Sentences with phrase «cerd concluding observations»

Both called on the government to implement the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes when they issued their concluding observations in June 2016.

Can we also draw your attention to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in its assessment of the UK this year?

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued its concluding observations on the UK after assessing how well the government is meeting its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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The UN Committee's Concluding Observations provide a clear road map for how we can and should do better on a wide range of issues crucial to the dignity, security and freedom of BC women, from child care to the gender wage gap; from housing and poverty reduction to violence against Indigenous women.

These Concluding Observations make recommendations to Canada for greater...

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has released its Concluding Observations on Canada.

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UN Doc CERD / C / 54 / Misc.40 / Rev. 2; and Human Rights Committee, Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: Australia.

It requests that the present concluding observations and the next periodic report be widely disseminated among the public, including civil society and non-governmental organisations operating in the State party.

(HRC Concluding Observations).

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination releases its concluding observations on Australia

See Article 1 of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); Article 1 of the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights (ICESCR); Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the «CERD Committee»), General Recommendation XXIII (51) concerning Indigenous peoples, CERD / C / 51 / Misc.13 / Rev. 4 (1997); CERD Committee, Decision (2) 54 on Australia - Concluding observations / comments, 18 March 1999.

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED UNDER ARTICLE 40 Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee

CERD concluding observation (18 March 1999, United Nations document CERD / C / 54 / Misc.40 / Rev. 2, para 11).

Noting that the Commonwealth Senate on 31 August 1999 rejected one such regime, the Committee recommends that similarly close scrutiny continue to be given to any other proposed state and territory legislation to ensure that protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples will not be reduced further» Concluding Observations on Australia (24 March 2000, see United Nations document CERD / C / 304 / Add.101, para 8) See also Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission Native Title Report (2000), page 158

On 18 March 1999 the CERD Committee delivered its concluding observations on Australia, which included the following.

Decision (2) 54 on Australia, 18 March 1999, UN Doc CERD / C / 54 / Misc.40 / Rev. 2 (CERD Decision (2) 5a); Committee on the Elimination of Racial discrimination, Concluding Observations by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Australia, UN Doc CERD / C / 304 / Add.101, 19/04/2000 (CERD Concluding Observations); Human Rights Committee, Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: Australia.

Human Rights Committee, Consideration of Reports submitted under Article 40 - Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee - Australia, (69 th session), 28 th July 2000, UN Doc CCPR / CO / 69 / AUS, para 9 (Herein HRC Concluding Observations).

In its last Concluding Observations on the previous report of Australia.

In 2014, the United Nations Committee against Torture Concluding observations on the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Australia also raised concerns that mandatory sentencing disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Committee reiterated this view in its Concluding Observations on Australia's 13th and 14th periodic reports in March this year.

Human Rights Committee, Consideration of Reports Submitted Under Article 40 - Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee, 28 July 2000, CCPR / CO / 69 / AUS., para 9.

There is little doubt based on the Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on Australia in July and August 2000 respectively (see: Appendices 3 and 4) that Indigenous people are entitled to enjoy the right of self - determination.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial discrimination, Concluding Observations by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Australia, UN Doc CERD / C / 304 / Add.101, 19/04/2000, at para 8.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Decision (2) 54 on Australia - Concluding observations / comments, 18 March 1999.

In its Concluding Observations (40) the CERD Committee reiterated the finding that the amended NTA is discriminatory:

Of particular note in this regard is the jurisprudence and general comments of the Human Rights Committee (HRC) on the content and scope of Article 27 of the ICCPR, the meaning of equality and non-discrimination in Articles 2 and 26 of the Covenant, and the application of Article 1 of the Covenant to Indigenous peoples; and various decisions, concluding observations and General Recommendations (particularly General Recommendation 26 on Indigenous Peoples)(xviii) of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

Following the issue of the Committee's concluding observations, the Government in March 2000 initiated a review of its engagement with United Nations treaty bodies, which will involve, inter alia, consideration of the working procedures of CERD.

In relation to Australia's compliance with the right to self - determination under Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) the HRC stated at paragraph 9 of its Concluding Observations:

Similarly, the government's response to the concluding observations of the various treaty committees has not been adequate.

This submission concludes with an appendix of concluding observations of the United Nations human rights committees on the administration of justice and Indigenous peoples in Australia.

In 2005, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination stated in its Concluding Observations on Australia's periodic reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: 22

[9] United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Australia, UN doc CERD / C / AUS / CO / 14, United Nations, Geneva, 2005.

60 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Concluding observations: Canada, UN doc E / C.12 / 1 / Add.31, 10 December 1998, para 18.

In addition to the leasing debate and the ongoing implementation of the New Arrangements in Indigenous Affairs which is discussed in the Social Justice Report 2005, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) provided Concluding Observations on Australia's 13th and 14th periodic reports.

The application of the Evidence Act to native title proceedings contributes to the virtually insurmountable burden of proof that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are subject to, a factor which the United Nation's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination commented on in its 2005 Concluding Observations on Australia.9

[19] See Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations on the United States of America, UN Doc CERD / C / USA / CO / 6 (2008), para 29.

Add.105, 7/4/99, paras 7,8; HRC, Concluding Observations: Norway, UN Doc: CCPR / C / 79 / Add.112, 05/11/99, paras 10 and 17, which provides (at para 17) that «the Committee expects Norway to report on the Sami people's right to self - determination under Article 1 of the Covenant, including paragraph 2 of that article».

[5] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Australia, UN Doc CERD / C / AUS / CO / 15 -17 (2010), paras 16, 18.

See also: CESCR, List of issues: Canada, UN Doc: E / C.12 / Q / CAN / 1, 10 June 1998, Issue 23; CESCR, Concluding observations: Canada, UN Doc: E / C.12 / 1 / Add.31, 10/12/98; HRC, Concluding observations: Canada, Un Doc: CCPR / C / 79?

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding observations on Australia, 19 April 1994, UN Doc A / 49/18, para 542.

13 Human Rights Committee, Concluding observation of the Human Rights Committee: Australia, UN doc A / 55/40 para's 498 - 528, 24 July 2000.

61 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Concluding observations: Colombia, UN doc E / C.12 / 1 / Add.74, 30 November 2001, para 33.62 Sections 61 and 225.

In addition to the concluding observations on Australia by the CERD committee, a number of determinations and agreements were finalised during the reporting period.

In relation to Australia's obligations under Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Human Rights Committee recommended in its Concluding Observations on Australia that:

Regardless of the outcome, I will continue to advocate an equitable and just native title system and monitor the Government's progress against this concluding observation.

Finally, in what will be the first in a series of annual «Report Cards», I provide an assessment of the Australian Government's performance across a range of issues, including its progress towards implementing my recommendations from the Native Title Report 2010, and draw some concluding observations about progress made during the Reporting Period.

At http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/cerds66.htm (viewed 18 July 2011); Human Rights Committee, Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee: Australia, UN Doc CCPR / C / AUS / CO / 5 (2009), para 16.

[290] Australia is required to submit its next periodic reports on 30 October 2012 and address all points raised in the concluding observations.