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Please provide information on steps taken to ensure that all persons, including those monitoring human rights, are protected from any intimidation, unjust imprisonment or violence as a result of their activities, as well as the prompt, impartial and effective investigation of such acts.

An applicant shall be approved if, first, the applicant and the plan of work meet the preconditions of the Convention, the 1994 Agreement, and the rules and regulations issued by the Authority for the conclusion of a contract, and in particular the obligations pursuant to article 4, paragraph 6 (a) to (c), of annex III to the Convention; and second, the applicant (a) is sufficiently reliable and can guarantee that the activities in the Area will be implemented in an orderly manner which upholds the needs of operational safety, of health and safety at work and of environmental protection, (b) can provide the funding needed for an orderly execution of the activities in the Area, and (c) can show plausibly that the activities planned in the Area can be carried out on a commercial basis (section 4 of the Act).

Several Member States also welcomed the UNCTAD research on climate change as a valuable contribution to the global debate on climate change and development; as well as its work on the global financial crises and food security, which were the underlying themes for the work of its intergovernmental machinery.

The employment and activity equal to work means work performed in Estonia or as an employee sent from Estonia on assignment abroad on the basis of an employment contract or in public service; work performed in Estonia based on a contract of employment, contract for services, authorisation agreement or contract under the law of obligations for the provision of other services; activity in Estonia as a sole proprietor; daytime or full-time study in an educational institution if the person’s studies are suspended or concluded; and performance of conscript service obligation.

This includes information about the work and structure of the public body, procedures by which individuals can engage with the body, information about the documents held by the body, and its system of managing information, information about the projects being undertaken by the body, financial information about budgets and funds received from foreign bodies, and detailed information on tenders and open competitions.

With regard to UN-Habitat, results achieved with those resources include the documentation of national support frameworks for regional planning in francophone least developed countries, capacity-building efforts for facilitating the European Commission financial assistance in Eastern Europe, social housing operational and financial instruments in South-Eastern Europe, and affordable housing development in the United Republic of Tanzania.

States should ensure that non-indigenous third parties, especially the private sector, do not infringe indigenous peoples’ rights to languages and culture and understand the flow-on effects that their activity on indigenous peoples’ lands, territories and resources can have on their languages and cultures.

The Council requested the funds and programmes, through their executive boards, to include in their annual reports to the Council: (a) a section outlining measures taken in the implementation of the provisions of the quadrennial policy review of operational activities; and (b) a section on the activities and measures undertaken within the designated theme of the high-level meeting of the operational activities segment (General Assembly resolutions 62/208, 63/232 and 64/289, and Council resolutions 1994/33 and 2010/23).

The author alleges that he was performing comparable work to a regular employee and that his relationship with his employer was comparable to a general labour contract.

[...] [...] which cannot happen unless Israel stops completely its illegal colonization campaign in the Occupied [...]

Most informal enterprises and workers deal in legal goods and services, and operate in a semi-legal, but not deliberately illegal manner.

The State party argues that the journalistic activities conducted by the complainant, even after his arrival in Norway, do not constitute the type of activities that would be subject to monitoring by the Iranian authorities, since the latter are primarily preoccupied with monitoring activities by Iranians in exile that may pose a concrete risk to the regime.

It must reinforce work on long-standing arrangements, support recent achievements and undertakings, and provide encouragement and direction to areas of potential progress.

[...] [...] they are carrying out in southern Lebanon [...]

[...] [...] in which it is engaged or other factors, [...] [...]

[...] the staff member engaged in an activity [...] [...]

An act by a State member of an international organization done in accordance with the rules of the organization does not as such engage the international responsibility of that State under the terms of this article.

[...] and to reduce the number of functions which [...]

This provision, developed in the Royal Decree No. 139/2003 of 5 December 2003, recognized that the greater effort and difficulty experienced by such workers in the performance of an occupational activity constituted grounds for lowering their retirement age without reduction of their pensions, applying the following coefficients: “0.25 in cases in which the worker has a recognized degree of impairment of 65 per cent or more” and “0.5 if the level is 65 per cent or more" and the person needs the assistance of a third person in order to perform the essential acts of everyday life.

On 4 January, in Kroi i Vitakut/Brdjani, a group of Kosovo Serbs pelted with stones Kosovo Albanian construction workers who had come without prior notice, mistakenly suspecting that the workers were engaging in additional construction beyond what had been agreed in UNMIK-facilitated negotiations.

While this outcome clearly represents a high area of demand, the predominantly advocacy and policy advisory nature of UNDP’s engagement requires fewer resources compared to the other outcomes.

They do work that they should not do according to international [...] [...]

[...] [...] Samuel and Rab engaged in their epoch-making work.

I call once again on the Council and on Member States more widely to respect and promote this engagement and not to discourage it through, for example, donor practices which, however well intentioned, in reality criminalize contacts or the unintended provision of goods in ways which limit humanitarian assistance.

Positions and activities of individuals in the following areas are, in particular, incompatible with membership of the Board: persons who hold government posts, are in the paid service of their Governments or are acting under instructions from their Governments; persons who represent a Government at national or international forums on drug-related issues; and persons who are engaged in any activity, whether private or public, that might be liable to impair their impartiality in the exercise of their functions on the Board or whose activity is in conflict with the functions of the Board.

[...] [...] attributable to violence perpetrated by gangs or organized criminal groups varied between 10 and just over 50 per cent.

I wish to reaffirm the full support and solidarity of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation with the Palestinian people in their endeavour to regain their legitimate and inalienable national rights, including the rights of return and self-determination, and the establishment of the independent Palestinian State on its national soil, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

To personalize this a bit, I hardly visit a corner of this country without seeing evidence of these common interests in the work that each is doing: I saw the fruits of our shared efforts on HIV/AIDS prevention when I visited a joint U.S.-China treatment facility for HIV negative injecting drug addicts in Xinjiang last year.