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[...] [...] other cruel or degrading treatment, it also strengthens the right of convicted persons to submit appeals or complaints to the courts, the Procurator’s Office, government bodies or to human rights associations and to receive information about the terms and conditions of serving their sentence, to receive legal assistance, as well as their right to personal safety and freedom of [...][...]

[...] [...] supply all necessary information requested by the Special Rapporteur, to fully and expeditiously respond to and follow up his urgent appeals, to give serious consideration to responding favourably to requests by the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries and to enter into a constructive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on requestedvisits totheir [...][...]

These include proposals for the establishment of (a) 13 Safety and Security posts under section 35, comprised of 5 General Service (Other level) posts in Geneva to implement a necessary canine unit and lead crisis management training, and 8 General Service (Local level) posts in Addis Ababa to support the security control centres, (b) 4 General Service (Other level) posts under section 24 to provide administrative and clerical support to the [...][...]

[...] [...] inequalities (“equality”), pursuing environmental sustainability, food and nutrition security, and sustainable energy access (“respect for nature”), addressing demographic pressures (“solidarity”), human rights and good governance (“freedoms” and “tolerance”), andensuring peace, securityand sustainable global development (“shared [...]

[...] [...] inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; ensuring that all persons deprived of liberty benefit from the guarantees to which they are entitled under international law, including the review of the detention and other fundamental judicial guarantees; ensuring that no form of deprivation of liberty places a detained person outside the protection of the law; respecting due process obligations and the right to a fair trial;abidingfully by non-refoulement [...][...]

[...] [...] the liberty, securityanddignity of the person, treat all prisoners in all places of detention in accordance with international law (see resolution 61/171, para. 8) and fully comply with their obligations with regard to the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degradingtreatment [...]

[...] [...] world free from hunger, poverty, ignorance and insecurity.

[...] global problem,requiring global solutions, [...][...]

[...] [...] “enough” to attacking diplomats and endangering their safety, “enough” to attacks on diplomatic missions, “enough” to [...][...]

(f) To ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol thereto.

Equally relevant are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 12, concerning the obligation of States to eliminate discrimination against women in health care; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 25 (b), which requires that health services be “designed to minimize and prevent further disabilities, including among children and older persons”; and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 7, which prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and includes the prohibition of medical or scientific experimentation without free consent.

(d) Establish an independent national mechanism for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

In addition, it is proposed that one new P-3 post and one new General Service (Other level) post be established to support the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in its new composition of 25 members, increased from 10, in view of the expected increase in the workload of the Subcommittee, particularly with respect to the demands that arise in the organization of field missions (ibid., para. 24.80).

These safeguards are considered not so much as due process safeguards — this task falls to other United Nations bodies — but as instruments of prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

These included: arbitrary detention; torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; summary and extrajudicial executions; sexual violence, including rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation; and other forms of violence grounded in discrimination against women.

[...] [...] and complete destruction of such weapons demanded by all humankind.

Following the 165th session of the Executive Board (October 2002), at which a number of delegationscalled for an overall review of UNESCO prizes, the Director-General set up a working group, chaired by the Deputy Director-General, in order to: (i) undertake a comprehensive review of all existing UNESCO prizes across the Organization’s different fields of competence, including their number, nominal value and support costs, financial regulations, periodicity, selection and award procedures, visibility and impact; (ii) propose measures in order to enhance the impact of the existing prizes and rationalize related costs in terms of funds and staff time; and (iii) propose a set of criteria and guidelines for the creation, management and promotion of UNESCO prizes.

[...] [...] torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or [...]

(b) To take persistent, determined and effective measures to have all allegations of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degradingtreatment or punishment investigated promptly, effectively and impartially by an independent, competent domestic authority, as well as whenever there is reasonable ground to believe that such an act has been committed; to hold persons who encourage, order, tolerate or perpetrate such acts responsible, to have them brought to justice and punished in a manner commensurate with the gravity of the offence, including the officials in charge of the place of detention where the prohibited act is found to have been committed; and to take note, in this respect, of the Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the updated set of principles for the protection of human rights through action to combat impunity as a useful tool in efforts to prevent and combat torture

The European Union believed that a more determined effort must be made to fight poverty and HIV/AIDS, which were synonymous with denial of rights; the economic, social and cultural rights must be more vigorously promoted through legislation; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment had to be firmly condemned; and all human rights defenders, whom it hailed for working in the face of considerable risk, should be strongly supported.

(a) The specific measures taken to fight impunity for violations of human rights, including disappearances and torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment committed by public officials as well as private actors acting with the acquiescence or consent of government officials.

Among the main international instruments recently ratified by Spain are the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2005), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (2007) and, more recently, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2009).

His Government pledged its continuing political, moral and financial support for UNRWA and urged the strongest international condemnation of all Israeli violations, which blatantly contravened the Charter of the United Nations, as well as international humanitarian law and international law, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and the 1967 Comay-Michelmore agreement between UNRWA and the Government of Israel.

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