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Within the framework of establishing a foolproof torture prevention system in accordance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, a bill on the formation of a national preventive mechanism is being drafted at the national level.

Regarding comments on youth unemployment, Syria noted that thousands of new jobs had been created and that further steps would be taken in that [...]

[...] had claimed millions of innocent lives and displaced tens of millions of people.

To ensure that nothing goes wrong this time, they even employ a chauffeur for their father.

[...] [...] the right to an education in 2007 live in sub-Saharan Africa, followed by South-Central Asia, home to 18 million out-of-school children.

[...] [...] completed year one at school; or of a person who, for at least 180 days during the twelve months prior to registration as unemployed was under in-patient treatment, cared for a sick person, a person who is permanently incapacitated for work or an elderly person, or received a caregiver’s allowance under the Social Benefits for Disabled Persons Act or under the Social Welfare Act, was unemployed due to declaration as permanently incapacitated for work, or [...] [...]

Israel’s continuation of such illegal policies and practices, in addition to its continuing illegal, inhumane and shameful blockade of the Gaza Strip and the immeasurable suffering and trauma it is inflicting on the 1.5 million civilians imprisoned there, constitutes yet further irrefutable evidence of the occupying Power’s abject disregard for international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, as well as its rejection of the legitimate, inalienable and internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and freedom in their homeland.

[...] United States market, in particular for the market leader, Havana Club, means there was a sales shortfall of at least 2.2 million cases of rum, which, at the average 2009 invoice price for Havana Club International, is an economic loss of about US$ 87,300,000.

[...] conflict deaths, from Gaza to Sri Lanka to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia, and elsewhere too; and untold numbers of other [...] [...]

[...] sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.

All that will require a degree of political commitment that has largely been absent, but if it can be summoned, there may yet be a chance to put in place – if not the full agenda of GPA reforms – at least the minimum conditions, including restraints on the security services, needed for a genuine election by 2013.

On 25 May 2010, the Working Group issued a press release noting with concern the suspension of Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain by the General Council of the Judiciary for having admitted and investigated a series of complaints submitted in 2006 regarding more than 100,000 cases of enforced disappearances which occurred [...] [...]

In addition to the damage and adverse effects caused to various activities in the agricultural and fishing sector owing to restrictions on access to the United States market as a receiving market for exports or as a supplier and the relocation to other more distant and less competitive markets, the lack of access to advanced technologies for this sector has had an unfavourable impact on its output and general efficiency, resulting in fewer products being available for local consumption.

[...] [...] and Somalia; and the other on the 1.8 million displaced people in Pakistan, although [...] [...]

[...] [...] and to adopt an integrated approach to impel more protection for the inhabitants, with due regard for the responsibility of State authorities and their accountability for the widespread and systematic violence and violations that have led to the interminable sufferings of millions of innocent people.

[...] [...] constraint to aquaculture development, one-third of all farmed food fish production (20 million tonnes) is currently achieved without [...] [...]

[...] [...] cantonment sites and the upkeep of the former combatants in the cantonment sites; the inability of the Government, so far, to pay the promised demobilization allowance of CFA 500,000 (approximately US$ 1,000) to the ex-combatants and militia personnel; inadequate reintegration/reinsertion opportunities for demobilized combatants; and the implications of the identity issue for this programme, as mentioned above.