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The continuing occupation of a part of the territory of the State hampers efforts to further develop human rights, as resources are spent on defence requirements and defence budgets which should be used instead to meet social development

Its provisions regarding the exchange and verification of military information on participating States’ armed forces, their

Multiple sources with direct personal experience of this requirement, told the Monitoring Group that if an Eritrean agreed to pay the 2 per cent

All peoples and individuals have the right to

The agenda for the next meeting will include the following issues: improving the visibility of the Institute through

As was the case for the consolidated budget for the biennium 2008-2009 for UNODC, the expected accomplishments and indicators of achievement presented in the consolidated budget for the biennium 2010-2011 had been harmonized with the three subprogrammes of programme 13 of the strategic framework for the period 2010-2011

During the coming year, the four agencies will enhance their support to the countries with the highest maternal mortality, starting with 6,

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

That kind of consultation, by contributing

It was noted that while both matters belong to the larger family of mine action, mine clearance and victim assistance have different timelines, involve distinct

Pursuant to paragraphs 4 (a) to (d) of resolution 60/180, 24 States had already been elected and/or selected as members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission: China, France, Gabon, Mexico, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America selected by the Security Council; Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, Poland and Republic of Korea elected by the Economic and Social Council; Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and Sweden selected by and from among the top

14.4 During the 2014-2015 period, the programme is expected to continue to concentrate its efforts on the following six focus areas: (a) increasing women’s leadership and participation in all areas that affect their lives, including in political and economic areas; (b) increasing women’s access to economic empowerment and opportunities, especially for those who are most excluded,

Among the recommendations were that UNRWA must: impress upon donors that its core budget was not an administrative black hole but the key to running its educational programmes and thus should be seen as an investment in the future of the Palestine refugees; exploit all funding

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 policies; lingering effects of the international financial crisis and subsequent adjustments; and undermining debt sustainability by

The updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures recognize that some special groups of women are particularly