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External sources (not reviewed)

In addition, Tajikistan reported that it is preparing to conduct a needs

During the 2010/11 period, the Mission worked with the Government of Haiti, State institutions, NGOs and the United Nations country team to: (a) promote the capacity of civil society groups to advocate social and economic rights through participation in the reconstruction process; (b) assist the Government to report, prevent and respond to human rights violations, with particular regard to the rights of children and women; (c) ensure that humanitarian assistance to vulnerable persons affected by the earthquake incorporated the principles and standards on protection and was provided in close coordination with local authorities; and (d) provide temporary logistical and

Deeply concerned also about discrimination against the girl child and the violation of the rights of the girl child, which often result in less access for girls to education, and to quality education, nutrition and physical and mental health care, in girls enjoying fewer of the rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence than boys, and in leaving them more vulnerable than boys to the consequences of unprotected and premature

The Committee regrets that there is still no comprehensive system of recording and analysing abuses committed against children and that mechanisms of

Funding has been used to support projects aimed at introducing women’s rights and gender equality topics, as well as reducing inequality (competitions have included topics such as women’s entrepreneurship and raising employment among

UNESCO was requested: (i) to raise awareness of the dangers threatening the global community through a strengthening of its programmes, particularly directed at youth; (ii) to urge governments to implement quickly sustainable educational and awareness programmes aimed at containing the spread of the HIV virus; and (iii) to stress the value of a human rights-based approach to the AIDS pandemic, bearing in mind factors of

(c) Providing legal aid, advice and court support services

This double veto leaves the Security Council helpless against the

The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to combat trafficking in human beings, especially women and children, for purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour, inter alia by prosecuting and convicting offenders of the law against trafficking, supporting programmes and information campaigns to prevent trafficking, providing mandatory training for law enforcement officials, prosecutors and judges

It should be noted that the Report of the United Nations Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 808 (United Nations document S/25704, 3 May 1993, para. 35, p. 9) stated that “[T]he part of conventional international humanitarian law which has beyond doubt become part of international customary law is the law applicable in armed conflict as embodied in: the Geneva

Most of the children come from families where the parents have

(d) In cooperation with civil society, promote — in line with article 9, paragraph 2 of the Optional Protocol — awareness in the public at large, including children, through information by all appropriate means, education and training, of the preventive measures and harmful effects of all the offences referred to in the Optional Protocol, including by encouraging the participation

To overcome these challenges, for example in the operation of the OHCHR Fact-Finding Mission to the Syrian Arab Republic (2011), the Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka and the FactFinding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and its follow-up expert committees, these bodies have resorted to visiting neighbouring countries to meet with persons who may have first-hand information

During the same period, the Government has been working on the implementation of reintegration programmes, principally through the support project for the

(a) The measures, including legislative ones, taken to combat various forms of violence against women, including trafficking, domestic violence, marital

Ensure that future ad hoc tribunals created by the Security Council build on existing statutes and include judges and advisers with legal expertise on specific issues, such as violations of the rights of women and girls, including gender-based and sexual violence; ensure that prosecutors of such ad hoc international tribunals respect the

One third of the projects were implemented by non-governmental organizations, 15 of which related to domestic violence (funded by the Fund from 2003 to 2005): opening shelter

The areas of work identified include provision of technical support and training of law enforcement staff and strengthening of cooperative efforts between NGOs and government

(d) Provide in the next periodic report updated information on complaints about acts of racial discrimination and on relevant decisions in penal, civil or administrative

The Committee requests the State party to provide in next report updated information on complaints about acts of racial discrimination and on relevant decisions in penal, civil or administrative court proceedings