Law Reform and Development Commission, Report on Domestic Violence, December 2000

These are all priority areas for domestic reform and international assistance, especially technical cooperation.

Inadequate, outdated legislation on domestic violence. A new legislation or legal reform is underway and this will incorporate more efficient measures against violence, particularly domestic violence.

This divergence in the domestic terms of trade in comparison with movements in world prices existed during the pre reform years as well as the reform years.

However, domestic capital market development requires wide ranging reform and achieving coherence between the policies is not easy.

Nonetheless, it still faced major challenges, such as stagnation in domestic investment and reform of the tax system.

Thus, a domestic strategy of institutional reform, among other things, must complement the external strategy of opening up.

It has submitted to Parliament proposals for the revision of the Penal Code, including the Domestic Violence and Constitutional Reform Act.

The Committee welcomes the Family Law and Domestic Violence Reform Initiative, involving a comprehensive review of all laws to ensure compliance with the Convention.

Thanks to competent and accountable domestic management and wise supervision by the Executive Intelligence Committee, intelligence reform progressed substantially during the period under review.

The topics covered in the responses included national anti corruption programmes, domestic legislation and reform plans, institutional arrangements and relevant international legal instruments ratified.

The reform process of agricultural protection, which comprises also the reduction of subsidies and domestic protection, should therefore be pursued intensively and rapidly concluded.

While the draft resolution was quite specific in its call for reform of the international system, it barely mentioned domestic policy requirements for poverty eradication.

Carefully implemented liberalization and reform measures, when complemented by sound domestic policy and a favourable international environment, could have the same result in other countries.

It showed that domestic policy reform was a necessary condition for successful commodity diversification, but it had to be accompanied by a supportive international environment.

Proper tariff reduction would be beneficial to accelerating the balanced development of foreign trade, promoting the higher level opening to the outside world, overall planning and using the international and domestic resources, and boosting the domestic supply side structural reform.

A reform of the law on evidence should take into account the possibility of eliminating obstacles to a spouse providing testimony against another spouse on domestic violence.

One speaker called on the United Nations to promote the reform of domestic criminal law to ensure that the basic rights and principles in penal law were included.

Moves toward increased exchange rate flexibility in China and other Asian countries, supported by financial sector reform, will have domestic and global benefits. Emerging market countries elsewhere have made considerable reform progress of late, but they must sustain the momentum to guard against potential shocks.

Greater domestic resource mobilization, action against fiscal indiscipline, sound policies to encourage private sector participation, dynamic administration, fiscal and monetary reform and increased domestic capacity achieved through building up sound oversight institutions and better expenditure management may work as effective tools to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Supporting national Governments in their efforts to strengthen domestic judicial structures and undertake security sector reform is central to anchoring protection gains made during the crisis and ensuring their sustainability.

Also, while it was important to reform existing laws, public awareness campaigns were also needed to combat domestic violence, which should be viewed with the same seriousness as other crimes.

Entrusted domestic broadcasting Entrusted domestic and overseas broadcasting.

. Initiatives of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy contributed to efforts to combat domestic violence through the development of a training curriculum for criminal justice professionals.

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Perhaps the most promising reform is corporate tax reduction, which will help Japan boost both foreign and domestic investment. By spurring increased business activity, it will actually increase Japan s corporate tax revenue.

Preconditions for ensuring development gains include measures aimed at the appropriate sequencing of reform, domestic supply capacity building and increased competitiveness, and universal access by all, especially the poorest, to essential services.

This evolving new thrust of aid reflects a much greater understanding and recognition of the conditions of aid effectiveness and of what works and what does not work in domestic policy reform.

There is the need to establish a national law reform commission to, among other things, ensure that domestic laws are brought in line with international instruments to which Liberia is a party.

Most speakers also reported on legislative measures, including provisions on criminalization, or on ongoing or planned law reform aimed at ensuring the consistency of domestic legislation with the requirements of the Protocol.

Moreover, despite the obvious reform fatigue of Latin American electorates, the debtor countries had engaged in a substantial measure of reform. Before the Brady Plan was announced, Mexico had accepted a wide ranging Pact of Economic Solidarity and Growth, which immediately improve investor confidence and reduced sky high domestic interest rates.

Developing countries, for their part, must fulfil their commitments to mobilize domestic resources, reform institutions to respond to national priorities and adopt effective, nationally owned economic and social policies to spur economic growth.

Since human resources are the most underutilized domestic resource, policies to encourage investment in human capital and medium term policies to ensure employment should be a priority of macroeconomic and structural reform policies.

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