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The social benefits of mining, in particular by foreign companies, are perceived as insignificant when compared with private profits.

The Office considered that the complainant’s low profile in the opposition undermined the credibility of her claim that there had been a major mobilization of security forces to arrest her.

[...] [...] insufficiently protected owing to the immoral behaviour or disability of the father and mother or of the person accorded the right of guardianship, or when, owing to misconduct or unruly behaviour, a [...] [...]

[...] torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; summary and extrajudicial executions; sexual violence, including rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation; [...] [...]

Furthermore, the Ethics Office had worked closely with the Office of Human Resources Management to update the contents of ethics training and to mainstream it into regular staff training, to ensure that ethics training was coordinated and addressed [...] [...]

[...] [...] permitting visits of, inter alia, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment [...] [...]

[...] [...] the claimant is a natural or legal person; (b) the claimant has substantially met the technical requirements for submitting a claim; (c) the claim is within the jurisdiction of the Register of Damage; (d) the claimant has established a legal interest in the claimed damage; (e) the claimed damage is material; (f) the claimant has established a causal link between the claimed damage and the construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; (g) the claimed damage was in fact sustained; (h) the documents and assertions in support of the claim are substantially consistent; and (i) the claim has been established prima facie, based on the information and documents submitted by the claimant, giving the claimant the benefit of the doubt in appropriate cases and bearing in mind the varying circumstances with regard to title and residency [...]

[...] [...] in the face of inadequate financial resources and staff to carry out missions to participate in the numerous meetings, UNESCO’s participation in meetings of the UNCTs, UNSTs and various United Nations theme and joint groups (outside of the ones in [...] [...]

In addition, the post of the Chief Security Adviser in Pakistan is proposed to be reclassified to the D-1 level as, in terms of size, complexity and degree of responsibility, in combination with a complex humanitarian emergency, [...] [...]

Furthermore, the full implementation of smart sanctions and other targeted measures by the Security Council with respect to individuals or parties to conflict carrying out widespread or systematic violations of international humanitarian or human rights [...] [...]

[...] [...] of Employees (Exposure to Offences of Unethical Conduct and Improper Administration) Law 5757-1997, and legislation concerning adequate representation of women, people with disabilities, [...] [...]

I mention these results in all the modesty of our people merely to cite practical examples in support of our conviction that what Haiti needs is substantial and impartial aid, closely coordinated with the Government, that contributes to its development and helps overcome the immense socio-economic difficulties and disparities affecting Haiti and hindering its people’s stability and progress.

[...] [...] decentralization, which would provide field units with more adequate staffing and programme [...] [...]

Furthermore, in 2009 UNHCR made considerable progress in combating the high levels of anaemia afflicting the refugee population, and [...] [...]

In the supplementary information provided to the Advisory Committee, the Secretary-General states that one of the lessons learned with regard to compliance missions was that, irrespective of the professional competence of the individual compliance officers, when dealing with Chief Security Officers at the P-5 or senior P-4 levels or debriefing designated officials at the level of D-2 or above, a P-3 compliance officer has neither the seniority nor the field experience to be credible.

Moreover, the proliferation of humanitarian actors, some of whom have limited experience, along with increasing restrictions on humanitarian space in key contexts such as Somalia and the Sudan, [...] [...]

[...] [...] qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.

One organization considered the resources available for records and archives managementrelated subjects to be insignificant compared to the needs related to access to, and preservation of, traditional information (oral- or paper-based) and modern media-based information (audiovisual or electronic), especially in Africa and small island States.

As an effective field presence is a prerequisite to an enhanced programme delivery, the Director-General will continue to make every effort, within the budgetary constraints of the Organization, to narrow, if not fill the remaining gaps in the field network staff establishment, bearing in mind the fact that decentralization should not impinge on the unity of conception and action by UNESCO.

The Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-sixth session on the impact of the new system of administration of justice on staff-management relations and the performance of both staff and managers; improvements to the website of the Office of Administration of Justice; the information requested in paragraph 53 of the resolution, bearing in mind the principle of judicial independence; the scope of the system of the administration of justice, in particular remedies available to the different categories of non-staff personnel; the provisions needed for dedicated courtroom space in the three United Nations Dispute Tribunal locations; and the need for enhancing education and training of all judges, ombudsmen, legal representatives, registrars, mediators and court and office staff of the new system of administration of justice.

Many argue that the standards of patenting, particularly in the US, have been excessively lowered so that too many patents are issued for inventions that are trivial; or, because of pressures on patent examiners, too many patents are issued that will not prove valid in the courts if challenged.52 The problem in the US has been described thus

[...] [...] such, did not lend themselves to full integration with the work programme of the Secretariat, he wondered why the Secretary-General was proposing special political missions with no time limit, as in the case of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, and why the functions of the United Nations Office for West Africa did not fit within the [...]

[...] [...] staff rule 4.5 (c), who are appointed or reassigned to a non-family duty station may be paid a non-pensionable additional non-family hardship allowance, unless the Secretary-General [...] [...]

[...] guidance to field operations for resource optimization, on a global and regional basis, to meet the strategic movement requirements of personnel and materials in support of the start-up and sustainment of field operations.

Not surprisingly, these are the violations that in many scenarios target men disproportionately. Women have thus been excluded from reparations programmes, despite the terrible impact of violence on women, leaving them in a precarious [...] [...]

[...] [...] observed: "Aside from the deficiency of consultation channels, the crucial issue lies [...] [...]