(i) Environmental crime, sanctioning strategies and sustainable development ( 55,000)

Full compliance with language policies (a priority) and monitoring and sanctioning systems (priorities) are needed.

A number of States emphasized the central importance of legislating in those areas and criminalizing and sanctioning such acts.

The adoption of the draft resolution would be tantamount to sanctioning interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States.

The internal procedure for sanctioning such behaviour was still ongoing, but should result in disciplinary measures against the officers concerned.

Sanctioning parents who do not fulfil their parental responsibilities by depriving them of their parental rights is also of concern to the Committee.

364. The Committee requests the State party to provide it with relevant information on the implementation of legislation prohibiting and sanctioning racial discrimination.

The agreement on such definitions is an essential condition for the effectiveness of a convention on the prevention and sanctioning of those illicit acts

Begin to impose strong sanctions against cartel conduct. As was noted above, an indispensable element of a successful anti cartel programme is an aggressive sanctioning policy.

The Law had been the first step in sanctioning domestic violence and attempts had been made to raise awareness among the public, experts and institutions of the need to implement it.

It is also noteworthy that on 30 November 2004, the Government of Romania has approved the draft Law for amending and supplementing Law no. 656 2002 for preventing and sanctioning money laundering.

Internal prison regulations, a code of conduct for prison guards and formal procedures for investigating and sanctioning abuses by National Penal Administration (Administration pénitentiaire national (APENA)) guards have yet to be adopted.

Similarly, in societies where polygamy is acceptable, the social sanctioning of several wives makes it almost inevitable that if one partner is HIV positive, other partners in the marriage will contract HIV as well.

Those measures included stiffer penalties for domestic violence and more vigorous pursuit and prosecution of perpetrators, including those who flee across state borders, as well as disclosure and more severe sanctioning of sex offences.

But reality is not one dimensional. China is changing, in many ways for the better, and further change in the right direction is not likely to result from a policy of isolating or sanctioning China.

However, in many areas of our country, there are recurrent traditional marriages involving adults with girls aged less than 12 years, and these subsequently enter into precocious sexual activity, without any sanctioning to the perpetrators.

In recent times, the Attorney General has acted in about 25 cases, sanctioning 48 law enforcement officers on various charges, such as murder and manslaughter, torture, and or had directed public inquests to be held.

The High Court rulings in January and November 1996 lifting the interim injunctions prohibiting the use of physical force by the General Security Service in the interrogation of detainees amount to its sanctioning of torture and ill treatment.

The measures and activities for detection and identification of perpetrators and channels used for this type of organized crime have been upgraded, enlarged and intensified, with a focus on the establishment of more restrictive regime of sanctioning of organizers of illegal border crossing.

That was necessary as females constituted a class of victims for whom evidence and testimony were discredited, thereby seriously impeding the successful prosecution, conviction and sanctioning of offenders, as well as the reporting of and response to such acts of violence as a criminal offence.

These laws recognize the specific character of cooperatives by (a) sanctioning democratic control of the organization on a one member, one vote basis (b) limiting returns that can be paid on invested capital and (c) authorizing the return of earnings to members based on patronage, not investment.

2. States Parties to this Protocol undertake not to hinder in any way the effective exercise of the right to submit a communication and to take all steps necessary to prevent any persecution or sanctioning of any person or group submitting or seeking to submit a communication under this Protocol.

Grenada expresses deep concern over the sanctioning by the United Nations of trade embargoes which include food and medicines. Grenada humbly urges that this kind of mandate be speedily revisited. As to maiming injury, Grenada urges that all anti personnel landmines now in existence be destroyed, and further production banned forthwith.

The international community must continue its efforts to prevent terrorists from abusing charities and non profit organizations in their terrorist activities, to develop new sets of recommendations and best practices on the financing of terrorism as called for by the UNSC resolution 1566, and to develop new sanctioning and monitoring measures towards non compliant countries.

Moreover, Spain noted that the acknowledgment of foreign judgements could imply the access to quot international recidivism quot while the absence, among the offences included in the convention, of the quot acts of assistance to terrorism quot ( quot actos de auxilio al terrorismo quot ) would limit the possibility of investigating and sanctioning criminal acts.

In addition, article 24 states that the National Institute for Indigenous Languages and the corresponding bodies in the different states shall urge the appropriate authorities to issue laws sanctioning and punishing any type of discrimination, exclusion or exploitation of persons speaking national indigenous languages or infringing the provisions contained in the Act establishing rights for persons speaking national indigenous languages.

While the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO had resisted any formal arrangement to allow discussion and coordination of international policies in such areas as finance, trade and reform of the global financial architecture, the sanctioning by the World Summit of the holding of a biennial high level development cooperation forum to review trends in international development cooperation and to promote coherence could serve as good basis for action in that regard.

Spain pointed out that its criminal code criminalized all the criminal offences included in article 1, with the exception of traffic in persons, as already mentioned in the note to the preamble and proposed that, since article 2, paragraph 1, might be interpreted as a request to Contracting States to establish equivalent criminal sanctions, the possibility of introducing an ad hoc sanctioning system with which Contracting States should comply should be studied.