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It is also worth noting that by December 2009, 93% of biodiesel producers held the Social Fuel Seal (a certificate issued to biodiesel producers that purchase raw materials from family farmers within minimum limits that vary according to the region), which is, to our knowledge, the only energy- related initiative in the world that promotes small holding family farming. (...) The special rapporteur report does not mention either that biodiesel producers that acquire raw material from family farmers, anywhere in Brazil, are eligible to reduction of up to 68% in federal taxes. If these purchases are made from family-based producers of palm oil in the North Region, or of castor oil in the Northeast and in the Semi-Arid Region, the reduction may reach 100%.

As stipulated in the National Strategy, the Deinstitutionalization is a process of replacing institutional child care with family care or close to family care within the community, without restricting such a process to solely removing children from institutions. (...) The Project ‘I have a Family’ covers actions to decentralize and widen the scope of foster care and develops services in support of foster parents. (...) Since the service onset, a total of 850 foster family applications have been lodged with partner municipalities.

Paragraph 25 With reference to the Rapporteur’s statement ‘family life courses focus narrowly on marriage and family and touch only to a very limited extent on issues of sexuality and procreation, merely promoting abstinence and traditional methods of family planning’ we would like to remind that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights stipulates in Article 16 para 3 that ‘the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State’ (see also comments to Paragraph 26). (...) Referring to the information provided in the Report that the family life courses simply promote abstinence and traditional methods of family planning, it is crucial to notice that the curriculum for the educational course “Family life education” is set in the Regulation of the Minister of National Education and Sport of 26 February 2002 on Core Curricula for the Pre-school Education and General Education in Particular Types of Schools (Journal of Laws, No 51, item 458, as amended). (...) Lectures on formation for family life are conducted by teachers qualified to be employed in the particular kind of school and completed a faculty at the university level in the area of the “Family life education” or post-graduate courses or qualification courses compliant with Programme contents.

Similarly, boys are more likely to be taken out of school by their families due to cultural attitudes to their role in the family. Children from families who migrate to the city face difficulties in securing education due to inadequacy of schools and despite progress made there are still problems with registration requirements.17 35. (...) The Special Rapporteur recalls that in line with the obligation to protect and promote the best interests of the child, efforts should be directed towards enabling the child to remain in or return to the care of his or her parents or extended family, including through tackling the material deprivation of the family or providing alternative family-based care. 37. (...) Additionally, many stateless persons do not approach the authorities to restore or acquire Mongolian nationality, because they fear the stigma of being identified as stateless.

Family farms provide an important source of work. (...) A/HRC/34/48/Add.2 8 GE.17-01233 systems for family use, with the aim of achieving food security for the family” (para. 25 (b)). 34. (...) The families receive US$ 16 a month, on average, the actual amount depending on the composition of the family. The Special Rapporteur appreciates the fact that additional payments are made to family members with light or severe disabilities and to indigenous families (which receive almost US$ 40 a month). 53.

The Center also continued to hold training sessions on employment equality and workers with family responsibilities. The Office further continued to implement the Global Compact management training programme in nine Asian countries, which includes a module on non-discrimination, along with other fundamental rights and principles. (...) As for domestic workers, debt bondage was found only among rural domestic workers, who were predominantly female family members of sharecroppers indebted to landlords. (...) They focus on the ratification and application of four key international labour Conventions for gender equality (discrimination, equal remuneration, maternity protection and workers with family responsibilities), as well as balanced representation of women and men at decision-making levels, including in ILO governance institutions, meetings and training activities. 9.

However, a lack of ante mortem and family blood samples hampers identification. 31. (...) The Working Group, in its recently issued general comment on the right to the truth, noted that in relation to enforced disappearances, the right to know the truth means “the right to know about the progress and results of an investigation, the fate or the whereabouts of the disappeared persons, and the circumstances of the disappearances, and the identity of the A/HRC/19/58/Add.1 12 GE.11-17563 perpetrator(s)”. Family members and family associations should receive greater support to allow them to play a critical role in addressing enforced disappearances issues. 51. (...) Article 19 of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance establishes that “the victims of acts of enforced disappearance and their family shall obtain redress and shall have the right to adequate compensation, including the means for as complete rehabilitation as possible.

Japan does not regularize irregular migrants after a certain period of residence in the country: many have lived in Japan for several years, sometimes for more than 15 or 20 years, and have founded a family with children born and educated in Japan. They live in permanent fear of deportation, which affects their entire family. (...) The only possibility for migrants to acquire a regular status is the “special permission to stay”. (...) In the case of Noriko Calderon, the Immigration Bureau ordered the deportation of the entire family. Thereafter, it conceded special permission to stay to the child only, allowing her to continue her studies under the care of an appropriate custodian.

Turkey, which now occupies a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council, ought to acquire a better understanding of and abide by the provisions of relevant SC resolutions, in particular those referring to the “secessionist acts in the occupied part of the Republic of Cyprus” (UNSC resolution 550). (...) A violation of the right of Greek Cypriots living in northern Cyprus to respect for their private and family life and to respect for their home, as guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention. 12.

On April 14, 2011, the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan conducted study workshops on the topic “Combating violence against children” in Baku European lyceum. (...) A film festival titled “The Azerbaijan family - 2011” was organized with support of the project “Combating violence against women in the 21st century” by the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the UN Population Fund. Furthermore, lectures were organized for parents of underage IDP and refugee children by the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs, the parents were informed about urgent topics like preservation of national-moral values, family culture, inter-generation relations parent-child relations, establishment of mutual relationship between teachers and parents, family problems and the ways of their solution.