The news organization urged the government to respect freedom of the press and release the reporters.

In addition, the government induced Petrobras to distribute the renewable fuel.

The media coverage of a recent road accident prompted a Palestinian blogger in Israel to comment.

The SBI also took note of the information on the human resources and the staff selection policy and procedures of the secretariat.

With regard to the implementation of the Convention, the Commission urged States that had not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Convention and its Optional Protocols.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently urged that all parties involved focus more on practical steps.

Saudi Jeans hosted Maha El Faleh who urged women to stand out for themselves and claim their rights.

Its pioneering efforts inspired the formation of similar groups in other Warsaw Pact countries and support groups in the West.

It also urged States to ban the transfer of man portable air defence systems to non State end users and to destroy surplus stockpiles.

In September 2004, the Court urged the Government to present its programme of action and a timeframe for the implementation of the above mentioned decision.

In addition, the Commission urged that the Council act not only against the perpetrators, but also on behalf of the victims.

In that connection, she urged the Gambia to ratify the Optional Protocol and the amendment to article 20 of the Convention.

According to a report in late November, the Iraq Study Group had strongly urged a large pull back of American troops in Iraq.

It also urged Parties that had not yet made their contributions to the KPIA to do so as soon as possible.

The Bush administration, having pushed Israel to allow the Palestinians to hold elections, then backed Israel s refusal to deal with a Hamas government.

Yara encouraged her parents to share the video on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Within a week, it had been viewed more than 15,000 times.

International and regional human rights groups, including the Gulf Center for Human Rights and Amnesty International, are urging Bahraini authorities to release Ebtisam al Saegh. Photo credit Amnesty International

Recently, a congregation of African church leaders convened in the Senegalese island of Gorée and urged their people to assess their share of responsibility for the slave trade.

Keep Calm and Carry On as the British government famously urged its citizens in 1939 is advice that often lends itself to parody.

Government members actively sought the expertise and experience of NGOs and encouraged the NGO community to exercise its consultative role fully.

Similarly, the US has urged both China and Japan to resolve peacefully their dispute over the Japanese controlled Senkaku Islands.

Much flexibility, good faith and compromise were still needed in order to bring the Doha Round to a successful and timely conclusion, and fundamental reform of the agenda and the negotiation process would be required.

Ms. Warif Halabi (Syrian Arab Republic) urged the international community to pressure Israel to put an end to human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The Assembly also urged Member States to consider implementing the recommendations contained in the reports of the Special Rapporteur and invited other relevant stakeholders to implement those recommendations.

In the same resolution, the Assembly urged States to devote particular attention to combating all practices motivated by religion or belief that lead to human rights violations and to discrimination against women.

It also urged the Commission on the Status of Women to give prominence to NEPAD in future priority themes.

The mission also encouraged the Haitian people to mobilize and participate fully in the upcoming elections, and just started to consider the possibility of international observers being sent to follow the electoral process.

Second, the bloody 1959 revolution in Rwanda, a country mirroring Burundi's ethnic and social structure, induced Burundi's Tutsi to cling even more tightly to power.

The public is upset about top managers salaries and the fact that big German companies fire workers despite record profits. In response, the government has urged managers to publish their incomes and abolished the bank secrecy laws that were once considered sacrosanct.

Ibid. at para 4.39 (citing Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy, 29 July 1960, art. 9, 956 United Nations Treaty Series 251 Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, 29 May 1963, art.

The movement started a few years ago with the Publish What You Pay campaign, which urged oil and mining companies to disclose payments to governments.

Concerning the domestic political process, Burundi's main opposition parties urged the Council to remain vigilant regarding the implementation, by the Government, of the constitutional provisions on power sharing.

The UNCITRAL Secretariat is prepared to provide technical assistance and advice to States considering signature, ratification or accession to UNCITRAL conventions, as well as to States that are in the process of revising their trade legislation.

In that document the Ozone Secretariat had also urged that Parties announce at the meeting of the Open ended Working Group in the prior years their intention to host a Meeting of the Parties.

17. Urged all States to become parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment as a matter of priority

In a recent editorial, China Needs Overseas Bases for Global Role, the newspaper urged the outside world to understand China s need to set up overseas military bases.

The General Assembly, the Commission and the Board have also urged regular donors to increase their contributions, if possible, in order to provide the Board with the resources to meet the growing needs of torture victims and the members of their families.

The September 2005 summit outcome document (resolution 60 1) urged the sixtieth session of the General Assembly to review progress on reform by the end of this year.

During that period, MONUC and the International Committee for Support to the Transition have urged the Transitional Government to take measures to forcibly disarm the remaining foreign armed groups and facilitate their repatriation.

The Committee encouraged developing comprehensive educational programmes that would change traditional gender stereotypes in the family, at work, in politics and in the whole society.

Last year, New Zealand urged the Security Council to recognize the role of the International Criminal Court if that is what the circumstances require to ensure that the perpetrators of the most serious crimes do not evade justice.

As indicated below, conference services has allocated 27 meetings to the Committee and has urged the Committee to make every effort to complete its work within the allotted time.

The Committee has repeatedly urged States to help it develop a broader and deeper engagement with the international community, and the Monitoring Team sees itself as an appropriate mechanism to help achieve this.

Finally, on Security Council reform, let me say that African countries have long urged the expansion of the Security Council in order to make it more representative and to enhance its transparency and inclusiveness.

In that connection, she urged the Government to review the Committee's general recommendation No. 25 on temporary special measures in order to strengthen women's participation in political life and decision making.