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External sources (not reviewed)

As explained to the Advisory Committee, those new fields include gender budgeting and gender audits at the national level; implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security, especially in the light of the recent uprisings in the region; political participation of women, especially at

Sanctions should be within the ambit of the United Nations

(c) To coordinate its activities as appropriate with the operation of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and with international efforts to promote the political process in Darfur and to assess in its interim and final reports progress towards reducing violations by all parties of the measures imposed by paragraphs 7 and 8 of resolution 1556 (2004) and paragraph 7 of resolution 1591 (2005), and progress towards removing impediments to the political process, threats to stability in Darfur and the region, violations of international

With regard to disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, resettlement or reintegration, the mission recommended that MONUC enhance the United Nations multidimensional strategy to address FDLR outlined in my last report (S/2009/623), including by considering a commander incentive programme targeting mid- to high-level FDLR commanders who are not

Following the meeting the members of the Council issued a statement to the press in which the Council, inter alia, reiterated that the Gulf Cooperation Council initiative and implementation mechanism must be fulfilled in a transparent and timely manner, and in a spirit of inclusion and reconciliation;

The Committee also requests that the State party provide information on the

The Kingston conference was especially aimed at reinforcing

(d) Eradicate gender-based discrimination and violence, and in particular repeal laws still in

More than six decades of massacre, home demolitions, food and medicine embargos, abduction and imprisonment; the threatening of its neighbours in various ways, including with nuclear weapons; the waging of numerous wars against Palestine and Lebanon; the assassination of people, political and religious figures and elites; overt and covert interference in the political, economic and cultural affairs of other States; violations of international law and international humanitarian law and all-out violations of human rights, including the killing of children and women — all of this should be reason enough for the international

The Council has a vital and urgent

The disrepute in which the current administration

The international community counts on its Blue Helmets to protect the vulnerable in some of the world's most dangerous places, but their service comes at a high

Government is currently considering the setting up of an independent Police Complaints

Thus the Government incorporated the offences of obscene

However, the authorities who met with the delegation indicated that the only way to find out about such cases was to contact the Constitutional

It recommended to Mauritius to: (a) ensure that the National Human Rights Commission operates in line with the Paris Principles; (b) prohibit in the Constitution all forms of discrimination without exception; (c) develop a policy for the use of Creole at all levels of primary education, and incorporate human rights in the education curricula;

This is positive for a number of reasons: firstly the scale and speed of communication, to a degree,

The Committee welcomes the strategy to address the situation of children in the street but is concerned at the high number of children

In Bil’in, as the civilians marched peacefully from the centre of the village towards the Wall, the occupying troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and sound bombs at the crowd, instigating clashes, and also fired tear gas directly at journalists and television crews at the