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This Act amends Section 19 of the Manitoba Child and Family Services Act to insert detailed provisions relating to the investigation of child abuse. It requires a child abuse committee to be established in each investigating agency, requires records surrounding cases of child abuse to be maintained in a registry, and sets forth procedures and safeguards with respect to entry of records in the registry.
Among other things, this Order authorizes the Director of Public Prosecutions of Lesotho to issue a certificate stipulating that "in the public interest a person charged, committed for trial or sentence" for rape should not be admitted to bail, with the effect that no court shall have the power to admit such a person to bail.
This legislation sets forth the organization of the Burkina Faso Ministry of Basic Education and Mass Literacy. Among the directorates of the Ministry is the General Directorate of the National Literacy Institute which has as objectives 1) the promotion of literacy throughout the country; 2) the fostering and coordination of literacy activities and the training of young persons and adults; 3) the formulation of a national strategy to eliminate illiteracy; 4) the training of literacy trainers; 5) linguistic research applied to national languages; 6) methodological literacy research; 7) the creation and production of literacy materials; 8) creation and help in the implementation of a national postliteracy strategy; 9) participation in the production and reproduction of literacy materials; 10) the creation of methods and means of planning, overseeing, and evaluating literacy activities; and 11) the orientation, supervision, coordination, and administrative control of directorates that depend on it.
Among other things, this Act amends the Health Insurance Act of Quebec, Canada, to include within coverage "family planning services determined by regulation and furnished by a physician."
This Haitian Decree abolishes the status known as "civil death" whereby a person was convicted of serious crimes and deprived of all legal personality while physically still alive. The Decree also abolishes, as a ground of divorce, the existence of "civil death" on the part of one of the spouses.
In 1988, the Council of Ministers of Estonia established by Resolution that families with four or five children receiving child care assistance from the state are totally exempted from paying income taxes. In addition, the taxes paid by "fairly well-off" families with four children were reduced by 40%.
As of May 1988, the Government of Quebec introduced a lump sum birth grant of $500 to assist families on the occasion of the birth of a child or of the adoption of a first or second child. When there are three or more children in the family, the grant is increased to $375 per quarter until the child reaches the age of two. In addition, as of January 1989, a young children's allowance was introduced for families with at least one child under the age of six. The allowance replaces the previous "availability allowance," but provides a higher level of benefit.
Only too often ideology means fanaticism, intolerance, even violence, but the term can be used also to denote sets of preconceptions and presuppositions which act as a stimulus and a guide to scientific innovation, particularly in the field of social science. This sort of insight into the realities of life and the world is a contribution to knowledge and the search for truth, also in the field of human rights. These are taken in the paper as those rights whose infringement constitutes a "vulnus" of the essential characteristics of human beings and those which assume the role of a basic safeguard of them. The meaning of the insistence on the human rights theme in the United Nations system is briefly touched upon, but the main effort is spent in trying to find a firm base for both fundamental rights and duties, shown as strictly and simmetrically linked. Various examples of population policies - broadly defined as governmental interventions influencing demographic variables - are then examined in the light of the basic principles laid down in the said effort. The fields taken up in succession for consideration are international and internal migration, mortality, marriage, fertility in countries at different stages of demographic transition, and growth. Rather than trying an extensive coverage of the whole horizon, a line of critical and deep thought about typical problematic themes is preferred. One of the main conclusions which may be quoted is a statement according to which the problem remains wide open of discovering acceptable ways aiming at a modification of fertility patterns which combine a reduction of the average family size with the maintenance of its variability in order to respect free and responsible individual choices. How important and urgent this task is, is underscored by the observations advanced in the final section of the paper including a meditation on the limits that human sexuality appears to have imposed on itself.
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