Disaccord in the First Committee sends the wrong signal to practitioners in our nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament community, who need consensus to deliver results.

Knowledge of such conditions and how any disaccord with their employer can affect their present employment or any hope of a better employment with another employer in the future forces the workers to endure their difficult working conditions until the termination of their contract, when they can hope to at least obtain payment for their work and a return ticket home.

For example, the Jordanian Personal Status Code of 1976, which grants a battered woman the right to file for a divorce on the grounds of “conflict and disaccord” resulting from harm inflicted by the husband, requires that the wife show scars of physical abuse in order to proceed with the divorce.

COHRE highlighted that in granting mining and other natural resource exploitation licences to concession enterprises without consulting or informing indigenous and non-indigenous Guatemalans, the Government is in clear breach of its obligations under ILO Convention No. 169, and is in disaccord with the recommendations of CERD.

Patients and their relatives or guardians are sometimes “informed” of the procedures, but in case of disaccord between them and the Medical Superintendent, the latter's decision will prevail “if the treatment is critical for the patient”.41 In the Netherlands, the legislation expressly recognizes the right to refuse treatment, but the person's consent must be explicitly sought only in the case of major examinations or forms of treatment.

This weakens or even destroys the judiciary's ability to act as a check on political power and to settle disputes neutrally; (b) international human rights norms are often not incorporated in domestic legal systems and there is often limited connection between international human rights developments and jurisprudence and the reasoning and decisions of national judges and courts; (c) denial of justice to individuals in the form of lack of access, slow procedures, criminal procedures in disaccord with international standards, lack of minimum standards of detention and imprisonment and violations of fair trial procedures; (d) corruption and shortcomings in mechanisms intended to ensure accountability impair the judicial system, as actions and decisions are swayed by factors other than the law.