While extenuating circumstances might sometimes prevent Member States from complying with their obligation to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without conditions, detailed explanations of those circumstances must be submitted to the Committee on Contributions within the specified time frame.

(b) The Jordanian Penal Code No. 16 of 1960 includes a mitigating circumstances clause, whereby the perpetrator of an honour crime may be immune from punishment if it is shown that the victim committed an adulterous act.

While intended exploitation is a necessary constituent element of the offence of trafficking, it is not for smuggling, although it may be considered one of the aggravating circumstances of the offence.

As such, sometimes the accused bring up certain mitigating factors.

48. In paragraph 495 of the report, the Working Group notes that most treaties are silent about defences and extenuating circumstances and that no rules of international criminal law on these matters have evolved.

Note In 2004, Bhutan, Samoa and Senegal (de facto abolitionist on 31 December 2003) and Greece and Turkey (abolitionist for ordinary crimes on 31 December 2003) became completely abolitionist.

Don t we criticize reduced sentences in so called honor crimes all the time? Is that against the law?

See Yoshihiro Yasuda, The Death Penalty in Japan , Death Penalty Beyond Abolition (Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2004), pp. 215 231.

Death Penalty Information Center, Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty (September 2004) at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org.

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

(a) Mitigating circumstances, in particular for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

(a) Mitigating circumstances, inter alia for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

I had been unaware, he thought, of some extenuating factors for the destruction I witnessed.

Parties failing to observe that rule were liable to punishment.

(b) To take measures to eliminate the use of corporal punishment in schools

In the same Article, sections IV and V were added to include, among the aggravating circumstances for the crime of kidnapping, the intention of the perpetrator to practice sexual acts with the victim and the circumstances in which the victim of the crime was less than 18 years old.

(2) When the sentence is meted out, the fact that the offence is in the nature of propaganda activities shall be considered an aggravating circumstance.

Furthermore, the use of children for mercenary activities must be seen as an aggravating factor.

In 2004, a fourth country, Greece, became completely abolitionist.

Countries qualifying for a PCL would have to meet some, but relatively minimal and unobtrusive, conditions.

Defences and mitigating circumstances available will depend on the nationality and or the place where a crime is committed.

She was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in the deaths of toddlers Martin Brown and Brian Howe.

In the United States, individual states that follow unsound fiscal policies face a penalty.

At the last of those conferences, the International Prison Commission was renamed the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises.

The article also prohibits forced labour, with exceptions for criminal punishment, military service and civil obligations.

It was suggested that aggravating elements such as the use of children and refugees to carry out mercenary activity should be added.

Three formerly de facto abolitionist countries resumed executions.

Following the dissolution of the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission, its functions and archives were incorporated in the operations of the new Organization.

The maximum penalty for rape and sexual assault in Article 393 is now life imprisonment.

Two other countries might be expected to become abolitionist in the near future Kenya and the Russian Federation.

Four other countries became abolitionist for all ordinary crimes Albania, Chile, Latvia and Turkey.

She also expressed concern about the apparent leniency of penalties for extremely serious offences such as trafficking, the sexual abuse of minors and incest.

The Committee is concerned at the common use of corporal punishment in families and in schools and other institutions for children.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, as part of the legal reform exercise, leniency provisions for custom or honour killings, which were essentially synonymous, had been abolished.

This punishment is intended to be sufficient that people would choose not to commit the crime rather than experience the punishment.

It also provides that serious injury to the national economy resulting from such an act shall be an aggravating factor in the offence.

Tajikistan became de facto abolitionist on legally establishing a moratorium on executions without limit of time in 2004.

The country became de facto abolitionist in 2001 on the basis that the last execution had been carried out in Chad in 1991.

Amnesty International, Stop Child Executions! Ending the Death Penalty for Child Offenders, AI Index ACT 50 001 2004, p. 10.

(c) Climatic conditions

This is a lower figure than the seven formerly de facto abolitionist countries that resumed executions during the quinquennium 1994 1998.

The offense of terrorism is a felony of the first degree with minimum sentencing of 15 years to life imprisonment.

As the League of Nations foundered on the rocks of global conflict leading to the Second World War, so did the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission.

Circumstances precluding wrongfulness