Nor is any nation, however powerful, beyond the reach of human rights law – a message that the US government and Donald Trump might find hard to stomach given their tendency to regard internal affairs as sacrosanct.
As it was not a legally binding declaration and contained no enforcement provisions, the declaration left states' sovereignty intact, but it was a first step towards tethering them to international, universal obligations regarding their internal affairs.
The vivid portrait of damage in reports from the North's state-run news media appeared to be a cry for help from a government that maintains strict secrecy regarding its internal affairs.
This statement is not quite correct, and, as little is known regarding the internal affairs of the city, the following facts will be acceptable:—For over 200 years Timbuktu has been administered by a "Kahia," a kind of burgomaster, originally appointed by the Emperor of Marocco from the Moorish Andalusian family of Er-Rami some time after the expulsion of the Arabs from Spain.
Recent statements by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in an 18 September address to the Revolutionary Guards urged "heroic flexibility" regarding Iran's internal affairs, have also been a talking point.
In other respects, if there is any whiff of a suggestion that there are differences between the Channel Islands and the UK the commission will have nothing to do with us – for obvious reasons the commission doesn't want to get involved in what it regards as the internal affairs of the UK.
(See Minnesota's adoption). State corporation laws require articles of incorporation to document the corporation's creation and to provide provisions regarding the management of internal affairs.
The O.E.D. answers his query with "that form of government in which two or more states constitute a political unity while remaining more or less independent with regard to their internal affairs".
In a series of several episodes beginning in 1990, the United Nations or another international organization has endorsed a political action, usually involving military force, that the broad consensus of states would have previously regarded as illegitimate interference in internal affairs.
Beijing regards Taiwan as an internal Chinese issue, and the US arms sales are therefore regarded as interference in China's internal affairs and a violation of its sovereignty.
"The Interview is an illegal, dishonest and reactionary movie quite contrary to the UN Charter which regards respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs and protection of human rights as a legal keynote and international laws (sic)".
