Translation of "Comité pour les fonds internationaux de droit d'auteur " (French → English) :

The borders for the marketing of goods and services based on copyright or related rights are increasingly being removed.

In all agencies and departments of the federal government in the last three fiscal years, (a) how many grants, contributions and/or contracts have been given or committed to the Canadian Coalition for the rights of Children and/or its provincial subsidiaries; (b) what are the amounts given, by department, in order that a non-governmental organization (NGO) report on Canada's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as part of Canada's five-year report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child might be produced; (c) what is the amount and purpose of any other grants, contributions or contracts given to the coali ...[+++]tion by department(s) which contributed funding, and by type of grant; (d) when were the above grants, contributions or contracts given; (e) what other organizations were considered to receive funding to produce an NGO report on Canada's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as part of Canada's five-year report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child; (f) which other organizations actually received funding; (g) when was such funding given; (h) what were the amounts of the funding given, by department; (i) what were the criteria used to distribute funding to different interested organizations; and (j) what documents have been produced by the coalition and these other organizations that may have received funding?

Mr. Michael Wernick: If I understand the idea that's floating around, the authors who receive copyright revenues could get some portion of that revenue exempted from income tax.

In Afghanistan, the government and its international backers struggle to meet many of its citizens' rights and needs, but the failure to ensure the equal rights enshrined for women and girls in the Afghan Constitution, not to mention the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to which the country is party, is especially stark.

Born 1952; law degree at the University of Vilnius (1974-79); Doctor of Legal Science of the Law University of Lithuania (1999); Member of the Lithuanian Bar (1979-90); Member of the Supreme Council (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania (1990-92), then Member of the Seimas(Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania and Member of the Seimas‘ State and Law Committee (1992-96); Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania (1996-2005), then Adviser to the President of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court (from 2006); Lecturer in the Constitutional Law Department of the Law Faculty of Mykolas Romeris University (1997- ...[+++]2000), then Associate Professor (2000-04) and Professor (from 2004) in that department, and finally Head of the department (2005-07); Dean of the Law Faculty of Mykolas Romeris University (2007-10); Member of the Venice Commission (2006-10); signatory of the act of 11 March 1990 re-establishing Lithuania’s independence; author of numerous legal publications; Judge at the Court of Justice since 6 October 2010.

Within Third Committee this year, Canada has co-sponsored the following resolutions: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa Implementation of the World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy Promoting youth participation in social and economic development Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Aging Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women Eliminating rape and other ...[+++] forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including as instruments to achieve political or military objectives United Nations Development Fund for Women Term of office of the members of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula The girl child Rights of the child Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of democratization Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief Human rights in the administration of justice Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism The right to food Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Situation of human ri ...