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Under the Employment Contracts Act, fixed-term workers may not be treated in a less favourable manner than comparable permanent workers, unless different treatment is justified on objective grounds arising from the law or collective agreement.

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For instance, when the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and the pro-establishment camp pursued for the same thing, generous treatment was always given to the pro-establishment camp by government officials.

Where both a held and a waiting call exist, the above procedures shall apply to the waiting call (that [...]

A United Nations resolution on the effects of atomic radiation, which was pending in the General Assembly, called on the Secretary-General to report on these effects in the Marshall Islands.

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The European Union believed that a more determined effort must be made to fight poverty and HIV/AIDS, which were synonymous with denial of rights; the economic, social and cultural rights must be more vigorously promoted through legislation; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment had to be firmly condemned; and all human rights defenders, whom it hailed for working in the face of considerable risk, should be strongly supported.

With the Russian economy now steadily emerging from the crisis, more active steps are planned to make labour a reliable route out of poverty and ensure respect for workers’ fundamental rights, especially the right to freedom from unemployment and to decent, well-paid and safe work.

While searching for a solution to the problem in the short term, the Council needed to also find a long-term solution to the question of resources for the universal periodic review process to avoid ad hoc measures, which risked undermining the principle of equal treatment for all States.

They reiterated their call for the peaceful resolution of the Somali conflict as the only way to a durable peace and genuine reconciliation and called upon all parties that had not yet joined the political process to do so, and urged the Somali stakeholders to take expeditious action and show progress in the accomplishment of the remaining tasks of the transitional period including the drafting and approval of the Constitution as well as expanding the authority of the state, promoting the reconciliation process and improving the livelihood of the population by providing essential services.

It also called on the Government to consider strengthening efforts to combat violence against women, including domestic violence and trafficking in persons, especially women and children by, inter alia, ensuring the full implementation of related laws and legislation, and also through the continued provision of adequate funding and the creation of a monitoring mechanism.

(h) (i) Where by virtue of this Ordinance any right or liability of First Pacific Bank becomes or is deemed to become a right or liability of Bank of East Asia, Bank of East Asia and all other persons shall, on and from the appointed day, have the same rights, powers and remedies (and in particular the same rights and powers as to taking or resisting legal proceedings or making or resisting applications to any authority) for ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing that right or liability as if it had at all times been a right or liability of Bank of East Asia; and any legal proceedings or application to any authority existing or pending immediately before the appointed day by or against First Pacific Bank may be continued by or against Bank of East Asia.

The Meeting also called on all States Parties to recommit, even in difficult financial times, to realising a world without anti-personnel mines, where the rights of all are respected and where all women, girls, boys and men can live in dignity and prosperity.