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the negative health effects of early pregnancy and early childbearing, acknowledging the direct health benefit of school attendance for young girls, in the light of the link between years of school attendance and delay in childbirth, including evidence that each additional year of schooling delays the age at which a girl has her first child by approximately six to ten months and that each year of schooling reduces by 14 per cent the likelihood of a girl under 18 having a child, to 23 per cent

The 42BELOW Cocktail World Cup 2008 is the fifth year of this annual event that sees hundreds of people travel to the snow covered slopes that surround Queenstown in New Zealand.

The objectives of Tonga Offshore Mining’s plan of work are to: (a) determine the most efficient and environmentally acceptable method to process and recover nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese from the polymetallic nodules, and define in what form these metals would report in a final product for sale, as well as the related capital and operating costs; (b) decide upon the optimum method to recover the material to surface with the minimum of environmental disturbance, as well as the related capital and operating costs; and (c) define what grade of nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese is required in the polymetallic nodules for economic extraction, and determine through exploration what quantity and density of such material can be identified and delineated in the contract area.

The importance of the Account in creating this link was underscored in an evaluative review of the Account during its tenth year of operation (see report of the Secretary-General on the Development Account (A/62/466)).

[...] that recovery to gain momentum after the Chinese New [...]

[...] [...] that will ensure that Decade events take place, momentum is maintained throughout the decade, the UNDDD [...] [...]

These are the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — which until recently was the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — in which we have participated for 12 consecutive years, and the United Nations Stabilization Mission [...] [...]

Given the complexity and sensitivity of the proposals before the Committee, it should make provision for the funding of special political missions for the first six months of 2012 and defer discussion of the subject to the second part of the resumed session.

[...] [...] December and their aftermath, have slowed down the momentum generated by General resolution 64/298, adopted [...] [...]

The Secretariat had assessed the operation of the Executive Committee in the first two meetings in 2004 following the decision by the Executive Committee at its last meeting in 2003 to eliminate the sub-committees and discuss all matters in plenary.

[...] [...] experienced, as demonstrated most recently by the successful outcome of the Fourth Biennial Meeting of States, held in June 2010.

Furthermore, six years of consultations over the creation of the Pan-African University came to a head in December 2011, with agreement on the creation of five centres of excellence spread around the continent that will focus on post-graduate training and research.

Second, the Development Days event, already in its third year, has proven to be an event that promotes a better understanding and debate among the several national development actors and between them and Portuguese public opinion on development issues at large.

The EU welcomes the renewed momentum in global disarmament and non-proliferation, [...] [...]

As crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic enters its third year, UNICEF correspodent Priyanka Pruthi reports on the growing tragedy that has put a country at the brink of losing a generation to war.

Never exhibited in public, it had remained for 70 years in the same family: that of a Norwegian businessman, Petter Olsen, the son of Munch’s friend, boss and neighbour, Thomas Olsen.

States must respect and promote the rights of children living in poverty, including by strengthening and allocating the necessary resources to child protection strategies and programmes, with a particular focus on marginalized children, such as street children, child soldiers, children with disabilities, victims of trafficking, child heads of households and children living in care institutions, all of whom are at a heightened risk of exploitation and abuse.

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

The Commission reaffirmed that any Codex work on antimicrobial resistance should stay in the remit of the Commission’s mandate, should be based on sound science and follow risk analysis principles, should take full account of the work of other organisations to avoid duplication of work, and should recognise the importance of a holistic approach to solving the question at hand.

In 20082009, these initiatives entailed very limited [...] [...]

The ASPACO project, in Asia and the Pacific, which is promoting conservation and development and is financed by Japan, has entered in the third year of its implementation.

[...] [...] which for the first six months of [...] [...]

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s plan to materialize Vision 2030: strengthening the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the education system through EMIS; enhancing the education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; improving the quality of education for peace programme; and strengthening literacy development through advocacy and technical support to strategic planning.