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External sources (not reviewed)

and the protection of non-combatants during war, such as nuclear, chemical and biological threats; the second, to the challenges of economic insecurity and inequity, access to food, water, housing and adequate health care, and the elimination of illiteracy.25 32.

forests provide shelter to people and habitat to biodiversity; are a source of food, medicine and clean water; and play a vital role in maintaining a stable global climate and environment.

commodity prices during the past four years, which has had negative cumulative effects on growth and has threatened to unwind hard-earned developmental successes, not least by inducing inflation in least developed countries that were otherwise following sound macroeconomic policies; lingering effects of the international financial crisis and subsequent adjustments; and undermining debt sustainability by increasing debt levels through borrowing for budgetary support, and by lowering growth prospects for many least developed countries.

diversity, and to help create a civic and social conscience of residents.

with national priorities and Arab needs; “learner-centred” education; improvement of teaching including capacity-building and teacher training; improvement in the status of teachers; development of benchmarking and assessment; elaboration of national standards regarding quality education.

the impact of the latest data on actual inflation, the outcome of salary surveys, the annual cost-of-living adjustments, the movement of post adjustment indices in 2009 and the effect of the evolution of operational rates of exchange in 2009.

and monitoring systems used to control ODS trade; the importance of establishing programme management units to manage phase-out activities under the Montreal Protocol; the importance of ODS legislation, including licensing and import quota systems, in addressing HCFC phase-out; and the importance of considering specific training modalities for assisting the informal sector when developing and/or designing training programmes for refrigeration technicians for upcoming HCFC phase-out.

Development, which encompasses both collective and individual rights, as well as the need to find a proper balance between the national and international dimensions of the right to development, and to ensure the implementation of the right to development by international organizations with the ultimate goal of adopting a legally binding instrument on the right to development.

mission leaders’ programme, a two-week course, conducted twice annually at a host Member State, for 26 candidates from Member States, the Secretariat, the United Nations agencies, programmes and funds); the senior leaders’ programme, a compulsory orientation course for all mission personnel at the D-2 level and above, conducted twice annually in New York; and SMART, an intensive year-long programme involving distance learning and three week-long workshops for two groups of 40 candidates.