These constitutions and constitutional acts paved the way for the adoption of laws and administrative decisions recognizing human rights.

The Constitution evokes the equality of rights and opportunities between men and the women.

Reflecting the foundation of gender equality and the absence of discriminatory attitudes to women, the Constitution and legislation specified that the citizen was the subject or object of their provisions.

Constitutional Framework Women, urban as well as rural, are assured equality under the Constitution of Pakistan.

As the Constitution was a brief document, adding the Convention as an annex would destroy its balance.

For the Government, that would entail the adoption of a constitution for each State, to be superceded only by the national constitution endorsed in the Nairobi Peace Agreement.

On 27 August, the Southern Sudan Constitutional Drafting Committee was established to examine and adopt the draft the southern Sudanese constitution based on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Interim National Constitution.

The country's Constitution regulates the guaranteed protection of human rights and equal rights for women and men.

(a) Equality before the law (art. 14 of the Constitution)

In this case, the Ombudsman, acting in accordance with Section 198 of the Constitution, submitted the case to the Constitutional Court for decision on whether the said provision was in conformity with the guarantee of equality and prohibition of unjust discrimination on the grounds of sex by the Constitution.

The principle of equality is entrenched in the Brazilian Constitution.

Article 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan states All are equal before the law and the courts.

Concerning the State law, and the Constitution of the Republic, the Law formally establishes that there is equal right before the law, between men and women, in the use of land.

Article 17 of the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan states Everyone is equal before the law and the courts.

1.4 Gender equality is incorporated in constitutions

Rather, it thinks that its peace constitution stands in the way of reviving militarism and has searched for an excuse to amend Japan's constitution and revive it.

For example, under article 17 of the Constitution, everyone is equal before the law and the courts.

Equality between women and men was a principle recognized in Egypt's Constitution and respected by its institutions.

The Brazilian Constitution expressly forbids all non peaceful nuclear activities.

Gender equality and provisions for affirmative action had also been constitutionally entrenched.

93. The adoption of constitutional amendments has become the central short term aim of the peace process.

The constitutional principle of equal pay is guaranteed by the Labour Code.

(a) The Constitution shall prohibit racial, gender and all other forms of discrimination, and shall promote gender equality and national unity (Constitutional Principle III) and

The Israeli Constitution, Law and Justice Knesset Committee was debating a draft constitution, some versions of which referred to the right to equality.

On the one hand, the constitutions guarantee varying degrees of fundamental human rights and political equality.

Until 1994 several important enterprises were privatised in Latvia, which were modernised afterwards, they expanded production and now successfully compete in both domestic and foreign markets.

Equality of the sexes is a guaranteed constitutional principle as stipulated in part IV, articles 25, 26, 27 and 45, of the 1973 Constitution of the Syrian Arab Republic

That diversity was acknowledged in the country's Constitution, which described Ecuador as a constitutional State in which the law guaranteed the social welfare of all its people.

Subsequently, the Constitutional Court decided that the said provision contradicted the Constitution and therefore should be amended to guarantee equal rights between men and women.

109. Adoption of the constitutional reforms outlined in the Peace Agreements is probably the most important short term objective of the peace process.

10. The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, adopted in December 1990, declares that freedom, equal rights, national equality, love of peace, social justice, respect for human rights are among the highest values of the constitutional order of the Republic of Croatia (art. 3).

The Constitution, Land Law and Law on Marriage and Family provide for equal rights of men and women over land (See Article 15).

The constitution will allow law and order, justice and equality for all Iraqis.

With regard to the system of prisoner rehabilitation, the Constitution states

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Equality before the law was not the same as the principle of the equality of men and women, which, under article 2 of the Convention, States parties were to embody in their national constitutions or other appropriate legislation.

Equality before the law is a constitutional principle in Guinea.

His main argument was that the section infringed his rights under the Constitution to equality before the law and freedom from discrimination on the grounds of sex (Article 10 of the Constitution).

The constitutional duty contained in article 21 of the Constitution stated that all citizens should defend the country and the Constitution.

4, para. II) The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitution (art. 2 (1) d) Republika Srpska Constitution (art.

Criminal and constitutional complaints up to the level of the Constitutional Court were unsuccessful.

In this connection, the State party points out that the right to equality before and under the law and the right not to be discriminated against are protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was entrenched as part of Canada apos s Constitution in 1982.

The new Thai Constitution contained specific provisions for ensuring gender equality and eliminating discrimination.

Moreover, successive national constitutions had proclaimed equality between men and women, and the courts had regularly upheld the constitutional provisions.

Syrian women are generally treated equally with men in accordance with the Constitution and domestic legislation.