Nicaraguan legislation includes maternity protection.

The Nicaraguan State is a democratic, participatory and representative Republic. The Nicaraguan nation is a social State governed by the rule of law.

Establishment of the Nicaraguan Commission to combat HIV AIDS

Martha Julia Lugo de Zahner Executive Director Nicaraguan Institute for Women

Nicaraguan Institute for Women, Documentation Centre, Participación política de las mujeres, 2000.

The Nicaraguan State is composed of four authorities executive, legislative, judicial and electoral.

The Nicaraguan Institute for Women has published approximately 4,000 copies of the Convention.

National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Nicaraguan Survey of Persons with Disabilities, 2003.

The Nicaraguan people raised their voice and they were heard by Central America.

Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights), annual report, 2001, p. 66.

Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights), annual report, 2001, p. 18.

Jilma Yadira Tinoco, Conceptualización de la educación con perspectiva de género, Nicaraguan Institute for Women, 2000.

In 2000, the Nicaraguan National Assembly considered reforms of the Penal Code provisions regarding the practice of abortion.

Nicaraguan Institute for Women, National Plan of Action for the Prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence 2001 2006.

And one of my favorites is the Itoki Fluctus, who is the Nicaraguan goddess of insects, stars, and planets.

The State of Nicaragua does not have specific mechanisms for ensuring the participation of Nicaraguan women in international organizations.

The Constitution recognizes work as a right and a social responsibility of all Nicaraguan citizens, male and female alike.

The Nicaraguan Institute for Women helped to ensure that gender was taken into account in the corresponding census form.

Only the Nicaraguan people can confer national sovereignty and presidential power, as they did at the polls in November 2001.

In particular, we are concerned by the murders of three Nicaraguan journalists that took place over the past three years.

Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH) (Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights), seminar workshop on women's rights in Nicaragua, Managua, November 1992.

Left to right Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, French journalist Jean Francois Fogel and co founder of the Gabriel Garcia Foundation, Jaime Abello.

In 2010, there was also a dispute around Isla Calero, and the impact of Nicaraguan dredging of the river in that area.

It is difficult for the Nicaraguan Government to obtain accurate data on the incidence of abortion and of mortality due to abortion.

The Nicaraguan Twitter community, Twittnic commented on this interesting piece of information and wondered what other similar political figures might use this popular tool

Executive authority is exercised by the President of the Republic, who is Head of State, Head of Government and Supreme Head of the Nicaraguan Army.

(3) Nicaraguan Commission to Combat HIV AIDS (Law No. 238 on the Promotion, Protection and Defence of Human Rights in the context of HIV AIDS)

This month, the new mayors took office without the electoral commission (CSE) having made public 100 of the votes, an open violation of Nicaraguan electoral law.

The Nicaraguan Institute for Women was established by Decree No. 293 of 22 December 1987, and is attached to the Office of the President of Nicaragua.

In 1990 the Nicaraguan economy began to open up to outside markets by promoting exports, reducing protectionism, liberalizing trade and reducing the role of the State.

In an effort to improve the health situation of Nicaraguan women, the Ministry of Health included a safe motherhood initiative in its maternal mortality reduction plan.

Rural women have been a top priority in the activities of the Nicaraguan Institute for Women since its inception, and this has not changed in recent years.

Instead of accepting the separation of powers, they appropriated the distribution of power, attempting to modify the powers of the President retroactively without consulting the Nicaraguan people.

Luis Soriano has enjoyed reading since childhood a passion he says he owes to his aunt, with whom he discovered a memorable poem by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío

State and government organizations concerned with the rights of Nicaraguan women regularly disseminate information about international and domestic legal instruments for the protection of women's and girls' human rights.

None of Latin America s other leftist leaders including Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has the charisma or international influence to fill the void.

The Nicaraguan population, estimated at 5.2 million in 2001, is growing at an average rate of 2 per cent per year, which is one of the highest rates in Latin America.

According to the 2001 demographic and health survey, during the reporting period 98.5 per cent of Nicaraguan women were familiar with some contraceptive method, compared with 97.2 per cent in 1998.

From this rostrum in the General Assembly Hall, I would like to convey to Member States the deep gratitude of the Nicaraguan people for the solidarity they have shown to us.

Furthermore, article 20 of the Constitution stipulates that no national may be deprived of his or her nationality and that Nicaraguan nationality is not lost when a person acquires a different nationality.

Special programmes and projects, financed with cooperation agency funds, are among the better options available to women a number of public institutions, including the Nicaraguan Institute for Women, have also developed programmes and projects.

The Nicaraguan Institute for Women trained senior management in political and business organizations, labour unions, trade associations, non governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil servants on gender mainstreaming in decision making as an indicator of democracy.

The Nicaraguan Government, led by President Enrique Bolaños Gayer, is pleased to submit this sixth report to the Committee for its consideration, in accordance with the commitment undertaken by the country when it ratified the Convention.

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, established on 4 October 1979, has designed, in coordination with the Nicaraguan Institute for Women, an information system for monitoring the situation of women and men in Nicaragua (SISESIMHN).

In the national sphere, in 2002 the Provisional Board of Directors of the Nicaraguan Forum of Women in Political Parties was formed, with the support of the Committee on Women, Children and the Family of PARLACEN.