However, customary practices most often severely disadvantage women.

Bislama term referring to various customary beliefs and practices.

There was no question of rejecting all customary practices and traditions.

Taught international law, comparative law, international business transactions and customary law.

56 128. Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls

Develop programmes to record traditional knowledge and preserve customary cultural values, traditions and practices.

(d) Review of the cost effectiveness of business practices

Noting the consideration given by the General Assembly to the issue of harmful traditional and customary practices,

Noting the consideration given by the General Assembly to the issue of harmful traditional and customary practices,

Qatar based its claims with respect to delimitation on customary international law and applicable local practices and customs.

2.28 Some may justify rape as a reconcilable offence by saying that reconciliation or kastom faen is a customary practice and is acceptable because customary practices are recognized by the Constitution.

(j) To address traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls in education curricula, as appropriate

141. The Committee noted that some problems faced by women in Kenya were related to tradition and customary practices.

(c) Protect indigenous peoples' cultural heritage in compliance with the relevant indigenous peoples' own customs and customary laws and practices

Discourage, through the media and other means, customary laws and practices such as early marriage, polygamy, and female genital mutilation.

Resolution 52 99, entitled Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls , was adopted without a vote.

a) Review and amend all laws in order to identify and eliminate negative traditional and customary practices that discriminate against women

Also encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact

Also encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact

We encourage responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact.

53 UNCTAD has assembled a roster of good practices to make linkages work (UNCTAD, Business linkages roster of good practices (Geneva, 2004)).

175. We encourage responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact.

8. Also encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact

Recalling also that the 2005 World Summit encouraged the pursuit of responsible business practices,

7. Also encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact

Thus, there are a number of customary practices that constitute an infringement of the principle of the equality of citizens before the law.

The Committee noted that some problems being faced by women in Bangladesh were based on personal laws, which included religious and customary practices.

(b) Regional groupings of States which have competence in the area of restrictive business practices and have accepted the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices and

With respect to the headquarters budget, focus is to be on the rationalization of business functions and the cost effectiveness of business practices.

The message is clear water risk management is shifting into the mainstream of business practices.

Ethics management is important to the promotion of good business practices, transparency and risk reduction.

Finally, while Doing Business focuses on helping the poorest countries to improve their economic performance, it also influences advanced country policymaking and business practices.

Ethical business considerations needed to include restraint in the expectation of using and benefiting from government incentives and the use of restrictive business practices.

Afghanistan s Customary Anguish

C. Customary law

15.2 Customary Marriages

New production techniques and business practices can be different from traditional activities and difficult to adopt.

(e) The fact that the elimination of harmful traditional or customary practices will be considered during the special session of the General Assembly on children

This is because Niger society continues to be highly conditioned by traditions and customary practices that do not offer equal rights to men and women.

Indigenous communities must ensure that indigenous women are not subject to discrimination and inequality within their own communities, including through customary law and traditional practices.

(d) To develop, adopt and implement national legislation, policies, plans and programmes that prohibit traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female genital mutilation, and to prosecute the perpetrators of such practices

The FTC should start referring to these provisions as the unfair business practices provisions , and it should give more weight to business complaints in this area.

Reaffirming that such harmful traditional or customary practices constitute a definite form of violence against women and girls and a serious violation of their human rights,

(c) To collect and disseminate basic data about the occurrence of traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female genital mutilation

Finally, the Beijing Declaration strengthened condemnation of certain traditional, customary or modern practices that violate the rights of women (A CONF.177 20 Rev.1, para.