Its role is fundamentally normative.

Operational activities in support of normative principles

General normative framework for the protection of human rights

Sometimes there was a gap in the normative framework.

That term should not be confused with the concepts of auto normative acts (imposing obligations on the author) and hetero normative acts (imposing obligations on other States).

This type of normative approach actually presents forced and repeated marriages.

There may be cases in which the organization's power to bind member States through its decisions is accompanied by elements that ensure enforcement of those decisions, so that normative control would correspond in substance to factual control.

One can even say that the European Union has slowly become a normative force in the world in reaction to the evolution of America s power. Europe has long known that it could never balance America in the realm of hard power but, with the decline of America s soft power, it became more important than ever to incarnate the humane and law abiding face of the West.

16. Calls upon UN Habitat to strengthen efforts to coordinate and implement its normative and operational activities through the enhanced normative and operational framework elaborated in the medium term strategic and institutional plan, reinforcing its normative activities, and invites all countries in a position to do so to support the activities of UN Habitat in this regard

Staff of the regional offices are contributing to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

It had eventually been decided to take a descriptive rather than a normative approach.

Efforts to establish criteria necessarily mean developing sets of normative statements about administrative operation.

The Division for Treaty Affairs carries out most of the normative functions of UNODC.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

Strengthening linkages between the normative work of the United Nations system and its operational activities

The regional offices are also expected to contribute to the normative activities of UN Habitat.

Strengthening linkages between the normative work of the United Nations system and its operational activities

In 1999, UN Habitat adopted a strategic vision that sought to balance normative and operational activities.

A merely normative treaty would not serve the combined purposes of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

The concept of control would then have to be widened so as to encompass normative control.

As such, they are subject to the general principle of publicity of normative acts, usually enshrined in the Constitution and further elaborated in the administrative law, under which to be legally binding a normative act has to be published in the specified media.

It only arose in rare cases in a normative sense as a claim about regional lex specialis.

UN Habitat is bringing the use of such expertise into the mainstream throughout its normative and operational activities.

In larger freedom proposes a range of measures to strengthen the normative basis for State and human security.

The commissions were also actively enhancing the linkages between their operational activities and their normative and analytical work.

In most jurisdictions reviewed, such an obligation is implicit, as amendments to normative acts are not effective until published.

(d) Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances.

11. Requests the Secretary General to continue providing summary records of the Commission's meetings relating to the formulation of normative texts

E. Contribution of the normative activities of the UN Habitat to the achievement of goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals

In her view, a three pronged approach was required normative standards legislative and executive implementation and remedies for inadequacies in implementation.

Nevertheless, the growing acceptance of a normative international framework and standards for women's empowerment has the potential to promote gender equality.

Pursuant to Governing Council resolution 19 10, entitled Urban rural linkages and sustainable urbanization , the Programme has pursued normative and operational activities.

Further promotion and implementation of the Convention and all other international normative instruments that promote women's human rights remain a top priority.

Implementing the objectives and principles will require strategies that address both internal and external functions as well as normative and operational concerns.

Of course the political agendas in the world has been very obsessed, polarizing the two against each other into different, very normative ideas.

12. Requests the Secretary General to continue providing summary records of the meetings of the Commission relating to the formulation of normative texts

11. Requests the Secretary General to continue providing summary records of the meetings of the Commission relating to the formulation of normative texts

While there had been an excellent cooperative effort to develop a normative framework for human rights, there had been shortfalls in their implementation.

For instance, in Chile, the official procurement website offers the Normative Orientation Service (Servicio Orientación Formativa) that provides legal advice on procurement rules.

14.5 The Committee notes that the existing normative framework related to the teaching of the CKREE subject contains internal tensions or even contradictions.

Given the history of Western colonialism in Asia, the desire to maintain a distinct identity is both legitimate and understandable, as is the belief in many Asian countries first and foremost China that the time has come to settle old scores. But the effort to preserve one s power, the need for a distinct Asian identity, and the desire to settle historical scores will not solve the normative question raised by China s emergence as the century s dominant power.

The proposal would place the thematic debate under the normative segment of the agenda, instead of as a stand alone item of the agenda.

We have established a comprehensive normative framework with core human rights treaties, historic declarations and decades of jurisprudence from treaty bodies and international tribunals.

(d) It is essential that technical assistance measures in support of efforts to counter terrorism take account of these normative aspects as integral elements.

This will be achieved by complementing normative activities with the provision of technical assistance, including advisory services, to member countries and civil society institutions.