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External sources (not reviewed)

An amount of $152,000 is proposed for travel to participate in: peacekeepingrelated seminars, conferences, workshops and coordination meetings with World Bank officials in order to exchange on lessons learned on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, the annual Inter-Agency Working Group on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, which seeks to coordinate and harmonize the efforts of all United Nations actors on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, and coordination meetings with African Union officials in Addis Ababa ($29,400); the Secretary-General’s annual retreat and a workshop at the Kofi Annan Training Centre in Accra ($22,700); seminar and workshops related to the different aspects of the police involvement in peacekeeping,

Deeply concerned also about discrimination against the girl child and the violation of the rights of the girl child, which often result in less access for girls to education, and to quality education,

In collaboration with UNICEF, the Ministry is also studying the situation of minors in

Section II, title X, article 328 of the Family Code states: “When the health, safety, morality or education of a minor are jeopardized or insufficiently protected owing to the immoral behaviour or disability of the father and mother or of the person accorded the right of guardianship, or when, owing to misconduct or unruly behaviour, a minor gives these individuals cause for very serious

The new Constitution (ratified on 7 August 2008) guarantees civil and political rights and fundamental freedoms including, inter alia: the right to life; right to nondiscrimination; right to fair and public trials; protection from arbitrary detention; right to bail; freedom from forced confession; right to legal aid; prohibition of torture or degrading treatment; right to appeal; access to compensation for unlawful arrest or detention; right to vote (voting age reduced to 18) and to hold public office; freedom of opinion and expression; right to privacy; right to information; freedom of association; freedom of assembly; freedom of movement; and

With a preventive, participatory, policy-oriented approach the project succeeded in mobilizing family and community members in each project site, and, thereby secured their participation in the development of

Considering the commitments of El Salvador as a State party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and bearing in mind the observations made by that Committee on the seventh periodic report of El Salvador with regard to health, expressing concern about vulnerable groups of women, in particular in rural areas, who still have difficulty in accessing health-care services; inconsistent statistics on

It will support enhanced preparedness and response to emergencies and contribute to strengthened capacity to ensure the rights of the child to survival, growth and development with equity in all contexts; improve and monitor access to and quality of education throughout the life cycle of the child, with a focus on emergency situations, gender inequalities and

The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations on the second periodic report under the Convention and the initial report under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography that have not been implemented or sufficiently implemented, including those related to allocation of resources, data collection, harmonization of national legislation with the Convention and its Optional

The Committee recommends that the State party take all measures to render the Act, once adopted, applicable in all administrative and judicial proceedings and launch awareness-raising programmes and trainings for all professional working with and for children so as to offer children greater respect for their privacy and dignity, in

In view of the significant consumption of HCFCs for servicing purposes, and the extensive and increasing population of refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment that will further increase the demand for HCFCs, and in light of the explanations provided by the Government of Germany and UNEP during the project review process, the Secretariat concluded that the activities in the servicing sector proposed in stage I of the HPMP

At the 3rd meeting, on 23 April, the keynote speaker, Andrew Mason, Professor of Economics at the

Reaffirm the central role of the family, bearing in mind that in different cultural, social and political systems various forms of the family exist, in reducing vulnerability to HIV, inter alia in educating and guiding children, and take account of cultural, religious and ethical factors to reduce the vulnerability of children and young people by ensuring access of both girls and boys to primary and

In the Salvador Declaration, the States Members of the United Nations invited the Commission, in coordination with the relevant United Nations bodies, to study the nature of the challenge concerning emerging forms of crime that have a significant impact on the environment and ways to deal with them effectively (para. 14); invited the Commission to consider reviewing the issue of international cooperation in criminal matters and explore the need for various means of addressing identified gaps (para. 21); and invited the Commission to consider requesting UNODC to design and provide to States specific

Share the results of the research in Recommendation 1, above, with the large social organisations like

At the 4th meeting, on 24 April, the keynote speaker, Shireen Jejeebhoy, Senior Associate at the Population Council, made a presentation on the

Moreover, from a very practical point of view, as the Court’s workload decreased, part of its premises were being used for the law faculty and its detention

(a) At a macro level the causes include, for example, social tolerance and acceptance of violence as a means of conflict ―resolution‖; the social legitimization of policies that impose severe sanctions for any form of offence; the lack of political will to eliminate the practice of torture; the construction of hierarchical power relationships in which certain groups of people — for example, those accused of common law or political offences or terrorism, immigrants, women, persons with disabilities, members of