Free Trade Agreements, property and intellectual rights and the development gap: policy dimensions from a Latin American perspective Abstract: The developing countries have recently made great efforts to liberalize their trade and they also have included in their regulatory frameworks strict norms pertaining to the protection of intellectual property (through the International Agreement Trade Related Intellectual Property Issues - TRIPS). However, from an economic development perspective, it is important to take into account that the Intellectual Property Watch imposes restrictions that didn't exist during the industrial evolution of developed countries.
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FAO - News Article: FAO warns that recent torrential rains and cyclones could favour locust surge
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FAO warns that recent torrential rains and cyclones could favour locust surge
Strict vigilance required in northwest Africa, the Horn of Africa and Yemen
11 November 2015, Rome - Unusually heavy and widespread rains that fell recently in northwest Africa, the Horn of Africa and Yemen could favour Desert Locust breeding, FAO warned today, stressing that close monitoring is needed over the next six months to prevent the insects from forming destructive swarms.
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RIGHTS OF THE CHILD : WRITTEN STATEMENT
GENERAL
E/CN.4/1996/NGO/39
27 March 1996
ENGLISH ONLY
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-second session
Item 20 of the provisional agenda
RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Written statement submitted by Human Rights Watch, a
non-governmental organization in consultative status
(category II)
The Secretary-General has received the following written statement,
which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council
resolution 1296 (XLIV) (...) E/CN.4/1996/NGO/39
page 3
9. Human Rights Watch calls on the Commission on Human Rights to urge the
Chinese Government to:
(a) Open all institutions caring for abandoned and orphaned children to
public scrutiny by domestic and foreign observers;
(b) Order the Ministry of Civil Affairs to publish immediately
comprehensive statistics on abandoned children, giving detailed figures on the
number of abandoned infants and children discovered in each Chinese province
in recent years, as well as the number of such children offered for legal
adoption, fostered with private families, and placed in institutional care;
(c) Prosecute those responsible for perpetrating or concealing abuses
against orphans in Shanghai;
(d) Order the Ministry of Civil Affairs to promulgate strict rules
prohibiting the abuse of children in welfare institutions, such as corporal
punishment, tying of children's limbs, medically unjustified use of drugs to
control children's behaviour and all forms of paid or unpaid child labour;
(e) Amend the 1991 adoption law to eliminate obstacles to the domestic
adoption of abandoned children.
(...) These children bear appalling physical
and psychological injuries and pose dangers to themselves and to others.
11. Human Rights Watch has conducted field investigations and issued reports
on the use of children as soldiers in Liberia (1994) and in the Sudan (1995).
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HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES AND MECHANISMS : WRITTEN STATEMENT / SUBMITTED BY UNITED NATIONS WATCH
Claim: Russia seeks to “ensure protection of human rights and freedoms on the basis of
the rules of international law and strict compliance by States with their international
human rights obligations.”
(...) visitType=pending&lang=en.
9 Russia gave $50,000 to UN expert who wrote report calling Russia a victim, UN Watch (September
14, 2017), https://unwatch.org/russia-gave-50000-un-expert-wrote-report-calling-russia-victim/.
(...) This led to a crack-down on dissent which continues today.10
The government retains strict control over media outlets11 and dissemination of information
in other forms.
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Score: 890896.1
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HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE THE COUNCIL'S ATTENTION : HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, 7TH SESSION : WRITTEN STATEMENT / SUBMITTED BY LAWYERS RIGHTS WATCH CANADA (LRWC)
GENERAL
A/HRC/7/NGO/67
25 February 2008
ENGLISH ONLY
A/HRC/7/NGO/67
page 2
Statement by Lawyers Rights Watch Canada1 to the Seventh Session of the Human
Rights Council regarding unlawful emergency measures in Pakistan
I. Recommendations
Lawyers Rights Watch Canada calls on the Human Rights Council to fulfill its duty to
promote and protect the rule of law and fundamental rights and freedoms in Pakistan by
recommending and monitoring:
1. (...) Strict adherence by Pakistan to domestic law and international standards governing
arrests, detentions and the humane treatment of prisoners, including non-derogable
prohibition against torture and cruel and inhumane treatment or punishment and
denial of due process.
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SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA :REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
The ongoing challenge of gathering independent and credible information on
human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been compounded by
the strict COVID-19 restrictions in place throughout the reporting period. (...) While
undertaking the work, “2–3 guards watch over you while armed with automatic
guns”.21
__________________
18 Administrative Punishment Law of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. (...) Furthermore, individual freedoms
appear contingent on the ability to pay bribes, including moving freely within the
country, watching foreign media, making international phone calls and avoiding dress
code regulations.27
25.
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THE APPLICATION OF RESOLUTION 306 F (XI) OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL OF 9 AUGUST 1950 :
Eestern Germany - Here the rigid communist pattern of strict control over
the press is maintained by the Soviet Control Commission and the commun1st-led
government. (...) But Bri tishNewsp~pers are subject to
strict libel laws.
India has no censorship of outgoing dispatches, but Parliament approved
last month an amendm~nt to the constitution restricting freedom of speech and
the press. (...) Under Arias 1
newsmen who wrote against the administration were' frequently jalled or warned
to watch· their step, One opposition newspaper and a radio station vrere closed
temporarily.
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HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE THE COUNCIL'S ATTENTION : JOINT WRITTEN STATEMENT / SUBMITTED BY THE SUDAN COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY AGENCIES (SCOVA), THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HUMANITARIAN AID AND DEVELOPMENT (ASHAD)
On other hand Human Rights Watch said that Malian government forces summarily
executed at least 13 suspected Islamist supporters and forcibly disappeared five others from
the garrison town of Sévaré and in Konna during January 2013.
(...) Witnesses described to Human
Rights Watch seeing soldiers at a bus station in Sévaré confront and then detain bus
passengers suspected of association with Islamist rebel groups. (...) Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that some of the soldiers appeared to be under the
influence of alcohol as they apprehended and executed the men.
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PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT :WRITTEN STATEMENT / SUBMITTED BY MAAT FOR PEACE, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
This is represented in conjunction with the fortieth session of the Human Rights Council, in
order to take strict and serious actions to save those religious minorities. (...) In June 2017, the authorities reported that the Interior Ministry in Dagestan, in
southern Russia, no longer placed "followers of non-traditional Islam" on police watch lists.
Yet persecution of Salafist Muslims has continued, including arbitrary arrests and
harassment.3
The followed harassment against religious minority in Russia included, the banning of their
websites, their blocking and the inclusion of their publications in the Federal List of
Extremist Articles. (...) .
▪ To establish a strict and binding international law to protect minorities,
whether religious or ethnic, around the world.
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SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 429TH MEETING, HELD AT THE PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, ON MONDAY, 11 MAY 1959 : COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS, 14TH SESSION
ert to the 'ossibility of their abuse and they were
accordingly placed under strict control and sold only on medical prescriptions.
(...) IS"u\AIL (United Arab 'lepublic) said t hat strict control was exercised
in the United Arab Repu~lic over the us e of barbiturates and tranquillizers, and
·they could be o~-': ained only on medical prescription. (...) For the time bei.ng pharmacists were not compelled
to record proscriptions for barbiturates, but his Government would keep a close
watch on their use.
The CHAI~, spe~ting as rapresentative of Yugoslavia, agreed With the
United ~ngdom representative's view and suggested that the Secretariat be aaked
to watch the situation as regards barbiturates and tran1uillizers aDd to report
&ny important developments to the Commission.
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