2007 issues A group of Sunni lawmakers boycotted parliament in a June 2007 protest of the removal of the speaker, Mahmoud al Mashhadani, after a series of controversial actions.

Several controversial laws have been passed in the history of the country.

(Earlier this year in May, Global Voices wrote about Mozambique's controversial plan.)

One of the more controversial international issues surrounding the Netherlands is its liberal policy towards soft drugs.

Without loudspeakers, we are not responsible for chants that can spark controversy, since this never happened before.

Maleki was arrested in December 2009, six months after Iran's disputed presidential elections.

The term pseudoskepticism has found occasional use in controversial fields where opposition from scientific skeptics is strong.

Although it was acknowledged that the structure and content of current agendas broadly responded to provisions of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, and to previous COP decisions, participants considered that agenda structures were difficult for newcomers and outsiders to understand and that they did not allow an efficient consideration of items.

The students argued that the controversial plan to expand Addis Ababa into Oromia state would result in mass evictions of farmers mostly from the Oromo ethnic group.

Some organizations and political parties find this practice controversial but mainstream Swiss opinion is in favour of the system.

As an alternative to the formal education system in Denmark, the Tvind schools have been controversial in their programs and attitudes toward education.

He then won a controversial presidential election on 24 April 2005, and was sworn in as President.

On the other hand, Ahmed Shawky was worried that Saramago's political stances, might make people overlook his side as a creative writer.

Subhi Hadidi, a prominent Syrian writer for the London based daily Alquds Alarabi, sparked some testy exchanges this week.

Forced enrolment of some school age students into controversial religious imam hatip state schools is another feature of the new education agenda.

FS Recently Ukraine has also been discussed in terms of quite controversial steps of blocking access to Internet resources, foreign journalists expulsion and legislative initiatives restricting Internet freedom.

Central authorities seemed to sense an immediate need to quell criticism of its controversial population control efforts.

Leaders of the Green Movement are still under house arrest following massive protests after the controversial 2009 presidential election.

While mainstream media across the Arab world gave the secret US Embassy cables released yesterday the cold shoulder, bloggers and Twitter users from the Middle East found much needed material to chew on.

Since 1980, the foreign relations of Iraq were influenced by a number of controversial decisions by the Saddam Hussein administration.

Attachment therapy is a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders.

But a crucial difference between Nakasone and Koizumi is often overlooked their handling of the Yasukuni controversy and relations with China.

At the same time, economic reform has not been abandoned. Controversial budget provisions that had earlier deterred investors are being reviewed.

Should the tribunal be national or international? This question highlights the problematic relationship of international humanitarian law to the use of force.

An honest offer of engagement would allow Ahmadinejad s pragmatic opponents to show that it is Iran s president and his controversial policies, not the West, that are at fault.

Because of the novel's controversial themes, Hardy had some difficulty finding a publisher reviews, however, though somewhat mixed, were generally positive.

Francisco Rodríguez Cruz is a Cuban journalist and activist who for over a year has maintained a controversial blog committed to advancing the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Cuba.

Depretis enacted controversial legislation for the time, such as abolishing arrest for debt, making elementary education free and compulsory while ending compulsory religious teaching in elementary schools.

Relations may come under further strain as a set of contentious issues, the details of which were not always agreed to in Naivasha, will need to be resolved.

His sometimes controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.

As it embarks on its structural reforms, the United Nations must also be able to once and for all address the contentious issues that have over the years undermined the credibility of the Organization.

Such a committee could take up process issues with the aim of resolving controversial matters and proposing solutions to the COP, thereby freeing time during sessions for substantive negotiations.

This controversial novel has brought up a storm of protests and words in the comment sections and Tasnim's post reprinted on the Mideast Youth website has raised further debates about the truly interesting nature of this case.

The conflict dragged on until a truce was declared on November 11, 1918, leading to the controversial, one sided Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919.

The analysis was intended, more simply, to focus on management systems across Governments, but not to involve or describe the sometimes controversial political environments in which they existed.

Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 May 11, 1936), best known as A. Mitchell Palmer, was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921.

Regulation by means of a convention of some of the most controversial aspects of an issue as sensitive as the international responsibility of a State would be a good testimony to the strengthening of the role of international law in international relations.

Some participants noted that considering items in longer term cycles would not diminish their importance but would allow more time between sessions to implement decisions and make progress on issues (for example, through the work of expert groups).

Proposals for amendments to the rules of procedure of the Assembly (a priority) made so far by the new Assembly's standing committee would, if adopted, correct most of the controversial provisions of the rules adopted by the previous Assembly.

His latest controversial exertion of power involves the transfer of ownership of the Tiran and Sanafir Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, a move that recently won parliamentary approval, despite some irregularities in the process.

He was arrested after the controversial presidential election in 2009 and jailed for about 90 days. Security forces still appear to search his house from time to time, and have also confiscated personal items. Katayoun's tooth was broken and she spent several days in hospital.

Controversial in the present. And controversial to describe things what happened in the past.

For example, during 1997 and 1998, together with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), several Governments and local communities organized seven regional workshops on the problematique of underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.

Victims of UAV attacks, their families, and civil society groups have begun to speak out against America s questionable drone campaign, and to pursue legal action.

They are also slowly gaining recognition as a controversial art, along with the rise of other urban expressions like stencils, posters, stickers, and mixed techniques.