The House of Representatives of the States General has approved the Plan of Action.

Sixty members of parliament wrote a protest letter to state run Iranian television complaining about this representation.

In 2004 female representation in Parliament is only four per cent.

He has centralized the DPJ s contacts with lobbyists at his office in the Diet (Parliament).

After leaving the premiership, Churchill spent less time in parliament until he stood down at the 1964 general election.

Additionally, the Commission complemented the oversight role of the Parliament by monitoring legislation.

As part of this project, a country environmental profile is being produced under the direction of the Parliamentary Secretary of Education and the Environment.

My name is Ingela Martensson and I am a Member of the Swedish Parliament and an active member of the human rights group in Parliament.

In August 1906, Mozaffar ad Din Shah agreed to allow a parliament, and in the fall, the first elections were held.

The second national report, together with the Government's response, was forwarded to the House of Representatives of the States General in 2003.

Chapter I

When the policy document was discussed in Parliament in December 2002, the plan of action received broad parliamentary support.

In Malaysia, the Socialist Party of Malaysia got its first Member of Parliament, Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj, after the 2008 general election.

In September 2003 the government submitted its response to the evaluation of this Act to the House of Representatives of the States General.

A shortlist of nominees is drawn up by the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Development, with the winner announced in October.

The composition of the Senate of the States General is still a long way away from the target figure for 2004 of 40 women.

With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.

These five draft bills had previously been sent to the Saeima standing committees for review and were then debated at the 25 November plenary session.

Currently the lower house of the Spanish Parliament is debating a proposal to prohibit the wearing of body covering burqas and face covering niqabs in all public spaces in Spain, and the French parliament approved a ban on face veils.

Among other things, the accident of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (United States) prompted the Riksdag to ban new nuclear plants.

The government is stimulating equal pay by means of the Equal Pay Action Plan, which was submitted to the House of Representatives of the States General in 2000.

The Budgetary Committee of the German Parliament has stipulated, however, that a final decision from the Committee is to be made during the implementation of the 1993 budget before the funds are released

Further, it enshrines the equality of men and women and promotes women's political participation by guaranteeing them at least 25 per cent of the seats in the lower house of parliament.

The new Afghan Constitution guaranteed Afghan women a minimum of 25 per cent of the seats in the Lower House of Parliament and approximately 17 per cent in the Upper House.

An Anglophile Communist MP, Hiren Mukherjee, boasted in the 1950 s that British Prime Minister Anthony Eden had commented to him that the Indian parliament was in every respect like the British one.

Until the end of 2002, the House of Representatives of the States General had a somewhat lower proportion of women MPs than had been the case in previous years (32.0 ).

A total of 27.4 per cent of the members of the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan parliament, are women that is actually more than in many parliaments in Western countries.

The new so called Convention Parliament assembled on 25 April 1660, and soon afterwards received news of the Declaration of Breda, in which Charles agreed, amongst other things, to pardon many of his father's enemies.

Progress in the political arena has been slow since 1980 only four women have been elected to Parliament, two in the 1987 election, one in 2002 and two in the 2004 snap election.

This National Report is presented to the House of Representatives of the States General once every four years, partly to help prepare for the four yearly report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Another is that Blair consistently seemed to pay much less attention to Parliament than to the right wing tabloid press the spin and media manipulation to which his office devoted so much effort worked wonders at first, but soon generated deep skepticism and mistrust.

With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity. All the same, Iraq s parliamentary electoral law should be drawn up to take two important factors into account

In June 2008, Spain became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of some NHPs, when its parliament's cross party environmental committee urged the country to comply with GAP's recommendations, which are that chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas are not be used for animal experiments.

Although this will be covered in more detail in Article 7, this is one area in which women have been least represented whereby Vanuatu has seen only four women represented in the national Parliament since 1980.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the Declaration of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of Romania on the sentences pronounced against the quot Ilascu group quot (see annex I) and the statement of the Government of Romania on the death penalty pronounced against Ilie Ilascu (see annex II), both dated 9 December 1993.

Moreover, we are witnessing a strange situation in which the commander in chief of the 14th Russian army a foreign army on the national soil of an independent country without the consent of that United Nations Member was recently quot elected quot as a member of the so called local parliament.