* Africa Institute for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous and other Wastes aka Basel Convention Regional Centre Pretoria

* Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Asia and the Pacific

The National Biodiversity Centre of Singapore represents Singapore in the Convention for Biological Diversity.

The first level is a public thoroughfare for three pedestrian bridges linking the Mass Transit Railway, the Convention and Exhibition Centre and the China Resource Building.

Image: HKWanchaiwaterfront. jpg | A view of Wanchai waterfront with Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in the foreground and Central Plaza behind it, August 2005

Completed projects include the Convention Centre, The O < sub > 2 </ sub >, and the Grand Canal Theatre.

Private hire companies such as Eirebus offer groups traveling throughout Ireland with options ranging from cars to 56 passenger coaches and many run route between airports, Pavilions Shopping Centre, National Convention Centre and the O2.

* International Convention Centre, any of several convention centers

On August 31, 1991, Berry married Gertie Filip at The Stardust Convention Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The first SIGGRAPH Asia conference was held in Singapore from the tenth to the thirteenth of December 2008 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre ; the second one in Yokohama, Japan in the period from 16 December to 19 December 2009 at Pacifico Yokohama ; and the third in Seoul, Korea in the time period from 15 December to 18 December 2010 at Coex Convention & Exhibition Center Seoul.

About a thousand Bahá ’ ís from 153 countries were present at the 10th International Bahá ’ í Convention at the Bahá ' í World Centre in Haifa.

The campus also contains a Convention Centre with a 200-seat auditorium.

He was one of four who lit the cauldron at BC Place Stadium during the opening ceremony ( although one was unable to due to technical difficulties with one of the cauldron's " arms " which failed to raise ) and then jogged out of the stadium, where he was then driven by police escorts through the streets of downtown Vancouver to light a second, outdoor cauldron near the Vancouver Convention Centre located in the city's downtown waterfront district.

However, VANOC secretly built a second outdoor cauldron next to the West Building of the Vancouver Convention Centre, and Gretzky was secretly chosen to light this permanent cauldron.

On 18 June 2010, he performed in Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Cool Britannia FIFA World Cup music festival at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

It is held at the Montreux Music & Convention Centre, built in 1973 and has become a global phenomenon.

The US Sumo Open, for example, was held in the Los Angeles Convention Centre in front of 3000.

* Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre ( HKCEC ), Hong Kong, China, 1997

* Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, Australia, 2001

* Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, a building in Queensland, Australia

The Kennett government also embarked on a series of high-profile capital works projects, such as the restoration of Parliament House ( never completed ), construction of a new $ 250 million Melbourne Museum and IMAX theatre, and a new $ 130 million Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre ( still known colloquially as ' Jeff's Shed ').

The Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE has a campus in Benalla which includes the Benalla Performing Arts and Convention Centre opened in 2004 by Lynne Kosky MP, the then Minister of Education and Training.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Chronologically the first of the passed convention in the Tokyo-Hague-Montreal system was the Tokyo Convention.

A general rule agreed upon the Tokyo Convention is that the general penalty jurisdiction towards the offenders committing the crimes included in this convention is performed by the country where the aircraft is registered.

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

For a work to be considered pirated, its illegitimate use must have occurred in a nation that has domestic copyright laws and / or adheres to a bilateral treaty or established international convention such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty.

Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the State Department has taken the position that the Vienna convention represents established law.

The term convention is also used in international law to refer to certain formal statements of principle such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity.

The Convention has several protocols, which amend the convention framework.

This, in part, explains the constant references to values and principles that are " necessary in a democratic society " throughout the Convention, despite the fact that such principles are not in any way defined within the convention itself.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

In 1968, Gygax rented Lake Geneva's vine-covered Horticultural Hall for to hold the first Lake Geneva Convention, also known as the Gen Con gaming convention for short.

Under some conventions – e. g. the European Convention on Human Rights – individuals or states are permitted, subject to certain conditions, to take individual cases to the enforcement mechanisms ; under most, however ( e. g. the UN conventions ), individual access is contingent on the acceptance of that right by the relevant state party, either by a declaration at the time of ratification or accession, or through ratification of or accession to an optional protocol to the convention.

He addressed the convention on July 15 at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan and on August 21 at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.

The ICJ held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963 ( Vienna Convention ) granted rights to individuals on the basis of its plain meaning, and that domestic laws could not limit the rights of the accused under the convention, but only specify the means by which those rights were to be exercised.

After being placed on the list of endangered World Heritage Sites in 2006, the city had its status as world heritage site formally removed in June 2009, for the wilful breach of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, due to the construction of a highway bridge across the valley within 2 km of the historic centre.

Under their leadership, the city experienced extensive urban renewal and new constructions were undertaken ( Convention centre, theatres, new thoroughfares and expressways, etc.

* The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity ( United Nations Environment Programme ) maintains an information centre which as of April 2006 lists some 3000 " monographs, reports and serials ".

In halloween, expect to see youngsters to dress in costumes trying to scare passersby. The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre ( HKCEC ), a HK $ 4. 8 billion convention centre extension completed in 1997, covers over 16 acres ( 65, 000 m² ) of newly reclaimed land that added an extra 38, 000 m² of functional space to the existing convention centre.

It held that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated in the case of two people stopped in 2003 outside the ExCeL convention centre in London, which at the time was hosting a military equipment exhibition.

James Brindley was the engineer charged with building the canal, a man who gives his name to the busy district in the centre of Birmingham near the International Convention Centre, National Indoor Arena and Broad Street.

Elected to the National Convention, he sat in the centre, le Marais, voting in the trial of Louis XVI for his detention until deportation should be judged expedient for the state.

When the succeeding National Convention met in 1792, the seating arrangement continued, but following the coup d ' état of June 2, 1793, and the arrest of the Girondins, the right side of the assembly was deserted, and any remaining members who had sat there moved to the centre.

Image: Nm toronto metro toronto convention centre. jpg | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004

In the 1990s, land east of Lower Mosley Street and north of Great Bridgewater Street adjacent to the G-Mex exhibition centre ( now Manchester Central Convention Complex ) which was occupied by a former bus station and car park near the Rochdale Canal was identified as the site for a new hall.

Manchester Central Convention Complex or Manchester Central, is an arena, exhibition and conference centre built in and around the former Manchester Central railway station in Manchester, North West England.

Some customers include the Toronto-Dominion Centre, Royal Bank Plaza, RBC Centre, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Air Canada Centre and 151 Front Street, the most advanced data centre in Canada.

The World Trade and Convention Centre is a convention centre / office complex in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

As of winter 2011, the event covers the entire Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre as well as the neighbouring ice hockey arena and racket sports centre.

At their centre lies the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The Raffles City Convention Centre, located on Level four, comprises 27 meeting rooms, three ballrooms, an executive conference centre and business centre.

The square was named after the giant statue of a golden Bauhinia blakeana at the centre of the area, situated outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where the ceremonies for the handover of Hong Kong and the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was held in July 1997.

Refugee and Migrant Justice was founded in 1992 to be a centre for the provision of quality legal representation for those seeking protection under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and those who feared breaches of their human rights.

• Milan Convention Centre ( MIC plus ), Europe ’ s largest convention centre, 2008

National Convention Centre Canberra, convention centre located in Civic in Canberra, Australia, which opened in 1989.

The Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is a public-subsidised, privately owned convention centre located in Perth, Western Australia which contains state-of-the-art technical facilities, six exhibition pavilions, a 2, 500 seat theatre, banquet / ballrooms and 23 meeting rooms.