The Committee welcomes the Family Law and Domestic Violence Reform Initiative, involving a comprehensive review of all laws to ensure compliance with the Convention.

(c) The enactment in July 2004 of legislation establishing the National Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, the presentation to Parliament of bills for an Anti Human Trafficking Act and a Child Rights Act, and the production by the Law Reform Commission of a draft bill on sexual offences

(c) The enactment in July 2004 of legislation establishing the National Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, the presentation to Parliament of bills for an Anti Human Trafficking Act and a Child Rights Act, and the production by the Law Reform Commission of a draft bill on sexual offences

Technical assistance to law reform

Technical assistance to law reform. Status and promotion of UNCITRAL legal texts.

Technical assistance to law reform

UNIFEM supported the Sierra Leone Law Reform Commission to facilitate a series of national consultations on discriminatory laws and women's rights, leading to a gender equality bill.

Lawmakers also voted to dismiss another piece of legislation that would have taken Polish reproductive rights in the opposite direction, liberalizing existing laws.

(b) Reform laws and practices that are inconsistent with those standards

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for service to law reform and legal education (1988).

All such Acts draw their inspiration from the Army Act.

harmonisation of all laws at all levels with the Gender Equality Law

Law reform efforts to eliminate discriminatory laws and to revise laws that have a discriminatory impact also contribute to enhancing an enabling environment for gender equality and empowerment of women.

The Law Reform Commission, which is tasked with the review of statutory and other laws with a view to reforming, developing, consolidating and codifying those laws, has started consultations to develop a law on domestic violence.

She asked whether the Government's focus on law reform and policy programmes applied to rural women.

(ii) Macedonia insolvency law reform (16 17 December 2004)

The Netherlands Nationality Act was also amended when the Adoption (Conflict of Laws) Act ( the WCAD') entered into effect on 1 January 2004.

The Court then determined that British Columbia law applied using its own conflict of laws rules.

In Barbados, the assistance provided by UNIFEM to the Coalition against Sexual Harassment will inform the law reform process.

With the aim of better implementation of laws and policies, the Project of Implementation of the Law on Gender Equality has been initiated.

Prominent among these are the Public Procurement Act, the Financial Administration Act and the Internal Audit Agency Act.

The budget law also includes income of 500 trillion Rials from the subsidies reform plan.

In the United States of America The Organic Laws of the United States of America can be found in Volume One of the United States Code which contains the General and Permanent Laws of the United States.

Countries will need to consider procedural law reforms, such as laws governing search and seizure and the interception of communications, to adequately equip their law enforcement agencies to investigate cybercrime.

The Law Reform Commission had been restructured and had produced a final report on the establishment of a proposed family court.

A non theoretical example of a collective decision is enacting a law or set of laws under a constitution.

(a) Continue its efforts to reform the educational system, e.g. by adopting the Law on the Educational Reform (Ley Reglamentaria de la Reforma Educativa)

The Government was currently working with the ILO on labour law reform.

In the Parliament of Canada, such bills are titled Bill C 1, An Act respecting the Administration of Oaths of Office, and Bill S 1, An Act relating to Railways in the Canadian House of Commons and Canadian Senate, respectively.

Professor Orin Kerr, a specialist in the nexus between computer law and criminal law, wrote that he had been arguing for precisely this sort of reform of the Act for years.

The Commission will have before it a note by the Secretariat on technical assistance to law reform (A CN.9 586).

The legal basis for this ruling is rooted in a set of laws known by its acronym UNCLOS, short for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas.

The best example for this is the above mentioned Law on Gender equality in BiH, but other mentioned laws also contain this component, particularly those passed in the last two years.

Second, bankruptcy reform is needed to allow homeowners to write down the value of their homes and stay in their houses.

Where law and policy reform efforts are at a preliminary stage, support provided by UNIFEM focuses on reviews, assessments and consensus building.

Coercive federal laws such as the Solomon Act limited the possibilities for individual action and threatened the exercise of fundamental rights of the citizen.

The American made a firm, explicit and apparently sincere commitment to lobby as strongly as possibly for what he calls comprehensive immigration reform and what in Mexico is commonly known as the whole enchilada.

A new legislation or legal reform is underway and this will incorporate more efficient measures against violence, particularly domestic violence.

(viii) Cape Town, South Africa (15 17 March 2005), seminar on UNCITRAL and the use of model laws as a tool for regional harmonization of international trade law, Association of Law Reform Agencies of Eastern and Southern Africa (ALRAESA) conference (100 participants)

We are carrying out planned efforts to improve our legislation in this area, particularly by strengthening the laws establishing responsibility for traffic law violations.

Commissioner appointed to the Election Commission of Zambia by the President of the Republic of Zambia with a mandate to reform the Electoral Laws of Zambia to meet the challenges of democratic governance.

In Sierra Leone, UNIFEM assisted the Law Reform Commission in undertaking a comprehensive review of the legal framework in relation to the criminalization of gender based violence.

Historically its system of government was not unusual, but it was not reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835 and little changed by later reforms.

A people's movement led to the passing of a Land Reform Act, which gave communities the right to acquire ownership of land, including woodlands.

Its basic objection was that there was no requirement of reliability in the general law of signatures. If a reliability requirement were to be included in the law of electronic signatures, two sets of law would be created.