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External sources (not reviewed)

Most of the children come from families where the parents have

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

The following rights and freedoms are expressly provided for: right to life, right to physical and mental integrity, individual freedom, right to defense, freedom of movement, personal and family privacy, inviolability of domicile, secrecy of correspondence, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, right to information, right to education, access to culture, rights to protection of health, right to a healthy environment, right to vote, right to be elected, freedom of assembly, right of association, right to work and social protection of labour, prohibition of forced labour, right to strike, right of private property, economic freedom, right of inheritance, right to a decent standard of living, protection of children

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

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 the

(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,

Finally, last Saturday, after repeated discussions, members of my party had to make a decision, albeit difficult, and that was we would make our decision based on the feeling of the person concerned because we think that …… There are only public opinions and ethical concerns

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

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

The following organisations support the proposals of the sub-committee in principle: the Hong Kong Bar Association, the Criminal Law and Procedure Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Young Legal Professionals Association, the Hong Kong Federation of Women Lawyers, the Prosecutions Division and the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, the Hong Kong Police Force, Security Bureau, Social Welfare Department, the Working Group on Battered Spouses, the Office of the Ombudsman, Hong Kong

All these measures had made it possible to make progress in assisting affected communities recovering productive land, enabling displaced populations of vulnerable peasants to return, reconstructing