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Control Yuan
The Control Yuan (监察院) is the supervisory organ of the Republic of China government, created in 1928 and formally established in 1931, with authority over impeachment and auditing.
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), S.C. 1996, c. 19, is Canada's federal drug control statute, in force since May 1997, replacing the Narcotic Control Act and Food and Drugs Act parts, with scheduled substances, penalties up to life imprisonment, and Minister of Health exemptions including section 56.1 supervised consumption sites.
Controlled substance
Controlled substance: a drug or precursor chemical regulated under the US Controlled Substances Act's five schedules or the 1961, 1971, and 1988 UN drug conventions, based on medical use and abuse potential.
Controlled Substances Act
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the 1970 U.S. federal statute, Title II of Pub. L. 91-513, codified at 21 U.S.C. 801-904, that sorts regulated drugs into Schedules I-V by medical use and abuse potential, with DEA administering scheduling and registration.
Controversial Reddit communities
Controversial Reddit communities (controversial subreddits) are forums sanctioned or criticized for hateful or hostile content; Reddit uses quarantines and bans, notably against r/The_Donald, r/Incels, and r/fatpeoplehate, with mixed measured effects.
Controversies about the word niggardly
Niggardly means stingy or miserly and derives from Middle English and Old Norse, not from the racial slur it resembles. The 1999 David Howard resignation in Washington, D.C. made this phonetic confusion famous.
Controversies of Nestlé
The controversies of Nestlé span infant formula marketing since the 1970s, which prompted a major international boycott, child labor in its cocoa supply chain, and water extraction disputes.
Controversies of the 2006 Mexican general election
Controversies of the 2006 Mexican general election: fraud allegations, the 0.56 percent Calderón-López Obrador margin, the partial recount of 11,839 polling stations, spotgate, and the 2007 electoral reform.
Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine (靖國神社), Tokyo's Shinto war-dead shrine: the secret 1978 enshrinement of 14 Class-A war criminals, prime ministerial visits, constitutional church-state disputes, and Chinese and Korean objections.
Controversy
Controversy: a large, long-lasting public disagreement sustained by opposed argumentative positions, also called public or scientific controversy. Defined by persistence, multiple actors, and value conflicts; measured computationally and linked to polarization and chilling effects.
Convent
A convent, also called a nunnery, is a residence of a religious order, especially nuns, living under vows; from Latin conventus, it is canonically interchangeable with monastery.
Convent of the Sacred Heart (New York City)
Convent of the Sacred Heart (91st Street) is a private Catholic all-girls school at 1 East 91st Street, Manhattan, founded 1881; oldest independent girls' school in NYC, Pre-K-12, 730 students, housed in the landmark Kahn and Burden mansions.
Convention (norm)
Convention (norm): a self-sustaining behavioral regularity solving a coordination problem, analyzed by David Lewis (Convention, 1969), Peyton Young, and Bicchieri; distinct from injunctive social norms enforced by punishment.
Convention (treaty)
A convention, in international law, is a formal written agreement between states, typically a multilateral treaty open to all; the name itself carries no independent legal force.
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
The CAMLR Convention, signed in Canberra on 20 May 1980 and in force since 7 April 1982, is the treaty governing Southern Ocean marine life; it created CCAMLR, which manages Antarctic fisheries by consensus under an ecosystem approach.
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation
The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, known as the Montreal Sabotage Convention, is a 1971 treaty criminalizing sabotage of civil aircraft.
Convention of Aguascalientes
The Convention of Aguascalientes (Soberana Convención Revolucionaria de Aguascalientes) was a revolutionary assembly held in Aguascalientes, Mexico, from October to November 1914 to reconcile the factions of the Mexican Revolution.
Convention of Aranjuez (1801)
The Convention of Aranjuez was a Franco-Spanish treaty signed on 21 March 1801, by which the Duke of Parma traded his duchy for Tuscany and Spain ceded Louisiana to France.
Convention of Kanagawa (日米和親条約)
Convention of Kanagawa (日米和親条約), the Treaty of Peace and Amity, was the first US-Japan treaty, signed March 31, 1854 by Commodore Perry: it opened Shimoda and Hakodate ports and ended Japan's two-century isolation.
Convention of La Marsa
The Convention of La Marsa was an 1883 treaty in which the Bey of Tunis accepted the administrative, judicial, and financial reforms France judged useful.
Convention of London (1840)
Convention of London (1840), or Convention for the Pacification of the Levant: treaty of 15 July 1840 signed by Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, excluding France, forcing Muhammad Ali to evacuate Syria for hereditary rule of Egypt.
Convention of Mortefontaine
The Convention of Mortefontaine, also called the Convention of 1800 or Treaty of Mortefontaine, was a 1800 agreement between France and the United States that ended the Quasi-War.
Convention of Peking (北京条约)
Convention of Peking (北京条约): three 1860 unequal treaties Qing China signed with Britain, France, and Russia ending the Second Opium War; ceded Kowloon south of Boundary Street and about 400,000 km² east of the Ussuri, opened Tianjin, and ratified the Treaties of Tientsin.
Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity, also known as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty adopted in 1992 to conserve biodiversity and share benefits from genetic resources.
Convention on Cluster Munitions
The Convention on Cluster Munitions, also called the cluster bomb treaty, is a 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions that took effect in 2010 with 112 States Parties.
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
UN multilateral treaty (resolution 1763 (XVII), 7 November 1962; New York, 10 December 1962) requiring free consent to marriage, a legislated minimum age, and marriage registration; in force 9 December 1964, 56 parties.
Convention on Cybercrime
Budapest Convention (Convention on Cybercrime, ETS No. 185), Council of Europe treaty opened for signature 23 November 2001, in force 1 July 2004; 83 Parties; first binding international cybercrime treaty with two additional protocols.
Convention on International Civil Aviation
The Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention, Doc 7300), signed 7 December 1944 by 52 States and in force 4 April 1947, is the constitution of ICAO, establishing airspace sovereignty, SARPs Annexes, and 193 parties.
Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters
MAAC: joint OECD/Council of Europe multilateral tax treaty signed 1988 (Strasbourg), in force 1995, amended 2010; over 150 jurisdictions exchange tax information, recover claims, and serve documents.
Convention on Special Missions
The Convention on Special Missions, often called the New York Convention, is a 1969 UN treaty extending diplomatic-style privileges and immunities to temporary missions sent between states for specific tasks.