The appointment of a new independent expert might increase the attention given to cultural rights.

Position of the United States of America on the issue of enhancing and strengthening the effectiveness of the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights

There is an ongoing process of evolving further constitutional change to enhance respect for fundamental rights consistent with the Covenants and to promote and protect minority rights in accordance with the 1993 Declaration on the rights of minorities.

There are no women's rights without girls' rights and no possible chance for the improvement of girls' rights without the diligent combined efforts of women and men throughout the world.

Individual human rights would not be weakened by a reference to collective rights of indigenous peoples, but instead would complement, and indeed strengthen, the individual rights of 300 million indigenous persons.

A. Enhancing the authority and role of the General Assembly

The multifaceted challenge of this task is reflected in the guidelines on justice for child victims and witnesses of crime drawn up by the International Bureau for Children's Rights (Economic and Social Council resolution 2004 27, annex).

Further, the State party should strengthen the human and financial capacity of the various governmental institutions promoting children apos s rights.

Furthermore, the State party should strengthen the human and financial capacity of the various governmental institutions promoting children apos s rights.

I understand the strength of your feelings relating to the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights and I do agree on their high importance.

Enhancing and strengthening the effectiveness of the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights

Since the Copenhagen Summit, the right to development had come to be accepted as a basic human right and the link between social and economic development had been strengthened.

To transmit the initial discussion paper and the responses to it to the special

Promoting equal rights

(5) The Committee welcomes the promulgation on 25 August 2004 of a new Personal and Family Code that seeks to promote equality of the sexes, particularly in the areas of marriage, divorce and parental authority.

Gender equality and empowerment of women

The Committee welcomes the legislative measures undertaken by the State party with a view to strengthening the promotion and protection of children's rights.

(e) Give due consideration to the possibility of establishing a follow up mechanism, or enhancing existing ones, to the Declaration on the Right to Development.

In order to enhance the authority and role of the General Assembly, it is decided that

The establishment of an independent expert on cultural rights could contribute to the strengthening of the cultural aspects of existing procedures and reinforce the monitoring mechanisms of existing instruments.

This refers also to the need to provide adequate and predictable resources for the activities of UNFPA.

Enhancing and strengthening the effectiveness of the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights

Enforcement of security rights

CRC stresses that the promotion and reinforcement of the values of article 29 (1) must focus on problems within the child's own community.

78. The enhanced role of lawyers under the revised CPL strengthens, in a way, the defendant s right to contest the accusation in charge.

206. The Committee encourages the State party to pursue its efforts to strengthen the institutional framework for the promotion and protection of human rights in general and the rights of the child in particular.

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(mm) In connection with item 14 (a) Ms. G. Rodríguez Pizarro, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants

Resources for special procedures should be allocated in a more transparent manner, with equal emphasis on mandates dealing with civil and political as well as economic, social and cultural rights.

To improve the extent to which women, men and youth or young people exercise free and informed choices regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights without any form of coercion, discrimination and violence.

3. The recognition of the right to a healthy environment in the convention would add weight to the operative provisions for the implementation of the procedural rights of access to information, participation in decision making and access to justice by strengthening the legal and philosophical underpinning of these rights.

Emphasizing that the United Nations has an important and continuing role to play in promoting and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples,

The manifold issues related to the protection and promotion of human rights at the national and international levels are the most important responsibilities of Dr. Drozd.

The national machinery relating to women's rights and development and empowerment in Pakistan is the Ministry of Women Development.

IFWL has sought and obtained legislation for the advancement of women apos s rights and for the protection of women and children.

National human rights institutions also play an important role in promoting national responsibility and reinforcing protection of the rights of persons in mass exodus.

(iii) To take legal steps designed to enforce or protect rights recognized by the Constitution or Fundamental Law and by national and international law, the effective exercise of which is not affected by the declaration of a state of emergency

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Subprogramme 7 Advancement and empowerment of women

The round table seeks to familiarize NHRIs with economic, social and cultural rights, provide a forum for exchanging information and enhance the understanding of and regional approaches to economic, social and cultural rights for the purpose of individually and collectively reinforcing their efforts in the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights.

163. The Committee recommends that the State party reinforce at all levels the role of the National Committee for the Rights of the Child in the implementation of the Convention.

590. The Committee recommends that the State party reinforce at all levels the role of the National Committee for the Rights of the Child in the implementation of the Convention.

To bolster the legitimacy and effectiveness of the United Nations body responsible for human rights, France endorses the idea of enhancing its status, with a parallel strengthening of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Commission recalls that specific attention to the protection and promotion of women's and children's rights continues to be of paramount importance.

For similar reasons, the programme also needed to be strengthened in the area of economic, social and cultural rights, as most requests from Member States have traditionally concerned the implementation of civil and political rights.