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He points out that the beatings, asphyxiation and death threats to which he was subjected were committed with the consent of the criminal prosecutor who subsequently ordered his detention.

Once the detainees had been identified, they were forced to lie on the ground and were then beaten with batons, kicked and stamped on.

The mistreatment consisted, inter alia, of punches or kicks to different parts of the body or blows with weapons, as well as electrical shocks, burns, spraying with pepper gas, or suffocation with plastic bags.

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The strategy document will focus on police, rule of law, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, security sector reform and mine action activities and will seek to assist field operations to establish priorities for implementing complex mandates and sequencing their activities in these critical areas; and assist with the rule of law and security-related components of field operations to better allocate their resources and define their capability and resource gaps.

Basic and engineering sciences, science policies and a culture of maintenance: in the complex societies of today, basic and engineering sciences are an essential pillar for the attainment of sustainable development as are sound science policies and a culture of maintenance.

It is worth mentioning that UNESCO played a key role, through the provision of expert assistance, in the harmonization of education legislation, as well as through the provision of technical support for the international fora for education and science, in preparation of a new code of education.

The delegation observed detainees who were in need of medical treatment, for example because the mob who had brought them to the gendarmerie had beaten them, but who had either not asked to see a doctor, or had not been provided with access to a doctor.

It is little wonder in view of such incidents that both Médecins Sans Frontières and UNICEF have recently said that the number of children suffering from stress disorder has greatly increased.41 Colonel Desmond Travers, a member of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (whose report is generally known as the “Goldstone Report”) said in a recent interview: “If the British had behaved toward children who threw stones at them in the manner that is the norm on the West Bank for Israeli security forces — whereby children are rounded up in the evening and taken to places of detention, hooded, beaten, and in some cases tortured — the Northern Ireland problem would not be resolved today.

However, work remains to be done in setting up mitigation strategies; carrying out a business impact analysis, together with the Office of Information and Communications Technology, to validate the prioritization of business processes at departmental level, train managers and critical staff to ensure they are able to continue critical business processes, and testing the business continuity plans and ensuring their maintenance (see also paragraphs 42 to 45 of document A/64/7/Add.9 in the present supplement).