A. Human rights policy

It is not for others to say what are good policies and what are bad policies.

Aliro Omara (Uganda Human Rights Commission UHRC), shared the experience of a national human rights institution in influencing national policies and ensuring that governments pursue pro human rights policies.

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It constitutes the foundation for national, regional and global policies to advance and ensure human dignity worldwide.

Transboundary human rights effects of national policies

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Uganda's food and nutrition policy had also been revised by government after the UHRC submitted the original policy to a national seminar of stakeholders the policy for the first time recognised food as a human right and commited government to adopting a rights based approach to achieve its realisation.

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Government policies that resulted in the unbalanced promotion and protection of some rights at the expense of others were indefensible.

(a) To integrate the promotion and protection of human rights into national policies

economic adjustment policies and their effects on the full enjoyment of human

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(b) States will enjoy an expanded economic and political decision making power.

It is the government policy to help Namibians to have access to land tenure.

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Several reports refer to the establishment of human rights institutions and affirmative policies to better promote and protect human rights.

(a) Advising the Executive Power on the overall formulation and implementation of human rights policies.

Ms. Marta Altolaguirre, Chairman of the Presidential Commission for Coordinating Executive Policy in the Field of Human Rights (COPREDEH)

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It was also hoped that the United Nations human rights programme would assist in incorporating a human rights component in World Bank policies.

1.2 Legislation and policies are formulated or implemented to promote women's human rights

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(c) To take into account the protection and promotion of the human rights of persons with disabilities in all policies and programmes

Women s human rights have to be mainstreamed into all relevant policies and activities of Governments.

There are two approaches to pro human rights growth policies a growth oriented approach, focusing on economic growth as a precondition for progressively affording the realization of human rights, and a rights based approach, focusing on the realization of human rights through deliberate policies of empowering people with rights.

Section 73 of the 1993 Human Rights Act provided for affirmative action policies consistent with article 2 of the Convention.

119. The Committee notes the establishment of the Presidential Commission for Coordinating Executive Policy in the Field of Human Rights and the Office of the Human Rights Procurator.

Regularization requires that the rights of migrants be viewed as a fundamental human right and must be reflected in every State's population policy.

OHCHR will produce an annual thematic global human rights report to be used as a policy and advocacy tool, including by identifying and analysing priority human rights issues, trends and policies.

(f) Adopt a comprehensive training policy on human rights education including

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131. The view was expressed that the mandate for the establishment of the Management Policy Committee was questionable.

3 Netherlands Advisory Committee on Human Rights and Foreign Policy (1992), p. 13.

64. The international community should be under no illusion these humanitarian and human rights policy goals cannot easily be reconciled with those of a sanctions regime.

372. The establishment of the Ministry for Human Rights, which has the mandate to implement the Government s human rights policy and to coordinate the steps undertaken in this area, is welcomed by the Committee.

Jean Pierre Chauffour presented his personal reflections on pro human rights policies and on the kind of institutional accountability needed to promote such policies.

The gamut of human rights actions and policies developed by the Mexican Government, especially those designed to give effect to economic, social and cultural rights, which is the purpose of the ICESCR, form part of the design of the State's overall human rights policy, in accordance with international protection standards, and evinces the Mexican Government's will to fulfil its international obligations.

the incorporation of human rights laws in all anti terrorism programmes and policies of national governments as well as international bodies.

Women's human rights achieving and maintaining women's rights is still the central component of emancipation policy.