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Member countries need to review the obligations of the

The main objectives of this Commission were the investigation of human rights violations which took place in this period, the discovery of the truth regarding these violations, the identification of the factors

However, other actions could also be taken to strengthen the phase-out achieved,

At its sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly took note of the broad diversity of national experiences in the area of legal empowerment of the poor; recognized the initiatives undertaken and progress made by some countries in advancing legal empowerment of the poor as an integral part of national strategies and

In response, it was stated that the concern about equal treatment of right holders was not valid, since: (a) the rule under discussion addressed the issue of the law applicable to security rights and not the substantive rights of right holders; (b) European Union

A lack of transparency in that respect might (a) undermine trust and political support for individual public authorities and Government and State institutions in general, thus endangering the efficacy of public interventions and risking political instability; (b) provoke significant redistributions of wealth in ways that not only are unfair and, in some cases, possibly illegal, but also favour rent-seeking behaviour, act against fair competition and provide the wrong incentives for efficiency, innovation

At that session, the Commission agreed that: (i) any future review should be based on the previous deliberations on the subject in the Commission, the observations by France and the United States (A/CN.9/635 and A/CN.9/639, respectively), and the note by the Secretariat (A/CN.9/638 and addenda), which was considered as providing a particularly important historical overview of the establishment and evolution of UNCITRAL rules of procedure and methods of work; (ii) the Secretariat should be entrusted with the preparation of a working document describing current practices of the Commission with the application of rules of procedure and methods of work, in particular as regards decision-making and

What was required, speakers concurred, was more targeted initiatives by both least developed countries and their international commercial partners and other stakeholders to implement measures that would overcome institutional gaps and create appropriate incentives for more effective international collaboration to exploit investment opportunities, capitalize on unexploited trade opportunities, and assure more efficient

In the meantime, UNOCI will continue to focus on helping the Ivorian parties to surmount the challenges and minimize the risks

A set of flagship publications have been planned with regional lens, which include (i) The Arab Region 2025, which will forecast and analyse current and future trends for the region in economic, social, political and cultural areas; (ii) Transitions to Democracy, which looks into the nature of political changes in Arab countries and analyses the lessons learned from political transitions

In the context of education, activities focus on the following areas: (a) violence against children as a follow-up to the recommendations contained in the World Report on the Violence against Children (2006), with an added emphasis on gender dimensions of such violence, the role of religion and culture in its

The Committee recommends that the Report continue to feature such elements as economic and social analysis of the impacts of disasters, descriptions of regional cooperation and analysis of the role of space applications and information and communications technology (ICT) in disaster risk reduction, in addition to new elements, such as (a) information on champions for disaster risk reduction, (b)

The Office continued to help the Organization to align its human resources capacity with emerging challenges and to support the establishment of new entities; to develop and maintain the human resources management infrastructure through policy development and information technology; to build capacity to help managers to manage and staff to function to the best of their ability, and to monitor

The benchmarks adopted so far include: (a) adoption of a formal ERM policy since 2008; (b) an active enterprise risk management committee chaired by the Associate Administrator; (c) a formal implementation strategy for the adoption of ERM in UNDP; (d) dedicated training of staff on the policies and toolkits for ERM (e) clear procedures for the identification, reporting and escalation of relevant risks through the reporting lines for consideration by the ERM committee; (f) dedicated resources for monitoring of and follow up on the corporate risks log; (f) an enabling system for the reporting and review of unit-level and corporate risk; (h) progressively integrated risk-informed and results-based unit work-planning and reporting

As Canada did not wish to suggest specific topics, it referred to the following indicative examples of sub-themes that

The Section would be headed by a Chief Property Management Officer (P-4), the incumbent of which would report to the Chief of Integrated Support Services and would be responsible for: the management and maintenance of the Mission’s electronic assets control system; inventory management and the reduction of inventory levels; the disposal of written-off assets; the provision of specialist inventory and supply-chain management advice to self-accounting units; the continual review of store-holder inventories at all levels within the

The delegation of Thailand also noted that the discussions and recommendations for action from the Asia-Pacific Urban Forum were very useful and should be implemented to promote sustainable urban development in the region, and particularly requested the secretariat to prioritize three areas of work: firstly, to develop criteria and standards for city classification, such as “sustainable city”, “eco-city”, and “green industrial city” to provide a guideline for benchmarking sustainable urban development at the regional and subregional levels; secondly, to develop databases and networks at the regional and subregional levels that would include urban and rural population statistics and economic, social and physical data, including environment and geo-climatic data; and thirdly, to hold a symposium on urban climate change