Ensuring that effective legislation is enacted prohibiting discrimination against women.

It had also enacted legislation on adoption and on domestic violence.

Examples were given, referring to legislation enacted in South Africa, Venezuela and Panama.

Each Australian state and territory has enacted, or has agreed to enact, corresponding legislation.

National legislation had been enacted to prevent domestic violence and trafficking in women and children.

Various laws, treaties, and legislation have been enacted between European immigrants and First Nations across Canada.

Legislation had been enacted to eliminate discrimination against women in access to credit, including mortgage loans.

The US Dodd Frank legislation, enacted in 2010, did (weakly) cap the size of future bank mergers.

The law of the British Virgin Islands is the common law of England and locally enacted legislation.

Even before UNSCR 1373, Palau had enacted legislation which made it an offence to possess firearms or ammunition.

Agreements with each European Union member State are being signed and implementing legislation will be enacted in the Territory.

Labour legislation is usually enacted at the federal level, but the responsibility for enforcing it falls on the provinces.

Local legislation is generally applied. However, where no local legislation has been enacted, the laws of the United Kingdom are applied to the extent applicable to local circumstances.

Having heard about Ghana's approach, he was now convinced that legislation could be enacted even before the population was sensitized.

It is theoretically possible that the later Commonwealth legislation inconsistent with the Act could be enacted by the Commonwealth Parliament.

Those international instruments were adopted in the framework of the Council of Europe and were enacted in our national legislation in 2002.

Ireland had enacted strong legislation criminalizing domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, stalking and harassment and other forms of violence against women.

New legislation enacted in February 2005 had amended the school regulations to include an absolute prohibition of corporal punishment at all educational levels.

Germany has enacted the Blue Card legislation fully in April 2012 focusing on language skills and areas of need such as engineering, mathematics and IT.

Like Mr. Shearer, he would be interested in knowing whether elements of the draft legislation had already been enacted in practice through case law decisions.

Legislation has been enacted to strengthen women's economic security in such vital areas as land and property rights, decent employment, and access to credit and markets.

The law of Anguilla is the common law of the United Kingdom, together with all legislation inherited from the former Associated State of Saint Kitts Nevis Anguilla up to August 1971 and the local legislation enacted since that date.

Depretis enacted controversial legislation for the time, such as abolishing arrest for debt, making elementary education free and compulsory while ending compulsory religious teaching in elementary schools.

However, efforts will need to be redoubled to ensure that all outstanding legislation is enacted and to create the enabling political environment for the conduct of these operations.

The CLOUT system relies on national correspondents designated by States that have become parties to an UNCITRAL convention or that have enacted legislation based on an UNCITRAL model law.

When the nationality legislation was first enacted, the chief concern of its drafters had been to ensure that every child had a nationality and that no one was left stateless.

Laws enacted or amended.

Quebec's official language is French, although in that province, the Constitution requires that all legislation be enacted in both French and English, and court proceedings may be conducted in either language.

Some speakers indicated that new legislation had been enacted after completion of the questionnaire and that they would avail themselves of the opportunity to submit updated information in the subsequent questionnaire.

The implementation dates for the Pay Equity Agreements were also agreed through negotiation, but subsequently, in 1991, legislation was enacted to delay the start of the implementation from 1988 to 1991.

Some speakers indicated that new legislation had been enacted after completion of the questionnaire and that they would avail themselves of the opportunity to submit updated information in the subsequent questionnaire.

Furthermore, legislation had been enacted to implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution as well as the Millennium Declaration to help the indigenous peoples of Venezuela to exercise fully their rights.

Zimbabwe had significantly curtailed freedom of speech and association and freedom of the press in total disregard for human rights, and had enacted repressive legislation at odds with its own constitution.

In 2000, the EU s executive arm responding in part to the growing popularity of anti immigrant and neo Nazi political parties enacted the most far reaching anti discrimination legislation in the world.

Legislation had been enacted to strengthen the special rights of indigenous peoples to social, economic and cultural development and defend their traditional habitat and way of life and use of natural resources.

States that have become parties to a convention or have enacted legislation based on a model law since the preparation of the last report are shown in bold letters in the respective list.

Government legislation can be enacted to support such measures, as well as to require plastics manufacturers to get involved in the disposal of plastic items a responsibility long imposed on packaged goods manufacturers in Europe.

Nobody under 18 could be recruited into the army in Myanmar, which had enacted legislation, established a high level committee and drawn up a plan of action to prevent and monitor recruitment of child soldiers.

Lula also enacted critically important social policies.

The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for other reasons and requires immigrants to produce proof of their legal status on demand.

The Obama administration has enacted legislation aimed at helping individuals who are having difficulty making their monthly mortgage payments because of a decline in their incomes or a rise in the interest rate on their mortgage.

Religious law undeniably discriminated against women, but legislation had been enacted to try and mitigate its effects, for example, by allowing rabbinical courts to impose prison sentences on men who refused to grant divorces to their wives.

Legislation enacted in 2000 is intended to ensure that every Pitcairn Islander is entitled to an allocation of house, garden, orchard and forestry land sufficient to meet their needs for as long as they live on Pitcairn.

It was enacted into law on August 13.

It is particularly concerned that no specific legislation has been enacted to combat domestic violence and sexual harassment and that no protection or exclusion orders or shelters exist for the immediate protection of women victims of domestic violence .