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[...] [...] not allow married daughters to use their family [...] [...]

[...] [...] or an unmarried daughter would overcome [...]

There are also numerous unreasonable rules like VRs may refuse the registration of villagers as electors; women who have married and moved out of the village are not permitted to vote; and nonindigenous inhabitants are not permitted to vote despite their having lived in a village for more than 10 years, and so on.

[...] [...] the husband of a woman, his family or his [...] [...]

[...] marriage of Muslim women to nonMuslims, [...] [...]

Recently, there was a news report that a Hong Kong male complained that his girlfriend refused to marry him because he did not have a flat.

[...] [...] within the clan as women on their marriage [...]

Most of the members appointed have laid off employees, which gives people an impression that the Task Force is set up because of the lack of confidence in the future, thus necessitating the immediate shift of the crisis onto wage earners.

[...] [...] citizenship, so that female citizens married to noncitizens [...] [...]

I urge the British Government to get the dowry ready soon for its daughter in the form of a BN(O) passport which is valid both before 1997 and beyond so that she may have ample time to make plans for her honeymoon which the couple could spend abroad.

It affects girls and women at every point in their lives and ranges from sex-selective abortion and infanticide, inadequate health care and nutrition given to girls, female genital mutilation, child marriage, rape as a weapon of war, trafficking for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and labour exploitation, domestic violence, so-called “honour” killings, dowry-related murder, to [...]

The DAB has over and again urged the Hong Kong Government to treat this agreement with the PPRD Region positively because this "Nine plus Two" agreement on co-operation is not binding, all parties have the right to decide on their own whether to participate in some or all of the co-operation programmes.

For example, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has noted the existence in India of devadasi, whereby a girl, usually a Dalit, is forced to marry a deity and forced to have sex with members of the temple (CERD/C/IND/CO/19, para. 18).

[...] [...] young Yemeni girls, usually from poor [...] [...]

My second observation is that as the Government is still unable to make adjustment to its non-intervention policy, it can hardly help enterprises to enhance their international competitiveness effectively or put in efforts to improve the appeal of Hong Kong to overseas investors and entrepreneurs.

These include advising textbook publishers not to provide schools with any forms of advantages, donations, free gifts or luxurious hospitality during textbook promotion to avoid including the related costs when pricing the textbooks; issuing the "Guidelines for Printing of Textbooks" to publishers for reference and requesting them to adopt the "functional and cost-effective approach" by making use of appropriate printing methods, paper and design with low-cost features to reduce the production costs of textbooks; issuing to schools a circular memorandum on "Notes on Selection of Textbooks and Learning Materials for Use in Schools" every year; and providing guidelines on how to select suitable textbooks and help students minimize textbooks through teacher seminars.

The State party observes in this connection that these “individual” communications dwell on the general context in which the disappearances occurred, focusing solely on the actions of the security forces and never mentioning those of the various armed groups that used criminal concealment techniques to incriminate the armed forces.

means the account maintained by HEC through which the difference between the standard cost of fuels as agreed between the Government and HEC and the actual cost of fuels to HEC (“Fuel Cost Account Adjustment”) is captured and passed on to the consumers by way of rebates or charges.

The case of Zhongshan Minea demonstrates that there are inherent costs associated with this technology (e.g., transportation, increasing density) and the long term sustainability would depend on improving the production process to reduce costs or to pass them on to consumers.

Therefore, it will only result in doctors and insurance companies becoming the real beneficiaries whereas patients who need the primary health care will still be unable to get the protection.

[...] [...] conflict-related killings; dowry-related killings; [...] [...]

[...] resistance of grafted plants due [...] [...]

In this context, it was suggested that both States Parties and the broader implementation community need to make sure that this actually happens, including moving beyond the general discussions of how to ensure that girls, boys, women and men have equal access to the resources generated through implementation of the Convention, and, by asking why progress has been so slow.