Sentences with phrase «committee general comment»

85 See the following for comment on conflict between the rights of women and those of minorities: United National Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) «Women, Culture and Traditional Practices» CEDAW Advocacy Kit gopher: / / gopher.undp.org: 70 / 00 / unifem / poli - eco / poli / whr / cedaw / cedawkit / wctp; Human Rights Committee General Comment 28 para 5 in Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies UN Doc HRI / GEN / 1 / Rev5 2001; and Human Rights Committee General Comment 28 para 32 in Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies UN Doc HRI / GEN / 1 / Rev5 2001.

[C] ulture manifests itself in many forms, including a particular way of life associated with the use of land resources, especially in the case of Indigenous peoples», Human Rights Committee General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 7

Not exact matches

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Ccommittee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the CCommittee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the CommitteeCommittee.

In particular it notes General Recommendation No. 24 which «established that the criminalization of medical practices which only apply to women, like abortion, constitute a violation of equal rights,» (6.5.2) and the Committee's 1999 comments to Colombia calling their abortion laws a violation of Article 12.

We fully support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, and the subsequent document from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment Number 7, published in 2005, concerning the implementation of children's rights in early childhood.

Therefore, it is our manifest intention through this petition, to call on your good office and the Leadership of Parliament to remove Mr. Kennedy Agyapong as the Ranking Member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications with immediate effect since his thoughtless comments and insults are a disgrace to Parliament in general and the NPP in particular.

The Royal Aeronautical Society has commented on the publication of the House of Commons Defence Committee report setting out a checklist of potential threats and general vulnerabilities that should be addressed in the forthcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR).

Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary, comments on the public accounts committee (PAC) report into corporate tax avoidance:

Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's report Retaining and Developing the Teaching Workforce, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

Commenting on the publication of the Government's response to the Education Select Committee's Fourth Report on «Participation by 16 — 19 year olds in education and training», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

Commenting on the Education Committee's report into the English Baccalaureate, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said.

Nick Starling, director of general insurance at the Association of British Insurers, comments on the transport committee's report on the cost of motor insurance:

Commenting on the Government's response to the Women and Equalities Committee's report on sexual violence and harassment in schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «There is absolutely no place in our schools for sexual harassment or violence towards either pupils or staff.

Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «The Treasury committee have rightly expressed concern about the government's plans for an additional # 5 billion of «efficiency savings».

Fiona Reynolds, director - general of the National Trust, comments on the communities and local government committee report on local planning

Responding to comments by the BMA's Welsh General Practitioners Committee that a full Gender Identity Clinic service is unlikely to be made available in Wales, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent assessment on progress on the establishment of Wales» first Gender Identity Clinic.

In addition to any amendments to the Finance Bill that would reflect our general economic approach, I believe we should focus some attention on the possibility that the new Select Committee system will be able to comment more forcefully on government policies and programmes.

Commenting on the publication of the second report by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, Adrian Coles, Director - General of the Building Societies Association said: «It is clear from the this morning's report that there the Committee has strong feelings about the right percentage level for the minimum leverage ratio.

Commenting on the report published today by the Education Select Committee into PSHE and SRE in schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT recognises that the Select Committee is trying to address a difficult and contentious issue.

Commenting on the publication of the Justice Select Committee's report on the parts of the draft constitutional renewal bill dealing with the role of the Attorney General, Deputy Director of Unlock Democracy Alexandra Runswick said:

Building on this prior research, AAAS received funding from the Open Society Foundation to support (1) development, dissemination and analysis of a preliminary global questionnaire to elicit the views of scientists, engineers and health professionals as to the meaning of the right; and (2) organization of a briefing for the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to inform its development of a General Comment on the right.

On Feb. 22, 2017, Wyndham along with Vitullo presented the findings of their research during a briefing of the U.N. Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, the body responsible for undertaking the «General Comment» process and for monitoring implementation of the treaty containing the right to science.

Mikel Mancisidor, who serves on the U.N. Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and is the coordinator of the «General Comment» process, also addressed the meeting, making clear that the process of developing an authoritative interpretation of the right to science will take time, though he announced a follow - up meeting at U.N. offices in Geneva will be held this fall.

A subsequent project involved the development, dissemination and analysis of a preliminary global questionnaire to elicit the views of scientists, engineers and health professionals as to the meaning of the right; and organization of a briefing for the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to inform its development of a General Comment on the right.

In general, groups and individuals acting on behalf of AAAS will comment on specific legislative and budgetary issues only upon the request of some congressional committee, subcommittee, or other congressional bodies.

Gibb's comments were in response to the Committee's inquiry into the well publicised issues with teacher supply, and followed evidence given by Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), who told the Committee that school leaders felt there was a shortage of quality teachers.

The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in the year 2000, issued its General Comment no. 14, relating to the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, which is explained in article 12 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The periodic review mechanism, followed by general comments adopted by the ESCR Committee, has not proved effective in checking regressive policies imposed by states in response to the global economic crisis, and neither have the ad hoc statements on specific circumstances that significantly affect ESCR (42).

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 3, The nature of States parties» obligations (Fifth session, 1990), UN Doc.

Furthermore, in General Comment 3, the Committee outlines a concept that became naturalized from then on (24) and which has proved essential in further defining the scope of the obligations deriving from Article 2.1 of the CESCR.

Commenting on the Education Select Committee's report on the Government's case for creating new grammar schools, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «The Government has failed to provide evidence that more selection in schools will improve education for all children and not harm the majority.

Commenting on the report by the Migratory Advisory Committee, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said:

Scott's comments last week before the Georgia General Assembly Joint Meeting of the House and Senate Education Committee speak to the concerns of some Common Core critics who say the standards were written without sufficient public input.

Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Government's Green Paper on Mental Health: Failing a Generation, a joint report by the House of Commons Education and Health and Social Care Committees,

Once an artist is reviewed, the review committee sends their recommendations to the general membership for comments.

[the Committee thus recommends to the US to:] Interpret the Covenant in good faith, in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to its terms in their context, including subsequent practice, and in the light of its object and purpose and review its legal position so as to acknowledge the extraterritorial application of the Covenant under certain circumstances, as outlined inter alia in the Committee's general comment No. 31 (2004) on the nature of the general legal obligation imposed on States parties to the Covenant;

This is in keeping with the school of thought that human rights treaties will automatically bind successor states, represented by the UN Human Rights Committee's General Comment No. 26 on the continuity of obligations.

Post the Electronic Court Filing 1.0 specification and DTD and the Electronic Court Filing 1.1 specification and DTD, which supercedes the 1.0 specification, developed by the Court Filing Work Group of Legal XML, Inc. on the Technical Committee site for general information and comment.

On 6 December 2017, after a year long consultation process with states and civil society representatives, the Committee against Torture (CAT) adopted its revised General Comment (GC)(now No. 4) on the implementation of Article 3 of the Convention against Torture (the Convention) in the context of Article 22.

The Human Rights Committee, the oversight body to the ICCPR, clarified the scope of a state's obligation to protect the right to life with respect to disappearances in General Comment No 6:

While the Human Rights Committee's General Comment No 6 is non-binding, it provides useful guidance in interpreting the right to life provisions that relate to disappearances.

During informal comments in the United Nations General Assembly's First Committee in 2016, the United Kingdom's ambassador stated that the states pressing for a nuclear ban treaty did not have security concerns unlike the states who opposed the negotiations which did.

Bill Sorrell, Attorney General for the State of Vermont addressed The U.S. House of Representatives» Committee on Energy and Commerce regarding patent trolls, and specifically, as I've commented on before, the need for States to be allowed to intervene on behalf of troll targets.

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.

The Human Rights Committee confirms that specific cultural rights held by a certain group are «conferred on individuals belonging to minority groups and [are]... distinct from, and additional to, all the other rights which, as individuals in common with everyone else, they are already entitled to enjoy under the Covenant [of Civil and Political Rights]», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 1.

Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 22 (1993), in Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, UN Doc HRI / GEN / 1 / Rev 4, 2000, paras 1 & 2.

In its General Comment on the right to life, the United Nations Human Rights Committee warned against interpreting the right to life in a narrow or restrictive manner.

The Human Rights Committee's General Comment 23 makes it clear that this right applies to Indigenous peoples.

The Human Rights Committee, in relation to minority and Indigenous rights under ICCPR explained that countries joining ICCPR must take steps to protect those rights «With regard to the exercise of the cultural rights protected under article 27, the Committee observes that culture manifests itself in many forms, including a particular way of life associated with the use of land resources, especially in the case of Indigenous peoples... The enjoyment of those rights may require positive legal measures of protection», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 7.

Human Rights Committee, General Comment 28 — Article 3 (equality of rights between men and women), in Compilation of General Comments and General Recommendations adopted by human rights treaty bodies, UN Doc: HRI / GEN / 1 / Rev. 5, 26 April 2001, paras 5, 32..