On 30 July 2004, the Parliament approved an act establishing the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

50. In October, HCR PT approved a draft constitution on which a referendum is to be held.

So far, the Referral Bench has granted six motions and only three are pending decision.

(f) Approval of a General Education Act

The CM adopts legal acts that are related to education Regulations of the CM.

The current Government of Puerto Rico, however, had failed to support that proposal and refused to endorse a bill in that sense.

A bill to combat terrorism was approved by the Council of Ministers on 18 November 2003 and sent to the Parliament for adoption in order to become law.

118. In 1992, a new Labour Code was enacted to replace the 1952 Code.

In Brazil, a refugee bill awaits final approval from the Senate after having been approved by Congress.

This Bill will be forwarded for presidential sanction.

The Southern Sudan Fund has similarly approved a 70 million initial project proposal for rule of law capacity building.

Pursuant to the Constitution, many laws have been enacted by the Congress and several decisions of the Constitutional Court have been incorporated in case law.

She approved of my plan.

After the president had granted the request, the author left the court.

Greece ratified this Protocol by law 2952 2001.

Although the lower house had approved the appropriate bill on 2 July 1996 it was still pending in the Senate.

The draft Anti Money Laundering Bill, 2005 has been approved by the Cabinet.

Another major legislative development that occurred during the reporting period was the approval by the National Parliament of the draft law on freedom of assembly and demonstration on 18 July 2005, following a positive decision of the Court of Appeal on its constitutionality.

In Paraguay, a law was approved in 1994 establishing a new legal framework for cooperatives and recognizing their special character.

Viet Nam completed a master plan draft to which UNDCP provided project assistance approval of the document is awaited.

The Government of Ukraine had approved a programme of comprehensive measures to combat the illicit transfer of funds from Ukraine and to return them to the countries of origin.

22. WHO approved a new biennial programme (1997 1998) of support for Lebanon, amounting to 2.5 million.

On 16 March 2005, the Verkhovna Rada had adopted the Act Ratifying the Civil Law Convention on Corruption.

27. In June 1996, the Government of Italy approved the draft bill regarding the move of UNICRI to Turin, which is now subject to parliamentary ratification.

In the field of violence, three new laws were approved during the period covered by this Report.

Argentina accepts the proposal that the text of the Communiqué of Riyadh should read as approved in the last Plenary Meeting of the Conference as well as the text of the recommendations approved by the last Plenary Meeting.

Enactment of this law requires the sanction of the National Assembly.

Following the ratification of the Convention, a series of laws had been reviewed.

Rather, the problem lies in the process of satisfying all of the domestic legal and political requirements needed to approve an amendment to a treaty.

In the field of work, two new pieces of legislation were approved to deal with employment and maternity issues.

That accession had later been ratified by Parliament.

(a) To approve such bills as the President of the Republic may submit to Congress

111. Argentina adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by means of Act No. 23.179 of 1985.

The Presidency of the Republic sent the Bill (Bill 3627 2004) to the National Congress for its approval.

In May 1996, the Parliament of the Czech Republic approved an amendment to the existing refugee law.

In the context of this assistance programme, 30 community development projects (16 of which are located in South Kivu) have so far been approved.

He said that a survey is to be conducted on the difficulties encountered by ILO constituents and the reasons preventing them from ratifying the Conventions and thus increasing the number of ratifications.

The Special Court passed the committal order and sent the case to the Judge of the Court of Special Additional Sessions at Lucknow, for trial and proceedings.

The document has still to be validated.

It proposed a regional agreement on such collaboration to its members for ratification.

The MSC approved, in December 2004, the thematic priorities for the technical co operation programme in the area of security for 2006 2007.

It is expected that these draft laws will be submitted to the National Transitional Legislative Assembly for enactment.

The text was then approved as orally amended.

Three pieces of legislation were introduced for review and approval by the National Assembly the Bank of Sudan Act, the Constitutional Court Act, and the Judicial Service Commission Act.

In this context, reports were received relating to the approval of a draft bill in Pakistan, the Child Offenders Bill, which maintains capital punishment for minors as of the age of 16.