and the rule of law.

In Nuremberg, the allies relied on a long history of military commissions that had tried people accused of violations of international principles of warfare.

Beyani accused neighbouring countries of breaching the international principle of non-refoulement which is designed to guarantee a safe haven for the victims of persecution.

The British campaign against the African slave trade not only launched the modern concern for human rights as an international principle, but today offers a usable past for a society increasingly aware of its multiracial character.

Something like that happened in the Kosovo war -- an illegal war from a United Nations perspective, yet a necessary war from a humanitarian one, which ended up fortifying, not weakening, an international principle of forceful action for humanitarian ends.

In its papers today, the defense argued that the charge that Mr. Lindh conspired to commit murder violated "the well-established international principle of combat immunity," which the United States has affirmed many times.

Moreover, says Williams, who teaches law at the University of Warwick: "The international principle in criminal law is that you look at the connection between commanders and what happens on the ground.