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All sides may be guilty of using and abusing peaceful protesters and the civilian population in this increasingly violent power struggle.

The settlements will continue to be built, the occupation is deepening and becoming further rooted, but what will happen after that?

Given present trends to privatise more and more functions which were once considered to be public in nature, this is an important development for the right to information.

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Such a process will result in ever-growing poverty in the world’s most vulnerable regions.

Agriculture is the major user of freshwater, accounting for almost 70 per cent of water withdrawal globally.18 However, a growing problem is the increasing competition for freshwater between agriculture, urban and industrial uses (see figure X), causing tension between rural and urban areas and possibly threatening regional or national food security, a situation which is exacerbated by climate change (see box 6).

We reiterate that only an end to this brutal military occupation can stop, once and for all, this persistent state of rising tensions, despair and bloodshed.

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As demonstrated by special political missions, such as in Guinea-Bissau and the Central African Republic, it takes considerable skill, experience, local knowledge and courage to enter into a situationof growing ethnic tension with the aim of building cultural and political bridges, mediating differences, disseminating global values and helping to build durable local institutions, all in conditions of uncertain security.

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Since Monterrey, increasing global inequality had not been addressed.

The growing and alarming arms race, the cost of which now exceeds one trillion dollars, is absorbing far too great a proportion of the world’s human, financial, natural and technological resources, placing a heavy burden on the economies of all countries and affecting the international flow of trade, finance and technology.

It was a worrying development as it cast the tensions as Muslim versus Buddhist and showed how easily the distrust between religions could be manipulated by rising ultra-nationalist sentiments.

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Many such situations are exacerbated by the lack of mechanisms that guarantee justice and punishment for perpetrators — that is, impunity prevails.

South Korea escalated military provocations in the waters even in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, in the wake of the 1950s.

As the burgeoning climate crisis looms on the horizon we need to identify ways of simplifying procedures, such as those for accessing climate change mitigation funds, and to consider revising delivery modalities, including exploring direct access possibilities.

The foreign ministry is also constrained by the heated domestic political environment that is inflamed by strident nationalism and reinforced by actors such as the PLA, state-owned companies and local and provincial actors.

Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have consistently voiced their concerns about the growing trend in arms traffickingin the subregion, which infringes on the provisions of the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Ammunition and Other Related Materials.

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in violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including rocket attacks on southern Israel by militants in Gaza and the killing of civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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The global financial crisis has been worsening since the second half of 2008, leading to a slowdown in the growth of China’s auto market. Despite a series of industry revitalization and market stimulus measures adopted by the government, many auto makers still remain cautiously optimistic about the prospects of the market.

The killing and detention of Palestinians have continued, settlement activities haveintensified, the state of siege in Gaza has been reinforced, the number of barriers in the West Bank has increased, the demolition of houses continues and the building of the wall persists.

The cases presented below, however, provide firm evidence of existing transfers of weapons and ammunition from the territory of Burkina Faso to the Forces nouvelles, which indicate a pre-existing supply of military materiel before transfers reportedly escalated early in 2011.

In his introductory statement, the Director-General, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, noted that the world was traversing a period of great uncertainty characterized by multiple and complex crises, and further affected by the quiet growth in poverty and inequalities, which all put in danger the progress realized over the last decade.