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Italy’s Delegation Highlights Progressive Programmes in Countering Criticism of Negative Attitudes towards Women by Anti-discrimination Committee

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Italy’s Delegation Highlights Progressive Programmes in Countering Criticism of Negative Attitudes towards Women by Anti-discrimination Committee

Strongly criticized today for harbouring negative stereotypes of women and discriminatory attitudes toward immigrants and minorities, Italian officials countered by describing their country’s recent enactment of robust and progressive programmes on both fronts, as the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women took up Italy’s sixth periodic report.

Ethiopian Delegation, Presenting Report to Anti-Discrimination Committee, Defends Record in Combating Customs that Harm Women, Improving Conditions for Refugees

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Ethiopian Delegation, Presenting Report to Anti-Discrimination Committee, Defends Record in Combating Customs that Harm Women, Improving Conditions for Refugees

Defending Ethiopia’s track record in combating harmful traditional practices, improving “degrading” humanitarian conditions in refugee camps and enforcing a law that restricted the provision of humanitarian services to local charities, officials presenting their country’s combined sixth and seventh periodic reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women said today that the Government was doing its best to live up to its domestic and international obligations.

Security Council 1988 Committee Deletes 14 Entries from Its Sanctions List

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Security Council 1988 Committee Deletes 14 Entries from Its Sanctions List

On 15 July 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the deletion of the 14 entries specified below from the Committee’s List (the 1988 List). The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1988 (2011) therefore no longer apply to the following individuals:

Restoring Order Key to National Reconciliation, Economic Recovery, All Other Tasks in Côte d’Ivoire, Special Representative Tells Security Council

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Restoring Order Key to National Reconciliation, Economic Recovery, All Other Tasks in Côte d’Ivoire, Special Representative Tells Security Council

While efforts to achieve national reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire, prepare for legislative elections later this year and make headway on economic recovery were moving in the right direction, a rapid restoration of law and order was of “primordial” importance in ensuring that all other tasks could be carried out, Choi Young-jin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, told the Security Council today.
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