The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, considers the recanting of a person's religion a human right legally protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:

April – August: The Woodhead Commission reverses the Peel Commission's findings, considers two alternative partition plans, known as Plan B ( map ) and Plan C ( map ), and reports in November that partition was impracticable.

According to the terms of the Treaty on the European Union " In order to ensure the proper functioning and development of the common market, the Commission (…) formulate recommendations or deliver opinions on matters dealt with in this Treaty, if it expressively so provides or if the Commission considers it necessary.

First, “ there must be a representation, omission or practice that is likely to mislead the consumer .” In the case of omissions, the Commission considers the implied representations understood by the consumer.

Accordingly, Australia's National Water Commission considers that the measurement of virtual water has little practical value in decision making regarding the best allocation of scarce water resources.

On July 17, 2012, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Vice President and Spokesperson of the governmemt, during parlimentary questioning, stated the Popular Party government of President Mariano Rajoy had no intention of following the recommendations of the Expert Commission for the Future of the Valley of the Fallen with respect to the removal of the remains of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen, the relocation of the remains of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera within the Basilica or otherwise since the government considers the report to lack validity in that the Commission was “ monocolor ” for which the Popular Party was not invited or involved and that in light of Spain ’ s present economic crisis, discussion and opinion as to the Valley of the Fallen would not be considered at this time.

The Australian Electoral Commission considers the current DLP to be legally the same as the earlier DLP, and so the party was not affected by laws from the John Howard era ( 1996 – 2007 ) which deregistered parties which had never had a parliamentary presence and prohibited party names that include words from another party's name.

Pursuant to a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) on February 12, 2004, the Wireline Competition Bureau considers FWD to be an information service rather than a telecommunications service.

If the Speaker considers it appropriate to hold a by-election, he or she consults with the Australian Electoral Commission as to the suitability of various dates, invites comments from the various party leaders about the proposed dates, makes the final choice, and issues the writ.

The European Commission considers part of the success of the euro was the global recognition of the euro sign.

With a total of some 8. 4 million votes cast, a 58 % turnout, the Iraqi Electoral Commission considers the election to have taken place without major disruption.

On November 18, 2010 The Venice Commission published its report titled " The opinion of the Constitutional situation in Ukraine ", in review of the judgement of Ukraine's Constitutional Court, in which it highlighted " It ( The Venice Commission ) also considers highly unusual that far-reaching constitutional amendments, including the change of the political system of the country-from a parliamentary system to a parliamentary presidential one-are declared unconstitutional by a decision of the Constitutional Court after a period of 6 years.

" the Commission considers that the State ’ s conduct in introducing evidence of unadjudicated foreign crimes during Mr. Garza ’ s capital sentencing hearing was antithetical to the most basic and fundamental judicial guarantees applicable in attributing responsibility and punishment to individuals for crimes.

The Commission also considers the northern section to be the Midtown-Belvedere neighborhood after the Belvidere estate of John Eager Howard, the Revolutionary War patriot.

The Law Reform Commission considers and reports on such topics as may be referred to it by the Secretary for Justice or the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of the HKSAR.

For instance, the Texas Railroad Commission considers a sour gas pipeline one that carries gas over 100 ppm by volume of H < sub > 2 </ sub > S.

Although the Philadelphia City Planning Commission considers Malvern Avenue to form part of the southern border, the Overbrook Farms Club states that “ At present, there are 413 buildings in Overbrook Farms, which is bounded by 58th and 66th Streets and Woodbine and City Avenues, and bisected by Lancaster Avenue ”.

The European Commission considers the process of designing to have been internal and keeps these records secret.

When an author considers that the taxonomic identity of a nominal species-group taxon cannot be determined from its existing name-bearing type ( i. e. its name is a nomen dubium ), and stability or universality are threatened thereby, the author may request the Commission to set aside under its plenary power 81 the existing name-bearing type and designate a neotype.

Due to the way the switch was structured, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) considers KCMO to be legally the same station as the old WHB.

The U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) considers 50 watts to be the lowest power above which radio stations must evaluate emission safety.

The Commission on Human Rights established 30 special procedures, or mechanisms, to address specific country situations or thematic issues such as freedom of expression and opinion, torture, the right to food, and the right to education.

After concerns raised in the European Parliament and by NGOs about concentration of media ownership in Europe, and its repercussion on pluralism and freedom of expression, in 2007 the European Commission released a three phase plan.

In addition, some saw the defeat as an expression of Parliament's indignation about the handling of the proposal by the Council of the European Union and the European Commission as well as its concerns about the content of the proposal itself.

Free exercise and expression of faith in U. S. military institutions is a primary cause that the Chaplains Commission supports.

IFEX provides information to many intergovernmental organizations that monitor freedom of expression, including the UNESCO, African Commission on Human and Peoples ' Rights, Council of Europe, European Union, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Evans has been widely acknowledged as playing a crucial role in initiating, and advocating the international acceptance of, the concept, first as Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which introduced the expression in its 2001 report of that name, and subsequently as a member of the UN Secretary-General ’ s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Centre on the Responsibility to Protect, and as the author of the Brookings Institution-published The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All and many other published works.

The Frattini law received the harsh criticism of the Venice Commission of Council of Europe on its compatibility with international standards in the field of freedom of expression and pluralism of the media.

As Canadian historian Donald Creighton argued in his report to the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, the expression was used interchangeably in the 19th century by Canadian and Imperial officials with the expression Peace, Welfare and Good Government.

The former Olive Tree coalition, expression of the Italian centre-left, now renamed as The Union (), was led for the election by former Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission Romano Prodi, who had already beaten Berlusconi in the 1996 elections.

From another perspective, the MacBride Commission recommendations requiring the licensing of journalists amounted to prior censorship and ran directly counter to basic US law on the freedom of expression.

However its scope is wider than this and intended to encompass cybernetics which allows for the study of regulation in as many varied contexts as possible from the regulation of gene expression to the Press Complaints Commission for example.

The office of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) was established by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR ) in 1997 to monitor OAS member states ' compliance with the American Convention on Human Rights in the area of freedom of expression.

The office analyses complaints of free expression violations received by the IACHR and advises the Commission on cases, including requests for " precautionary measures " from OAS member states to protect journalists and others who face threats or the risk of irreparable harm.

In the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, the expression " reform " includes, in relation to the law or a branch of the law, its development, its codification ( including in particular its simplification and modernisation ) and the revision and consolidation of statute law, and kindred words must be construed accordingly.

The coercive regulations of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, are imposed without regard for any individual's consent or dissent as to that particular trade.

* Human Rights Brief No. 3 Assessment of international law pertaining to freedom of religion and belief from Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

In 1996, the Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor ( Tunisia, 1993 – 2004 ), visited India in order to compose a report on religious discrimination.

In Walz v. Tax Commission, the Court ruled that a legitimate action could not entangle government with religion ; in Lemon v. Kurtzman, these points were combined, declaring that an action was not establishment if

Private sector employees have either 180 or 300 days to make complaints to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( depending on whether their state has a " deferral " agency ) for discrimination claims on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin or religion.

The Constitution of Bhutan provides for a government consisting of three main branches – executive, legislative, and judicial – plus the officially apolitical Dratshang Lhentshog ( Monastic Affairs Commission ) of the Drukpa Kagyu state religion.

Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

The letter was brought to the attention of the international community by Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, in a March 20, 2006 press release.

* United Nations-Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief

An employer or customer's preference for an individual of a particular religion is not sufficient to establish a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification ( Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kamehameha School — Bishop Estate, 990 F. 2d 458 ( 9th Cir.

Complaints by Shoreline Towers tenants were subsequently filed with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, Illinois Attorney General, and U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, alleging housing discrimination on the basis of religion and seeking damages.

* Murray v. United States ( 1964 ) To force the Federal Communications Commission to extend the Fairness Doctrine so that Atheists could have equal time with religion on radio and television.

The Stasi Commission published its report on 11 December 2003, considering that ostentatious displays of religion violated the secular rules of the French school system.

The Commission also stated that though increased immigration in France in recent years has created new challenges for the French government, including integration of these immigrants into French society as well as problems of public order, these challenges should be addressed directly, and not by inappropriately limiting the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief.

To build good relations with supporters of religion, the party has its own Religious Commission.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 gives the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) authority to sue in federal courts when it finds reasonable cause to believe that there has been employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

He became head of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2003, and on its abolition in 2006 was appointed full-time chair of its successor, the EHRC ( initially called the Commission for Equality and Human Rights ), which had a broader remit of combating discrimination and promoting equality across other grounds ( age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment ).

101 sets up a six-member Civil Rights Commission in the Executive Branch to gather information on deprivation of citizens ' voting rights based on color, race, religion or national origin, the legal background, and laws and policies of the Federal Government.

However, Justice Hakim Abdul Hamid of the Reid Commission which drafted the Constitution came out strongly in favour of making Islam the official religion, and as a result the final Constitution named Islam as the official religion of Malaysia.

Miller chaired the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, which coordinated organized religion ’ s support for strong civil rights legislation, and jointly sponsored the March on Washington.

The passing of the Equality Act 2006 means that in October 2007 the DRC was replaced by a new Equality and Human Rights Commission with powers across all equality law ( race, sex, disability, religion and belief, sexual orientation and age ).

The Commission attempts to include in its research activity the broadest possible spectrum of issues involving the culture of this region, both its past and the present day: from archaeology, through history, literature, religion, art, and languages, to political and sociological problems.