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She stressed the need to move beyond deliberations to forge a set of comprehensive action-oriented recommendations that would supplement existing activities and measures to ensure that the rights of the child were a living reality, one in which children were no longer viewed in the context of “to become” in the future, but of “being” in the present.

The ultimate courts of the Judiciary must work in unison with the professional council and realize that its work is based on peer assessment and that any act which might appear trivial to the court may well be a severe one from the point of professional misconduct.

(b) Although from a drafting point of view, it was feasible to introduce provisions to limit the defaulting employer's retrospective liability to employer mandatory contributions only for the period before the enactment of the Bill, for the sake of consistency, some members considered that the employer's liability for both employer and employee mandatory contributions should apply in both past and future non-enrolment cases.

The Tribunal also exhibits several novelties from the point of view of procedure, including: (a) a Pre-Trial Judge with significant authority and responsibility; (b) a more proactive role for judges; (c) extensive victim participation in the proceedings; (d) measures alternative to detention, aimed at ensuring that freedom pending trial is the norm rather than the exception; (e) the protection of sensitive information, both to ensure the safety of witnesses and to accommodate the legitimate requests of States (including national security interests); and (f) trials in the absence of the accused under certain circumstances and with mechanisms designed to fully protect the rights of the accused.

The President therefore notes that the continued differences in the terms and conditions of service of the permanent and the ad litem judges are no longer justified and should be addressed in the interest of both equity and the successful implementation of the completion strategy.

In many ways, our societies are the most developed countries, not the least developed.

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[...] has been an institutional and normative strengthening of procedures and mechanisms for the assessment of draft laws [...] [...]

[...] [...] development in SIDS” perspective, and contribute [...]

The Organic Law on Education defines the aims of education as follows: (a) to develop each human being’s creative potential for the full exercise of his or her personality and citizenship; (b) to develop a new political culture grounded in proactive participation and action to strengthen the power of the people; (c) to develop individuals on the basis of a geohistorical approach aimed at instilling awareness of their nationality and sovereignty; (d) to promote respect for human dignity and training informed by the ethical values of tolerance, justice, solidarity, peace, respect for human rights and non-discrimination; (e) to encourage the growth of ecological awareness with a view to preserving biodiversity and social diversity; and (f) to educate pupils in, by and through liberating social work from an integral standpoint.

Against this it is argued, from the public health point of view, that such data should be in the public domain because they contain important medical information not available elsewhere and that excessive secrecy has undesirable effects (for example, the data might be usefully reanalysed to understand side-effects only detected after marketing).

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On the other hand utterances of Severus which make Christ's sufferings voluntarily permitted, rather than naturally necessitated by the treatment inflicted on His Body, might perhaps be defended by the consideration that from the union and consequent Beatific Vision in the Soul of Christ, would congruously ensue a beatification of the Soul and a spiritualizing of the Body, as was actually the case after the Resurrection; from this point of view it is true that the possibility of the Humanity is voluntary (that is, decreed by the Divine will) and not due to it in the state which is connatural to it after the union; although the Human Nature is of its own nature passible apart from the union (St. Thomas, III, Q. xiv, a. 1, ad 2).

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The Committee resolved the matter of its competence using an unconvincing line of argument and avoiding what it should have done, which was to consider the case in the light of whether or not Germany’s reservation was valid.

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The Committee recommends that the Report continue to feature such elements as economic and social analysis of the impacts of disasters, descriptions of regional cooperation and analysis of the role of space applications and information and communications technology (ICT) in disaster risk reduction, in addition to new elements, such as (a) information on champions for disaster risk reduction, (b) social and psychological analysis, (c) coverage of community practices vis-à-vis global perspectives, (d) analysis of a possible linkage between the Hyogo Framework for Action and the Millennium Development Goals and (e) linkage to the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

From the standpoint of preventing ill-treatment, this raises serious concerns for a system already showing signs of stress.

At a more general level, one of the key objectives behind the Authority’s [...] [...]

From the standpoint of preventing ill-treatment, this raises serious concerns, since the strain on material conditions, regime and services increases with the rate of overcrowding; moreover, overcrowding exacerbates the tensions inherent in custodial settings, adversely affecting the relations among prisoners and between prisoners and staff.

The Special Body may wish to review the key outcomes of the Rio+20 preparatory process in the Pacific and provide the secretariat with further guidance on how to strengthen outcomes for Pacific small island developing States on: (a) the Rio+20 theme of a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication; (b) the Rio+20 theme of an institutional framework for sustainable development; and (c) follow-up action in support of the sustainable development of Pacific small island developing States.

With funds made available by Australia, the ISU began carrying out enhanced victim assistance efforts in support of national efforts by two States Parties, organised victim assistance experts’ programmes parallel to the meetings of the Standing Committees and the 10MSP and began work on a guide to understanding the Convention’s victim assistance provision in the broader context of disability.

Foreign policy measures: The plan envisages 41 measures that pursue the following priority objectives: the abolition of the death penalty (including the creation of an international commission against the death penalty); human rights in the area of cooperation; the eradication of torture; gender equality; the eradication of gender-based violence; combating human trafficking; the elimination of all forms of discrimination; the protection of children from exploitation, violence and disease; an end to terrorism, including through the defence of the rule of law and of human rights; the protection of human rights defenders; the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights; combating impunity, and active support for the International Criminal Court and for courts and other mechanisms combating impunity for international crimes; the eradication of poverty; combating climate change; and sustainable development.

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