Nevertheless, the Commission requires the Sub Commission to address urgent situations.

Developments in CERD included the appointment of a five member working group to consider situations under its early warning and urgent action procedures.

(j) UNICEF systematically integrates its commitments to respond to the urgent needs of children, women and families in emergency situations throughout its programming and operations.

The urgent need to maintain peace and security in post conflict situations and achieve long term sustainable social and economic development must be addressed appropriately.

The urgent need to maintain peace and security in post conflict situations and to achieve long term sustainable social and economic development must be addressed appropriately.

The Human Rights Council should be a standing body able to respond swiftly and effectively to urgent human rights situations and questions.

(v) Address any matters or situations related to the promotion and protection of human rights, including urgent human rights situations, and make recommendations thereon to the Member States and provide policy recommendations to the United Nations system

(v) Address any matters or situations related to the promotion and protection of human rights, including urgent or continuous human rights situations, make recommendations thereon to the Member States and provide policy recommendations to the United Nations system

A greater human rights field presence during times of crisis would provide timely information to United Nations bodies and, when necessary, draw urgent attention to situations requiring action.

The Human Rights Council could benefit from the timely participation of special procedures, including through interactive dialogue addressing follow up and drawing attention to situations requiring urgent action.

Since 1 January 2005, he has been asked to examine worrying situations in various countries has sent, either alone or in conjunction with other special rapporteurs, 48 urgent appeals to the Governments of 27 countries and five letters of allegation to the Governments of five countries and has issued 11 press releases concerning the situations in 12 countries.

It was also proposed that the Council should have the ability to alert the Security Council in urgent situations, which would be facilitated by establishing an office in New York for sustained communications with the Security Council.

Third, the Commission's mandate should be limited to post conflict situations, and especially to meeting direct and urgent needs in the areas of rehabilitation, reintegration, reconstruction, national reconciliation, and in particular the strengthening of institutional and human capacities.

Recognizing that reconciliation processes are particularly necessary and urgent in countries and regions of the world which have suffered or are suffering situations of conflict that have affected and divided societies in their various internal, national and international facets,

Many participants voiced the view that the Council should be guided in its actions and decisions by the reports and findings of the special procedures, including with regard to responses to urgent situations, and systematically involved in follow up strategies.

It should define the urgent and exceptional situations in which it can be compelled to do so, and ensure that in such cases the points of view of all Member States are heard and taken into consideration in the decision making process.

In addition, the Commission has the capacity to meet in extraordinary session if a majority of members agree this capacity should be retained by the Human Rights Council, the envisioned format of which would facilitate consideration of urgent situations outside the framework of ordinary sessions.

After expressing his delegation's regret, as it did every year, about the deaths of men and women committed to the humanitarian cause, he said that although many refugees had gone home in 2004, especially in Africa and Asia, and others were preparing to do so before the end of the year, there was no reason for complacency nearly 40 protracted refugee situations required urgent attention, and new crisis situations had emerged.

And the fourth is people underestimate risks in situations they do control and overestimate them in situations they don't control.

Violence against children in work situations.

Groups of countries in special situations

Situations of human rights in Cuba

Some of the abuses described in this report may be reproduced they may be perpetrated in situations other than conflict situations.

Mr. Hussain (Pakistan) said that, while in the long term empowerment of women and the elimination of gender inequality should resolve the problem of violence against women, it was urgent to also expose the horrific current abuses in situations where the rights of millions to women were being violated.

Expresses its resolve to strengthen and refine its anti racial discrimination early warning and urgent action as well as follow up procedures in all situations where indications of possible violent conflict and genocide prevail in such cases, it will consider in country visits to obtain first hand information on the situation

While this may be useful in some situations, the general application of this in all situations, would, in our view, be counter productive.

There is an urgent demand for justice in Haiti.

Protecting children in situations of armed conflict

I'm always imagining myself in different situations.

Women in Peacekeeping and Conflict Situations Taskforce

Nationality is lost in the following situations

Protecting children in situations of armed conflicts

In urgent situations, a body which has received a communication alleging a human rights violation may, after receipt of a communication and before adopting its views, request a State party to take certain interim measures to avoid irreparable damage to the victim of the alleged violation.

Countries emerging from such situations are generally faced with the urgent need to rehabilitate or reconstruct damaged essential socio economic infrastructure, such as that pertaining to the supply of food, provision of repair and maintenance services, and immediate generation of employment.

It also supported the drafting of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which was of a particularly urgent nature, given that conflict situations often arose from a failure to respect those vital rights.

There was therefore an urgent need to give the Committee on Contributions inputs that reflected the situations and concerns of Member States so that it would be able to present, at the next session, a scale of assessments acceptable to all.

But they are not applicable in all situations.

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Item 8. Groups of countries in special situations

The European Union agrees that it is important and urgent to establish a systematic and comprehensive monitoring, reporting and compliance mechanism to provide systematic, reliable and accurate information on child rights violations in situations of armed conflict using the experience of United Nations peacekeeping missions and country teams.

Protracted situations

The situation is, at least in the case of Tuvalu, urgent.

Nevertheless, some issues requiring urgent attention were postponed in this exercise.

(e) The Security Council is able, in the context of situations referred to in subparagraph (d) above, to consider establishing working groups to consider such situations