The absence of truly independent status for the auditing and control functions was a critical deficiency.

The High Commissioner is encouraging the Guatemalan Congress to approve that law, and also to approve legislation that recognizes the legal status of absence due to forced disappearance.

However, there are now diminishing returns from this mandate and limits to what can be achieved by an international administration in the absence of clarity on status.

Also, in the absence of a status-of-forces agreement with the Government of Eritrea, the Mission's requirement for media facilities is met through commercial sources and from outside agencies.

The Meeting noted with deep concern the continued difficulties faced by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to the UN in New York due to the absence of diplomatic status of the Mission.

Discrimination is still prevalent in schools where girls and women face expulsion because of their pregnant status. An absence of a prohibition on the expulsion of pregnant girls from school perpetuates such discrimination.

In this regard, we share the sentiments of the Non-Aligned Movement about the absence of the status report that has been requested since the fifty-ninth session on the implementation of all resolutions regarding the revitalization of the General Assembly.

The Committee notes with concern that 20 to 30 percent of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities are not registered as habitual residents or lack personal documents such as birth and marriage certificates, in the absence of civil status registration, both of which are necessary to access employment, social security, housing, health care and education.

The Committee recalls its jurisprudence that where a violation of the Covenant is remedied at the domestic level prior to the submission of the communication, it may consider a communication inadmissible on grounds of lack of “victim” status or absence of a “claim”.

In case No. 954/2000 (Minogue v. Australia) the Committee recalled its jurisprudence that where a violation of the Covenant is remedied at the domestic level prior to the submission of the communication, it may consider the communication inadmissible on grounds of lack of “victim” status or absence of a “claim”.