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It welcomed Yemen’s interest in ensuring women’s rights and its acceptance of Bahrain’s recommendation to

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

Other suggested areas of priority attention included: climate change, disaster prevention and preparedness, minimizing biodiversity loss through sustainable management of resources, renewable energies, the formulation of national strategies in science and technology, the

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of

He or she would offer continual guidance on safety issues and policy both to field operations and the various entities responsible for the delivery of support in the areas mentioned above to ensure unity and integration of effort; work with relevant Headquarters and mission staff, Member States (in particular troop- and policecontributing countries) and safety specialists of external organizations to clarify multi-hazard safety standards and guidance for implementation in missions; develop a generic field safety reporting and incident database for use by field operations and Headquarters in monitoring global safety and to support senior management and troop- and

Marine science and its supporting technologies, through

In combination, the estimate of % coverage together with selected terms, provides a consistent and flexible

Funding has been used to support projects aimed at introducing women’s rights and gender equality topics, as well as reducing inequality (competitions have included topics such as women’s entrepreneurship and raising employment among women, preventing violence against women and assisting of victims, measures to support reconciling work and family life, women’s rights and protecting them, overcoming gender

The ombudsman responsible for the protection of the rights of children exercises his/her competences to guarantee the respect of constitutional rights and freedoms of children and application at national

I would like to point out that, during the 2004 discussions relating to development and modernization in the Arab world, Iraq emphasized the importance of activating the mechanisms of the joint Arab system to deepen the foundations of democracy, expand the participation of the

The legal provisions contained in both the Public Association Registration Rules and the Act on Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations are in outright contradiction to

To achieve the strategic goals set by the Committee, there must be significant improvements in the capacity of many national statistical systems in the region and a transformation of national statistical systems from “data producers” to “information service providers” to address the fact that the

Various steps to promote equality, access and the rights of women, including the development of action plans and direction statements to address a range of key concerns for

In this domain, United Nations entities employ space-based technology to

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

Nevertheless, the lack of experience and knowledge of most legislators, inefficient procedural rules, the very ambitious legislative agenda

Officials in the Energy Bureau of the National Development and

Asian countries can take full benefit of the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, the main priorities of which are to: (a) collect, analyse and communicate data and analysis on the fuel economy, and monitor trends and progress towards a 50 per cent improvement by 2050; (b) promote and support the development of national fuel economy policies that encourage fuel economy improvements over time for vehicles produced and/or sold in-country — this component aims to serve in opening the door to national discussions and planning; (c) technical harmonization of labelling requirements, testing standards and

Co-hosted by the Bank of Tanzania, the Central Bank of Kenya and the Alliance

The representative of Japan recalled that a decision by the Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties had requested the Executive Committee to consider “(a) Funding additional demonstration projects to help demonstrate the value of replacement of CFC-based chillers, pursuant to relevant decisions of the Executive Committee; (b) Funding actions to increase awareness of users in countries operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5, of the impending phase-out and options that may be available for

In reply to a question on the relation between Activities 3.3 and 3.1, it was clarified that there was no direct link between them

(h) Supporting field operations through the provision of accurate and timely

At the national level, UNIFEM helped indigenous women to introduce a gender and multi-ethnic perspective in public policies and

In order to support, in a coherent