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We support the listing of sanctions violators to demonstrate to all individuals who disrespect the Council’s resolutions that they will be confronted by harsh measures for their bad conduct.

This launched a frontal attack on the plague, not only from the medical point of view but from the ethical, political, human and social perspectives as well, with a view to total control by 2015.

[...] [...] its resolve to fight them head on.

[...] ended if we want to fight drug trafficking [...]

Each year, unless we head off this epidemic now, tens of millions of people across the globe, especially in low- and medium-income nations, will be subjected to crippling pain and disability caused by cardiovascular disease and cancer.

In tackling HIV/AIDS head on, we have contributed [...] [...]

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Algeria was saddened that joining the block position of a group of countries, Portugal had not accepted the recommendation of Algeria and many other countries to adhere to a core human rights instrument, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, although Portugal had long been a country of origin of migrant workers and was well placed to understand the suffering and indignity to which migrants were exposed.

Ms. Pierre suffers from migraines that hinder her [...]

[...] many types of migraine are unclear, but one possible starting point for migraine aura and pain is spreading [...] [...]

It implies proactive and substantive engagement with other UN, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations in order to contribute to the search for shared solutions to the major challenges facing humanity, including climate change, food security, public health, the protection of biodiversity and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Organized Crime Bill is meant to focus on the problem so that the organized crime groups, which we have to deal with, are revealed for what they are and through plugging the loopholes in the existing law, the law enforcers can deal a heavy blow at them.

Qatar welcomed the United States’ efforts in combating racial and religious [...] [...]

We welcome the enhanced integrated measures to combat illegal, unreported [...] [...]

[...] [...] Yonphyong Island shelling in which the military clash spilled over to the land from the sea, deplored that such [...] [...]

In its report (A/61/605, para. 39), the Advisory Committee noted that the ad hoc management of risk and the absence of clear responsibility for the effectiveness of internal controls constitutes a serious gap.

The Committee welcomes the steps taken to combat violence against [...] [...]

China elaborated on the adoption of legislative decisions and the strengthening of anti-terrorism efforts, including through the establishment of legal definitions of terrorist activities, organizations and their members by reference to the international conventions to which China had acceded; the adoption of a multi-pronged approach to the prevention and punishment of economic fraud; the progress made in the field of prevention of crimes against children and the strengthening of the protection of their rights; the promotion of international cooperation to combat corruption; the strengthening of criminal justice assistance to combat transnational organized crime effectively; the improvement of online security to enhance capacity to prevent and combat cybercrime; and the amendment of legislation to extend the scope of legal aid from trials only to pretrial proceedings and to cases where the suspect might face a sentence of life imprisonment.

This may be because either the lead agency did not review data, or data is incomplete, or the lead agency omitted to press the “reviewed” button which would complete the submission.

Noting with concern measures that can undermine human rights and the rule of law, such as the detention of persons suspected of acts of terrorism in the absence of a legal basis for detention and due process guarantees, the deprivation of liberty that amounts to placing a detained person outside the protection of the law, the trial of suspects without fundamental judicial guarantees, the illegal deprivation of liberty and transfer of individuals suspected of terrorist activities, and the return of suspects to countries without individual assessment of the risk of there being substantial grounds for believing that they would be in danger of subjection to torture, and limitations to effective scrutiny of counter-terrorism measures

[...] up” of diplomacy in establishing norms.

Through an incomprehensible, unjustified and unacceptable action of the Government of Nicaragua, our region has taken an unfortunate step backwards in its efforts to overcome its sombre past and embrace a better future.

The members of the Council welcomed efforts by the Government to combat the Lord’s Resistance [...] [...]

[...] [...] armed robbery, and welcomed as well the establishment of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia which [...] [...]

Political instability and uncertainty have resulted in a lack of confidence in Myanmar’s investment environment, and weak governance and widespread corruption have made it difficult for even strong Chinese companies to operate there.

Too often in the past, Governments had been concerned with providing affordable food to urban consumers, which was understandable and legitimate, but cheap, subsidized food imports crowded out local producers from the market, thereby increasing rural poverty while only providing a stop-gap solution to the problem of chronic hunger.