For anyone facing a sanction, articles 38-40 are a firm commitment to due process, asserting the right to legal representation, to know charges in advance, to be able to contest them before equals, and then only to be sanctioned if found guilty by independent procedures by independent equals.
"There is a strong desire to strengthen the sanction articles in the code," said Wada president John Fahey.
We got in touch with some of them and asked for their top ten songs of their most recent tours of duty (it did come with some weird Ministry of Defence sanctioned article, but that was crap).
The EU and America agreed to stiffen existing sanctions.See article: Repression in MyanmarThe World Health Organisation has lifted warnings against travel to Hong Kong and Beijing because of SARS; the disease has killed over 800 people.
Given the level of public disaffection with the regime following a post-election crackdown in 2009 and the economic downturn caused by sanctions (see article), the government can expect only limited sympathy from the public.
America and others want to impose economic sanctions.See articleIsrael's finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, resigned in protest against the impending withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlers from the Gaza strip, arguing that nothing would be gained in return.
The commission will now make further recommendations, though it is likely to stop short of any painful sanctions.See article: The stability and growth pact under stressSweden's prime minister, Goran Persson, chose another woman, Laila Freivalds, as the new foreign minister.
A contact group comprising the European Union's leading quartet, plus Russia and the United States, gave Serbia four weeks to start negotiations with the Albanians or face further sanctions.See article: Up go the stakes in SerbiaMainstream conservatives in several French regions defied their party by making deals with the far-right National Front in order to stay in power.
But last week the EU's leaders took the first step towards invoking sanctions under Article 7, the most serious of which would be to deprive Poland of a vote.
The Tehran Times and its partner news agency, Mehr, publish articles sanctioned by the regime and reflect the official line.
Heads of news organizations can be sanctioned for opposition-friendly articles, and several outlets in the capital have been forced to close.
