Kuwait was also in the process of ratifying the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Ratification of ILO Convention 100 on Equal Remuneration.

The ratification process for the Convention to Combat Desertification should be completed in the next few months.

It intended to ratify the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in the near future.

The ratification of a comprehensive treaty on terrorism is, therefore, at the highest priority.

Convention on the Rights of the Child (1993)

In the case of Somalia, a specific request is made for ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (resolution 2005 83).

Bearing in mind the nearly universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,Resolution 44 25, annex.

The Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying ILO Convention No. 2 on unemployment.

(e) Consider ratifying the Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions relating to Maintenance Obligations.

Stress that the importance of prevention cannot be overemphasized, and call for the universal ratification of the Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol.

She urged all countries to ratify the Ottawa Convention, because mines were not killing soldiers and drug dealers, but innocent civilians.

The Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction has been ratified.

Recognize the importance of ratifying the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

Ukraine welcomed the adoption of the Convention against Corruption and had begun the process of ratification.

(i) EU comments on discussion paper relating to possible ratification of the United Nations Assignment of Receivables Convention (2004 and ongoing)

Secretariat of the Desertification Convention, Status of Ratification and Entry into Force (2005), http www.unccd.int convention ratif doeif.php.

(d) The ratification in 2001 of the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)

(d) To ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction See CD 1478.

In this connection, the Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying ILO Convention No. 29 on forced or compulsory labour.

(b) Consider ratifying the Hague Convention No. 33 on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.

However, the CTC is also aware that Thailand is in the process of ratifying and implementing the UN Convention against the financing of terrorism (1999).

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women had now been ratified or acceded to by 180 States, most recently the United Arab Emirates and Monaco.

As we set out in our general statement, the EU supports and promotes the universal ratification of and adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).

After the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, cheap grain from the United States flooded Mexico, driving peasant farmers off of their land.

The Government also reported that 58 conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) had been ratified and the reports on their implementation are regularly submitted.

It had recently acceded to the Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1952) and reform of the Family Code should in time lead to the lifting of the reservations made at the time of ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979).

(b) To ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Resolution 39 46, annex.

Ratification of the SAARC Convention on Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Women and Girls for Prostitution in January 2003.

Australia signed the Biological Weapons Convention on 10 April 1972 and deposited a certificate of ratification on 5 October 1977.

It was generally agreed that any amendments to the 1989 Convention should be minimal so as to encourage States to ratify it and not to withdraw existing ratifications.

Draft decisions VII AA and XVII AA Status of ratification of the Vienna Convention, the Montreal Protocol and the London, Copenhagen, Montreal and Beijing amendments to the Montreal Protocol

States were called on to ratify, as soon as possible, the International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 (1989) concerning indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries.

The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government of Myanmar to ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

He noted that the need for a labour force to pick cotton had prevented Uzbekistan from ratifying International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on child labour.

(c) The ratification of

In this connection, the Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the ILO Convention No. 81 concerning Labour Inspection in Industry and Commerce.

The State is encouraged to ratify pending international treaties and to proceed with the formal ratification of those that have been approved.

In the context of the fight against corruption and the strengthening of international cooperation in that area, the Council of Ministers of Kuwait had decided to ratify the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

It was therefore ready to adopt the draft Convention and would seriously consider early ratification of the Convention.

Ratification of treaty bodies

Ratification of amendments to the Charter

It attached great importance to the United Nations Convention against Corruption and had held various workshops and seminars to try to sensitize Member States and encourage them to ratify the Convention without delay.

The Commonwealth also attached great importance to cooperation in the fight against corruption and would continue working to promote the signature and ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime and Protocols are in the process of being ratified.