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With today's motion, we hope that the Government will take courage to

The Programme of Action sets a broad agenda for the improvement of the status of women, stressing the importance of increasing their equal participation and equitable representation at all levels of the political process; improving women’s ability to earn an income in varied occupations so that they can become economically self-reliant, ensuring their equal access to

It urged all States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage was entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary, and to develop and implement comprehensive policies, plans of action and programmes for the survival, protection, development and advancement of the girl child in

The situation increased the responsibility of the international community in

It also stipulates that States parties should take appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas and ensure their rights to organize self-help groups and cooperatives in order to obtain equal access to economic opportunities through employment or self-employment, to have access to agricultural credit and loans, marketing

During the discussion on the Fourth MGS, members had requested the Administration to ensure that OUHK and HKSYU which were self-financing and

(b) Please describe the measures adopted in order to eliminate and prevent discrimination within the meaning of the Convention/Recommendation, including non-discrimination in the admission of pupils to educational institutions, and

Some members stressed the need for equity in the

Some organizations consider that the Administration, in delineating the electorate of FCs, should respect the autonomy of a professional organization of an FC to determine the eligibility of its members as electors, ensure that the criteria for determining electors among different organizations in the

However, the term “minority” was not a

The Commission noted the reservation of the Delegation of the United States of America as to the decision that Denmark would be the host country and Mexico co-chair of the electronic Working Group,

The Committee requests that the State party ensure that adopted legislation, including the law on asylum, are fully and faithfully implemented in order to provide the full protection of

(b) explain whether it would be allowed under Clause 49 of the Bill for a university to give favourable weighting in its admission system to ethnic minority students (provided that they met the English Language requirement and a lower-level Chinese Language requirement) for the sake of achieving racial diversity in student population and, if this was unlawful under the Bill, suggest other alternatives (apart from the provision of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) (Chinese) examination as an

Recalling two of the Millennium Development Goals, one calling for universal access to primary education and the other calling for an end to gender disparity in education, and two goals in the “Education for all” Dakar framework of action: (a) expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children; and (b) ensuring that the

The provisions on non-discrimination against children are of great

The Security Council expresses its full support for the efforts of the Envoy to bring an immediate end to all violence and human rights violations, secure humanitarian access, and facilitate a Syrian-led political transition to a

The Committee recommends that the

In times of economic crisis, it was commendable that some States had taken the initiative to prohibit the denial of healthcare services based on a person’s irregular status and to include migrant children in early childhood

The capacity to analyse and understand the legal system, including laws, regulations and how they are implemented

That this Council urges the Government to proceed expeditiously with the relevant law reforms by repealing those provisions in the legislation which are discriminatory against women in their

The UN-Women vision is a world in which societies are

The applicant complained that she was denied access to and enjoyment of her immovable property in the district of Larnaca, which disclosed a continuing

It decided also that the Council should: (a) be responsible for promoting universal respect for the protection of all human rights and fundamental