For historical reasons, specific legal dispositions are still applied in the territory in the form of a local law.

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Specific human rights issues

Specific human rights issues

The rights of specific persons groups women and children

The Committee should examine the issue with the participation of all Members States with a view to developing an effective system of sanctions that would achieve the desired objectives.

Ms. Boniver (Italy) said that human rights were not abstract juridical concepts and that, as they were relevant to all aspects of the work of the United Nations, they should be at the heart of its reform agenda.

Resort to a range of offences for which mercenaries could be held liable under criminal law codes pointed to the absence of specific legal measures on mercenaries.

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(b) Provides legal advice and expert assistance to representatives of governing bodies and communicates with Permanent Missions in respect of specific legal issues involving the Organization

They might have committed crimes, or be involved in situations with specific legal implications in that third State to which they should be answerable.

(c) In clarifying the content of specific rights and in promoting public awareness of the provisions and principles concerning economic, social and cultural rights

For example, the report stated that even under the Christian form of marriage a wife could be disadvantaged, in that she could be completely disinherited by her husband, and the law provided no protection in that regard.

The Government denied its citizens their human rights, and new legal measures monopolized information and obstructed political opposition and democratization.

(d) Develop targeted programmes to protect the rights of children separated from their parents and working in the streets

A time bound plan was proposed on how to deal with women's human rights and violence against women.

We endorse fully the idea of transforming the Commission on Human Rights into a Human Rights Council and would have liked the outcome document to contain concrete provisions on the mandate and structure of the new Human Rights Council.

Some prolonged disputes on inheritance especially of land use rights have made women hesitant to take part in court proceedings.

The rights of specific categories of persons are supplementary to the universally recognized rights of every person.

Whereas the corporate world perceives the rules as a restraint it could do without in a competitive setting, public administration accountability is generally monitored against specified legal provisions.

Both international humanitarian law and human rights law have made specific contribution to the struggle against torture.

As the first country in Asia and the second country in the world to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Viet Nam has developed and improved legal and institutional frameworks for the promotion and the protection of the rights of the child.

The nature of international human rights treaties and the indivisible and interdependent nature of human rights naturally result in specific human rights being protected under several treaties.

The Integration and Dissemination Network, too, has set up three legal clinics, in Dakoro (in the Maradi region), Gaya (Dosso) and Téra (Tillabéri).

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However, both the Constitution and the Covenant allowed specific restrictions in the interest of protecting other rights and constitutional goals.

The Committee may also issue reports for general distribution in order to highlight specific problems in the field of the rights of the child.

From 1982 to 1994, he worked in legal teams for the defence of human rights, which included the problem of torture in Peru.

That vision cannot admit that the concept of the threat to international peace and security has been expanded to make of human rights legal rights to be monitored by the international community as a whole.

All Governments are urged to develop, review and modify discriminatory legal mechanisms in order to protect girls and young women against sexual, physical and psychological violence.

Some members thought it was evident from the study of the examples cited in the eighth report that the existence of unilateral acts producing legal effects and creating specific commitments was now beyond dispute, a point that could be corroborated by international jurisprudence if necessary.

An arbitration agreement is an agreement by the parties to submit to arbitration all or certain disputes which have arisen or which may arise between them in respect of a defined legal relationship, whether contractual or not.

Well the U.S. federal government counts more than a thousand legal benefits to being someone's spouse a list that includes visitation rights in jail, but hopefully you'll never need that one.

She wished to know if the Special Rapporteur could propose any specific and immediate measures to improve the human rights of the Palestinian people.

(1) Arbitration agreement' is an agreement by the parties to submit to arbitration all or certain disputes which have arisen or which may arise between them in respect of a defined legal relationship, whether contractual or not.

The Dialogue Forum established that the aim was not to develop a new legal bill of rights, but to work on a set of guidelines interpreting existing human rights with regard to the needs and challenges of the information society.

Instead, the architecture of copyright law and the architecture of digital technologies, as they interact, have produced the presumption that these activities are illegal.

Many resolutions and legal normative documents have been issued with particular emphasis on ensuring gender equality and women's rights in civil, political, economic, cultural and social fields.

(b) Those who avail or have availed themselves of procedures established under United Nations auspices for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and all those who have provided legal assistance to them for this purpose

The Committee is concerned that currently, no legal provisions exist to protect the right of a separated parent and or child to remain in contact with each other.

To this end the major focus of the meeting was the identification of specific measures which should be taken within the context of current discussions of reform of the Commission on Human Rights, the Secretary General's proposals for reform, and the OHCHR Plan of Action.

One classification proposed, for example, was the distinction between acts which contribute to the development of customary norms of international law, acts which create specific legal obligations, and acts which produce other effects under international law.

Established in 2003 to achieve the supremacy of law, the clinic tries to address human rights violations in Somaliland by training law students, and by providing pro bono legal services to indigent persons.

g) Memoranda of Understanding with countries of employment to ensure the protection of the workers rights (MOU already signed with Kuwait and Jordan, and include joint Permanent Legal Assistance in the countries of employment)

Support the appointment of a special representative of the Secretary General with the specific mandate to examine the question of violations of the rights of minorities and to submit a report to the High Commissioner of Human Rights.