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Both real estate and perpetual usufruct transfers become valid through a sales agreement, which is obligatorily signed in front of public notary in the form of the notary deed.

Over the past two years, Parliament has ratified the following seven international human rights treaties: the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict; the United Nations Convention against Corruption; the Minimum Age Convention of the International Labour Organization (ILO); and the ILO Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour.

(k) Strengthen the judiciary, through the provision of assistance to prosecutors and courts, on aspects of maritime law enforcement, focusing on crimes such as piracy, drug trafficking, human trafficking, the dumping of waste, illegal and unregulated fishing and small arms trafficking

If the Committee receives reliable information indicating grave or systematic violations by a State party of rights set forth in the Convention or in the Optional Protocols thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography or on the involvement of children in armed conflict, the Committee shall invite the State party to cooperate in the examination of the information and, to this end, to submit observations without delay with regard to the information concerned.

[...] [...] particular regarding illicit traffic.

In addition, although the information received from official sources indicates that budgetary allocations for meals ought to be sufficient to meet inmates nutritional requirements, inmates are almost unanimous in asserting (and their version is backed up by statements from many staff members) that the food they receive is neither nutritional nor sufficient in quantity because most of the food is taken out of the prison and sold for profit.

Estonia has prepared several basic strategic documents on ensuring the rights of children and developing a secure environment for them, on preventing and combating the sale of children, child prostitution and pornography.

[...] [...] Governments in order to purchase and sell them and [...] [...]

Furthermore, official invitations have been sent to Special Rapporteurs on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

(f) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (ratified on 11 November 2003).

The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations on the second periodic report under the Convention and the initial report under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography that have not been implemented or sufficiently implemented, including those related to allocation of resources, data collection, harmonization of national legislation with the Convention and its Optional Protocols, torture and ill-treatment, administration of juvenile justice, children deprived of their family environment, sexual exploitation and abuse, and children of minority groups, and to provide adequate follow-up to the recommendations contained in the present concluding observations.

Well, I hope that you will – I personally am not over-optimistic – but it is clear that predicting the future, except for those who make a business of it, is a difficult exercise.

Cape Verde acceded to the main international human rights instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; the Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.

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That commentary might suggest, for example, that (f) the location from which financing was organized or authorized or the location of the debtor’s primary bank, would only be important where the bank controlled the debtor; that (k) the location of employees, might be important where employees could be future creditors, or less important on the basis that protection of employees is more an issue of protecting the rights of interested parties, is not relevant to the COMI analysis and is, in any event addressed by article 22 of the Model Law; that (e) the jurisdiction whose law would apply to most disputes, was not sufficiently important to be a determining factor and could, in any event, be a jurisdiction unrelated to the place from which the debtor was managed or conducted its business, factors that were both considered to be more important than (e).

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suggested that, in accordance with General Assembly decision 55/488, the Committee should take note of the report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (A/66/41), the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (A/66/228) and the report of the Secretary-General on the girl child (A/66/257).

Support the role and mandates of the Special Rapporteurs on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General on violence against children and on sexual violence in conflict, and other relevant special rapporteurs and representatives.

[...] networks for trading diamonds and [...] [...]

Considering the current nature of artisanal diamond production in Côte d’Ivoire, the implementation of the Kimberley Process will help to improve the governance of a national resource by creating an accountable and transparent structure and procedure for diamond mining, buying/selling and importing/exporting.

At a ceremony today in Beijing, the Sale and Purchase Agreement was signed by Mr. Anton Klomp, Chief Executive Officer of Vesta Terminals and the Managing Director of Sinopec Kantons, in the presence of Mr. Paul Chivers, Group Head of Corporate Development, Mercuria and senior members of the Sinopec Group including the Deputy General Director of the Foreign Co-operation Office.

The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet party, namely, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

(a) To criminalize and penalize effectively all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, including all acts of paedophilia, including within the family or for commercial purposes, child pornography and child prostitution, child sex tourism, trafficking in children, the sale of children and the use of the Internet and other information and communications technologies for these purposes, and to take effective measures against the criminalization of children who are victims of exploitation