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In 2001, the National Coordination Committee to Prevent, Address and Eradicate the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children was established; it is headed by DIF. (...) Mention should also be made of the Programme to Prevent, Address and Eradicate the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, under the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family. (...) They are then reunited with their families and referred to assistance programmes in order to prevent the recurrence of such migration, which carries a high risk for children’s integrity.

This would enable the Special Rapporteur to recommend to the Government a number of measures to be adopted in order to comply with its commitment to prevent and suppress acts of torture and other forms of ill-treatment. 2. (...) The main limitation of the Protocol was that it did not prevent or clarify the most frequent allegations of ill-treatment, including deprivation of sleep, threats, questioning without lawyers, etc. (...) Because of its past, Spain’s institutions had created the necessary safeguards to prevent such violations and would deal with any perpetrators appropriately.

Finally, it has ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. (...) Sri Lanka has committed to addressing contemporary forms of slavery in recent years and the Government has taken steps to prevent and address contemporary forms of slavery. (...) Although it is important to acknowledge various steps that Sri Lanka has taken to prevent and address contemporary forms of slavery, it is clear that these practices persist in the country.

The purpose of the visit was to assess the efforts made to prevent and address adverse human rights impacts of business-related activities, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework.1 It was the Working Group’s first visit to a country in the Latin America and Caribbean region.2 2. (...) The Working Group met with officials of Norte Energia, affected communities, indigenous peoples and public prosecutors, in Altamira, and with state authorities in Belém to assess the measures taken to identify and prevent human rights risks and mitigate adverse human rights impacts. (...) Those responsible for development projects have the duty to prevent disruption to the life of those living in local and indigenous communities and to ensure adequate protection for vulnerable groups.

Companies should develop mechanisms to allow grievances to be immediately brought to their attention to prevent harm from escalating. The Government of the Republic of Korea and its embassies should assist companies to identify, prevent and mitigate human rights risks related to overseas activities. (...) It is in the national interest to prevent companies from having adverse human rights impact abroad and address problems at the earliest opportunity. (...) However, the reports generally did not go into detail about steps taken to identify risks, and prevent and remedy human rights harm. The Working Group encourages all companies to highlight these aspects in non-financial reporting.

Tajikistan ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Trafficking in Persons Protocol), supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, in 2002. (...) More attention must be given to prevent risks of internal trafficking within Tajikistan for forced labour, in particular in sectors such as construction, mining, agriculture and domestic service. (...) The Special Rapporteur welcomes the steps taken to prevent trafficking for purposes of illegal adoption, but more effective implementation of prevention measures must be undertaken across all regions of Tajikistan. 53.

Articles shall be individually packaged and separated from each other using partitions, dividers, inner packagings or cushioning material to prevent inadvertent discharge during normal conditions of transport. (...) Articles shall be individually packaged and separated from each other using partitions, dividers, inner packagings or cushioning material to prevent inadvertent discharge during normal conditions of transport. (...) It shall be constructed in such a manner as to prevent accidental operation during transport. Packagings need not meet the requirements of 4.1.1.3.

Decides that UNMISS’s mandate is designed to advance a three-year strategic vision to prevent a return to civil war in South Sudan, to build durable peace at the local and national levels, and to support inclusive and accountable governance and free, fair, and peaceful elections in accordance with the Revitalised Agreement; 3. (...) Demands all parties to the conflict and other armed actors prevent further commission of sexual violence, and to implement the actions called for in resolution 2467 (2019) to adopt a survivor-centered approach to prevent and respond to sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict related situations and to hold those responsible accountable including through the prompt investigation, prosecution and punishment of perpetrators, as well as reparations for victims as appropriate and urges the SSPDF, the SPLA-IO, and the National Salvation Front (NAS) to implement the joint and unilateral commitments and action plans they have made on preventing conflict - related sexual violence; 14. Strongly urges all parties to armed conflict in South Sudan to implement the actions called for in The Conclusions on Children and Armed Conflict in South Sudan adopted by the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict on 5 March 2021, urges all parties to fully implement the January 2020 Comprehensive Action Plan to end and prevent all grave violations against children, S/2021/254 11/15 21-03447 and calls on the GoSS to implement the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; 15.

Chair’s summary Mexico, in co-sponsorship with Estonia, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States, convened a Security Council Arria-formula meeting with the objective of discussing and analysing how a focus on masculinities, gender stereotypes and gender equality can allow for a more comprehensive gender approach by the UN Security Council to tackle the issue of radicalization to violence and to more effectively prevent terrorism and violent extremism conductive to terrorism. (...) She said this could be done by providing role models, among different actions, such as putting men in gender strategic roles, leading policies to prevent young boys from participating in violent extremism. (...) They also agreed on the necessity of further analysing and understanding the needs of young men in order to prevent radicalization, and described the ways in which each one of them is tackling the situation through the implementation of __________________ 1 Co-sponsors (in order of participation): Norway, United States, Estonia, United Kingdom.

They include killings: (a) designed to influence, or to prevent attempts to influence, an election outcome; (b) that arise in the context of election processes; or (c) that seek to promote or hinder election-related activity. (...) Rapoport and Weinberg note that, “most of the time, violence is designed to influence elections by intimidating voters and striking candidates down. But violence can prevent an election from taking place or a victor from taking charge of the Government.”36 Similarly, Höglund and Piyarathne explain that violence can be used for a number of reasons: “to hinder people from voting, to prevent candidates from campaigning, to display discontent with election results, or to overturn the outcome of the election”.37 In setting out motives in a different form, Höglund writes that some “actors object to elections of any sort … [others] try to prevent or postpone elections … [others] want to influence the outcome of the election”.38 Violence may be used to “suppress opposition turnout or disrupt opponents’ campaigns”.39 25. (...) The following motives can be identified: • To spread fear through the electorate to inhibit voting generally and thereby disrupt or discredit the electoral process • To spread fear among political candidates generally, to prevent them from running for office • To neutralize the political threat of a particular rival candidate • To neutralize the threat of a rival party • To spread fear among election officials to disrupt the electoral process • To prevent potential voters from registering to vote • To prevent supporters of a candidate or party from hanging political posters, distributing leaflets or participating in other political campaigning • To pressure voters to vote for a particular candidate or party • To punish perceived supporters or voters of a particular candidate or a party, or to punish them for voting at all • To quell a public protest or prevent public political expression • To physically steal ballots or disrupt ballot counting • To force voters to leave a particular area • To prevent a potential coup • To punish a citizen for having participated in a political protest • To strengthen organized criminal influence over political candidates or parties • To prevent information about a fraudulent process or violence from being publicized • To prevent election-related human rights fact-finding or advocacy • To prevent a witness to violence from testifying D.