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Male adolescent detainees explained that classes were sometimes given on reading and religion by teachers, and that NGOs also taught them other skills such as hairdressing.

Equally relevant are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 12, concerning the obligation of States to eliminate discrimination against women in health care; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 25 (b), which requires that health services be “designed to minimize and prevent further disabilities, including among children and older persons”; and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 7, which prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and includes the prohibition of medical or scientific experimentation without free consent.

These surveys cover a large part of needs for information on the phenomena of disability, dependency, population aging and the state of health of the population living in Spain.

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.

The forum will focus attention on the unique cultural corridors in the region, which are axes of age-old cultural and economic links that include the tangible and intangible cultural and historical heritage of the countries and peoples and may serve as a framework for regional accords and cooperation.

These savings stem from the provision of more cost-effective ground handling services in-house in Khartoum and El Obeid for the full period rather than contracting out to commercial vendors, the reduction of air flight hours, as improvements in maintenance and repairs to helipads have allowed for more efficient air fleet management that result in lower requirements for helicopters to position or reposition in Kadugli, the reduction in the holding of spare parts as major maintenance work for ageing medium and heavy vehicle fleets, as accident repair and painting is outsourced, the reduction in vehicle replacements, as vehicles are redeployed from Khartoum to the sectors and team sites in support of Comprehensive Peace Agreement-related activities, and dispatch service is outsourced in part in Khartoum to accommodate the increase in demand, as fewer vehicles are available.

The long-term objectives of the state for reducing poverty include reducing and preventing poverty of families with children, preventing exclusion of children with special needs, improving independent coping of people with disabilities, ensuring adequate income for elderly people, ensuring decent social assistance, and preventing long-term dependency on assistance and benefits.

Subsequently, Andorra, Australia, Bahrain, Belarus, Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Mauritius, Montenegro, Poland, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, the United States of America and Viet Nam joined the co-sponsors.

The statements were made by the representatives of Yemen (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China), Nepal (on behalf of the Group of Least Developed Countries), Hungary (on behalf of the European Union), Australia (on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand), Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Africa, the Sudan, Thailand, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America and Zambia.

(c) To underline the importance of continued efforts by member States and the Council of Arab Ministers of Health to improve health care standards by developing and upgrading health care units and applying a family health regime, particularly in rural, marginalized and deprived areas, improving the health services provided to women, children and ageing persons, and focusing on building the technical capacities of health teams.

At the 10th meeting, on 16 October, the representative of Myanmar, on behalf of Algeria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Congo, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the Sudan, Suriname, Thailand, Uganda, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam and Zimbabwe, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Nuclear disarmament” (A/C.1/63/L.14).

The purpose of the Government Pension Fund is to facilitate Government savings necessary to meet the rapid rise in public pension expenditures in the coming years, and to support a long-term management of petroleum revenues.

The Chief of the Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, OHCHR, in reference to the findings in the report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 65/182 (A/66/173), underscored that age-related discrimination was one of the most frequent challenges faced by older persons around the world.

Bloo sends Wilt on a sleigh ride around the world and tries to get Eduardo to slide down the Foster’s chimney, trying to prove that Santa is real, and in the process, costs Coco her job at the mall as Santa; Bloo learns that Mr. Herriman is only giving one present to everyone (which is part of the reason that he tries to prove Santa real), and in his selfishness tries to make Herriman hand out more presents, in a rather interesting way.

There is a need for a number of additional measures such as succession planning to determine whether retiring staff are best replaced by developing existing staff or recruiting from outside the Organization; the development of competency frameworks for staff at the P-1 to P-4 levels and staff in the General Service category; the development and implementation of training and development plans to support the competency frameworks; and appropriate contractual arrangements and benefits that promote UNESCO as an employer of choice.

Please provide information regarding this case and clarify what measures are in place for medical review and legal advice concerning return of the elderly or persons with disabilities?

The strategic direction of the subprogramme derives mainly from the commitments agreed upon at relevant United Nations intergovernmental processes, including the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the World Programme of Action on Youth, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration as well as the commitments adopted at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in 2010 and the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS.

Target groups supported within the framework of state housing policy include lessees deprived of privatisation rights during the ownership reform, children and young people without parental care, disabled people, elderly people, families with many children, persons released from prison and persons under probation supervision, homeless people, cooperative societies and communities, and specialists dealing with planning and development of residential environment.

The Executive Board will also have before it for discussion 20 draft country programme documents for Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal and Zimbabwe in the Africa region; Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen in the Arab States region; Bangladesh, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia and the Philippines in the Asia and the Pacific region; Albania (draft common country programme document), Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions; and El Salvador, Englishand Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries, and Honduras in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

The continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank, the construction of hundreds of homes, Israel’s continued approval of similar projects, and its imposition of its laws and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan had adverse consequences for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of its people, young and old, individuals and families alike.

By engaging in a dialogue with women and their families, healthcare providers have the opportunity to understand better the structural, economic, cultural or legal problems faced by families and can begin to consider how their services can be rendered in a way that empowers women and their families to be the protagonists of their development.

134.4.2 the adoption, modification or operation of a pension or provident fund or retirement, death or disability benefits scheme which relates both to Directors, their Associates and employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and does not provide in respect of any Director or any of his Associates as such any privilege or advantage not generally accorded to the class of persons to which such scheme or fund relates; and 134.5 any contract or arrangement in which the Director or any of his Associates is/are interested in the same manner as other holders of shares or debentures or other securities of the Company by virtue only of his/their interest in shares or debentures or other securities of the Company.

This Agreement represents the understanding of the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (the “Country”) and the Executive Committee with respect to the reduction of controlled use of the ozone-depleting substances (ODS) set out in Appendix 1-A (“The Substances”) to a sustained level of 1.15 ODP tonnes prior to 1 January 2020 in compliance with Montreal Protocol schedules. with the understanding that this figure is to be revised one single time in 2011, when the baseline consumption for compliance would be established based on Article 7 data, with the funding to be adjusted accordingly, as per decision 60/44.

The Avestan language is an Indo-Germanic tongue and belongs more specifically to the Iranian group, the other members being the Old Persian of the cuneiform inscriptions, the Pahlavi, and Pazend (or Middle Iranian), and the later dialects, New Persian, Kurdish, Afghan, etc. The Avestan speech is very closely related to Sanskrit; in fact, we are able to transpose any word from one language into the other by the application of special phonetic laws.