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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A number of recently enacted laws have assisted in the battle against trafficking.

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.

There are no laws that have been specifically enacted to prevent Al Qaida activities.

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.

As indicated previously, I have already enacted a policy of zero tolerance towards such offences.

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.

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.

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.

Thus far, six countries have passed new anti terrorism legislation and at least another 16 have draft legislation in progress.

In that connection, she suggested that legislation should be enacted to ensure that political parties respected the principle of non discrimination and enquired whether it would be possible to introduce an electoral list system whereby women and men would have an equal chance of being elected to office.

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.

While noting the explanation offered by the State party, the Committee is concerned at the apparent haste with which the legislation was enacted and that insufficient consideration may have been given to alternative responses to the Ngati Apa decision, which might have accommodated Maori rights within a framework more acceptable to both the Maori and all other New Zealanders.

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.

Welcoming also the fact that a growing number of States and other entities, as well as regional and subregional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, have enacted legislation, established regulations, adopted conventions or taken other measures as steps towards implementation of the provisions of the Agreement, even before its entry into force,

The second reason that a million US women have filed for bankruptcy is that legislation enacted in 2005 now pits individual women who can t afford costly legal advice against credit card companies in terms of who gets paid first when ex husbands owe delinquent credit card payments and child support payments.

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).

I have enacted a policy of zero tolerance towards such offences, which applies to all personnel engaged in United Nations operations.