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External sources (not reviewed)

16.84 The Penal Reform Officer (P-4) will lead the efforts of the Justice Section in (a) developing UNODC policies and strategies and supporting revision, updating and implementation of relevant United Nations standards and norms (particularly the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and

In order to support and encourage Member States to develop national youth policies, UNESCO participated in a few important meetings and working groups concerning youthrelated policies, namely: the Council of Europe Research Seminar “Re-situating Culture: Reflections on Diversity, Racism, Gender and Identity in the context of Youth” (Budapest, Hungary, 10-15 June, 2003); all three meetings of the Council of Europe task force on Youth Policy Indicators (Strasbourg, France, 13-14 December 2002; Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 July 2002 and Strasbourg, France, 26-27 March 2003); the International Congress on Youth Policies (Bilbao, Spain, 19-21 March 2003); the European Conference of Ministers “Youth constructing Europe” (Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 November 2002); the IX Ibero-American

The Advisory Committee was informed that the incumbent would

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during

In 20082009, these initiatives entailed very limited financial implications, principally for feasibility studies, the preparation of project proposals or selected pilot activities, including for the creation of a international Biomics (genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics) centre at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot proposed by the Israeli National Commission;

Several challenges were encountered in the development of United Nations common country programmes: firstly, the domestic political situation, especially the growing concern over human rights issues and the government’s sensitivity on human rights, have made it very difficult to develop a common United Nations country programme for which UNCT and the government would have shared ownership; secondly, the profile of the donor community in Iran is very low and it has been very difficult to

At the 5th meeting, on 24 February,

The growth in freight traffic has been

The mission of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime is to support and promote crime prevention locally, nationally and internationally in relation to the following declarations and their respective plans of action: the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the

Recalling further its resolution 60/177 of 16 December 2005, in which it endorsed the

The Political Affairs Officer at the P-4 level would monitor the socio-economic and governance situations and underlying conditions in the domestic political context, contributing analyses, policy and

With regard to UNESCO’s contribution to, and

He was surprised to note, in the proposals under section 5 of the proposed programme budget (A/64/6 (Sect. 5)), that the Secretariat sought to integrate most of the administrative and logistical support for the Observer Group Lebanon and the