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External sources (not reviewed)

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 technical expert support to

Most of the children come from families where the parents have

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

(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

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

The Committee recommends that the State party take all measures to render the Act, once adopted, applicable in all administrative and judicial proceedings and launch awareness-raising programmes and trainings for all professional working with and for children so as to offer children greater

(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

The Committee further recommends that the State party strengthen its research and data collection capacity on domestic violence and provide detailed information on this in its next periodic report,

The Committee recommends that the State party ensure prosecution for traffickers, with sentences commensurate to the gravity of the crime of

Paragraph 10 of the Committee’s decision is an excellent illustration of a comprehensive approach to reparation; it orders non-pecuniary measures of restitution and satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition (a thorough

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

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention played a key role in efforts to attain those objectives; States parties’ full implementation and other States’ accession

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

In doing so the States Parties, particularly through

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