However, where a violation has continuing effect , the Committee has at times examined events that predate a state party's accession to the Optional Protocol.

In fact, indigenous communities have unbreakable bonds of relationship with nature as well as ancient wisdom that predate the organization of global nation states.

For example, these fish predate on sea urchins, and when the fish were all gone, all anyone ever saw underwater was just acres and acres of sea urchins.

In addition to Act No. 80 of 2002, which codifies the said provisions, a number of Egyptian laws that predate that Convention contain provisions which match those of the Convention.

Theoretically, the Constitution confirms the primacy of constitutional laws over all other laws, but in practice this does not always happen because there still exist old laws that predate the Constitution of 1990, based in the inherited Portuguese system of colonial rule.