Of the 25 core treaties that Secretary General Kofi Annan has asked governments to sign or ratify next week at a summit meeting in New York, "13 of them are human rights treaties," Ms. Gaer said.
Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report to the Security Council that an important starting point to reduce those numbers would be if all governments ratified the core treaties and protocols on protecting children and for rebel groups to also respect those standards.
The core of the treaty involved a national quota system for fossil fuel use.
That commitment is at the core of the treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it.
Support both Government and Civil Society in the preparation of reports to the core human rights treaty bodies, including those under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
But at least the inner cores must, by treaty, remain open to new members.
Uganda is a party to the core human rights treaties and has generally had a good track record of cooperation with the various international human rights mechanisms.
For the full text of the core human rights treaties, see the links at right.
Our work is guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and core human rights treaties, especially the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Our work is guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and core human rights treaties, especially the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
"Our proposal is based on our analysis of the emerging threat and our commitment to maintain the core of the ABM treaty, which contributes to stability and to the efforts of the U.S. and Russia to control the process of reducing nuclear weapons," Mr. Berger said.
