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They reiterated their call for the peaceful resolution of the Somali conflict as the only way to a durable peace and genuine reconciliation and called upon all parties that had not yet joined the political process to do so, and urged the Somali stakeholders to take expeditious action and show progress in the accomplishment of the remaining tasks of the transitional period including the drafting and approval of the Constitution as well as expanding the authority of the state, promoting the reconciliation process and improving the livelihood of the population by providing essential services.

Destroying natural resources and the environment; causing adverse impacts on human health, fine ethics, traditions and customs of the nation.

It also called on the Government to consider strengthening efforts to combat violence against women, including domestic violence and trafficking in persons, especially women and children by, inter alia, ensuring the full implementation of related laws and legislation, and also through the continued provision of adequate funding and the creation of a monitoring mechanism.

On Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 4 p.m., Mrs. Ban will host, at the residence of the Secretary-General, a tea reception in honour of the spouses of Heads of State and Government, Vice-Presidents and Crown Princes or Princesses participating in the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly.

Later, he stayed in Paris and continued to create till now, during the past 20 years, he participated many exhibitions as a professional sculptor, includes international contemporary art exhibition in Monte Carlo, Besancon Tri-annual, international sculpture exhibition in Collioure, contemporary art joint exhibition at Centre Pompidou, as well as several solo exhibitions at famous galleries in France and Belgium. 2004 he held a solo exhibition at Galerie Jacques Bailly in Paris, and the Maastricht International Contemporary Exhibition at Vindb gallery in the Netherlands.

The Meeting also called on all States Parties to recommit, even in difficult financial times, to realising a world without anti-personnel mines, where the rights of all are respected and where all women, girls, boys and men can live in dignity and prosperity.

It also called for measures to protect women, such as practical solutions to eradicate violence against women, a review of text-books in schools for the purpose of disseminating information on women’s rights, and increased public awareness on action against domestic violence.

It focuses on the conclusions and recommendations of the expert group meeting which, among other things, called upon: the United Nations system, Member States and indigenous peoples’ organizations to recognize the rights and special needs of indigenous women and girls; Member States to adopt measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and girls enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination; the United Nations system to support efforts and initiatives that provide support and protection to indigenous women and girls; and indigenous communities to consider seriously the problem of violence against indigenous women and girls in their communities through ways that include the recognition and dismantling of existing patriarchal social relations, the elimination of discriminatory policies and a continuous commitment to indigenous women’s rights in all indigenous institutions and at all levels.

In 991 (2nd year ofSongEmperor Chunhua’reign), because the upstream Songjiang was continuously silting up, the seacoast moved to the East. Boats could not easily enter anymore, big ships arriving had to moor in a tributary of the Song river called “Shanghaipu” (situated between [...][...]

This Chinese idiom story is from "Yu Lao", an article of Han Fei Zi, but Si Ma Qian recorded another version of this story in his masterpiece--"The Records of the Grand Historian", in which the main characters were the king Wei of the state of Qi and his minister Chun Yu Kun, while the plot is almost the same as this one.