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(a) Continue its efforts to raise awareness of the public and strengthen early detection and prevention

The Council of Ministers recently authorized the signing of Council of Europe Convention No. 197 on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which entered into force on 1 February 2008 and the fundamental objective of which is to prevent and combat all forms of trafficking in

Panama also has some special laws governing protection, such as the special criminal regime for adolescents, domestic violence and the abuse of children and

(b) Use these recommendations as a tool for action, in partnership with civil society and in particular with the involvement of children, to ensure that every

The main objectives of the policy are, by the year 2015, to ensure that boys and girls will have equal access to all levels of education; to reduce obstacles impeding the enrollment and retention of girl students; to reduce the gap between boys’ and girls’ primary, secondary, and tertiary education completion rates by increasing the availability of scholarship opportunities to girl students; to offer life skills at school that will increase the

A total of 77 cases of killing and

Bearing this in mind, I urge the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to withdraw all perpetrators of child rights violations, irrespective of their rank, from the military chain of command and hold

Women human rights defenders, particularly women working in rural communities on cases of sexual

The delegation referred to Australia’s National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, a coordinated

The Family Protection Unit at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital established in 2005, is the first Maldivian model of integrated

The Executive Committee on Peace and Security/Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs Victim Assistance Task Force, led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UNICEF, developed a draft policy statement and

The United Nations entities, including the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), ICTY, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNDP, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Department of Political Affairs, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNITAR and WFP reported measures taken to make

(j) Urging all non-State armed groups to immediately stop the recruitment and use of children, the killing

The Committee for the United Nations Population Award selected the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development in recognition of its pioneering achievements in: (a) developing the role of parliaments in the Asia and the Pacific region to achieve the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development through national parliamentary committees on population and development, which have become a worldwide model; (b) contributing to the establishment of regional parliamentary forums in Africa and Europe; (c) promoting parliamentary action on population and development issues by facilitating dialogue within and among parliaments; and (d) strengthening the knowledge and capacity of parliamentarians to advocate, initiate and adopt legislation on population and development, reproductive

In 2008, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment reported that custodial violence against women, including girls, “very often includes rape and other forms of sexual violence such as threats of rape,

Noting with concern that in some areas of the world men outnumber women as a result, in part, of harmful attitudes and practices, such as female genital mutilation, son preference, which results in female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, early

In the context of education, activities focus on

The activities undertaken within this