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[...] [...] of reports and communications.

Pursuant to numerous requests, the Group of Experts received an official communication from the Ministry of Justice of Côte d’Ivoire on the legal status of the sanctioned individuals, in which it was indicated that Charles Blé Goudé, Simone Gbagbo, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, Alcide Djédjé, and Laurent Gbagbo were subject to prosecution for counts of group theft, group armed robbery, crimes against the public economy, misappropriation of public funds and looting.

For this reason, the new optional protocol could include valuable guidance to States on the need: to provide children with relevant information on existing complaint mechanisms and procedures; to raise awareness of what these instruments mean and how they could be used; and to employ child-sensitive language, materials and tools in the performance of these tasks.

The Working Group on Communications on the Status [...] [...]

Based on the 1986 Framework for Cultural Statistics, this revised version of UNESCO’s cultural statistics methodology takes into account new concepts that have emerged since 1986 in the field of culture, including those related to new technologies – which have so drastically transformed culture and the ways it is accessed – intangible heritage, and evolving cultural practices and policies.

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly urged all States to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights defenders in the performance of her mandate and to provide all information in a timely manner, as well as to respond without undue delay to communications transmitted to them by the Special Rapporteur; called upon States to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the requests of the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries, and urged them to enter into a constructive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur with respect to the follow-up to and implementation of her recommendations, so as to enable the Special Rapporteur to fulfil her mandate even more effectively; and requested the Special Rapporteur to continue to report annually on her activities to the Assembly and to the Human Rights Council in accordance with her mandate (resolution 66/164).

By a communication of 6 August 2009, Education International (EI) submitted additional information in support of the DM allegations concerning provisions of the 1997 Recommendation that relate to individual freedom of research within Danish universities, loss of collegiality and lack of meaningful involvement of personnel in decision-making bodies, as well as non-recognition of the value of services provided by part-time higher education teaching personnel, their nonrepresentation in negotiations with teachers’ organizations, and their lack of entitlement to pension benefits.

The official communication had been received from the Philippines, requesting the transfer of the institutional strengthening project currently under consideration (phase VIII), as well as the balance of the previous institutional strengthening phase (phase VII) from the World Bank to UNEP.

Specifically in its submission, Lesotho reports that it has taken important initiatives, namely public awareness and information dissemination, training of customs officers and refrigeration technicians.

The author claims that, in effect, as his communication and testimonies of the other unsuccessful applicants show, the overbroad grant of discretion to registration officials by the registration regime amounts in practice to a grant to them of unfettered discretion, which they employ without hesitation, to reject registration applications as and when they like.

Such a withdrawal shall not prejudice the consideration of any matter that is the subject of a communication already transmitted under the present article; no further communication by any State Party shall be received under the present article after the notification of withdrawal of the declaration has been received by the Secretary-General, unless the State Party concerned has made a new declaration.

[...] [...] correcting the Hebrew text (Massorah), the latter, such as it has come down to us, being the text established by the Massoretes in the sixth century AD Many textual corruptions, additions, omissions, or transpositions must have crept into the Hebrew text between the third [...] [...]

It shall not be responsible for the reproduction and the distribution of submissions concerning communications.

In the light of the State party’s acceptance that it was likely that the first, second and third complainants would attract the interest of the Egyptian authorities, taken together with the first complainant’s background and the nature of his allegations, the Committee concludes that the first, second and third complainants have established a foreseeable, real and personal risk of being tortured if they were to be returned to Egypt at the time of submission of the communication.

The Working Group noted that no confidential communications concerning the status of women had been received from other United Nations bodies or the specialized agencies.

[...] [...] certificates of sponsorship granted and keep the corresponding records; inform the Authority about the issuance or expiration of certificates of sponsorship and the reasons therefore; (e) give consent to assignment of rights, obligations and duties and keep the corresponding records; (f) carry out the inspection activities; and [...]

[...] [...] credentials and communications received subsequent [...]

[...] [...] always given in Hebrew, and so are most of the appended elucidations; [...] [...]

[...] [...] quick access to document symbols / sales numbers for United Nations materials (1946 [...]

However, the Committee, working group or Rapporteur may, as deemed appropriate, request the author or authors of a communication, the alleged victim or victims or the State party concerned to keep confidential the whole or part of any such submissions or information.

(h) The communication is not submitted within one year after the exhaustion of domestic remedies, except in cases where the author can demonstrate that it had not been possible to submit the communication within that time limit.

[...] [...] the receipt and circulation of notifications conveyed by Member States, receiving 50 communications [...] [...]

While in this case the Committee, on the basis of the evidence before it, did not find it necessary to address this possible violation in its consideration of the merits, the declaration of admissibility shows that the Committee is prepared to consider such arguments and reflects the trend in contemporary international human rights law away from the fictitious and artificial division of rights into “categories” and towards the view that all human rights are universal and interdependent.

The Secretary-General shall inform the members of the Committee without delay of any communications under rule 81 of these rules and shall transmit to them as soon as possible copies of the communications and relevant information.

For these reasons, the State party reiterates that the communication should be declared inadmissible under article 14 of the Convention and rule 91 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, as the petitioners failed to establish a prima facie case.

At any time after the receipt of a communication and before a determination on the merits has been reached, the Committee, the Working Group or a Rapporteur, may consult, as appropriate, relevant documentation emanating from all relevant United Nations organs, bodies, specialized agencies, funds, programmes and mechanisms, including the other treaty bodies instituted by international [...] [...]

The Committee may also bring to the attention of such bodies, with the consent of the State party concerned, any matter arising out of communications considered under the present Protocol that may assist them in deciding, each within its field of competence, on the advisability of international measures likely to contribute to assisting States parties in achieving progress in the implementation of the rights recognized in the Convention and/or the Optional Protocols thereto.