The FAO and the Vatican highlighted two international agreements, the FAO Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), the first ever binding treaty targeting illegal and underreported fishing, which has been linked to human rights abuses, as illegal vessels are often the ones involved in exploitation, as well as convention 188.
R. James Woolsey, the Clinton administration's first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, believes the treaty is illegal because it has not been resubmitted to the Senate since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
It found that the Bush administration used medical personnel — including doctors, psychologists and physician assistants — to help justify acts that had long been classified by law and treaty as illegal or unethical and to redefine them as safe, legal and effective when used on terrorism suspects.
Treaties fight illegal drugs, and promote basic values such as ending child labor or the use of child soldiers.
Bailouts were ruled out as the treaty made it illegal for any nation to assume the debts of another.
Chopping down ramin trees, a protected species under an international treaty, has been illegal under Indonesian law since 2001.
Its leaders made it clear that they considered it to be an illegal treaty, and that they wanted to follow international law.
Richard Henderson, a judge and land speculator from North Carolina, had purchased much of Kentucky from the Cherokee in an illegal treaty.
The use of chemical weapons is banned under several treaties, and considered illegal under customary international humanitarian law.
"They are going to sign a treaty that makes Keynesianism illegal," comments one diplomat.
