Sentence examples for of a framework convention from inspiring English sources

Since 1990 Mr. Szasz had been advising the World Health Organization on the formulation of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

It suggested the development of a "framework convention," or general treaty on climate change, without specifying any particular obligations or deadlines for reducing the pollution that is accumulating in the atmosphere and trapping radiation from the sun in a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect.

However, even in the context of a framework convention specific to TB, scarce resources would not just be committed to a single disease, possibly at the detriment of other health problems.

In addition, while we are in full support of a framework convention for global health, we are hesitant in expecting such a broad framework to solve the problems that a trans-boundary disease such as TB poses to global health.

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].

Noteworthy is particularly the commitment to strengthen the 'core mandate' of the WHO in setting binding norms and standards for its member countries and all other actors in global health – an issue widely discussed in the context of a Framework Convention on Global Health (11).

In the final group, the authors address new areas of inquiry, including a framework convention on global freshwater resources, suggested methods for encouraging the development of sustainable food resources not dependent on high-input monocultures, and a proposal for the creation of a Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Environment and the Rights of Humans to a Healthy Environment.

Beyond the right to information, there is little discussion in the literature with regard to the R2TCAH, except for the recent call for regulation of non-conventional medicine included in a Framework Convention on Global Health (33).

Tobacco companies have lambasted the WHO's attempts to curb smoking through the creation of an "international framework convention on tobacco control".

The tobacco industry is another example where the deployment of clearly evidence-based public health interventions have failed to be implemented at global level despite the concept of a global WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).

He made his name at the W.H.O., where, as the cabinet director under the director-general, Gro Harlem Brundtland, he was the architect of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a landmark in public-health policy, which imposed strict limits on how tobacco companies sell their products around the world.