A formal legal procedure would have helped.

These subdivisions have, in contrast to the submunicipalities, no formal status.

Thus, whilst the formal legal system in Vanuatu offers significant protection to women with constitutional guarantee of their equal status with men, it often fails to enforce women's rights (Mason, 2000).

Accordingly, some centres continue to operate on the less formal basis, pending conclusion of agreements, while others are in the process of modifying their operations to suit their newly independent legal status.

In order to function in distrust culture there are implemented various formal legal remedies.

Cohabitation had no legal status. A divorced party could remarry.

The legal status of aliens is regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens and other laws and treaties.

The two countries simply agreed to disagree over Taiwan s legal status.

Women have the same legal status as men in civil relations

Technical assistance to law reform. Status and promotion of UNCITRAL legal texts.

Restrictive legal rules in some countries exclude migrants from using official banking systems unless they have the necessary legal status.

Formal legal processes are a crucial aspect of efforts to move beyond the violence that occurred in 1999.

On the other hand, the status of unpaid workers was quickly abandoned once an opportunity for formal employment presented itself.

The status of the Covenant in the domestic legal system, however, needed clarification.

The following represents an update of the status of the various legal proceedings.a

The report addressed priorities in four areas legal status, education, health and economy.

The programme's legal status is still unclear, however, and it is not operational.

While it should not be a substitute for punishment, nor lessen the punishment in the formal legal system, in general, the punishment problem arises from misunderstanding and misapplication of formal and customary laws.

Member of working group of the Concept of the legal status of electronic documents

Nevertheless, the code has a potential impact on the legal status of target groups.

Noting that the unequal legal and social status of women heightens their vulnerability to HIV,

It must not result in any change in the legal status of the area concerned.

Christians, Jews and other minorities are covered partly by the Personal Status Law, partly the Civil Law and partly their own personal status legal systems.

The Law on the Legal Status of Aliens, passed in April 2004, harmonizes its provisions with the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.

In addition, a lack of knowledge of the manner in which formal processes are conducted or of international legal and other standards is often presented as an excuse for not including women in such formal processes.

His Government had signed an agreement on the legal status of the UNHCR office in Tajikistan.

Finding the right balance is not easy. Formal legal bankruptcy regimes for individuals and firms have evolved over time to accomplish this.

Most Afghans, especially in rural areas, rely on traditional justice mechanisms, although customary law is not part of the formal legal system.

Invite relevant United Nations bodies to give the United Nations list of small island developing States formal status for the purposes of special treatment.

However, while public administration is increasingly emerging as a community of practice, its status as a discipline and formal field of study needs rehabilitation.

It does not have any independent legal status or give rise to legal rights outside those set out in the said Act and other relevant acts.

The new law would increase the effectiveness of the Directorate General, which had operated for 10 years without a formal legal foundation, and provided for the establishment of a Consultative Council for the Status of Women, in which other public institutions, NGOs and higher education bodies would participate.

Currently, the Board has no formal status and only a small, though high quality, permanent staff, hosted by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

Dreamers children raised in the US but without legal status have become the human face of reform.

What will be the status of citizens and of legal persons registered or incorporated in such territories?

The 1945 Constitution stipulates that every individual shall have equal opportunities to gain an education. This means there must be no discrimination in gaining access to both formal and non formal education, regardless of geographical location, socio economic status, religious belief and sex.

Prior to the implementation of the law school system in 2004, the legal education system was driven more by examinations than by formal schooling.

Under traditional English common law an adult unmarried woman was considered to have the legal status of feme sole , while a married woman had the status of feme covert .

The regime could help identify aerospace objects and their legal status without violating current air and space law.

The reforms under way must take into account women's legal rights, including under the family and personal status laws.

In so far as formal legal rights existed, no court could be relied upon to enforce those rights when our rulers saw their interests as challenged.

Ms. Schöpp Schilling welcomed the State party's initiative to review its anti discrimination legislation but cautioned that substantive equality was as important as formal legal equality.

14. Stresses the importance of harmonizing the reporting requirements of the biodiversity related conventions while respecting their independent legal status

11. Stresses the importance of harmonizing the reporting requirements of the biodiversity related conventions while respecting their independent legal status

Whilst there are constitutional provisions guaranteeing women equal status with men, the legal system often fails to enforce these provisions.