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Noting with appreciation the contribution [...] [...]

It appreciated Yemen’s openness [...] [...]

In addition, the ICBL noted that many efficiency issues they have raised touch upon the role of the United Nations and, in this regard, expressed appreciation for a constructive dialogue that has started in recent months between non-governmental organisations and the UN.

It also noted with appreciation the measures [...] [...]

[...] [...] indigenous peoples; the promulgation of a law relating [...] [...]

The UNESCO Prize for Peace Education [...] [...]

The Commission expressed appreciation for the work of [...] [...]

[...] States, while appreciating efforts to focus [...] [...]

On the other hand utterances of Severus which make Christ's sufferings voluntarily permitted, rather than naturally necessitated by the treatment inflicted on His Body, might perhaps be defended by the consideration that from the union and consequent Beatific Vision in the Soul of Christ, would congruously ensue a beatification of the Soul and a spiritualizing of the Body, as was actually the case after the Resurrection; from this point of view it is true that the possibility of the Humanity is voluntary (that is, decreed by the Divine will) and not due to it in the state which is connatural to it after the union; although the Human Nature is of its own nature passible apart from the union (St. Thomas, III, Q. xiv, a. 1, ad 2).

Following the 165th session of the Executive Board (October 2002), at which a number of delegations called for an overall review of UNESCO prizes, the Director-General set up a working group, chaired by the Deputy Director-General, in order to: (i) undertake a comprehensive review of all existing UNESCO prizes across the Organization’s different fields of competence, including their number, nominal value and support costs, financial regulations, periodicity, selection and award procedures, visibility and impact; (ii) propose measures in order to enhance the impact of the existing prizes and rationalize related costs in terms of funds and staff time; and (iii) propose a set of criteria and guidelines for the creation, management and promotion of UNESCO prizes.

[...] [...] areas, the enactment of the Right [...] [...]

Delegations had also highlighted Ethiopia’s efforts to broaden freedom of expression by issuing licences to a number of press outlets, encouraged the continued expansion of social services, welcomed efforts to reduce child and maternal mortality and supported the food security policy.

To fight against NCDs, my country has taken the following operational measures: the establishment of a cancer registry, in 1992; the ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in 2005; the adoption by the National Assembly of a law on tobacco control, in 2006; a decree providing free treatment of cancers affecting women, in 2007; campaigns to screen for and treat cancer; the construction, in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency, of a national centre to combat cancer; the adoption by the National Assembly of legislation relating to the creation of an official administrative agency known as the national centre for the fight against cancer; and the drafting of a national strategic plan for the prevention of and the fight against NCDs.

The Committee for the United Nations Population Award selected the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development in recognition of its pioneering achievements in: (a) developing the role of parliaments in the Asia and the Pacific region to achieve the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development through national parliamentary committees on population and development, which have become a worldwide model; (b) contributing to the establishment of regional parliamentary forums in Africa and Europe; (c) promoting parliamentary action on population and development issues by facilitating dialogue within and among parliaments; and (d) strengthening the knowledge and capacity of parliamentarians to advocate, initiate and adopt legislation on population and development, reproductive health, family planning, HIV and AIDS, poverty, youth issues, gender equality and the elimination of violence against women.

[...] [...] measures, including enacting new legislation, [...] [...]

[...] [...] brokers, as well as issue appraisal vouchers [...] [...]

Other achievements under the Convention have included the adoption of Act No. 29478, which deals with the provision of facilities to enable persons with disabilities to vote; Act No. 29524 on Deafblind Persons, which recognizes deafblindness as a single disability; Administrative Decision No. 0269-2009 of the National Identity and Civil Status Registry (RENIEC), which establishes that national identity documents are to be issued free of charge to persons with disabilities and provides for expedited procedures for persons, especially children, who do not have a birth certificate; and legislation on health-care provisions for members of the armed forces and police.