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Nigeria also noted that the fact that the main challenge faced by Nigeria concerned unexploded ordnance points to how valuable this Convention

The Meeting recalled the provisions of ESCAP resolution 66/10, whereby the Commission had called upon members and associate members, inter alia, “to ground universal access in human rights and undertake measures to address stigma and discrimination, as well as policy and legal barriers to

Gambia also reported that it continues in

United Nations mine action activities are guided by four strategic objectives identified in the United Nations Mine Action Strategy for 2006-2010: reduction of death and injury by at least 50 per cent; mitigate the risk to community livelihoods and

Since then, in compliance with the 11 decisions of the Executive Board and ten resolutions of the General Conference in that regard, the Palestinian Authority has been closely associated with the activities of the Organization thanks to: the establishment in December 1993 of the Joint UNESCO/Palestinian Authority Committee, whose mandate is to discuss joint cooperation priorities; the creation in April 1994 of the Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP), which became the UNESCO Programme for Palestine (UPP) in April 2000; the opening in May 1997 of a UNESCO Office in Ramallah whose capacity for action has been substantially reinforced during the current biennium, primarily by the decentralization and mobilization of additional funds and the setting up of a Project Antenna in Gaza City enabling the Organization to contribute actively

We believe that, should the Council remain unable to act, alternative avenues for action within the United

At its sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly

In its presidential statement of 14 November 2011 (S/PRST/2011/21), the Security Council encouraged the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), in coordination with the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU), to engage with the United Nations presences in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)-affected region and the African Union to develop a regional strategy for: providing international humanitarian, development and

Instances of previous arbitrary denial or deprivation of nationality resulting in statelessness

In 2012 and beyond, the Economic Commission for Africa will continue to focus on the identification of multi-hazard or composite risk hotspots and develop an

The Commission emphasized that for HIV responses to be sustainable, it would be necessary for

As a follow-up to the recommendations of the Working Group, approved by the Security Council, and subject to and consistent with applicable international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, including Security Council resolutions 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009), I am entrusted, in my capacity as the Chairman of the Working Group, tocommend the efforts undertaken by the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi and the United Nations Children’s Fund, in coordination with the Government of Burundi, to contribute actively to the protection of children and their efforts to engage with the Forces Nationales de Liberation, as well as the alleged dissidents of the Forces

Moreover, if resource abundance remains static, some

The Meeting also recalled the provisions of ESCAP resolution 67/9, whereby the Commission had called upon members and associate members, inter alia, to “…initiate, as appropriate, in line with national priorities, a review of national laws, policies and practices to enable the full achievement of universal access targets with a view to eliminating all

It is for an enacting State to build in appropriate mechanisms according to their legal traditions and taken into account circumstances on the ground that would

In post-conflict environments like Iraq, Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and several countries in West Africa,

Based on the preliminary findings of the scientific peer review, this

Theme 1 also integrates five of the strategic areas defined by decision 8/COP.4, namely: (a) sustainable land

Machinery and machine tools, petrochemicals, electrical and electronic goods, computer and information and communications technologies (ICT) equipment, steel

Because the process is a means for companies to address their responsibility to respect human rights, it must go beyond simply identifying and managing material risks to the company itself to include the

The representative of UNAIDS recalled the successful convening of the AsiaPacific High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Assessment of Progress against Commitments in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals in Bangkok from 6 to 8 February 2012, which had brought together member

(j) Strengthening efforts to ensure primary education as a fundamental element of the response to and

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention played a key role in efforts to attain those objectives; States parties’ full implementation and other States’ accession would end the rise in the numbers of mine