Algoma-Manitoulin & District Labour Council [ Elliot Lake & District Labour Council ]

We also have the support of the National Anti-Poverty Organization, the city of Nepean, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Working Group on Poverty in Vancouver, the Street Nurses Network in Toronto, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Calgary and District Labour Council, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation, the Alliance to End Homelessness in Ottawa, the B.C. Government Employees Union, the Brunswick Street United Church in Halifax, Hope Cottage in Halifax, the United Steelworkers of America, the Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice, the city ...[+++]of St. John's in Newfoundland, Lu'ma Native Housing Society, the United Native Nations, the Kettle Friendship Society, the Hospital Employees Union, the John Howard Society, the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, the Carleton Graduate Students Association, the Franciscan Sisters of Atonement in Vancouver, the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.

10. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice‑President of the Commission/High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Government of Swaziland, the governments of the member states of the South African Development Community, the International Labour Organisation, the African Union ...[+++] and the United Nations Secretary-General.

10. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice‑President of the Commission / High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Government of Swaziland, the governments of the member states of the South African Development Community, the International Labour Organisation, the African Uni ...[+++]on and the United Nations Secretary-General.

9. Calls on the Government of South Sudan, following the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Council, to implement all international and regional human rights instruments to which it is party, as well as to improve the justice system and to strengthen the independence of the South Sudan Human Rights Commission; calls further for the European Union to ensure that the promotion of democracy and the establishment of an enabling en ...[+++]vironment for human rights organisations are essential elements in its development aid to South Sudan; calls on the European Union to ensure that development aid to South Sudan carefully considers the rights of women and girls in the country, specifically by supporting women’s organisations as well as by ending the practice of child marriages and child labour; calls for harmonisation of customary and statutory law, and emphasises the importance of establishing a separate judicial system for minors in order to prevent unlawful imprisonment and protect children’s rights; condemns the South Sudan authorities’ arbitrary detentions and harassment of journalists, as reported by NGOs, because this results in de facto censorship; calls on the South Sudanese authorities to hold to account and prosecute the perpetrators of such crimes against journalists;