The Empire tried to soften the problems with laws that would restrict slavery, but Brazil would inevitably recognize its end on May 13, 1888, with a law called Lei Áurea, sanctioned by imperial parliament and signed by princess Isabel.

Once these laws were passed, Finnish authorities signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, in 1986.

In 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a " euthanasia decree " ( later known as Action T4 ), which instituted a forced eugenics program extending the existing laws enabling sterilisation for those deemed genetically or socially unfit.

Agnew backed and signed an ordinance outlawing discrimination in some public accommodations, among the first laws of this kind in the United States.

Projecting an image of racial moderation, Agnew signed the state's first open-housing laws and succeeded in getting the repeal of an anti-miscegenation law.

# Rather than banning genetic testing or genetic enhancement, society needs genetic information privacy laws that allow justified forms of genetic testing and data aggregation, but forbid those that are judged to result in genetic discrimination ( such as the U. S. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act signed into law on May 21, 2008 ).

" Hess, formerly Hitler's deputy fuhrer, the man charged by Hitler with implementing Nazi Germany's Nuremberg laws, the man who signed the decree establishing the notorious German occupation government of Poland, and since May 1941 in a British Prison, was sentenced to life in prison by the tribunal.

Iran, however, has made the following reservation “ If the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it .” Iran has also signed the both optional protocols which relate to the special protection of children against involvement in armed conflict and the sale of children and sexual exploitation.

President Martin Van Buren on July 4, 1838, signed the U. S. Congress laws establishing the Territory of Iowa.

* In 1977, he was among the intellectuals, with Foucault and Althusser, who signed the petition against age of consent laws.

He also signed numerous orders of dubious legality under the laws of war.

On October 22, 1968, Lyndon Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968, one of the largest and farthest-reaching federal gun control laws in American history.

Furthermore all federal laws must be signed by the President before they can come into effect.

All federal laws must, after counter-signature, be signed by the president before they can come into effect.

All laws passed by the Federal Parliament must be signed and promulgated by the monarch.

: Victor Emanuel signed the laws and didn't veto them.

Other senior members of the House of Savoy have also in the past downplayed the significance of the anti-Jewish laws signed by Vittorio Emmanuele's grandfather.

" I'm not saying it was he who signed the racial laws in 1938.

On 27 January 2005, in a letter published by Il Corriere della Sera, Vittorio Emanuele issued an apology to Italy's Jewish leadership asking forgiveness from the Italian Jewish community, and declaring that it was an error for the Italian Royal Family to have signed the racial laws of 1938 .< ref >

Since 1983 such laws and decrees also have to be affirmed by a signed affirmation ; it is usually assumed these acts coincide.

Hendricks signed into law the Baxter Bill in 1873, which put in place temperance laws.

He signed laws to allow patients to get a second opinion if their HMO denies treatment and, in limited cases, the right to sue.

There were no enabling laws in Ohio at that time, so legislation was drafted and subsequently passed by the legislature and signed into law by Governor James Cox.

Also, nations which signed the Geneva Conventions are required to search for, then try and punish, anyone who has committed or ordered certain " grave breaches " of the laws of war.

In 1999 Namibia signed a mutual defense pact with its northern neighbor Angola.

Aztlan Underground were signed to a Basque record label in 1999 which enabled them to tour Spain extensively and perform in France and Portugal.

The Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Botswana signed the Agreement on Cultural, Scientific and Educational Cooperation in September 1999.

While the six African governments involved in the war signed a ceasefire accord in Lusaka in July 1999, the Congolese rebels did not and the ceasefire broke down within months.

A cease-fire was signed on 10 July 1999 by the DROC, Zimbabwe, Angola, Uganda, Namibia, Rwanda, and Congolese armed rebel groups, but fighting continued.

In 1999, the university had signed the Talloires Declaration, which committed Dalhousie, and other higher education institutions towards developing, creating, supporting and maintaining sustainability.

However, relations with Moscow have remained strained primarily because Russia decided not to ratify the border treaty it had signed with Estonia in 1999.

In December 1999, through the mediation efforts of President Bongo, a peace accord was signed in Congo-Brazzaville between the government and most leaders of an armed rebellion.

The country signed an Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility ( ESAF ) -- later converted to a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ( PRGF ) with the International Monetary Fund in March 1999.

President Abdurrahman Wahid took office in October 1999, and Indonesia and the IMF signed another EFF in January 2000.

Self administration was not achieved until the 1840s and it was subsequently transitioned into a Portuguese territory when Qing signed the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking, until its handover to China in 1999.

The rules governing good neighbourly relations agreed between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia were set in the Joint Declaration of February 22, 1999 reaffirmed by a joint memorandum signed on January 22, 2008 in Sofia.

In March 1999, the government signed an agreement with a joint World Bank-International Monetary Fund mission on a $ 54 million enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ).

On September 7, 1977, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed by the Panamanian head of state and U. S. President Jimmy Carter for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999.

In November and December 1999, the government signed agreements with representatives of many, though not all, of the rebel groups.

* January 1999 — Executive Order 13111 signed tasking the DoD to develop common specifications and standards for e-learning across both federal and private sectors

The territorial border between the two countries is being definitively mapped pursuant to a Land Border Agreement signed in December 1999, and an Agreement on Borders in the Gulf of Tonkin signed in December 2000.

Disputes-international: maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined ; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Republic of China ( ROC ), Malaysia, Philippines, and possibly Brunei ; maritime boundary with Thailand resolved in August 1997 ; maritime boundary dispute with the PRC in the Gulf of Tonkin resolved in 2000 ; Paracel Islands occupied by the PRC but claimed by Vietnam and the ROC ; offshore islands and sections of boundary with Cambodia are in dispute ; agreement on land border with the People's Republic of China was signed in December 1999.

The IMSO was reestablished by the Convention on the International Mobile Satellite Organization signed at London on 24 April 1998 and succeeded INMARSAT on 15 April 1999.

In 1999, Williams was signed to Capitol Records in the United States, a part of EMI.

The material recorded during these sessions led to her 1999 record deal with DreamWorks Records, where she was signed by A & R executive Beth Halper, partner of Garbage drummer and record producer Butch Vig.

In 1999, a number of top players from the Mind Sport Olympic signed an agreement to use a different starting position ( the Belgian daisy ) to revitalize the game.

In the end, on 18 March 1999, the Albanian, American and British delegation signed what became known as the ' Rambouillet Accords ' while the Serbian and Russian delegations refused.

* Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel land mines, signed 1997, entered into force 1999