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167 The Board may establish and maintain or procure the establishment and maintenance of any contributory or non-contributory pension or provident or superannuation funds or (with the sanction of an ordinary resolution) employee or executive share option schemes for the benefit of, or give or procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to any persons who are or were at any time in the employment or service of the Company, or of any company which is a subsidiary of the Company, or is allied or associated with the Company or with any such subsidiary company, or who are or were at any time directors or officers of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid, and holding or who have held any salaried employment or office in the Company or such other company, and the wives, widows, families and dependents of any such persons.

For the purposes of this Bye-law, an employees' share scheme is a scheme for encouraging or facilitating the holding of shares or debentures in the Company by or for the benefit of the bona fide employees or former employees of the Company, the Company's subsidiary or holding company or subsidiary of the Company's holding company, or the wives, husbands, widows, widowers or children or step-children under the age of twenty-one of such employees or former employees.

The United Nations is also supporting AVEGA through a project aimed at building capacity of paralegals in property and inheritance rights through sensitization of members and beneficiaries of AVEGA who are living with HIV/AIDS, about their property and inheritance rights, and at providing legal assistance to victims relating to property and succession disputes.

Persons considered equivalent to veterans and disabled soldiers, parents and spouses of military men who died in the Great Patriotic War, widows of disabled soldiers and invalids and workers on the home front during the military years will also get material support.

(13) To provide for the welfare of persons employed or formerly employed by the Company or any predecessors (in business or in title) of the Company and the wives, widows and families of such persons by grants of money or other aid or otherwise as the Company shall think fit.

The Government informed the Working Group that under civil remedies Mr. Munir Said Thalib’s wife received an indemnity and that it is not aware of any incidents of intimidation or reprisal against the victim’s family.

In 1966, Roché’s widow commissioned the Paris auction house Hôtel Drouot to sell a set of Sanyu’s painting, and most of the artist’s work remained in the hands of European dealers and collectors until about 1990, when Taiwan art dealers and Asian collectors began to acquire and collect his work.

Old-age poverty appears to be a result of the lack of protection mechanisms, as well as a consequence of specific policies (for example, mandatory retirement ages and inadequate social protections to ensure a minimum standard of living), financial exploitation or denial of rights (for example, no inheritance rights for widows).

With respect to the Commission of Inquiry into the March 2009 assassinations of President Vieira and Chief of General Staff Tagme Na Waie, the Prosecutor General informed me that the investigation is nearing completion and that he needed to meet witnesses who are abroad, including the widow of the late President.

The Directors may establish and maintain or procure the establishment and maintenance of any contributory or noncontributory pension or superannuation funds or personal pension plans for the benefit of, or give or procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to, any persons who are or were at any time in the employment or service of the Company, or of any company which is a subsidiary of the Company, or is allied or associated with the Company or with any such subsidiary company, or who are or were at any time directors or officers of the Company or of any such other company as aforesaid, and holding or who have held any salaried employment or office in the Company or such other company, and the spouses, widows, widowers, families and dependants of any such persons.

According to data on actual recipients of pensions, social benefits and allowances paid to widows of Great Patriotic War veterans, the share of persons of pensionable age in the population at large is 4.8 per cent (as at 1 January 2008).

In terms of economic empowerment, the United Nations continues to support capacity-building initiatives of AVEGA members and Benimpuhwe associations to develop and enhance their skills in handicrafts and the production of the Agaseke baskets (peace baskets) for export.