As the legal reviews need highly specialized knowledge, the Office of Legal Affairs has recommended that the Investment Management Service retain an outside legal firm.

provide an important knowledge base for advice and legal aid centres for refugees in many countries.

The ability of women to exercise these rights is dependent upon their level of education, employment, legal knowledge, financial acumen, support and access to legal services.

In many cases, detention was due to lack of legal knowledge and detainees were held beyond the legal limits due to lack of equipment, human resources and transport.

15.12 Generally the progress of women's legal knowledge and how to use it has increased markedly over the past decade.

The fatwas (legal opinions concerning Islamic law) that they issue appear unreasonable and cannot be accepted by those with scientific knowledge.

They brought with them a wealth of knowledge from different legal systems and expertise in international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law.

The Committee had debated broad policy and legal questions, including the extension and adaptation of intellectual property rights in relation to traditional knowledge and the sui generis legal systems established in a number of countries.

Knowledge of those disputes encourages the General Assembly to follow up on them, mindful of the importance of keeping them in legal channels.

Remarkably, Women Unions at different levels have been active in disseminating legal knowledge for women and organizing campaigns to raise public awareness on gender equality.

Leaving matters of propriety aside, we wonder what legal and moral rights Mr. Axworthy can invoke to contact our lawyers, without our prior knowledge and approval.

ILO considered that purchasing of specialized services involved technical, legal and logistical knowledge and was much more time consuming than off the shelf procurement of commodities.

The European Union supported the development of internationally agreed sui generis models for the legal protection of traditional knowledge and therefore believed that final decisions on the protection of traditional knowledge should be left to the contracting parties to the instruments concerned.

The current situation of legal uncertainty allowed for practices that harm the interests of indigenous peoples and threatened their traditional knowledge as well as their genetic resources.

Mr. Estrella Faria (Secretariat) said that similar procedures had long been in place in the paper based environment and, to his knowledge, no legal provisions specifically addressed such situations.

11. Notes the need to safeguard and preserve the audiovisual history of legal developments within the United Nations, which constitutes an invaluable resource for promoting a better knowledge of international law

At the same time, enhanced knowledge and skills amongst law enforcement and prosecutorial officials will contribute to effective administration of legal systems, protection of human rights and result in good governance.

Widespread access to, and knowledge of, the legal regime, and appropriate enforcement have emerged as critical issues for sustainable land management, security of tenure and a much needed investment enhancing framework.

General description The Major Programme provides direction and management for six programmes Human Resource Management, Financial Services, Information Network and Knowledge Management Services, Procurement and Logistics Services, Legal Services and Buildings Management.

The programme has evolved from fact finding and needs assessment to a more detailed analysis of objectives, general guiding principles and specific substantive provisions for the legal protection of indigenous traditional knowledge.

Challenges in Knowledge Sharing Knowledge sharing can sometimes constitute a major challenge in the field of knowledge management.

Whilst the law does not deny a woman's capacity to make contracts with any party, use her own name, buy or sell, what does limit her is her financial capacity and legal knowledge.

For Pascal, scientific knowledge paled beside the knowledge of God.

However, in reality, women rarely initiate proceedings, either because they lack knowledge of legal texts or for reasons of a sociocultural nature, according to which no one should take their own family to court.

New knowledge

Traditional knowledge

The Role of IT Systems in Knowledge Sharing IT systems are common tools that help facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge management.

The observer for Bolivia highlighted that it was her Government's view that the adoption of a binding international legal instrument for the protection of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples was of the utmost priority.

The defendant had no legal counsel (legal assistance and legal representation were allowed in civil cases only).

Legal system and judiciary Hong Kong's legal system is completely independent from the legal system of mainland China.

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.

Knowledge like this informs, supports and provides a context for symbolic, conscious knowledge.

Knowledge of languages Finnish (mother tongue), Swedish, English and German French (basic knowledge)

As Legal Counsel, I was Head of the Legal Department.

While the difficultyof sharing knowledge is in transferring knowledge from one entity to another, it may proveprofitable for organizations to acknowledge the difficulties of knowledge transfer and itsparadoxicality, adopting new knowledge management strategies accordingly.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge and Technology

Knowledge of languages

Legal reforms or the adoption of a family legal code can provide legal protection to families and their children.

Library staff will continue to build on their knowledge of the latest legal and technological developments in the area of digital rights and electronic records management to continue to ensure delivery of accurate, reliable and trustworthy information.

The specialized experience and knowledge relative to the events that took place in the Balkans and Rwanda will be difficult to replace should key legal and investigative staff continue to leave in the numbers now being experienced.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

The Alaska Native Knowledge Network is developing a school curriculum based on aboriginal knowledge.

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