The correspondence – sent to companies including Nestlé, whose product Boost Plus has been reportedly given to inmates being forcibly fed – says that "force-feeding of mentally competent adult hunger strikers is a gross violation of internationally accepted standards of medical ethics" and is "never ethically acceptable".
This means entrenching internationally accepted standards in the management of public institutions.
In the past, only public companies had to adopt internationally accepted standards and report financial statements in a transparent way.
In the usage of navigation, distance-measuring equipment (DME) denotes a specific system, defined by internationally accepted standards.
The government also announced today the creation of legislation "based upon internationally accepted standards" to provide a framework should Dubai World be forced into bankruptcy.
America continues to believe that its accounting rules are better than internationally accepted standards, even though studies suggest there is not a lot to choose between them.
The arrests and trials "contradict Vietnam's own commitment to internationally accepted standards of human rights," the United States Embassy said in its statement.
This case is the centerpiece of an Israeli effort to show it can counter violence and still run an open legal system that meets internationally accepted standards.
The law should "meet and satisfy the internationally accepted standards set by the Financial Action Task Force," Prime Minister Pierre Charles said after the bill passed.
The Dubai government said today that it would bring in a new bankruptcy procedure, based on "internationally accepted standards for transparency and creditor protection", in case Dubai World cannot agree a deal with its creditors.
Others would include adopting internationally accepted standards of humane conduct among the security forces and equally distributing the region's oil revenues so that Chechnya's Muslims benefit from their own resources.
