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Considering that the world is facing major global changes: accelerating environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, water scarcity, pollution, and emerging impacts of a changing climate and recognizing that all of these challenges impede efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve an equitable society, we commend the Director General’s support of developing nations, the role of women in science, and the future of our planet.

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At a minimum, children are entitled to a package of basic social services that includes high-quality health care, adequate food, housing, safe drinking water and sanitation and primary education, so that they can grow to their full potential, free of disease, malnutrition, illiteracy and other deprivations.

Indirectly, the pensions lead to an [...] [...]

[...] the existing pension scheme for permanent [...] [...]

The applications approved for compassionate rehousing are not [...] [...]

134.4.2 the adoption, modification or operation of a pension or provident fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme which relates both to Directors, their Associates and employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any Director or any of his Associates as such any privilege or advantage not generally accorded to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates; and 134.5 any contract or arrangement in which the Director or any of his Associates is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company.

[...] [...] countries, the continuing lack of resources [...] [...]

The sequences that proved most successful with the television programmes concerned were, in the field of culture, those on the new sites placed on the World Heritage List, the thirtieth anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the underwater heritage and the laying of the first stone in the reconstruction of Mostar Bridge, and, in the field of education, the sequence produced on the occasion of the joint UNESCO-ILO study on the shortage of teachers.

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Health centres have been damaged, clean water is scarce, and the education system is near complete collapse.

Other explanations had been provided with regard to the preparation of the budget and to the studies carried out so as to identify the loss of purchasing power under different headings, such as the contractual services and travel, as well as to the calculation of staff costs, which included various components – salaries, post adjustments, pensions and contributions to the Medical Benefits Fund and other allowances.

In some cases, state budget financing is used only for the part which exceeds the pension paid under the State Pension Insurance Act, the additional old-age pension paid to officials under the Public Service Act, and some other pension supplements.

Education should be sensitive to the culture, language and traditions of the child.

Finally, some States with no objections to the Convention remain outside it simply because ratification or accession to it is one of many competing priorities for scarce administrative resources.

(c) Take all possible measures, to the maximum of their available resources, to ensure that persons living in poverty have access to at least the minimum essential food that is nutritionally adequate and safe, basic shelter, housing and sanitation, and an adequate supply of safe drinking water, so as to prevent diseases and other harmful consequences of material deprivations, including malnutrition, epidemics and maternal and infant mortality.

[...] [...] an old-age pension, a maternity [...]

Many of the poorest continue to live in post-conflict States where inadequate infrastructure and low investment prevent the delivery of basic social services and limit the productive capacity of the economy.

[...] [...] poultry, and provide compassionate measures for the affected [...] [...]

[...] under the Pension Fund Regulations to UNESCO participants and beneficiaries; (ii) interpreting and applying the Pension Fund Regulations and Administrative Rules in respect of UNESCO cases; (iii) proposing amendments to Regulations and Rules of the fund for consideration by the Joint Staff Pension Board and subsequent submission to the General Assembly of the United Nations, which is the legislating body on pension matters; (iv) participating, through its designated representatives in the regular and special sessions of the Joint Staff Pension Board and [...]

[...] [...] activities for the pension fund and related [...] [...]

As compared to the first State Pension Insurance Act, pensions are now indexed, a deferred old-age pension has been introduced, the rate of the survivor’s pension has been revised and the range of persons entitled to the survivor’s pension has been extended, and the national pension and the early-retirement pension is paid to pensioners also when they continue to work.

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However, in view of their meagre resources and the immense challenges, such as guaranteeing physical security for humanitarian agencies in Somalia, he appealed for a more robust international response under the leadership of the United Nations Security Council to augment Africa’s own efforts, particularly with regard to Somalia.

Many countries in the region suffer large spatial inequalities with regards to income, wealth and opportunity. This is due to a lack of all-weather roads to villages, infrequent or unreliable transport services to outlying areas and islands, poor access to deeper hinterlands and weak rural-urban connectivity.