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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

In this context, the Special Rapporteur makes a number of recommendations to the Government, including the need to address the persistence of racial discrimination and xenophobia and the lack of legislation that manifestly prohibits these conducts, the exploitation of migrants in the labour sector, the lack of interventions by the judiciary and police to protect migrants’ rights, the strict policy of detention and deportation of irregular migrants, the difficulties for migrant

Under the Working and Rest Time Act, the following categories of workers have reduced working time: employees who perform underground work, work that poses a health hazard or work of a special nature — up to seven hours per day or

You have official ‘bonuses’ as

For example, if gender norms reinforce early pregnancy, there may be lack of awareness of girls’ rights to education and equality among family members and of the health risks of pregnancy for young adolescents; lack of positive

Despite such challenges, there were many important accomplishments, including: (a) responding to the majority of the claims brought to the Office, including the provision of summary advice (206 instances), to clients in more than 80 countries; (b) closure or resolution of 54 per cent of the 938 cases filed with the Office of Staff Legal Assistance during the year; (c) a high success rate before the Dispute Tribunal; (d) undertaking outreach to staff in the field; and (e) the development of relationships with internal and external partners, including United Nations staff unions and associations, staff-at-large, the Office of the United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Services, the legal offices of the Secretariat

The Board also noted the following

Uganda reported that MRE is conducted by two accredited international non-governmental organisations, that their activities are coordinated by Uganda’s Mine Action Centre and that these activities include direct

I am participating in this debate today because the Secretary-General’s latest report on children and armed conflict (S/2010/181) mentions instances of the

Under the International Heliophysical Year/United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative programme, the University of Alberta, together with other partner institutes, could develop a GPS-timed personal computer data logger interface for the magnetometer, develop solar-cell/turbine power sources for the International Heliophysical Year magnetometer observatories,

In the case of other services which in essence provide primary level care, such as nursing care at home, midwife’s service,

However, it notes with deep concern that, in practice, the inclusion

Priorities for the immediate future included developing and improving

The Committee requests the State party to provide in its next periodic report additional information on the decision-making procedure relating to the

Gravely concerned about the extremely difficult living conditions being faced by the Palestine refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the continuing prolonged Israeli closures and severe economic and movement restrictions that in effect amount to a blockade and the militar y operations in the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, which caused extensive loss of life and injur y, particularly among Palestinian civilians, including children and women; widespread damage and destruction to Palestinian homes, properties, vital

This view of the prevalence of the spirit of evil and seduction to sin in