(a) Macro level. Policies and laws strengthened to promote women's economic opportunities

promoting the harmonization and coordination of national laws and policies for combating corruption.

Officer and director responsibilities and liabilities are generally imbedded in corporate and insolvency laws, which often interact with other national laws and policies.

Laws and policies continued to be harmonized, helping accelerate the Doi Moi process.

(a) Macro level. Policies and laws strengthened to achieve gender equality in democratic governance

Such FDI policies include investment subsidies, tax abatements, and exemptions from domestic regulation and laws.

Such national policies and laws should be developed with the full participation of indigenous peoples.

(a) Macro level. Policies and laws strengthened to reverse and halt the spread of HIV AIDS

The principle of equality before the law is also enshrined in numerous laws and government policies.

(a) Macro level. Policies and laws strengthened to protect women's right to live free from violence

Ensure international, national and regional reinforcement of laws and implementation of policies to address the issue of trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation and put more effective mechanisms to punish traffickers and exploiters, whilst protecting victims through appropriate immigration laws and policies

Strict immigration laws and anti migration policies, however, have virtually eliminated all forms of legal and safe migration.

The Government is responsible for proposing legislation and a budget, executing the laws, and guiding the foreign and internal policies.

We also need greater recognition that domestic laws and international policies are interdependent and that each country's relevant national laws have an impact on neighbours and even on countries in other regions.

This general principle should also be reflected in all laws, judicial and administrative decisions, policies and programmes relating to children.

Enabling institutions, laws, policies, budgets and participatory governance are important for the large scale expansion of high impact interventions.

Such measures would include implementing the Guiding Principles at the domestic level and incorporating their content into national laws and policies.

For example, American tax and bankruptcy laws, combined with deregulation policies, effectively encouraged the creation of a hypertrophied financial sector.

Those advances, however, had shown clearly that laws and frameworks could only go so far. To change the realities of women's everyday lives, laws and policies must be implemented, and attitudes and practices must change.

Equality was not achieved merely by enacting laws and by adopting policies and practices that were gender neutral equality was achieved by paying attention to the effects that laws and practices might have on women.

(f) Respect for the rule of law, including legislation, and continued efforts to repeal laws and eradicate policies and practices that discriminate against women and girls, and to adopt laws and promote practices that protect their rights

(d) Respect for the rule of law, including legislation, and continued efforts to repeal laws and eradicate policies and practices that discriminate against women and girls, and to adopt laws and promote practices that protect their rights

It consists of obligations of States, to which effect should be given in the constitution, domestic laws, regulations, practices and policies.

the incorporation of human rights laws in all anti terrorism programmes and policies of national governments as well as international bodies.

Thus, antipathy for the adversary or his avowed policies cannot justify non compliance with the laws of war.

ECLAC supports research in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia on participatory methodology in the design and implementation of ageing laws, policies and programmes.

A sound and coherent macroeconomic policy framework, supported by effective and transparent laws and regulations, is critical to successful implementation of policies and programmes.

In India, the National Policy for the Empowerment of Women sought to promote gender equality in all governmental laws, policies and programmes.

(c) Respect for the rule of law, including legislation, and continued efforts to repeal laws and eradicate policies and practices that discriminate against women and girls, and to adopt laws and promote practices that protect their rights and promote gender equality

Aware of these problems, all relevant ministries and agencies will take steps to better enforce the country's laws, regulations and policies on gender equality.

As mentioned in the previous reports, Vietnamese laws and state's policies ensure the equal rights of men and women to participate in international activities.

With the aim of better implementation of laws and policies, the Project of Implementation of the Law on Gender Equality has been initiated.

In effect, with the RNC, national legislation can be drafted and approved faster and with better regional coordination, resulting in uniform approaches and harmonized policies and laws.

The projects and activities are carefully designed to assist recipient Governments in their efforts to incorporate international human rights standards into national laws, policies and practices.

The Forum should encourage Governments to develop and adopt national policies and laws on indigenous traditional knowledge that reflect a commitment to its protection, promotion and preservation.

In the meantime, these countries can put in place the institutions, policies, and laws needed to ensure that the resources benefit all of their citizens.

In addition, the focus on anti terrorism and security often dominated politics and was reflected in laws and policies negatively affecting non citizens, including refugees and asylum seekers.

As stated in Article 10, the Vietnamese laws and policies do not have for any discrimination between rural and urban areas in terms of access to education.

It further encourages the State party to use these indicators and data in the formulation of laws, policies and programmes for the effective implementation of the Convention.

To that end, member States of the African Union have committed themselves to adopting relevant laws, policies and standards and to building the necessary human and institutional capacities.

The emphasis is on prevention strategies as well as response and UNICEF is increasingly well placed to support national capacities for child protection, including laws, policies and practices.

World Vision has been instrumental in collaborating with government law enforcement agencies to put laws, policies and structures in place to prosecute those who traffic women and girls.

Coherence and consistency of relevant policies, laws and regulations need to be improved so as to remove some of the barriers to the implementation of climate change strategies.

Noting further the continuing adoption, application or reform of national competition laws and policies and the increase in relevant bilateral and regional agreements and in international cooperation in this area,

The Committee is concerned about lack of efforts to assess the impact of laws and policies on women's equality in such sectors as decision making, education, employment and health.