Security Council reform is not about any country's prestige or power, but about transforming the balance of power in the world.

Efforts to empower women through financial services should also address prevailing power relationships.

Social norms that give rise to unequal power relations between men and women reduce women's choices, opportunities and control over sexual relations.

Internally, there had been a smooth transition of power within the Palestinian Authority, and the Agency enjoyed excellent working relations with it at all levels.

Participants highlighted the link between decentralization, democracy and participation.

7. The Agency s relations with the Palestinian Authority continued to be very good.

Combating violence against women requires changing the way gender roles and power relations articulated in society.

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Recognizing also that violence against women is rooted in historically unequal power relations between men and women,

Rights are protected by legislative, executive and judicial authorities.

That partnership is particularly critical to intensify efforts to promote reproductive rights in the context of human rights.

That empowerment framework is about changing or transforming power relations in favour of those who previously exercised little power over their own lives.

Such sharing is central to effective partnerships, now a hallmark of most modern Governments.

Family relations are based on respect, solidarity and absolute equality of rights and responsibilities between men and women.

In 2004 OHCHR has continued to work towards elaborating the linkages between human rights and the Millennium Development Goals.

The power is in the system.

Under power relations, poverty, unemployment and substance abuse rank among the contributing factors to domestic violence.

(c) Provide information on how non military lines of security related authority lead to the head of the Department of Safety and Security

Of course, Thaksin s rule had a dark underside corruption, legislated conflicts of interest, cronyism, human rights violations, and abuse of power, among other evidence of misrule.

In this context, UNHCR has made efforts to systematize its relations with development and human rights actors.

In other countries, UNHCR sought to build national capacities and strengthen partnerships, for instance, through the partnership agreement signed in February 2005 with the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.

(d) Relationship with OHCHR

The problem was a human rights issue.

To facilitate understanding of the text in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Russian , the Spanish term is therefore usually indicated between quotation marks or in parenthesis in the Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Russian versions.

A decentralization policy was being prepared which would define the powers, functions, roles and duties of local authorities and their relationship with the central Government.

We know that without the right of the veto new permanent members would have no impact on the course of events and would be unable to influence the power relationships within the Security Council, which would continue to be dominated by the five existing permanent members.

418. The representative of the State party also stated that section 5 of the Human Rights Act had enhanced the functions and powers of the Human Rights Commission and the Race Relations Conciliator.

10. As a step in that direction, UNHCR had made efforts to systematize relations with its development and human rights partners.

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Building a partnership for human rights

There is a close relationship between land rights and health.

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

B. Links to other human rights treaties and treaty bodies

We should have a full partnership that develops the capacity of women and protects their human rights.

For critics, it was considered essential to avoid, by all means, further institutionalization of current asymmetrical power relations.

And empowerment through employment reducing stigma.

1. Change the orientation of the British overseas territories relationship from what rights the British are willing to give us, to what powers we would wish them to have over us.

These collective or communal rights are to individual economic, social and cultural rights what democracy and the rule of law are to civil and political rights.

Because of economic and cultural factors and power relationships, this minority often excludes women.13

To equalize power relationships in the global setting, regional integration is a strategic imperative.

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The failure to give effect to the right to a remedy is closely linked to impunity and to the systematic or widespread occurrence of violations.

Rights from marriage and marital relations

As indicated in paragraph 105 below, the delegation of authority and decentralization within the system is not yet uniform.

Recognizing that domestic violence against women is, inter alia, a societal problem and a manifestation of unequal power relations between women and men,