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Also at the same meeting, the distinguished guest speaker, Mrs. Emine Erdogan (Turkey), addressed the Commission.

[...] [...] Secretary of the Award Review Board to attend the International Procurement Conference as guest speakers and to gain experience and knowledge about best practices in the industry [...] [...]

[...] Executive Officer of Sumitomo Corporation Kenji Kajiwara, Chairman [...] [...]

(c) The recent decrees passed by localities permitting the use of the RTL system as punishment in cases of “abnormal petitioning” as well as recent reports that individuals, including Chen Yulian and Liu Jiayuan, were abused by police as a result of their actual or assumed status as petitioners.

[...] [...] arts/cultural events and carnivals in Kowloon East [...] [...]

On behalf of the Alliance (the Alliance) of the Staff Unions of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), namely, the Staff Association of Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Hong Kong Environmental Hygiene Staff Union (Supervisor and Workman), Hong Kong Municipal Services Staff General Association, Hawker Control Officers Union, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Foremen Grade Staff General Union, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Law Enforcement Staff Union, Hawker Control Officer Branch HKCCSA, Government Municipal Staff General Union, Government Overseers and Hawker Control Officers’ Union, and Overseers’ Branch, HKCCSA, Mr WONG Ka-yau briefed members on the Alliance's submission (LC Paper No. CB(1)1556/10-11(01)).

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 violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.

[...] [...] 5, Social development and equality; one P-2 post under subprogramme 12, Subregional activities in Mexico and [...] [...]

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

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 prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies; and the organization of international forums to discuss biological risk management in relation to food and agriculture.

A host of concrete proposals were suggested to the coordinators of the Dialogue, such as: dialogue and networking among universities; dialogue among young scientists, involving UNESCO chairholders in dialogue activities; dialogue among student journalists and seasoned media practitioners from both regions; the holding of youth forums; reactivation of the Committee for the Translation of Literary Works and increase in the translation of Arabic works into European languages; a comparative study of school textbooks; dialogue involving professionals from cultural industries; the organization of an interregional conference on the image of Arab-Islamic culture in European history books.

[...] [...] language presenters; and two Technicians [...] [...]