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effectiveness of actions taken, including by helping to improve understanding of the hidden face of violence, raise awareness and promote advocacy on positive initiatives, and support the development of child-sensitive policies and mechanisms.

mainstreaming, the needs of youth in the face of unemployment and the incidence of HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention, environmental sustainability, human security, science education for sustainable development, education for peace and tolerance, conflict prevention, promotion of intercultural and inter-faith dialogue, cultural diversity and multilingualism.

they occur; increasing the participation of national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations across the Council work programme, including in the universal periodic review process and better using expertise in panel discussions, briefing sessions and interactive dialogues; holding Council members to the highest standards of promotion and protection of human rights, including by ensuring their full cooperation with the special procedures; resolving the political imbalances in the Council agenda.

of the Group of Least Developed Countries and were the prime victims of the global crisis.

a mechanism that is adequate, easily accessible and flexible; and the Copenhagen agreement to help reduce concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million; implying the need for a 40% global greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2020 from 1990 levels and an 80% emissions reduction by 2050.

aspects of the problem in depth, to provide a thoughtful and effective response to assisting countries with difficulties in implementing projects.

costs, rather than for financing a recurrent deficit in operating budgets.

vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, such as the least developed countries, small island developing States, and other affected countries in Africa.

purpose of ensuring food security while also achieving poverty reduction and sustainability goals, the Committee recommends that growth opportunities be created simultaneously in other sectors of the economy in order to increase overall economic productivity and decrease disparities in income distribution.

in the Gaza Strip, including through the sustained and permanent reopening of the Gaza crossings, fully in accordance with the terms and provisions of resolution 1860 (2009), to ensure unimpeded provision of humanitarian assistance and other essential supplies and goods and to facilitate the movement of persons to and from the Gaza Strip.

of channelling its energy into tackling the core issues immediately; the four priority areas of the Agenda were clearly the result of extensive consultations with Member States.

including attacks on Baha’is, including in State-sponsored media, increasing evidence of efforts by the State to identify, monitor and arbitrarily detain Baha’is, preventing members of the Baha’i faith from attending university and from sustaining themselves economically, the confiscation and destruction of their property, the vandalizing of their cemeteries and the sentencing of seven Baha’i leaders to ten years’ imprisonment despite being repeatedly denied the due process of law that they are constitutionally guaranteed, including the right to timely and adequate access to legal representation of their choice and to a fair and open trial

the implementation of the recommendations of the ad hoc commission on the harmonization of salaries in the public sector.

and how applications to permit the procurement to continue should be filed (including whether the application is to be made by the procuring entity ex parte, or inter partes).

malnutrition, and take urgent measures to offset the negative impact of rising food prices on family budgets, especially in the case of disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and families.

including the grave humanitarian, socioeconomic and security issues we face under Israeli occupation and the issue of intra-Palestinian dialogue and reconciliation efforts for the expeditious restoration of our national unity.

its 2011 organizational session and to resume the unfinished organizational business at the first meeting of the Disarmament Commission, on 4 April.