China has both enacted specific legislation and supplemented existing laws.

Ensuring that effective legislation is enacted prohibiting discrimination against women.

Examples were given, referring to legislation enacted in South Africa, Venezuela and Panama.

Each Australian state and territory has enacted, or has agreed to enact, corresponding legislation.

National legislation had been enacted to prevent domestic violence and trafficking in women and children.

Legislation had been enacted to eliminate discrimination against women in access to credit, including mortgage loans.

The law of the British Virgin Islands is the common law of England and locally enacted legislation.

Even before UNSCR 1373, Palau had enacted legislation which made it an offence to possess firearms or ammunition.

Agreements with each European Union member State are being signed and implementing legislation will be enacted in the Territory.

Labour legislation is usually enacted at the federal level, but the responsibility for enforcing it falls on the provinces.

Since the submission of our previous report, Israel has enacted several pieces of legislation aimed at eliminating discrimination against women.

Having heard about Ghana's approach, he was now convinced that legislation could be enacted even before the population was sensitized.

It is theoretically possible that the later Commonwealth legislation inconsistent with the Act could be enacted by the Commonwealth Parliament.

Those international instruments were adopted in the framework of the Council of Europe and were enacted in our national legislation in 2002.

Ireland had enacted strong legislation criminalizing domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, stalking and harassment and other forms of violence against women.

The law of Anguilla is the common law of the United Kingdom, together with all legislation inherited from the former Associated State of Saint Kitts Nevis Anguilla up to August 1971 and the local legislation enacted since that date.

It had also enacted legislation on adoption and on domestic violence. Women also benefited from the Childhood and Adolescence Code adopted in 2001, a new Agrarian Act and legislation modifying the pensions and retirement regime of the Social Provident Administration (IPS).

However, efforts will need to be redoubled to ensure that all outstanding legislation is enacted and to create the enabling political environment for the conduct of these operations.

The CLOUT system relies on national correspondents designated by States that have become parties to an UNCITRAL convention or that have enacted legislation based on an UNCITRAL model law.

When the nationality legislation was first enacted, the chief concern of its drafters had been to ensure that every child had a nationality and that no one was left stateless.

Some speakers indicated that new legislation had been enacted after completion of the questionnaire and that they would avail themselves of the opportunity to submit updated information in the subsequent questionnaire.

The implementation dates for the Pay Equity Agreements were also agreed through negotiation, but subsequently, in 1991, legislation was enacted to delay the start of the implementation from 1988 to 1991.

Furthermore, legislation had been enacted to implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution as well as the Millennium Declaration to help the indigenous peoples of Venezuela to exercise fully their rights.

Zimbabwe had significantly curtailed freedom of speech and association and freedom of the press in total disregard for human rights, and had enacted repressive legislation at odds with its own constitution.

Legislation had been enacted to strengthen the special rights of indigenous peoples to social, economic and cultural development and defend their traditional habitat and way of life and use of natural resources.

Bankruptcy legislation in China started right after Deng Xiaoping launched his pro market reforms three decades ago. The Law on Enterprise Bankruptcy (Trial Implementation), the first of its kind, was enacted in 1986.

States that have become parties to a convention or have enacted legislation based on a model law since the preparation of the last report are shown in bold letters in the respective list.

Nobody under 18 could be recruited into the army in Myanmar, which had enacted legislation, established a high level committee and drawn up a plan of action to prevent and monitor recruitment of child soldiers.

When Abe became Prime Minister almost three years ago, he vowed to restore Japan s standing as a first tier country by implementing an economic stimulus package, dubbed Abenomics, and reinterpreting Japan s constitution to stiffen the country s defense posture. But, whereas Abenomics was enacted quickly, the Diet enacted the defense legislation only recently and after more than a year of effort.

Religious law undeniably discriminated against women, but legislation had been enacted to try and mitigate its effects, for example, by allowing rabbinical courts to impose prison sentences on men who refused to grant divorces to their wives.

Legislation enacted in 2000 is intended to ensure that every Pitcairn Islander is entitled to an allocation of house, garden, orchard and forestry land sufficient to meet their needs for as long as they live on Pitcairn.

It is particularly concerned that no specific legislation has been enacted to combat domestic violence and sexual harassment and that no protection or exclusion orders or shelters exist for the immediate protection of women victims of domestic violence .

However, the Committee is concerned about the effective implementation of the existing laws and that in some cases newly enacted legislation does not fully reflect the principles and provisions of the Convention or other international human rights standards.

That has not been Uganda s experience. In 2009, under pressure from the aid community, the government enacted what was billed at the time as the best anti corruption legislation in the world and yet all corruption indicators have continued to worsen.

Legislation to remove the defense of honour in regard to the assault or murder of a female family member. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2004 has been enacted specifically to combat so called honour killings (see para 25, Chapter XV).

The Act respecting parental insurance was enacted in 2001.

Laws enacted in Pakistan cannot contravene these Constitutional provisions.

Had it been enacted since the report was published?

Notwithstanding the above, the majority of reporting States (80 per cent) had enhanced their legal framework, having in place precursor control legislation, and 60 per cent had enacted new or revised laws, compared with 55 per cent in the second reporting period.

In general, States continued to enhance their legal framework, with 80 per cent of States reporting having in place precursor control legislation and 60 per cent having enacted new or revised laws, compared with 55 per cent in the second reporting period.

To this end, Law No. 9 was enacted in 1995.

Until the government adopted the necessary constitutional amendment and enacted the associated enabling legislation, Mexico s energy sector was entirely state owned. The sector s most important component, Pemex, owned all of Mexico s oil and gas reserves, and was exclusively responsible for exploration, production, and retail distribution.

Just as Europe s ethnic makeup has been changing, so have its laws. In 2000, the EU s executive arm responding in part to the growing popularity of anti immigrant and neo Nazi political parties enacted the most far reaching anti discrimination legislation in the world.

Although a number of countries had enacted legislation and developed national strategies against violence, fewer than 20 per cent of the Organization's Member States were party to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Legislation was enacted and a national road safety agency was established, whose task was to update comprehensive regulations and create a registry to obtain detailed information on the causes of collisions and crashes, with the aim of reducing the number of accidents to a minimum.