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Nigeria also noted that the fact that the main challenge faced by Nigeria concerned unexploded ordnance points to how valuable this Convention is in ensuring

Furthermore, the report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (A/59/565) and the report of the Secretary-General “In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all” (A/59/2005) proposed a number of initiatives of vital importance to millions of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict areas, including: the creation of a Peacebuilding Commission; increased focus on conflict

For example, this may include experience in the following areas: the defence of those charged with serious and complex crimes at the domestic level, such as terrorism, homicide, manslaughter, trafficking and complex white-collar crimes; the defence of cases with international dimensions, such as those involving international judicial assistance, complex

Security Council resolutions 1674 (2006) and 1894 (2009) on the protection of civilians state that ending impunity is essential if a society in conflict or recovering from conflict is to come to terms with past violations and prevent their recurrence, and that it is the responsibility of States to comply with their

This legislation provides for universal jurisdiction over any or a combination of the following: (a) grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I thereto (primarily States members of the Commonwealth); (b) crimes specified under the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (for example, Cyprus, Japan and the Netherlands); (c) other violations of international humanitarian law where no treaty

Drawn up in the context of the structural prevention of conflicts and the construction of a culture of peace, the critical inventory of history textbooks in use in French-speaking Africa: primary and secondary education offers pointers for disarming the

The paragraph also omitted any reference to article 8, para. 2(b)viii, of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, under which the direct or indirect transfer by an occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupied, or the deportation or

(a) Immediately fulfil its obligations under the Convention to prevent and protect all individuals under its jurisdiction from torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment; the Committee recalls, in this regard, that no

The increase in the number of people with disabilities is due to a number of

The Lebanon Mine Action Centre, together with the south Lebanon United Nations Mine Action Centre, had coordinated the clearance of 42 square kilometres of land and had been awarded the Nansen Refugee Award by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Deeply alarmed by the number of mines that continue to be laid each year as well as the presence of a decreasing but still very large number of, and area of square kilometres infested by, mines and explosive

As this initiative stalled and the second round of clashes broke out, Cambodia sought the intervention of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague,

As crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic enters its third

It also participated in: (a) consultation tours and public meetings on the Commission on the Status of Women; (b) annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration programmes pertaining to the abolition of nuclear weapons; (c) national conferences on women and peace, disarmament, non-violence and sustainable clean energy; (d) various discussions and events on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000); (e) campaigns such as “Make Poverty History”;

Organized by the Department of Public Information and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in collaboration with the non-governmental organization Culture Project, the concert employed a kaleidoscope of art

The United Nations Mine Action Services-Department of Peacekeeping Operations achieved progress in addressing the special needs of women and girls in all mine action programmes through the development and implementation of gender guidelines for mine action programmes, which were distributed through United Nations-managed and supported programmes to Special

Article 18 (4) of the BL establishes that in the event that the Standing Committee of the

The law also prohibits the production, copying, storage, presentation, glorification or dissemination of promotional material, symbols or features which incite, encourage or spread hatred or intolerance against free affiliations of citizens, racial, national or religious hatred or intolerance, propagate or justify neo-Nazi and fascist ideas and organizations or jeopardize the public order in some other way, as well as the production, copying, storage, presentation or dissemination or any

With regard to the follow-up to the Goldstone report (A/HRC/12/48), we particularly hope that, within the coming months as United Nations bodies review the report again, those members of the Security Council who rock-solidly and unwaveringly support the Israeli regime in total disregard of the norms and principles of international human rights and international humanitarian law

Before and after” satellite images will be used to show environmental changes such as land use change, urban growth, altered hydrology (dams, river diversions and drained wetlands), degradation of land and desertification,

(a) With regard to the obligations contained in paragraph 3 (a) (i) of Security Council resolution 1591 (2005) referring to