Minorities and self determination and autonomy

8. The Home Rule Act provides that the Home Rule Authority may request that a number of fields specified in a Schedule annexed to the Act be transferred to Home Rule.

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The seminar will also assess the situation in the Non Self Governing Territories,b in particular their constitutional evolution towards self government and self determination, with a view to developing, in cooperation with the administering Powers and the representatives of the Non Self Governing Territories, a constructive programme of work on a case by case basis for the decolonization of the Non Self Governing Territories.

The seminar will also assess the situation in the Non Self Governing Territories, in particular their constitutional evolution towards self government and self determination, with a view to developing, in cooperation with the administering Powers and the representatives of the Non Self Governing Territories, a constructive programme of work on a case by case basis for the decolonization of the Non Self Governing Territories.

CARICOM continued to promote the integration of the Caribbean Non Self Governing Territories into the Community and other regional and international organizations as that engagement prepared them for assuming full self government.

Their elevation from political dependency to full self government was fundamental to the regional integration process.

However, those mechanisms should not reflect political or discretionary considerations.

Peace and stability go hand in hand with human rights, the rule of law and freedom of the media.

(iii) The president of a community (gmina) board (the board of a union of communities) on behalf of self government entities.

Wouldn't it be great if we could actually harness the power of our bodies, to actually heal ourselves?

Since 1998, we have enhanced our political institutions through constitutional amendments.

Ms. Heather Latu (Samoa) pointed out that Samoan villages were self governing entities.

Circumstances unique to the situation of each particular Non Self Governing Territory should be considered.

One way the United Nations can support countries seeking self government is to encourage the development of free institutions.

In her view, there was a need to make provision for the legal entitlement of autonomy due to its expanding use as a tool to accommodate minority issues.

The development of the autonomous states as provided for in the Constitution has led to the establishment of a network of specific autonomous institutions for women which have in many cases produced their own plans for equality.

Indigenous communities enjoyed a whole range of rights and prerogatives which protected their existence as legal entities and their autonomy in respect of organization, communal work and the free use of their lands.

Thirdly, would a recognition of an entitlement to autonomy lead to unacceptable demands on the part of minorities?

Incidentally, such a combination of attitudes is something that has to be learnt in politics, and that is especially true with respect to the CIS.

5) self government

with specific provisions elaborating on freedom of the press and access to the media, freedom of association, freedom of expression and political activity, as well as freedom of movement and residence. Ibid., Protocol III, sects. I III.

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While autonomy was increasingly being offered as a means to achieve that end, it was emphasized that there was not as yet a firm legal entitlement to autonomy in all instances of territorially compact minorities, although an indigenous identity might imply a collective legal personality and be expressed in an entitlement to territorial autonomy.

Secondly, does the debate about autonomy represent a departure from the view that minority rights are individual rights rather than collective entitlements?

Acceptance of autonomy as a tool for managing diversity did not necessarily imply recognition of a collective legal identity of minority groups.

7. Greenland Home Rule is an extensive type of self government.

We have continued to support the efforts of the Provisional Institutions of Self Government to coordinate and strengthen institutional capacity building.

12. The Danish subsidies to the Home Rule Authority are not earmarked for specific purposes but granted as a lump sum.

States are invited to criminalize a set of specific acts according to their own legal systems and traditions.

First one is the political system.

The general political structure

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Those processes must now be linked together as part of a unified framework for development, within a system which translated those policy development processes into concrete realities in terms of the operational activities of the United Nations system.

By the Greenland Home Rule Act the Danish Parliament has delegated legislative and executive powers to the Home Rule Authority, consisting of a popularly elected legislative assembly the Greenland Home Rule Parliament (Landsting) and the Greenland Home Rule Government (Landsstyre).

Since the break up of the Soviet Union, Belarus has been undergoing profound political, economic and social change.

During the period under review a number of autonomous regional, local and federal cultural entities have been established.

The autonomy can be territorial, cultural and local, and can be more or less extensive.

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Municipalities

Autonomous communities

C. The justice system and the rule of law

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We are not a political group.