3. Encourages Governments to keep under review, as appropriate, the legal and administrative provisions governing the activities of cooperatives, with a view to ensuring a supportive environment for them and to protecting and advancing the potential of cooperatives to help them to achieve their goals

4. Encourages Governments to keep under review, as appropriate, the legal and administrative provisions governing the activities of cooperatives, with a view to ensuring a supportive environment for them and to protecting and advancing the potential of cooperatives to help them to achieve their goals

After the termination of these programmes and until the promulgation of law 3226 2004 About the provision of legal assistance to low income citizens (February 2004), the K.E.TH.I.

Law 2810 2003 on Agricultural Cooperative Organizations amends the terms of establishment of agricultural cooperatives, favouring the participation of women in the cooperatives.

Colombia appealed to the international community and the United Nations system, in keeping with the principle of shared responsibility, to cooperate with the programmes being

The programme mainly aims at combating discriminations against social groups victims of racism, through the active participation of all organizations involved, taking into consideration the power of the Mass Media in the formation of public opinion. More specifically

(v) Cooperatives

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56 114. Cooperatives in social development

58 131. Cooperatives in social development

62 128. Cooperatives in social development

The Social Work Center cooperates with citizens, legal entities and organizations in the implementation of the protective measures.

The Cooperative Alternative

carried out by the Government, particularly in regard to alternative development.

In India, INDISCO is active in promoting cooperatives and decent employment among tribal communities.

In India the INDISCO programme has been piloted in the Mayurbhanj district of Orissa. A cluster of 40 tribal villages has been supported in establishing and managing legally recognized cooperatives or cooperative like self help organizations, providing loans and credit, health and education.

The centres fostered a supportive community environment in partnership with the community voluntary and statutory sectors.

Fifty (50) delegations of women's cooperatives participated.

d. Expansion of the cooperatives

In this respect the cooperation of the international community, especially of the States of the former Yugoslavia, remains essential in bringing the accused to justice.

As for the Cooperation Act No. 18 of 1997, under which the Jordanian Cooperative Corporation, which oversees the cooperative sector in Jordan, was established, article 4 (b) provides that the Corporation is responsible for providing advice, guidance and technical services to cooperative societies and their members, as well as for following up and monitoring their accounts and certifying their budgets.

Nigeria commends the Court's important role in propagating the rule of law within the United Nations system and the international community.

Men 365 cases, or 45.50 per cent.

Cooperatives have helped to bring information and services to far flung rural communities, empower workers, and expand financial services, healthcare, education, and housing. In doing so, they have transformed the economic and social landscape in countless communities.

It is a holistic approach that can facilitate the integration and synergy of all of the great social movements of our time.

5. Invites Governments, in collaboration with the cooperative movement, to develop programmes aimed at enhancing capacity building of cooperatives, including by strengthening the organizational, management and financial skills of their members, and to introduce and support programmes to improve the access of cooperatives to new technologies

5. Invites Governments, in collaboration with the cooperative movement, to develop programmes aimed at enhancing capacity building of cooperatives, including by strengthening the organizational, management and financial skills of their members, and to introduce and support programmes to improve the access of cooperatives to new technologies

Development of co operation with social bodies of the local community

Cooperation with civil society

Our country has encouraged a youth project known as Hands to work , which advocates a comprehensive approach to health care and incorporates human rights, youth, gender, community participation and social inclusion issues.

Cooperation with the social partners. The Committee requested specific information on the concrete activities through which the National Council for Labour and Social Legislation is promoting the implementation of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value.

The Secretary General's report on cooperatives in social development (A 60 138) focused on the role of cooperatives in poverty eradication, arguing that their social responsibility and concern for the community made them a useful model for promoting the empowerment of the poor and their participation in poverty reduction strategies.

With the participation of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (E.S.I.E.A.

For its part, my Government has been collaborating with local communities to find home grown solutions to this problem.

In the context of the first Millennium Development Goal the ILO INDISCO programme has been working to strengthen the capacity of indigenous and tribal peoples, helping them to fight poverty by creating decent work through cooperatives and self help organizations.

Note by the Secretariat The Annexes and Appendix to the present report will be made available to the members of the Committee in the language in which they were received.

My Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, in cooperation with United Nations entities, will intensify the development of new methodologies, tools and competence for gender mainstreaming and updating of existing ones.

Partnering with civil society

The Act respecting income support, employment assistance and social solidarity was amended to require Individualized Integration Programs to be subject to minimum work standards, except for exemptions established by regulation.

A more integrated approach to economic and social policies was critical and the Decent Work Agenda could contribute to such an approach.

The methodology of the INDISCO programme is based on a community driven participatory approach to development in which the gender balanced participation and consultation of indigenous and tribal peoples are core principles.

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UNOSAT has tested these methodologies in Nicaragua with the collaboration of the community of Matagalpa.

First, we see no need for the international community to recognize the important role of what is nothing less than the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

This is the only way to resolve the conflict cooperative efforts of the Government and civil society to create a favourable environment through the promotion of the rule of law, human rights, legitimacy through participation and the creation of an environment of peace and security.