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[...] [...] HIV/AIDS issues, and crime, all seen as factors directly [...]

The Monitoring Group argued that it would be premature to conclude that Eritrea’s silence constituted obstruction of Security Council resolution 1862 (2009).

UCJ also focuses on youth voluntary service as an important component of national youth policies.

An interesting trend lays in the importance given by most countries for the training and the preparation of qualified teachers as a core for quality education and overall reform.

We, the Government of Japan, respecting the spirit of the “Recommendation on the Status of Teachers”, intends to continuously implement the policies concerned through methods, that fit in with our country’s actual situation and legislation, by placing the highest policy priority on the provision of greatest benefits to the children, who are the driving force of the future.

[...] [...] application of a discriminatory citizenship requirement [...] [...]

[...] [...] investment in the future of the Palestine refugees; exploit all funding opportunities; enlarge its [...] [...]

Promotion of human rights and the fight against discrimination: UNESCO will implement the UNESCO Strategy on Human Rights, aimed at strengthening outreach, advancing policy-oriented research on rights within UNESCO’s areas of competence, especially [...] [...]

[...] [...] regarding access to higher education, and to eliminate the criminalization [...] [...]

Measures taken by member States to incorporate guidelines for transport logistics policies into national logistics policies.

The head of the delegation of Guinea stated that the participation of Guinea in the universal periodic review exercise demonstrated the commitment of the Transitional Authority to human rights and their universal value as the basic tool for political and social reforms undertaken since the signing of the Ouagadougou Agreement on 15 January 2010.

UNICEF identified the need to emphasize incorporation of the cultural vision of indigenous groups in public policies and the placement of children at the cultural centre of Bolivian society, including eradicating violence against children and promoting a culture of peace.

[...] [...] qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making [...] [...]

The following elements of quality education were highlighted: focus on assistance in curricula review and revision, particularly the introduction of values education and ethical approaches, in accordance with national priorities and Arab needs; “learner-centred” education; improvement of teaching including capacity-building and teacher training; improvement in the status of teachers; development of benchmarking and assessment; elaboration of national standards regarding quality education.

These actions, in many cases, had the objective of invalidating the work of the victims, who were considered as “legitimate targets” for being potential opponents to Government policies.

While expressing their satisfaction that the new programme management cycle now allows not only a top-down but also a bottom-up interaction which is expected to give a more important role to field offices and National Commissions in the design of the next programmes and budgets, participants unanimously stressed that cluster and regional consultations for the purpose of the preparation of the C/5 document or for any issue considered to be part and parcel of UNESCO’s core business shall not be funded from the Participation Programme but from other sources under the regular programme (see resolution adopted by the Consultation which is attached as Annex III).

Delegates recognized that disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management should be considered integral components of hunger and poverty alleviation efforts in the region.

[...] [...] including archives and libraries as a component of the “Memory of the World Programme”; [...] [...]

If everyone’s political, religious and economic rights and freedoms are respected, we will shift the paradigm from merely trying to manage poverty to creating wealth; from viewing the person as a burden to seeing the person as part of the solution.

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee, while commending the Government of Thailand for meeting a number of the project targets, decided to defer the request for funding the third tranche of the national methyl bromide phase-out plan to a future Meeting, once the activities initiated with the previously approved tranches had been implemented and the available funding had been disbursed or committed.

[...] that the proposal to view service in a non-family [...] [...]

Second, UNESCO has created the Global Forum on International Quality Assurance, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education as a mechanism for bringing together individuals and organizations with diverse perspectives in order to find practical answers to the challenges of globalization.

They invoke entirely new grounds against their expulsion to Afghanistan: first, that they sought asylum in Sweden, which is considered to be a serious crime in Afghanistan; second, that the first complainant is registered with the Afghan secret police because of having worked as an interpreter for asylum-seekers in Sweden; third, that some of their father’s old enemies are officials in the present Government and they will be killed because their name is known.