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The first, the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, requires governments to ensure that children under the age of eighteen are not recruited compulsorily into their armed forces, and calls on governments to do everything feasible to ensure that members of their armed forces who are under eighteen years of age do not take part in hostilities.
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And when there is an absence of provisions to ensure that Covenant rights may be sued on in domestic courts, and, further, a failure to allow individual complaints to be brought to the Committee under the first Optional Protocol, all the essential elements of the Covenant guarantees have been removed.
ORACLE ( from " Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics ") was a commercial teletext service first broadcast on ITV in 1974 and later on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, finally ending on both channels at 23: 59 GMT on 31 December 1992.
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Optional on Roadmaster in its first year, it was so popular that by the following it was standard equipment.
The ICESCR is part of the International Bill of Human Rights, along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ), including the latter's first and second Optional Protocols.
* Optional special thesis as a ninth paper ; theses can be offered within each of the first five options
In August 2005, and followed again with more similar events in 2006, Abbey House Gardens hosted what was thought to be the first ' Clothes Optional Day ' at a major inland British tourist attraction.
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In the Clean Development Mechanism, only afforestation and reforestation are eligible to produce certified emission reductions ( CERs ) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ( 2008 – 2012 ).
DHCP was first defined as a standards track protocol in RFC 1531 in October 1993, as an extension to the Bootstrap Protocol ( BOOTP ).
The BOOTP protocol itself was first defined in RFC 951 as a replacement for the Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RARP.
A right to education has been created and recognized by some jurisdictions: Since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education.
* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).
The Institute helped develop, and was the first entity to implement, Voice Over Internet Protocol ( VOIP ).
Internet Protocol version 4 ( IPv4 ) is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol ( IP ) and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed.
Internet Protocol Version 4 ( IPv4 ) was the first publicly used version of the Internet Protocol.
Internet Protocol Security ( IPsec ) was originally developed for IPv6, but found widespread deployment first in IPv4, into which it was back-engineered.
The first major version of IP, Internet Protocol Version 4 ( IPv4 ), is the dominant protocol of the internet.
It is commonly known as TCP / IP, because of its most important protocols: Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) and Internet Protocol ( IP ), which were the first networking protocols defined in this standard.
AOSIS has been very active from its inception, putting forward the first draft text in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations as early as 1994.
The first film to introduce the 100th anniversary logo was Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, only with a different fanfare.
One of the first tasks set by the UNFCCC was for signatory nations to establish national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for accession of Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol and for the commitment of those countries to GHG reductions.
It was the first Meeting of the Parties ( MOP-1 ) to the Kyoto Protocol since their initial meeting in Kyoto in 1997.
Agreement on a timeline and structured negotiation on the post-2012 framework ( the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ) was achieved with the adoption of the Bali Action Plan ( Decision 1 / CP. 13 ).
The overall goal for the COP 15 / MOP 5 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark was to establish an ambitious global climate agreement for the period from 2012 when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol expires.
In 1976 the first LPC conference took place over the ARPANET using the Network Voice Protocol, between Culler-Harrison, ISI, SRI, and LL at 3500 bit / s.
He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as an online experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies ( such as PDA and mobile phone, internet television and Internet, and telephone and Voice over Internet Protocol ) has made it " impossible to use the term on-line meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research ".
A developing country Party or a Party with an economy in transition may, in the absence of a domestic regulatory framework, declare through the Biosafety Clearing-House that its decisions on the first import of LMOs-FFP will be taken in accordance with risk assessment as set out in the Protocol and time frame for decision-making.
* Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity ( 2004 ) Global Biosafety-From concepts to action: Decisions adopted by the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
And Sweeney Squadron put its first marks on the combat record.
Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.
Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.
Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.
It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.
The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.
So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.
Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.
`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;
At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.
Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.
The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.
Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.
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