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Resources for consultants are also included for the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western

The Programme of Action sets a broad agenda for the improvement of the status of women, stressing the importance of increasing their equal participation and equitable representation at all levels of the political process; improving women’s ability to earn an income in varied occupations so that they can become economically self-reliant, ensuring their equal access to the labour market and social security, and ensuring their equal rights to buy, hold and sell

The Committee would be considering some remaining tranches of terminal phase-out management plans (TPMPs), whose approval was critical for countries to reach the 2010 phase-out

Announcements were made relating to the provision of numerous scholarships for students and fellowships for researchers from least developed

Working Group 2 would be co-chaired by the Vice-Chairs, Ndiawar Dieng (Senegal) and Raymond Harold Landveld (Suriname), and would consider the “Assessment of progress made on the implementation of the non-legally binding instrument on all types of forests and towards the achievement of the four global objectives on forests” (agenda item 3); “Regional and subregional inputs” (agenda item 4); “Enhanced cooperation and policy and programme coordination, including the provision of further guidance to the Collaborative Partnership on Forests” (agenda item 10); and “Means of implementation for sustainable forest management” (agenda item 11),

It was also suggested, in that regard,

National forest institutions and other stakeholders (forest owners, forest concessionaires, industry owners, and indigenous and local communities) have to rapidly strengthen their understanding and capacities to

During the recent meeting of the Quartet, and also at the meeting with Secretary Rice in Ramallah, President Abbas had stated that the Palestinian Authority was wholly

Today we are discussing once more the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, in the context of the

The EU reiterates its commitment to seeking a comprehensive, long-term

These are permanent representation in Geneva; appropriately

It would be helpful, we believe, if more developing countries were able to include

Since January 2011, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) have pursued a joint strategy on gender and mediation to increase the availability of gender expertise to

From an administrative perspective, the hardest problem regarding governance is how to coordinate independent and interdependent actors who participate in public decision-making processes, but maintain different approaches to the public problem to be solved or the public project to

The continuation of such unlawful policies and such inflammatory provocations are destroying the

Indeed, the procedure used for peer reviews – a “soft” approach of holistic analysis and debate in the competition area to reach common viewpoints, subsequently leading to regulatory

(e) Continuing to pursue more efficient and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity27 and addressing implementation gaps, where appropriate, including through the fulfilment of commitments significantly reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity, including by preserving and maintaining knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities;