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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

The initiative involves a number of UNEP and United Nations-wide initiatives that are aimed at providing convincing macroeconomic evidence for significantly increasing investments in the environment as a means of

that peace, democracy and empowerment of the people are inextricably linked; peace is integral to humane development; global peace is the sum total of local and regional peace; peace is impossible without the removal of all sources of repression, inequality and deprivation; peace is impossible without alleviation and eventual eradication of poverty and economic disparity in a world of opulence; peace is impossible without institution-building on human rights, constitutional rights and justice; peace is impossible without true empowerment of women, political, economic and social; peace is impossible without a secular mindset and embracing diversity and multi-ethnicity; peace is impossible without including the

This should include support for efforts to promote literacy, including functional literacy, formal and non-formal education, beginning with early childhood and continuing on a lifelong basis, education in the mother tongue in the early stages of learning, values education including social and moral awareness, the development of a culture of dialogue, a commitment to a culture of peace, education for sustainable development, teacher training, technical and

Finally, the Dahshur World Heritage Site project, also funded by the MDG Fund and jointly implemented with

Some delegations recognized the green economy approach as a means for

Finally, after stressing the importance

Since achieving development goals was particularly challenging in a post-conflict country such as his own, he urged the international community to provide it with sustained assistance so that it could

Nevertheless some disadvantaged minority groups in all regions continue to face high and disproportionate levels of poverty and face discrimination and marginalization that impacts on their rights and opportunities in

She reiterated the importance to peace in the country of free, fair and transparent elections, welcomed the political and economic support of multilateral and bilateral partners, encouraged them to maintain their commitment and called upon donors to contribute significantly to the

It includes: savings in fertilizer use made possible through the use of nuclear techniques to more effectively determine optimal application and timing; higher yielding, disease and drought resistant food and industrial crops through mutation assisted plant breeding techniques; use of nuclear techniques to assess land degradation and soil erosion in support of soil conservation strategies; widespread use of technologies to monitor the effectiveness of national livestock vaccination programmes, and; the creation of fruit fly free

We recognize the importance of developing economic and social infrastructure and productive capacities for sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, particularly in

Many developing countries are witnessing rapid economic growth but sustaining the gains calls for the international monetary and financial systems to be reconfigured to better support development through policies and

Although progress had been made with regard to some Goals, including poverty reduction, achieving universal primary school enrolment and attaining gender parity in secondary and primary school enrolment, there were several Goals in which progress had been

Aware that, while globalization

The three fundamental goals of the PRS

Notwithstanding the huge capacities possessed by some Arab countries in respect of energy, we have agreed on the need to exploit some of the other possibilities and energies to which our countries have access, including new and renewable energy, wind power, the peaceful use of

The recommendations of the Symposium were to press for more reforms in global governance; maintain the focus of development on poverty reduction; encourage reforms at the Bretton Woods institutions; secure greater capital in order to fund development; be proactive in anticipating potential future challenges such as climate change; set up income redistribution policies as a way of reducing the costs of volatility in markets; stabilize exchange rate regimes through the use of reserve funds and loans from regional banks; foster the transition towards a green, fair and equitable economy; encourage social equity for a better preservation of the

The government has begun to address key issues such as the float of the kyat to eliminate the multiple exchange rate system and the distortions it introduces; dismantling of monopolies (such as in edible oils, fuel, vehicles and possibly soon telecommunications); promotion of foreign investment,39 with a stated emphasis on industries that

But in general, if a region has large polluting firms

It may be that there is access to more high technology imports previously withheld for lack

Low economic growth rates are linked to the extractive sector through high volatility of resource revenues, difficulties in absorbing and managing these resources, and the policy problems they create – through distorted exchange rate, factor and other markets – for the development of