2. Support for existing institutions and civic action

Movimiento Ciudadano para la Democracía A.C. (MCD)

Wide vistas opened up for the development of the personal and public initiatives of citizens.

Citizen Initiative 3X1

The League of Women Voters believes that democratic government depends upon the informed and active participation of its citizens and requires that governmental bodies protect the citizen's right to know by giving adequate notice of proposed actions, holding open meetings and making public records accessible.

The Citizen Initiative 3X1 Programme seeks to support and strengthen initiatives by citizens to put into execution projects which contribute to improving the quality of life of the inhabitants with the combined assistance of resources from the Federation and state and municipal authorities.

Propitiating mechanisms for a timely and adequate information to citizens in order to make local administrators actions transparent and make it possible their participation in the planning and decision making process.

The Citizen Initiative 3X1 Programme

At the outbreak of hostilities, a population of 7,700,000 was living in a tiny area of 26,338 km2 a population density of 300 per km2.

His country also supported the Convention Plus initiative (A 59 12, para. 22), which had become instrumental in dealing with many complex refugee programmes through special agreements.

UNEP launched its global environmental citizenship programme aimed at improving environmental education, understanding and, consequently, at encouraging action by informed citizens.

ZCSO Zairian Camp Security Operation

After the Beijing Conference in 1995, grass roots and non governmental organizations endeavoured to promote the Convention through the following

A significant increase of crime was gang violence involving disenfranchised young men.

Opportunities for citizens to be engaged through voluntary action at the local level and have their action recorded and recognized are steadily expanding.

(e) Cases where proceedings have been instituted for the crimes of violation of citizens right to equality, infringement of citizens right to use their mother tongue, incitement of national, racial and religious hatred or any other act of racial discrimination.

In addition, the Constitutional Treaty gives citizens the right to ask the European Commission to take action on a specific point. A citizens' initiative of this kind will require one million signatures, obtained in different countries.

Various civil society actors have prominent roles in that process.

The Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees has got a mandate to implement activities related to the implementation and follow up of the conventions on human rights, and therefore CEDAW convention as well.

(f) Follow up on Views under the Optional Protocol to ICCPR.

The Convention on the Political Rights of Women adopted on 20 December 1952, which the Niger ratified on 7 December 1964

Party of democratic action SDA

Such an action plan should be public and be drawn up in consultation with civil society.

The Senior Citizen's Statute (2003) has affirmative action provisions to the elderly.

24. No significant action on the political status of the Territory has been taken since a referendum was held in 1993.

The Citizen Bank

The 2004 2005 budget revealed a greater public spending on social initiatives associated with senior citizens and affordable housing.20

35. The Secretariat also promotes grass roots involvement in the implementation of the Convention by facilitating and coordinating activities related to the involvement of affected communities in the implementation of the Convention, as well as by promoting initiatives for dissemination of information on the Convention implementation.

They are also at the very core of our action and of the demands and expectations of my fellow citizens.

Citizens may perform alternative (labour) service under conditions established in agreements drawn up by the Department of Defence.

111. Citizens groups must take initiatives to assist and protect children exposed to violence in conflict situations.

UNHCR action.

Apart from BiH citizenship, there also exists entity citizenship, so a citizen of a certain entity is automatically also a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

They also noted that section 39 (1) of the 1979 Nigerian Constitution provided for the protection of citizens against discrimination, but did not cover non citizens or provide protection against discriminatory actions or practices outside the governmental sector.

Affirmative Action in Governmental Corporations

And when we change our behavior in our daily lives, we sometimes leave out the citizenship part and the democracy part. In order to be optimistic about this, we have to become incredibly active as citizens in our democracy.

Our commitment to the people of Darfur is to set right all grievances and hostilities that befell any citizen, from whatever party, on the basis of justice and the rule of law .

All those initiatives aim to fulfil the constitutional principle of a genuinely participatory and activist democracy, of the people, for the people and with the people.

(iv) Actions to foster democratic participation

Detentions were reportedly frequently carried out openly by uniformed members of the armed forces, sometimes together with the Civil Defence Groups.

Second, they need to make public institutions more accountable, responsive and effective by promoting a more citizen oriented public administration.

One such operation, undertaken on 28 August in the Boga area, 78 kilometres south of Bunia, to verify reports of continued militia activities, dispersed some militia elements into the surrounding area.

24. As in the past, Morocco would continue to cooperate with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to organize a referendum.

32. As in the past, Morocco would continue to cooperate with MINURSO to organize a referendum.

The draft Labour Code now under development specifies measures that anticipate vocational training, retraining and job placement.