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If the current Review Conference ended in the same way as the previous one, he feared that the decline of the non-proliferation regime might become irreversible.

We would have wished that they would tell us of justification for the situation of thousands of people in detention camps, in shanty towns established on the northern coast of Australia, lacking any medical care, because they are illegal immigrants.

Today more than ever, the Security Council must move beyond the mere condemnation of such acts; it should translate its resolutions into practical steps commensurate with Israel’s terrible actions, so that they do not meet the fate of other, previous resolutions on Israel that remain dead letters.

As we mark the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the battles of the Second World War, we look back at the devastation and the horror caused by that war, with millions of lives destroyed and millions more people bereft or crippled.

There was a chance for one of the most maligned transportation cities in America to get some much-needed kudos but instead what we got was 56 hours of an ultimately intangible alternate universe where there are no cars and, strangely, there are no people.

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Although subregional insurance schemes have been planned for many years, much remains to be done before such schemes canbecome operational.

The definition also makes possible the consistent tracking and reporting of development expenditure during the implementation phase.

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The second example concerns the failure to meet quotas for persons with disabilities in education or employment owing to a lack of candidates having the necessary technical or professional qualifications; for example, the 5 per cent quota of university places reserved by law for persons with disabilities is not being filled.

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With respect to the procedures meant to ensure its application, these take place through the ordinary mechanisms of application of international ratified documents: provision in national labour legislation of state and private control of correct application of the labour legislation in force (labour inspection, trade unions, associations of employers) and application of a system of sanctions for breach of internal norms adopted on the basis of international rules.

This action comprises three distinct areas: (a) activities of the World Heritage Centre in implementation of the 1972 Convention, including capacity-building in Member States through technical assistance with a view to achieving a universal, equitable and balanced World Heritage List; (b) safeguarding and promoting the intangible cultural heritage in pursuance of the 2003 Convention, including efforts to encourage its ratification; (c) capacitybuilding in Member States for the protection, rehabilitation and conservation of cultural heritage, with particular emphasis on assistance and reconstruction in post-conflict situations, and ensuring the enforcement of legal protection in this regard.

After the approval of document 33 C/5 by the General Conference, the key challenge will be to design effective, multi-thematic actions and to translate them into concrete and sustained programmes, subprogrammes, main lines of action and work plans with specific budgetary allocations so as to ensure implementation during the biennium.

The primacy of these instruments in domestic law should mean that they are applied in practice and used to contribute to reflection on the provisions of the Constitution, including by judges referring to them when dealing with human rights cases.

It draws up proposals for regulatory and legislative reforms in the form of circulars to the relevant ministerial departments or institutions with the aim of ensuring the fairer application of constitutional rights.

However, in making this choice, the enacting State should ensure that the designated authority has the capacity and expertise to deal with the application in a speedy and inexpensive fashion and procedural rules should be established to ensure that thisis the case (see recommendation 72).

The lessons learned from the Tribunal’s efforts to implement a completion strategy must be shared with other institutions embarking on such endeavours, so that difficulties can be minimized and best practices maintained and implemented.

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At its resumed sixty-fourth session, the General Assembly reaffirmed the commitment by all States to establish a monitoring mechanism to follow up on all commitments related to the development of Africa, as contained in the political declaration on Africa’s development needs; reaffirmed its full support for the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and its commitment to the full implementation of the political declaration on Africa’s development needs; and requested the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on the basis of inputs from Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and other stakeholders in the New Partnership (resolution 64/258).

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