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It is also advisable to identify appropriate criteria for reparations, to establish the obligation to provide reparations from the beginning of voluntary depositions,

The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report available information on the number and nature of reported cases of domestic

Senegal encouraged the international community to support the country through technical assistance, in accordance with the needs it expressed, and taking into consideration the fact that the

In addition, the Committee calls upon Hong Kong, China, to prevent

The Strugar Trial Chamber held that the elements of this crime are satisfied if: (1) the damage or destruction has been committed to institutions which may clearly be identified or regarded as dedicated to religion; (2) the property was not used for military purposes at the time of the acts and must not have

Women-centred processes of reparations require participation of women in the process of shaping, implementing, monitoring and evaluating reparations programmes; design of a reparations procedure that renders it accessible to all women and girls; investigation of facts to determine whether certain violations of rights have taken place and making sure that those violations that target women and girls have been duly included; determination of harms, including those which are gender-specific or have a differential impact on women and girls; identification of responsibility

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 recommendations to improve the protection of civil society space, namely to ensure freedom of expression, assembly, association and the right to participate in public and political life, to adopt a National Plans of Action to improve the human rights situation and to implement some of the recommendations of the Treaty Bodies on freedom of

This may call for innovative measures, e.g.

If an initial inquiry body, investigator, prosecutor or judge has sufficient information in connection with a criminal case to fear that the victims, suspects, accused persons, defendants, witnesses, experts, specialists or other participants in the proceedings and their close relatives risk being killed or being subjected to force, violence or cruelty, having property destroyed or damaged, or other acts prohibited by criminal law, the former must take all measures to protect the lives,

With regard to allegations of a pattern of disappearances, the

He reaffirmed his Government’s support for the work of the United

Where a statute or rule of procedure seems to negatively affect the continuous violation doctrine, the competent body ought to construe such a

(c) The implication of traditional dispute mechanisms in the

In this regard, the State party should provide information on the measures taken to address all forms of possible interference with judicial independence by, inter alia, ensuring that prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations are conducted into any allegations of interference,

The State party should take all necessary steps to ensure that all persons, including those monitoring human rights, are protected from any intimidation or violence as a result of their activities and exercise of human rights guarantees, to ensure the prompt, impartial

The Working Group encourages the Government to take steps to clarify outstanding cases, and reminds the Government of its obligations under article 2 (obligation to prevent and eradicate enforced disappearance), 3 (obligation to take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent and terminate acts of enforced disappearance) and 14 (obligation to try those accused of enforced disappearance before competent ordinary civil courts)

In terms of the capacities of States of the region, we believe that the United Nations system is in a position to play a key role in helping States, in particular with the assistance of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to develop their capacities and their national strategy to combat piracy and transnational organized crime, including the drawing up of a national legal

The Committee is also concerned that most of the cases involving

The Argentine Government condemns the desecration of the monument to the memory of the Argentine soldiers who fell during the 1982 conflict and demands immediate clarification of the events from the Government of the United Kingdom, through an impartial

(o) To intensify efforts to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls,

Cuba rejects this illegitimate mechanism whereby the United States Government arrogates to itself the right to certify the conduct of other nations with regard to terrorism and to publish discriminatory, selective and politically motivated lists, while maintaining a

The State party should also create adequate conditions for victims to exercise their right to make complaints, should conduct prompt, impartial and effective investigations into all

Based on meetings with decision-makers, victims and civil society representatives, the Special Rapporteur identified two overarching issues critical to effectively combating torture and ill-treatment that need the urgent attention of the Government to ensure justice in times of a successful transition: first, prompt and thorough investigations into all