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Solomon Islands joined the United Nations in 1978. It is party to four of the nine core human rights treaties - the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (). [4]
Pacific Islands Cetaceans Memorandum of Understanding; Pacific Islands Civil Aviation Safety and Security Treaty; Papua New Guinea–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty; Paris Agreement; International Plant Protection Convention; Convention on the Political Rights of Women; Protection of Wages Convention, 1949; Protocol I; Protocol II
In 2011, the solomon Islands issued its policy statement and Guidelines for Disaster preparedness and education in emergency situations. The objective is for students to continue to access safe learning environments before, during and after an emergency, ensuring that all schools identify temporary learning and teaching spaces.
The WHO also has its own framework for making treaties. [87]) In 2022, a group of international child rights and education experts joined a call for an update to the right to education under international law to explicitly guarantee children's right to free pre-primary and free secondary education. [88]
The Constitution of the Solomon Islands is the supreme law of the Solomon Islands. It was approved on 31 May 1978 and entered into force on 7 July 1978 at the point of independence from the United Kingdom. It has been amended on a number of occasions and lacks any entrenched provisions, allowing it to be amended by the National Parliament.
She came to the Solomon Islands in 2003 as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands. She worked for the Islands' public solicitor and for the Director of Public Prosecutions. [2] In 2009 she was employed by the University of the South Pacific as a senior lecturer while supplying her expertise to settling difficult cases. [3]
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare meets with the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, July 2016. Solomon Islands is a member of the United Nations, Interpol, Commonwealth of Nations, Pacific Islands Forum, Pacific Community, International Monetary Fund, and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries (Lomé Convention).
Despite high levels of protection in the domestic legal framework, the FSM is not a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, [44] which provides for an expeditious method to return a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member country to another.