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The ICCPR states the basic rules for the membership of the Human Rights Committee. Article 28 of the ICCPR states that the Committee is composed of 18 members from states parties to the ICCPR, "who shall be persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights", with consideration "to the usefulness of the participation of some persons having legal experience."
UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 [13] and succeeded the earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees (other than Palestinian refugees, who are assisted by UNRWA) and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to ...
Candidates for each constituency seat are nominated by a political party or stand as independents. Each constituency elects one MP under the first past the post system of election. As well, since Nepal uses a parallel voting system, voters cast another ballot to try to elect MPs through the party-list proportional representation .
Higher Secondary Education Board; Land Management Training Centre; Nepal Tourism Board; Nepal Law Commission; National Planning Commission (NPC) Nepal Police; Nepali Army; Nepal Red Cross Society; Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) Nepal Telecom; National Information Technology Center (NITC) Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management ...
Nepal will hold national and provincial elections on Sunday, which the ruling coalition, led by the centrist Nepali Congress party, are expected to win. Economic growth in the Himalyan nation ...
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Nepal on 10 April 2008, [1] [2] having been postponed from earlier dates of 7 June 2007 [citation needed] and 22 November 2007. [3] The Constituent Assembly was planned to draft a new constitution and therefore decide, amongst other things, on the issue of federalism .
In the years 1959, 1960, and 1961 following the 1959 Tibetan uprising and exile of the Dalai Lama, over 20,000 Tibetans migrated to Nepal. Since then many have emigrated to India or settled in refugee camps set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Government of Nepal, the Swiss Government, Services for Technical Co-operation Switzerland, and Australian Refugees Committee.
This established UN training plays a critical role in building capacity to facilitate effective coordination in the field by bringing together approximately 30 practitioners from the spectrum of actors sharing operational space during a humanitarian crisis and training them on UN coordination mechanisms and internationally recognized guidelines ...