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(h) Increased incidents of persecution against unrecognized religious minorities, particularly members of the Baha’i faith, including attacks on Baha’is, including in State-sponsored media, increasing evidence of efforts by the State to identify, monitor and arbitrarily detain Baha’is, preventing members of the Baha’i faith from attending university and from sustaining themselves economically, the confiscation and destruction of their property, the vandalizing of their cemeteries and the sentencing of seven Baha’i leaders to ten years’ imprisonment despite [...] [...]

More often than not, upstream work using regular budget seed money allowed the Office to access larger extrabudgetary resources for massive downstream interventions.

While the future convention will, by its very nature, be binding only on States Parties, the need for them to involve civil society and local communities in identifying and safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage in application of the convention was stressed frequently.

[...] [...] trafficking network that is composed of two groups: (a) Robert Montoya, Mikhail Kapylou, Frédéric Lafont and their respective companies; and (b) a para-institutional group of individuals, namely Kadet Bertin (former security adviser of Mr. Gbagbo, now living in Ghana) and Commander Anselme Seka Yapo.

[...] [...] Council to bring pressure to bear on Israel in order to compel it to withdraw from the Lebanese territory it continued to occupy and to cease its repeated [...]

[...] [...] with international awarding body City and Guilds to develop a unique new series of on-site machining training courses ­­- [...] [...]

It was agreed that the discussion of collusion should include the following elements: (a) collusion occurs where two or more suppliers or contractors, or one or more supplier(s) or contractor(s) and the procuring entity, work in tandem to manipulate the market in a way detrimental to obtaining an optimal outcome in the given procurement; (b) the manipulation might affect the price, keeping it artificially high, or other elements of a submission (such as the quality offered); alternatively, it could involve an agreement to share the market by artificially inflating prices or artificially distorting other elements of a submission, or an agreement not to present submissions or otherwise to distort fair competition; (c) collusion would probably violate the law of the State; (d) collusion involved the intention of the parties concerned to collude; and (e) the complicity of representatives of the procuring entity in collusion was not uncommon.

The police continued to inflict cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment on detainees, and peaceful protests were continuously repressed.

While repeated and failed attempts to establish a centralised mechanism on maritime management show a lack of political will to address the coordination issue, Beijing might also see benefit in ambiguity.

[...] [...] time during the period ended on the earliest [...] [...]

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.

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[...] [...] reactivation of the Committee for the Translation of Literary Works and increase in the translation [...] [...]

Myanmar engages in rampant human rights abuses, and has a stagnant economy and widespread internal conflict.

[...] [...] (f) consider increasing its overall [...] [...]

[...] [...] activities in the Caribbean; and one P-4 [...] [...]

Only those detainees housed in the sections for women and minors at Pedro Juan Caballero Regional Prison said that they were generally well treated by the prison staff, with the exception of one guard in the minor’s section, who occasionally struck the minors with his hand or truncheon by way of punishment, and a female guard in the women’s section, who repeatedly insulted the female inmates and threatened them with her truncheon in order to intimidate them, but had so far not carried out her threats.

Another recurrent complaint was the significant delays in issuing visitor cards.

The improved compliance with submission guidelines is attributable to the joint efforts of author departments and the Department, with the latter having made dynamic and robust efforts to monitor and follow up with author departments on their submission schedules, targeting author departments that repeatedly failed to meet the 90 per cent benchmark, especially in those cases where the work of intergovernmental bodies was seriously affected by the late issuance of documents.

The pattern of introducing the reports on special political missions near the end of the session was unacceptable; she wondered whether the intent was to hinder analysis of the budget estimates in the interests of some Member States that used the United Nations to pursue bellicose and interventionist aims.

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The Security Council expresses deep concern that certain parties persist in committing violations and abuses against children, and expresses its readiness to adopt targeted and graduated measures against persistent perpetrators, taking into account the relevant provisions of its resolutions 1539 (2004), 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009).