Trade in arms

The widespread CW use during the war prompted efforts to control the availability of this type of armament. Most notably, in 1925 the Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War negotiated the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases,... 

Reducing or halting weapons development and production, and thereby reducing trade in arms, can limit militarisation. 

Fruit-United Brands has dominated both licit and illicit trade in the Central and Latin American countries that produce cocaine and marijuana for the American market. In those same countries, the Israeli financial and intelligence networks identified earlier with the narcotics traffic have become the principal supplier of weapons. In Central America and in Chile, Israel has replaced the U.S. as the leading arms merchant for United Brands "banana republic" governments. (14)... 

Abstract 2014 was marked with several noteworthy events with particular relevance to international humanitarian law, such as the continuation of the conflict in Syria and the incidents related to the use of chemical weapons in that conflict several key decisions in international and hybrid courts related to the adjudication of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide the entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty release of the US Report on Torture and a Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. This chapter addresses a number of these issues among other events of note. 

J.H. Kelly, Statement included in Hearing on United States Policy toward Iraq Human Rights, Weapons Proliferation, and International Law, hereafter referred to as U.S. Policy toward Iraq, before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate, 101st Congress, second session, 15 June 1990, pp. 6-8 Karsh and Rautsi, Saddam Hussein, p.l60 D. Hiro, Desert Shield to Desert Storm (London Paladin, 1992), p.46 J. Adams, Trading in Death Weapons, Warfare and the New Arms Race (London Hutchinson, 1990), p.l28. 

ADAMS, J., Trading in Death. Weapons, Warfare and the New Arms Race (London Hutchinson, 1990). 

Standard Mosquito Repellents. Since its initial report as a promising repellent in 1954, DEET has been considered the best all-around repellent having generally acceptable characteristics, despite a continuing search for a superior chemical. Improvements include many commercial products with added cosmetic agents that use slow release technology, such as the U.S. Armed Services slow release 35% DEET formulation (16). There were 35 EPA-registered repellent products in 1994 that contained only DEET under different trade names (2). DEET is present in 192 of the 212 products mentioned previously (2). 

This is an organization of doctors and nurses based in area offices and form the medical arm of the HSE. The EMAS provides advice, at the request of the employer, employee, self-employed, trade union representative or medical practitioner, on the effects of work on health. 

In 1992, the US FDA approved a long-acting contraceptive device containing synthetic progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) hormones. Manufactured by Pfizer, Inc., it is sold under the trade name Depo-Provera . It is typically injected into a woman s buttocks or upper arm, and renders her temporarily sterile for up to 3 months. ... 

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