The Commission for the Advancement of Women of the Ministry headed by a Deputy Minister was established.

a great stepping stone for the Ministry to come up with its first ever major national policy document.

So far, 23 documents from the cache are daily briefs from the ministry on Iran.

The Ministry of Health' Director General recently issued a circular, obligating doctors, as part of the routine admittance procedure, to enquire about past instances of violence.

Photo albums created by the Ministry on the Odnoklassniki social network and on the official Ministry website showcased hundreds of photo entries.

In Germany, the Gender Competence Centre at Humboldt University in Berlin provided advice and support to the federal ministries to implement the gender mainstreaming strategy.

Thus, in 2004, the Ministry's Department for Work Inspection published a pamphlet that summarizes, in a simplified and didactic form, the rights and obligations of the domestic employment relationship from its very beginning until it ends.

The second National Plan for Equality of Portugal states that each Ministry has to appoint a Councillor for Equality to be responsible for preparing an annual ministerial gender mainstreaming plan.

Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling. The LDP s need for three different prime ministers in the space of little more than a year made plain that the party s power nucleus had melted down.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a piezoelectric generator sufficient to operate a liquid crystal display using thin films of M13 bacteriophage.

On the basis of the study, the department prepared a report on complaints submitted to the government, to be used for the effective application of women's rights recognized in the Republic of Guinea and for making revisions to the Civil Code's provisions relating to the rights of women in marriage.

Checks on the legality of non profit organizations' activities, for purposes including preventing the financing of terrorism, are performed by the sub departments of the State Monitoring Committee, the Ministry of Taxes and Duties and other entities.

In the government's response to this report it was stated that the Ministry of Social Affairs is now the focal point for the treatment of domestic violence, and its director general heads an inter ministerial Committee coordinating the treatment of domestic violence.

This aims at, among other activities, reinforcing the institutional technical capacity of the ministry for implementation and coordination of programs that promote equality and equity in gender, and improvement of gender integration in all aspects of social and economic plans.

The Ministry's Director General issued a circular in 2003 (9.4 4(d) 4 2003) regarding equal opportunities in the Education system for both genders, specifically targeting educational social tutorial intervention in gender issues.

That programme had been mainstreamed throughout the Ministry and a five year plan had been developed in cooperation between the Bureau, the Ministry and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) concrete operational plans had been made for 2005 2006 and were being studied for 2007.

Where there are reasonable doubts regarding the veracity of a non judicially determined claim of domestic violence, evidence supporting the claim may be referred by the Department for assessment to an independent expert gazetted by the Minister for this purpose.

The ministry s baseline forecast assumes that the price of oil Russia s main export will grow at 9 per year in real terms over the next 17 years, or more than three times the forecast for Russia s annual GDP growth.

Under article 6, subparagraphs 1 (g) to (j), any charitable association, social organization or federation, on submitting its application for registration to the Ministry, is required to attach thereto its statute, which must include details of how its financial affairs are supervised and administered and of how its assets are disposed of on its dissolution.

(c) The need for a comprehensive approach to the creation or recreation of key State institutions. So far, only the Afghan National Army programme has been able to encompass the various dimensions of institution building, from in depth reform of the Ministry itself, to the vetting and training of officers and soldiers, to post deployment assistance and mentoring.