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The high level of mutual trust inherent at regular meetings of the main SCO bodies — the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government (prime ministers) and the Council of Foreign Ministers — promotes political A/76/598 21-19644 5/25 dialogue, adopts coordinated decisions on all aspects of the Organisation's activities and promotes effective interaction among its members. The Member States consider it important to enhance contacts and cooperation through legislative bodies and to share experience in public administration and development. (...) In this context, the SCO Member States have established effective cooperation and appropriate mechanisms for interaction among them. (...) The Member States will continue effective cooperation on border issues, including joint border operations, as well as exchange of information on individuals involved in terrorist activities, and will jointly investigate transnational terrorist crimes through effective border control in order to prevent the activities of and border crossing by foreign terrorists and terrorist groups.

The workshop was convened as part of the efforts of the Working Group to draw lessons from experts and practitioners on access to effective judicial and non-judicial remedy. 2. The purpose of the workshop was to explore emerging global experience from States, business and other stakeholders on non-judicial grievance mechanisms and access to effective remedy. (...) At the workshop, participants discussed whether common elements of effective remedy outcomes could be identified. 28. (...) Participants discussed the need to ensure effective access to appropriate mechanisms and avoid duplication.

I. Achievements and experience in China’s implementation of the Millennium Development Goals A. (...) A/71/565 16-18596 5/45 B. Development experience China’s experience in achieving the MDGs can be summed up as follows: – Taking development as the top priority and consistently introducing new development thoughts and concepts. (...) It will also take targeted efforts to build a comprehensive, scientific, effective and law- based government administration system.

It is important to build institutional capacity, experience and practice, pursue de-monopolization, increase investment capacity and produce qualified specialists. (...) Panelists from different parts of the world with extensive experience in addressing sanitation issues at various levels shared their experience, the challenges encountered and their views on the way forward to achieve target 6.2. (...) In recognition of these outcomes, UNDP pledges that it will build on its five decades of experience supporting countries to achieve their development goals.

As set out in the background paper, the right to an effective remedy entails both substantive and procedural obligations for States. (...) These small awards highlighted the challenges posed in compensation cases in many countries whereby the majority of those being prosecuted for trafficking tend to be lower-level agents such as recruiters or transporters who have limited assets against which to claim. The experience of Belarus also exemplified other trends found in some countries, such as the large proportion of compensation cases brought through criminal proceedings and the difficulty for civil society groups to obtain disaggregated trafficking-related data and statistics for use in advocating for more effective remedies. (...) It was noted, for example, that in which the way many States had translated their international obligations into domestic legal frameworks had had the effect of impairing many trafficked persons’ right to an effective remedy, including by excluding entire categories of trafficked persons from even the possibility of being recognized as such.

Investigation, prosecution and punishment .................................................... 62–68 15 D. Provision of effective redress, including reparations...................................... 69–71 17 E. (...) The fear of social exclusion and marginalization, and the lack of effective responses to violence, keeps them in a context of continuous violence and intimidation. 9. (...) National human rights institutions are crucial to promoting and monitoring the effective implementation of legislation and the State’s obligations under both national and international law.

This can hamper swift, effective civilian protection and create an “interoperability” problem of diver- gent attitudes among troop/police contributing countries (TCCs/PCCs) to violence against women in security settings (...) One partici- pant with experience of firewood patrols in Darfur stated: “If you want me to fly, first give me wings; then you can say whether I flew well.” (...) Support at the highest levels should be given to effective, path-breaking responses to women’s protection needs.

The Baku International Conferences of the Ombudsmen that are held every year on June 18 – National Day of Human Rights, are also good grounds to share experience, knowledge and opinions. The actual and important issues are raised in these conferences for the discussions with the ombudsmen of different countries, the representatives of relevant state bodies, independent experts NGO as well as mass media. (...)  Ombudsman Institute is the effective tool for implementation of the international mechanisms. (...) I would like to say that the establishment of the Ombudsman Institute in Azerbaijan made significant contribution to the protection and promotion of Human Rights, in forming of the effective public administration that changed the approach to the human rights issues in a better way.

The effective exercise of national responsibility requires undertaking or at least facilitating efforts to access, assist and protect these IDPs. (...) Such campaigns will be most effective when they are developed in consultation with civil society and displaced communities. (...) A national policy on internal displacement will be most effective when developed in full consultation with IDP communities.

Another perspective shared by a participant was on the experience of the national human rights institution in Ghana and its function as a quasi-judicial mechanism. (...) Suggestions for addressing those gaps included making an A/HRC/29/28/Add.2 GE.15-07042 10 effective national legal system a criterion for accessing international funds. (...) However, it was also underlined that such mechanisms were only effective when people were aware of them and trusted them.