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While these exceptional situations were swiftly handled, the Government found it

The evidence gathered for this study demonstrates that the time has come for States to unambiguously reaffirm, in law

To protect women from such violence and break the cycle of violence, the General Assembly, in resolution 63/155, strongly condemned all acts of violence against women and girls, whether perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors (para. 8); stressed that it was important that States refrained from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to elimination of violence against women (para. 9); stressed also that States must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls

Foreign policy measures: The plan envisages 41 measures that pursue the following priority objectives: the abolition of the death penalty (including the creation of an international commission against the death penalty); human rights in the area of cooperation; the eradication of torture; gender equality; the eradication of gender-based violence; combating human trafficking; the elimination of all forms of discrimination; the protection of children from exploitation, violence and disease; an end to terrorism, including through the defence of the rule of law and of human rights; the protection of human rights defenders; the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights; combating impunity, and active support for the International Criminal Court

In closing, as noted during the statement delivered by the State of Kuwait on behalf of the Arab Group during the recent Security Council debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, which was held on 14 April 2010, I wish to reiterate that Israel’s illegal practices in

This information should also indicate that the person concerned can withdraw his

Numerous reports by the United Nations and national and international human rights organizations detail the phenomenon of domestic and inter-family violence, the

The centrality of the safety and protection of witnesses was

Ms. Licuanan stated that the Forum had called upon all member States to accede to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol, protect human rights, strengthen mechanisms to improve women’s rights, invest in research on media and information and

Although they have their own channel for access to ICTY public records and can even request modification of protective measures for the purpose of their domestic proceedings, local Prosecutors and Judges whom I met during my visit to the Region, in general,20 considered that the establishment of Information Centres in the Region would assist them in their work: they would generate a better understanding by the media and the public of the

(c) The implication of traditional dispute

Since no one had been prosecuted or punished for those

As underscored in the concept note submitted to us by the

Over four decades since the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan, and despite the demands by the Council that Israel should implement all relevant resolutions, it continued to obstruct the work of United Nations fact-finding teams, while

For example, a civil rights group immediately submitted to the United Nations the case of the intentional partial destruction of the African American group in the United States but received no response whatsoever.4 Obvious problems arose, such as the fact that the United States had yet to ratify the

Under the patronage of the Higher Media Council (HMC) in Jordan, representatives from local and international press freedom organizations discussed the legal status of media

Pakistan regretted that practitioners of one of the worst forms of racism, the incitement to racial and religious hatred through the denigration of religions and negative stereotypes of religions or races, could take refuge behind freedom