10 Terms
Contributors in Courts
Courts
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Legal services; Courts
A world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, human rights, freedom of the press and fair elections. Most of its 3,500-plus ...
United Nations Human Rights Committee
Legal services; Courts
A United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year for four-week sessions (spring session at UN headquarters in New York, summer and fall sessions at the UN Office in Geneva) to ...
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
Legal services; Courts
An international arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sport. Its headquarters are in Lausanne and its courts are located in New York, Sydney and Lausanne, Switzerland. Temporary ...
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Legal services; Courts
An agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994.
World Trade organisation (WTO)
Legal services; Courts
An organisation that intends to supervise and liberalise international trade. The organisation officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement ...
Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
Legal services; Courts
An international organisation based in The Hague in the Netherlands. The court was established in 1899 as one of the acts of the first Hague Peace Conference, which makes it the oldest institution ...
International Prize Court
Legal services; Courts
The International court proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, to hear prize cases. An international agreement to create it, the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize ...
