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How can we talk about human security when the Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the number of hungry people in the world has reached a record 1.02 billion people, or one out of every six?

Currently, for every three doctoral degrees granted to international students, only about two result in graduates working in the US.

(iv) Population-based genetic study: A study which aims at understanding the nature and extent of genetic variation among individuals within a group and/or between individuals across different groups.

Every seventh person in the world is a Chinese farmer, man or woman.

And yet, as the Federal Administrative Tribunal establishes in its judgement of 24 September 2008, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is not currently in a situation of war or civil war and is not experiencing widespread violence throughout its territory to an extent that would justify the automatic assumption that all complainants from that State were in real danger regardless of the individual circumstances in each case.

[...] [...] one in every three individuals by 2025.

I must share with the Council the fact that one of the preliminary indicators of the attack in Mazar-e-Sharif was that three out of the five people who violently and brutally killed my colleagues were actually reintegrated ex-Taliban.

Furthermore, 18 of 21 Member States and 6 of 10 United Nations entity heads surveyed stated that they were satisfied with the quality of the Department’s website.

The Panel also requested several Member States to provide responses to the Panel’s outstanding queries regarding individuals on the travel ban list, and regarding individuals and entities on the assets freeze list.

We are deeply concerned that one in five people on this planet, or over 1 billion people, still live in extreme poverty, and that one in seven — or 14 per cent — is undernourished, while public health challenges, including pandemics and epidemics, remain omnipresent threats.

[...] [...] persons; the second stage, EDAD-centres (May-July 2008), targeted for the first time centres for older persons and persons with disabilities and psychiatric and geriatric hospitals; 800 centres and 11,000 persons were polled.

In the field of mental health care, a study in Mauritania carried out in cooperation with the World Health Organization Lyon office and the WHO bureau in Nouakchott showed the following results: 35 per cent of individuals sampled had at least one mental problem, 20 per cent had problems with anxiety, 19 per cent had mood problems, and 2.4 per cent showed some psychotic problems.

States should work together to build mutual respect and tolerance among the individuals who practiced different religions, without losing sight of the overall goal of realizing universal human rights for all individuals.

The Panel has begun to follow up on information contained in its archives concerning the possible location(s) of individuals subject to the travel ban, as well as possible assets linked to individuals and entities cited in the assets freeze list.

Several participants recommended that in the pursuit of the EFA goals, E-9 countries should continue to receive special attention, as should the elimination of gender disparities.

The concept of culture must be seen not as a series of isolated manifestations or hermetic compartments, but as an interactive process whereby individuals and communities, while preserving their specificities and purposes, give expression to the culture of humanity.

Each of the 13 Occupational Group Managers would continue the responsibilities for reviewing applications, identifying candidates for further assessment by subject [...] [...]

[...] [...] the holding of youth forums; reactivation of the Committee for the Translation of Literary Works and increase in the translation of Arabic works into European languages; a comparative study of school textbooks; dialogue involving professionals from cultural industries; the organization of an interregional conference on the image of Arab-Islamic [...]

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.

During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of 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.

[...] [...] issues such as individual criminal responsibility, responsibility of States and mutual [...] [...]

[...] [...] positions, of which five positions were to be met from within existing [...]

This included: (a) in 2005, Agrenska participated in the launch of ICORD and authorized the start of a network of centres that worked in the field of family programmes; (b) the Ministry built the centre after a visit to the Agrenska Centre in Gothenburg during 2008 and started a cooperation between the two centres; (c) in October 2007, Queen Silvia of Sweden, together with the First Lady of Estonia, Mrs. Ilves, inaugurated the Eesti Agrenska centre for families who have children with disabilities; Eesti Agrenska is situated in Tammistu, outside Tartu, in Estonia; the centre works in close cooperation with the Agrenska Foundation in Sweden; (d) the University Hospital in Newcastle in Australia started a family programme in line with the Agrenska model; (e) in order to start a better cooperation between the Nordic countries in the field of rare disorders, a project was started in which Mr. Olauson participated as a resource person.

We believe that it would not be overstating the case to say that the Palestinian people, the peoples of the region and virtually the entire international community have joined in an appeal to the Council at this moment to do justice by Palestine and fulfil its role in the attainment of a just, comprehensive and lasting solution that will finally make peace and security a reality between Palestine and Israel and throughout the Middle East.