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Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for

With a view to promoting socio-economic rights of women in an era of globalization, the Sector

Under the main themes of poverty and human rights and the social dimension of the globalization process, the Forum heard expert presentations and held interactive debates on the following topics and their relationship to poverty: the normative framework of human rights and extreme poverty; foreign debt; international trade policies; the role and responsibility of the State, civil society and transnational corporations in poverty eradication; international assistance and cooperation in poverty reduction and eradication; decent and favourable work conditions; good governance/corruption; access

secretariat strengthen its efforts with regard to the sharing of experiences on the effectiveness of

In this connection, Egypt, which hosted the International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza early this month, renews its call for Israel to ensure the immediate, unconditional and sustained reopening of its crossing points with the Gaza Strip in order to allow for the movement of people, goods and

Accordingly, and in the light of a continued heavy workload and anticipated international boundary issues, it is proposed that the general temporary assistance position of Boundary

(c) The Secretary-General should be requested to contact the concerned international and regional parties, including the members of the Security Council, in order to ensure international consensus and support for Arab mobilization and the swift establishment of

Recognizing that social safety nets allow governments to let producer prices to rise and bring about supply responses while

The serious engagement of Palestinian factions over the past month in a dialogue process mediated by Egypt has led to the establishment of five committees that are working on national reconciliation issues, the successful outcome of the Cairo international conference on the reconstruction of Gaza and the further efforts of the Palestinian Authority to

Expressing deep concern also about the Israeli policy of closures and the imposition of severe restrictions, checkpoints, several of which have been transformed into structures akin to permanent border crossings, and a permit regime, all of which obstruct the freedom of movement of persons and goods, including medical and humanitarian goods, throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and about the consequent violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people and the negative impact on their

The threat may be linked to a variety of events such as

The Subcommittee expressed its appreciation for the efforts of the Office for Outer Space Affairs to bring the three reports on UN-SPIDER activities in 2011 to its attention, and noted with satisfaction the progress made with regard to all planned activities in the programme framework, including the continuing support provided through the programme for emergency response efforts during major

Four (often interlinked) categories of government responses can be distinguished in the 12 case study countries: (i) “counter-cyclical” measures, mainly observed in middle-income countries with manageable fiscal capacity, allowing them to maintain or increase expenditure by borrowing or drawing on accumulated reserves (Egypt, Thailand and, to a limited extent, Armenia); (ii) targeted social protection, with some countries taking or reinforcing targeted measures, which often protected the most vulnerable (Argentina, Ghana, Mexico, Mongolia and Thailand); (iii)

Among the most important are the secular rise in food prices and the resulting nutrition scarcity; extreme volatility in commodity prices during the past four years, which has had negative cumulative effects on growth and has threatened to unwind hard-earned developmental successes, not least by inducing inflation in least developed countries that were otherwise following sound macroeconomic

Developed economies had begun to stagnate with the waning fiscal stimuli and ineffective monetary policy, and while some developing economies were resilient, showing only a slowdown in growth rates, they were, however,

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We believe that the resistance of Governments to developing adequate national sustainable consumption and production policy frameworks is combined with a continued promotion of unsustainable consumerism, an erosion of trust and accountability of the private sector, inadequate regulation for sectors whose profits depend on

Remaining deeply concerned also that

For example, Brazil has become a growing destination for Norwegian cod, helping to ease somewhat the concerns of Norwegian exporters

Well aware of the capacities of our region in the fields of energy, foremost among which are oil and natural gas, and the global importance of our geographic location as an international supply crossroad, our countries are continuing to develop the optimum means of exploiting those capacities and are investing in them in a manner that reflects the effective contribution that is