54. Welcomes India's commitment to the MDGs; notes that India's Tenth Five-Year Plan outlines India's human development goals and targets for the next five to ten years, most more ambitious than the MDGs, but remains concerned over India's ability to meet them by 2015, as the UN Millennium Project claims India is unlikely to achieve at least 4 of the 8 MDGs; considers that trade-related assistance could help India meet them on schedule; calls on the EU to cooperate with India's priority universal education and rural health programmes and to encourage policies that facilitate the inclusion of young people in the working environment; b ...[+++]elieves that the EU could address equal opportunity concerns by boosting trade in products providing livelihoods for women, and facilitating trade in services in sectors employing women;

54. Welcomes India's commitment to the MDGs; notes that India's Tenth Five-Year Plan outlines India's human development goals and targets for the next five to ten years, most more ambitious than the MDGs, but remains concerned over India's ability to meet them by 2015, as the UN Millennium Project claims India is unlikely to achieve at least 4 of the 8 MDGs; considers that trade-related assistance could help India meet them on schedule; calls on the EU to cooperate with India's priority universal education and rural health programmes and to encourage policies that facilitate the inclusion of young people in the working environment; b ...[+++]elieves that the EU could address equal opportunity concerns by boosting trade in products providing livelihoods for women, and facilitating trade in services in sectors employing women;

52. Welcomes India's commitment to the MDGs; notes that India's Tenth Five-Year Plan outlines India’s human development goals and targets for the next five to ten years, most more ambitious than the MDGs, but remains concerned over India's ability to meet them by 2015, as the UN Millennium Project claims India is unlikely to achieve at least 4 of the 8 MDGs; considers that trade-related assistance could help India meet them on schedule; calls on the EU to cooperate with India's priority universal education and rural health programmes and to encourage policies that facilitate the inclusion of young people in the working environment; b ...[+++]elieves that the EU could address equal opportunity concerns by boosting trade in products providing livelihoods for women, and facilitating trade in services in sectors employing women;

In 1895-96, the Ottoman Empire provoked or allowed a series of massacres, whith a cost of lives estimated to range from a low of 40,000 to a better number of around 300,000 Armenians.

Under such conditions, part-time working would probably be much more in demand that it is today even though it involves a voluntary pay cut.

The Chair: We understand, but what I think Senator Banks is suggesting and what the chair here would likely agree with is that that clause of general application could be more helpful in these circumstance if said " to the extent that they would not violate any of Canada's international treaty obligations" .