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Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain

The updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures recognize that some special groups of women are particularly vulnerable to violence, either because of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or language, or because they belong to an indigenous group, are migrants, are stateless, are refugees, live in underdeveloped, rural or remote communities, are homeless, are in institutions or in detention, have disabilities, are elderly, are widowed or live in conflict, post-conflict or disaster situations, and as such

Furthermore, the report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (A/59/565) and the report of the Secretary-General “In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all” (A/59/2005) proposed a number of initiatives of vital importance to millions of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict areas, including: the creation of a

Assistance focuses on (a) establishing legal and policy frameworks consistent with international standards and norms; (b) strengthening the capacity of domestic institutions, in particular anti-corruption

The long-term objectives of the state for

The representative highlighted

In this regard, the SPT recommends that the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health develop a specific training programme for all health care staff prior to and during postings in prisons, in order to ensure that

Emphasis should be placed on enhancing the capabilities of countries of the region to secure sustainable and safe drinking water supplies, urban water development and management strategies as well as issues related to urban and peri-urban drainage and sanitation, the rehabilitation of degraded water ecosystems,

In this regard, my delegation commends South Africa’s initiative to convene on 12 January a highlevel debate of the Security Council (see S/PV.6702), personally presided by President Zuma, on the critical cooperation, under Chapter VIII of the Charter, between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations, in particular the African

These delegations pointed out that there was a need to take a cautious approach because of the impact of these MRLs on Codex member countries; that particular attention should be given to data from developing countries and to the specific concerns of countries with different eating habits; that veterinary

This Commission is an interdepartmental public body with a multidisciplinary nature with a mandate to diagnose, evaluate and study the social aspects of

Finally, the President of the Security Council made a statement in which the Council noted with concern the serious threats posed in some cases by drug trafficking and transnational organized crime to international security in different regions of the world and invited the

In the case of other services which in essence provide primary level care, such as nursing

The Pact’s four strategic areas call for activities such as (a) construction and renovation of and provision of new equipment for women’s services referral centres, shelters, specialized women’s police stations, special domestic and family violence against women courts and women’s ombudsmen’s offices; (b) training of professionals in the network of services for women in

He pointed out that a number of indicators might be helpful for the detection of structural discrimination, inter alia: the number and percentage of people of African descent who are victims of aggression or other offences, especially when they are committed by State officials; the absence or small number of complaints, prosecution and convictions relating to acts of racial discrimination in the respective country; lack or insufficient information on the behaviour of law enforcement officials vis-à-vis people of African descent and lack or small number of complaints against law enforcement officers; higher crime rates attributed to that group; harsher or disproportionate sentences; the number and

At the forty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Member States emphasized the need to: improve the collection, analysis and inclusion of information on

A commitment to human rights and the rule of law were

If, as suggested in paragraph 11 of the report of the Advisory Committee (A/63/593), such missions’ activities were directed towards operational matters and, as such, did not lend themselves to full integration with the work programme of the Secretariat, he wondered why the Secretary-General was proposing special political missions with no time limit, as