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Civicus - World Alliance For Citizen Participation welcomed new laws adopted on nongovernmental and non-profit organizations asking the Government to report publicly, accurately and comprehensively how these laws had been implemented and what had been done in relation to various

Part Two summarizes the rights and freedoms as: right to life and human dignity, liberty, rights of the women and children, rights to a privacy, rights to a fair trial and litigation , right to own property, right to religion, right to education, right to participate in voting, right of persons with special needs and elderly, right to public health care, rights to access

The new Constitution (ratified on 7 August 2008) guarantees civil and political rights and fundamental freedoms including, inter alia: the right to life; right to nondiscrimination; right to fair and public trials; protection from arbitrary detention; right to bail; freedom from forced confession; right to legal aid; prohibition of torture or degrading treatment; right to appeal; access to compensation for unlawful arrest or detention; right to vote (voting age reduced

The African Group at the Human Rights Council supported the adoption, on 25 February, of resolution A/HRC/S-15/2 on the situation of human rights in Libya in the conviction that the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and freedom of association were provided for both in articles 19, 21 and 22 of the United

The following rights and freedoms are expressly provided for: right to life, right to physical and mental integrity, individual freedom, right to defense, freedom of movement, personal and family privacy, inviolability of domicile, secrecy of correspondence, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, right to information, right to education, access to culture, rights to protection of health, right to a healthy environment,

The communication was joined by the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to nondiscrimination in this

Documentation available to the Committee includes the information supplied by governments in their reports or in the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards; relevant legislation, collective agreements and court decisions; information supplied by States on the results of inspections; comments of employers’ and workers’ organizations; reports of other ILO bodies (such as

Peaceful public demonstrations had been met with repression, including arbitrary arrest,

The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations on its third periodic report under the Convention and on its initial reports under the two Optional Protocols to the Convention that have not been implemented or insufficiently implemented, particularly those related to coordination, data collection, dissemination of the Convention, discrimination

Of these, the most important are the right to life,

The ninth session of the CEART focused on the major themes of concern to teaching and education viewed through the prism of the two Recommendations on teachers: teacher education, initial and continual professional development; employment relationships, especially the growth in unqualified contractual teachers; teacher salaries, including performance or merit pay;

The rights violated include, but are not limited to: the right to freedom from discrimination, right to life and security of person, right to human dignity, freedom from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, right to recognition as a person before the law, right to freedom from arbitrary detention, right to access to justice, legal aid and representation, right to equal protection before the law, right to compensation and effective remedy, and right to non-conditional assistance, right to privacy, right to freedom of

In resolution 17/24, the Human Rights Council also encouraged relevant thematic special procedures mandate holders, in particular the special rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, on the situation of human rights defenders, on the independence of judges and lawyers, on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading

The Special Rapporteur encourages the Government to seek training and other technical assistance from the international community, in particular ILO, to ensure

Any such law enacted by the People’s Majlis can limit the rights and freedoms to any extent only if demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society”.2 The Chapter contains all fundamental rights and liberties guaranteed in a free society, including the right to life, the right to equality, freedom from

Accordingly, in practical terms, if a communication is (a) received at the Secretariat of ILO or UNESCO from a national or international teachers’ organization, and (b) relates to the provisions of the Recommendations concerning either ILO or UNESCO, but (c) also falls within

To those rights are added others which constitute their indispensable complement, namely the right to freedom of thought and conscience, the right to seek, receive and impart, regardless of frontiers, information and ideas by any means whatsoever, the right to protection of the moral and material interests deriving from any scientific, literary or

The questionnaire was designed to collect basic information on legislation, international