Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel 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.

It is hoped that the CLI will contribute to the realization of the objectives of the Ban Amendment.

The senator also sponsored the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, more commonly known as the " Lautenberg Amendment ".

* Federal Legislation: Through federal legislation, CSGV supports repealing the Tiahrt Amendment, renewing the Assault Weapons Ban, closing the " gun show loophole ", and prohibiting individuals who are on any government watch list from purchasing firearms.

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Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at Eilean nam Ban ( Kenmore on Loch Tay ) in July, 1122 and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey.

The Ban Si was also known to wail at the crowning of the true king.

For the next four centuries, the Kingdom of Croatia was ruled by the Sabor ( parliament ) and a Ban ( viceroy ) appointed by the king.

During the Han dynasty period, the important Confucian text Lessons for Women ( Nüjie ), was written by Ban Zhao ( 45-114 CE ): by a woman, for women.

The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban.

The treaty was the result of the leadership of the Government of Canada working with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, launched in 1992.

After the Partial Test Ban Treaty ( 1963 ), which prohibited atmospheric testing, the movement against nuclear weapons somewhat subsided in the 1970s ( and was replaced in part by a movement against nuclear power ).

In 1600, the principalities of Wallachia, Moldova and Transylvania were simultaneously headed by the Wallachian prince Michael the Brave ( Mihai Viteazul ), Ban of Oltenia, but the chance for a unity dissolved after Mihai was killed, only one year later, by the soldiers of an Austrian army general Giorgio Basta.

The Chinese historical form of dynasty history, or Jizhuanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by Ban Gu ’ s ( 班固 ) History of Han ( 漢書 ), but historians regard Sima ’ s work as their model, which stands as the " official format " of the history of China.

On October 1, 2010, squatting was finally outlawed in The Netherlands after the Squatting Ban Bill was passed into law by both houses of Parliament.

In 2010, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke at the Unification Church-owned Manhattan Center during Africa Day event, which was also co-sponsored by the Unification Church.

His teachings are supposedly left behind in the book Lu Ban Jing ( 魯班經, " Manuscript of Lu Ban "), although it was written some 1500 years after his death.

Her maternal grandfather was the Ban of Slavonia Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia, who apparently descended also from Nemanjić kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary.

In the United States, new semi-automatic rifles with a military-style appearance were prohibited from retail sale or importation by the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which was enacted in 1994 and was sunset in 2004.

100 CE ) for a marriage alliance with the Han was rejected in 90 CE, he sent his forces to Wakhan ( Afghanistan ) to attack Ban Chao.

In 91 CE, the office of Protector General of the Western Regions was reinstated when it was bestowed on Ban Chao.

This often involves as much negotiation as the limits themselves, and in some cases questions of verification have led to the breakdown of treaty negotiations ( for example, verification was cited as a major concern by opponents of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, ultimately not ratified by the United States ).

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1996 banning all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes.

This signalled the rise of a faction known as the King's Men who were opposed to the Ban of the Valar.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and former High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson criticized the council for acting according to political considerations as opposed to human rights.

He opposed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the creation of Medicare.

His primary concern was the peace movement: he opposed the Vietnam War, supported the Ban The Bomb movement, and made efforts to remove " militarization " from the public school system.

Several International League owners opposed Barrow's policies, including his attempt to form the Union League, and felt he was too close personally to Ban Johnson.

* The Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of authoritative histories of China, including the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian and the Book of Han by Ban Gu.

However, the British Government, in accordance with its commitments under the Mine Ban Treaty has a commitment to clear the mines by the end of 2019.

In April 2012, UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon, in response to moves by Israel to legalise Israeli outposts, reiterated that all settlement activity is illegal, and " runs contrary to Israel's obligations under the Road Map and repeated Quartet calls for the parties to refrain from provocations.

An Expert Panel convened by U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon reported that at least 40, 000 Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final phases of the Sri Lankan civil war.

Zhang read many of the great works of history in his day and claimed he had found ten instances where the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ) and the Book of Han by Ban Gu ( AD 32 – 92 ) differed from other ancient texts that were available to him.

While still in Luoyang, Zhang became inspired to write his " Western Metropolis Rhapsody " and " Eastern Metropolis Rhapsody ", which were based on the " Rhapsody on the Two Capitals " by the historian Ban Gu.

* September 10 – Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ( CTBT ) signed ( it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries ).

* Continuing his conquest of the Tarim basin, Chinese General Ban Chao defeats the Kushan led by Kanishka.

* The Chinese General Ban Chao completes his conquest of the Tarim Basin by taking Yanqi.

Shortly after taking office, Chiracundaunted by international protests by environmental groupsinsisted upon the resumption of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in 1995, a few months before signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

With pressure from a number of campaign groups organised through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a global movement to prohibit their use led to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.

There have been many attempts to limit the number and size of nuclear tests ; the most far-reaching is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty of 1996, which has not yet been ratified by the United States.

However on top of these routine performances, Penn Masala also has had the honor to perform for a number of famous individuals ranging from Anderson Cooper to Henry Kissinger to Ban Ki-Moon.

Since the first UNGA resolution supporting the Mine Ban Treaty in 1997, the number of states voting in favor has ranged from a low of 139 in 1999 to a high of 164 in 2007.

His opposite number, Count Nikola Šubić Zrinski, was one of the largest landholders in the Kingdom of Croatia, a seasoned veteran of border warfare, and a Ban ( Croatian royal representative ) from 1542 to 1556.

This was strictly accurate as the test series was limited in number, and France promised to then permanently close the test facility and join the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty negotiations, but it politically damaged Evans and his party.

The mention of “ Christians ” drew the attention of the Pope, who wrote a letter dated 11 November 1200 to Kulin ’ s suzerain, the Hungarian King Emeric, warning him that “ no small number of Patarenes ” had gone from Split and Trogir to Ban Kulin where they were warmly welcomed.

Over the years, the Bowery has been mentioned in the lyrics of a number of songs, including the Bob Dylan song " Bob Dylan's 115th Dream ", from the album Bringing It All Back Home ( 1965 ): " I walked by a Guernsey cow / Who directed me down / To the Bowery slums / Where people carried signs around / Saying, ' Ban the bums.

Fan Ye used a number of earlier histories, including accounts by Sima Qian and Ban Gu, along with many others ( some had similar names, such as the Han Records of the Eastern Lodge by various contemporaries throughout the 2nd century, and the Records of Later Han by Yuan Hong from the 4th century ), most of which did not survive intact.

Included in this number are Mislav ( 1870 ), Ban Leget ( 1872 ), his masterpiece Nikola Šubić Zrinjski ( 1876 ), and Lizinka ( 1878 ), in addition to operettas, musical comedies, cantatas, songs and choral compositions, concerti, chamber music, and many other works.

Hadley ’ s plan proposed unilaterally reducing the number of proposed long-range nuclear missiles to around 1, 500-2, 000 from the then 6, 500-7, 500, but caveats to this included the abandonment of attempts to get the Senate to ratify the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the development of new low-yield bunker-busting mini-nukes for actual battle-field use.