Constitutional reform proposals for Gibraltar had been tabled in December 2003.

Constitutional reform proposals for Gibraltar had been tabled in December 2003.

Constitutional reform proposals for Gibraltar had been tabled in December 2003.

Constitutional reform proposals for Gibraltar had been tabled in December 2003.

Support had been provided to constitutional reform in Mexico, and OHCHR had advised the Iraqi constitutional commission on international human rights standards.

The first meeting to discuss constitutional reform proposals for Gibraltar took place on 1 December 2004.

Noting the continuation of the conduct of the constitutional and electoral reform review process in the Territory,

Constitutional reform proposals for Gibraltar had been submitted in December 2003. Dates had not yet been set for formal talks.16

Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen reminded the Working Group that his thematic topic of this year was the subject of implementation of constitutional reform and laws.

Extensive negotiations and public consultations in relation to constitutional reform and modernization have been carried out in St. Helena over the past five years.

With Constitutional Amendment No. 45, which addresses Judicial Reform, the State Public Defender's Offices became functionally and administratively autonomous, no longer dependent on the States.

Taking note of the constitutional review process resumed by the territorial Government in 2006, the work of the newly established Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission, which prepared its report in August 2006, and the holding of public and other consultative meetings in 2007 on proposed constitutional amendments to be presented to the administering Power,

The Governor indicated, in his 2004 Christmas message, that he wished to re invigorate the discussion of constitutional and electoral reform after the elections in 2005.1

On 6 July 1998, the French Parliament passed, by 827 votes to 31, a constitutional reform that inserted two articles, 76 and 77, into the Constitution.

In June 1999, Gibraltar's House of Assembly set up a Select Committee on constitutional reform and on 27 February 2002 formally adopted a report on the matter.

With regard to constitutional reform, he said that a specific timetable could not be established until the All Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution had submitted its report.

It was not easy for Mexico to become a State party. It required a complex process of constitutional reform, which in turn entailed a very broad debate within our society.

Constitutional Amendment No. 45, approved in December 2004 and published in the Official Union Daily on the 31st of the same month, deals with the reform of the Judicial Power.

CEDAW Committee Recommendation No. 1 exhorts State Parties to strive for the full application of the Convention and constitutional guarantees through broad legislative reform to provide for equality of rights.

Within the framework of the White Paper, the Anguilla Committee for Constitutional and Electoral Reform, appointed in 2001, pursued its work throughout 2002 and 2003, but ground to a halt in 2004.

He firmly believed that any attempt by the Government of the United Kingdom to determine or constrain the constitutional and electoral reform process would not be in line with United Nations mandates.

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It was also reported that the President of Mexico submitted to Congress in March 2004 a proposal, in the context of constitutional reform, to remove the death penalty from the military penal code.

Desiring a system of government that would give more responsibility to locally elected representatives, the government of St. Helena entered into discussions with the United Kingdom and engaged the services of an independent constitutional adviser, Ms. Alison Quentin Baxter, to assist with examining options for constitutional reform and drafting a new constitution for the Territory.

Criminal and constitutional complaints up to the level of the Constitutional Court were unsuccessful.

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The 2008 constitutional reform finally recognized this possibility. But a double filter of safeguards was established the jurisdiction before which the matter is brought, and the competent Supreme Court either the Council of State Conseil d État or the Final Court of Appeal which has three months to decide whether to refer a case to the Constitutional Council.

The reform has allowed the Constitutional Council to reconsider a whole set of laws that had never before been submitted for constitutional review, mainly because they were drafted prior to 1958. One of the most emblematic decisions concerned the code of criminal procedure, with the Council repealing several articles concerning the legal custody of defendants inside police stations.

1. Welcomes the establishment of a new Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission in 2006, with the aim of making recommendations to the administering Power on proposed changes to the Constitution in place in the Territory

Thaksin may be no saint, and some constitutional reform will be needed if political reconciliation is to come about. But Thaksin s governments, like that of his sister, have kept China at one remove from influence.

There are also other pressing priorities that were not part of the transition programme, including constitutional reform, economic recovery, poverty reduction and the provision of basic services such as water and electricity, which will require attention.

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Promote the protection of and respect for human rights of women and children in all policies and programmes in support of constitutional, judicial and legislative reform, including truth and reconciliation and electoral processes in conformity with international norms.

The executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, universities, non governmental organizations and civil society as a whole participated in the debates held to set the stage, first, for constitutional reform and, secondly, for ratification of the Statute.

On 26 May 2004, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, met with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Peter Caruana, for preliminary talks on the local constitutional reform proposals and on the mechanism for taking the process forward.

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