... Relief inthehumanrights framework - Core Issues. In Shirkat Gah, Rising from the Rubble: Special Bulletin, pp. 15-21. e Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement. (1998). Guiding Principles ... sexuality remains a major force behind continuing gender-based violence and gender inequality.”6 In 2011, theHumanRights Council issued the historic Resolution on Human Rights, Sexual ... towards meeting international commitments in addressing women’s rightsin the Pacic region. Yet there is still much work to be done, particularly in supporting countries to deliver on their commitments....
... and whether we can find any evidence of business cycle synchronization inthe region. We examine the following twelve countries intheAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, ... underlying shocks inthe economy, etc.6 Using the data of twelve AsiaPacific countries, we find the following stylized facts of business cycles. First, business cycles inthe five Asian ... correlation in general increased inthe 1990s from the previous periods. This is mostly due to the industrial countries inthe sample. In conclusion, we can summarize the main characteristics of the...
... FOR ASIA AND THEPACIFIC IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION 2008PROSPECTSDEVELOPMENTSKEY ECONOMICAND 4China seeks growth with sustainabilityChina continues to be beset by its inability to rein in ... markets asinvestors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region. There was also a withdrawal from markets intheregion as ... spurred the record inflation in China in 2007. The increase inthe CPI in August of 6.5 per cent year on year wasled by food price inflation of 18.2 per cent. Pork prices in China, the world’slargest...
... found mainly in NinhThuan Sea and P. stimpsoni in Quang Binh–QuangTri Sea (Thuy 1996, 1998). The greatest hurdle inthe commercial culture ofspiny lobster is the difficulty in growing speciesthrough ... of the breeding ecology of the stocks in these regions. Larval ecology of P. ornatus inthe Coral SeaRecruitment processes inthe Torres Strait andeastern coastal regions are governed by the ... recruitment IntroductionThere is growing interest inthe aquaculture of spinylobsters as the world market demand for lobsterincreases beyond what wild fisheries are capable ofproducing sustainably....
... received a single vaccination since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase inthe interest of the mothers in their children’s ... sessions, including demonstration of cooking and feeding, to the group. After that they take on the responsibility themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and starting new groups of their ... for Asiain prioritizing children, their health and their rights. However, communities living in poverty, both urban and rural, may not have the capacity to access the benets that the government...
... some-one uses the Internet to cause an injury in one State, the person causing the damage may be hauled into court inthe State where the injury occurred. In caseswhere the connection between the activity ... linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-maillistings.4. Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipientinto believing that the ... property rights protection in the Internet? 18Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property in the Internet? What Internet-specific treaties are in place? 18Why is there...
... Europe inthe human rights field. The rights guaranteed by the Convention The Universal Declaration of HumanRights was proclaimed by the UnitedNations in 1948. The European Convention on HumanRights ... because humanrights cannot be what they are said to be, making the concept invalid. In other words, critiques of humanrights can either require human rights to be true to their word or reject them ... rights instrument’: The Impact of the European Convention on HumanRights on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’, in Paul Mahoney et al.Protecting Human Rights: The...
... opinion in Cossey by referringto the raison d’eˆtre of human rights, where he stressed the respect for human dignity and human freedom as the principle underlying human rights, including the ... 120Ibid.,atviii,emphasisintheoriginal,todistinguishthepoliticsforhumanrightsfromthepoliticsofhumanrights.121Ibid.,at23.122Ibid.,atv.Forhim,‘theoriginaryauthorsofhumanrightsarepeopleinstruggleandcommunitiesofresistance’:ibid.,atvi.123Ibid.,atvii.124Ibid.,atxiv.125Ibidatxiv.126Ibid.,at2–3,emphasisintheoriginal.127KenBooth,‘ThreeTyrannies’,inDunneandWheeler(eds.),HumanRights31–70,at51–2.128Ibid.,at44.129Ibidat44.130 ... still believe in human rightsinthe absence of the so-called consensus which has emerged since WorldWar II. In their logic, the consensus has to be the proof of the existence of human rights, not...
... between education and industry.Second, China’s travel agency sector is facing Human resources issues facing the hotel and travel industry in ChinaHanquin Qui Zhang and Ellen WuInternational Journal ... resource challenges facing the hotel and travel industry in China”. The discussion was led by Dr Hanqin Qiu Zhang,associate professor and co-ordinator for the ChinaMSc inthe School of Hotel and ... Holiday Inn) areresponding by operating their own trainingcentres. This development is greatly welcomed asit advances the concept of training and careerdevelopment in a way that benefits the industry,employers...
... cannot be linked back to the source. best inthe business inthe private sector. This type of The main issue then in is inthe feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... important given the track record for customer surveys inthe literature thus farand the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.Given the costs involved in designing and conducting thesesurveys ... consider them to be customers.assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency tomeasure what was intended, there are still several issues...
... defined in (19.10). The excess MSE is the power of the additional error in the filter output due to the errors inthe filter coefficients. An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in steady-state is the ... Performance Issues When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore theissues ... generalized expression forthese stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the input signal power σ2x in general. In practice, the input signal power...
... Academyof Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communi-ties. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC,1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... of the candidate sensors. There have been final selections of the winning contractors in 1999 and 2000. The Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) contractor was selected in early 1999. The...