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We have witnessed instances when people of different ethnic, racial or cultural backgrounds clashed and did not reach mutual understanding.

Even those who are sent for labour training are reported as witnessing some terrible abuses during their short period of detention.

We continued to witness the devastating consequences of this smuggling activity when, last month, members of the Hamas terrorist organization used an anti-tank missile that they had smuggled into the Gaza Strip to strike and completely destroy a school bus travelling in southern Israel, injuring the bus driver and killing a 16-year-old child.

Clearly, even if all of us clearly favour prevention, and despite the system’s imperfections, we have not yet found anything better with which to assist and strengthen nascent and therefore fragile peace processes; to assist States in need to restore their capacities, administer their territory and thus avoid a return to conflict; to guarantee the international community’s vigilance and ensure that the most vulnerable are not left all alone in facing the hangman — in a word, to involve the entire international community in the settlement of crises from which we do not want to avert our eyes.

But it becomes also clear that Nigeria has improved the licensing and quota system significantly over the last three years.

(c) An M23 officer who surrendered from Ntaganda’s position at Runyoni stated that he witnessed how RDF troops supported M23 during their operations.

By letter of 7 November 2008, the authorities informed the SPT that “corporal punishment does not occur in prisons except between detainees, to which prison authorities are not witness, but that nonetheless and in order to prevent this type of punishment it is envisaged to: sensitise staff working in prisons; recruit specialised staff to oversee prisons; reduce the number of prisoners pro rata to the number of staff tasked with overseeing them; sanction staff and detainees who use corporal punishment; and reinforce existing mechanisms to allow detainees to bring complaints against such ill-treatment.

The period saw the beginnings of a perceptible change in the cumulative approach of the United Nations agencies towards programme development and implementation.

The Korean Society of Interventional Cardiology (KSIC, www.ksic.org) and the Korean Society of Cardiology (KSC) presented a roadmap to improve treatment results and establish an Asian treatment standard for AMI during a symposium titled 'Raising Asia Standard,' held yesterday in the Grand Hyatt Seoul, Korea.

Our liaison officer partners’ enthusiasm, work ethic and dedication to help their country is a testament to the Japanese military and people and is humbling to witness.

In 1983, Ursula arrived for first time in Afghanistan and saw for herself the misery of children in the camps.

(1A) A police officer may exercise the power to apprehend a person under subsection (1) without any warrant for that purpose and whether or not he has seen any offence committed.

Isolated acts of sabotage cannot account for all the suffering witnessed by or reported to the Mission throughout the country, and access to electricity, fuel, cooking gas, water and other basic services should not be denied in order to punish the entire population.

Olga would also witness her father beat her mother and her siblings on a regular basis.

But when we see a crisis like the one in Japan, we have a responsibility to learn from this event, and to draw from those lessons to ensure the safety and security of our people.

Moore believes the ultimate goal of this system is to develop a game where elementary school children could propose and design ideas that would directly affect the city and see the collective results of their work as they grow older.

There’s a school of thought that believes Bram Stoker may have been inspired to write Dracula after witnessing the horrific events of the Great Famine of 1845.

In a world of double standards — where only the developing and extremely weak countries are compelled to abide by the international legal order while those who can systematically violate it do so — it is not possible to build peace, let alone maintain international security, because such situations end up creating the kind of insurmountable disputes and differences we see every day” (A/65/PV.14).

The overriding goal of the new communication and public information strategy is to bring UNESCO’s mandate, programmes and concerns back into the public eye and at the centre of public debates.

3.4 The author notes that the authorities approached by the Djebrouni family failed to admit to holding the victim; that the State party explicitly denied, through the National Human Rights Observatory, that Kamel Djebrouni had been arrested by soldiers; that the Algerian authorities have still not admitted to arresting and illegally detaining him even though the arrest took place in the presence of witnesses.

When I joined Mapping Barcelona Street Art (MBPA) and Onist Film I had enjoyed Street Art for a long time, and upon those fateful encounters with a piece that speaks to your soul, I could not help but feel curious as to the workings of Street Art.

The secretariat team facilitated and witnessed several historic events related to the work of the United Nations for indigenous peoples: the proclamation of the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People with its programme of action, the adoption by the Commission on the Status of Women of the resolution entitled “Indigenous women beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action” and the landmark United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

I also invite you to think of the milestone of victims’ participation in the Court’s proceedings as another form of reparation, as telling their stories in the courtroom and seeing justice being done also contributes to their healing process.

Describing the changes as “tangible and irreversible”, he stated that the country was “leaving behind the system of authoritarian government” and “fostering a new political culture of patience and dialogue”.

Martinat’s work seeks for a new type of database discourse that tries to understand the informational dynamics that construct the evolution of Lima, which will offer the opportunity to give a glimpse of the new social formations.