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| April, 2009 |
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Summary: This ITSSD Letter was drafted in response to A/HRC/12/WG.2/TF/CRP.5 (27 March 2009), issued by the High-Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development, commissioned by the Intergovernmental Open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development, of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The letter emphasizes that intellectual property rights are property rights, first and foremost, within the meaning of the WTO TRIPS Agreement, and that property rights are human rights as defined by internationally recognized human rights conventions and declarations.
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| April, 2009 |
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Summary: This ITSSD Letter
and accompanying Annex to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Objects to the Nomination of US Trans-nationalist Harold Koh as US State Department Legal
Adviser. It provides evidence of three of Harold Koh’s views on
international law that would arguably threaten US legal, political
and economic sovereignty, US individual rights and US national
security. |
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| January, 2006 |
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U.S. Mission to the United Nations Letter |
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Summary: ITSSD Letter to
U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton concerning the practice of legal
'regime shifting' undertaken by certain member states within
numerous UN agencies to establish new global regulatory standards
inimical to U.S. national interests.
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| Dec. 7, 2005 |
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Letter from U.S. Senator James Inhofe Concerning the UN LOST |
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Summary: Letter
from U.S. Senator James Inhofe expressing interest and support for
ITSSD research examining how other countries are reading a broader
than agreed upon version of the Precautionary Principle into the UN
Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) text, and the likely impact that U.S.
LOST ratification, under such circumstances, would have on U.S.
national security and economic and technological competitiveness. |
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| June 3, 2005 |
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House Science Committee Testimony |
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Summary: ITSSD testimony
to the House Science Committee, Subcommittee on Environment,
Technology, and Standards
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House Science Committee Letter | |
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Summary: ITSSD letter to
Honorable Vernon J. Ehlers, Chairman, House Science Committee |
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| April 21, 2005 |
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Summary: ITSSD Letter to U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, concerning the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) |
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| April 18, 2005 |
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ANSI Five Year Review Comments |
| Summary: ITSSD comments submitted to the American National Standards Institute(ANSI) Staff Liaison for the U.S. Standards Strategy Committee concerning the draft revision of the 5-Year United States Standards Strategy (USSS) |