However, many factors must be taken into consideration in comparing results, such as the nature of the work carried out by the organization, location, age and type of facilities, and climate and country-related factors such as the nature of the electric power available in the host county.

At its sixty-fifth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixty-seventh session a report compiling successful interventions and strategies, as well as the gaps, in addressing the gender dimensions of the problem of trafficking in persons and providing recommendations on the strengthening of human rights-based, gender- and age-sensitive approaches within comprehensive and balanced efforts to address trafficking in persons (resolution 65/190).

Save as disclosed above, at no time during the six months ended 30 June 2002 was the Company or any of its subsidiaries a party to any arrangements to enable the directors or the chief executive of the Company to acquire benefits by means of acquisition of shares in, or debt securities (including debentures) of, the Company or any other body corporate and none of the directors, the chief executive, their spouses or children under the age of 18, had any rights to subscribe for securities of the Company, or had exercised any such rights during the period.

It urged all States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage was entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary, and to develop and implement comprehensive policies, plans of action and programmes for the survival, protection, development and advancement of the girl child in order to promote and protect the full enjoyment of her human rights and to ensure equal opportunities for girls, including by making such plans an integral part of her total development process.

With regard to the incremental costs of the conversion of the foam manufacturing enterprises, the following issues were addressed: the higher unitary costs proposed for several equipment items, such as storage tanks, dispenser retrofit, and safety-related equipment, as compared to other similar costs agreed in previously approved projects; the application of similar unitary costs to all enterprises irrespective of the output capacity or the age of the equipment, or the number of equipment items in the baseline; the feasibility of reducing the number of premixing stations and polyol buffer tanks; and the potential for rationalizing costs related to product and process trials, process and safety training, safety audit/certification and external expertise given that among other considerations, several enterprises will be converted to the same technology.

In accordance with the Law on the republican fund and local funds of social support of population No. 827-XIV from 18 February 2000 and the Regulations adopted by Government Decision No. 1083 from 26 October 2000 on implementation of the Law on the republican fund and the local funds of social support of population, aid is offered annually to families with children, to families with children with disabilities of an age of up to 16 years, single parent families, families with tutorship on non-institutionalised orphan children, persons not involved in employment due to the need to take care of children until the age of 3 years and other families with low incomes, as well as to orphan children and left without parental care and who are under care of the social assistance and family protection Sections/Directorates.

The new Constitution (ratified on 7 August 2008) guarantees civil and political rights and fundamental freedoms including, inter alia: the right to life; right to nondiscrimination; right to fair and public trials; protection from arbitrary detention; right to bail; freedom from forced confession; right to legal aid; prohibition of torture or degrading treatment; right to appeal; access to compensation for unlawful arrest or detention; right to vote (voting age reduced to 18) and to hold public office; freedom of opinion and expression; right to privacy; right to information; freedom of association; freedom of assembly; freedom of movement; and provision of special protection to vulnerable groups, including children, adolescents, elders, and people with special needs.

There are certain professions, specialties or occupations where vocational secondary education can only be acquired on the basis of general secondary education, as entrants to the course are presumed to have reached certain age maturity.

(B) No Director shall be required to vacate office or be ineligible for re-election or re-appointment as a Director, and no person shall be ineligible for appointment as a Director, by reason only of his having attained any particular age.

In summary, his requests to the Fifth Committee were to approve a waiver of the ceiling on the earnings of language retirees hired by the Department until the end of 2009, to consider a permanent increase in the ceiling for the years to come, up to 185 work days, and/or to examine the possibility of waiving the current retirement age for all language staff until the wave of retirements was over and suitable replacements had been recruited.

The decision defines “disability” and establishes that a household can be defined as a head of household and children and/or grandchildren with disabilities who are over 25 years of age.

In line with the mainstreaming of age, gender and diversity perspectives into operations management, the outcomes of structured dialogue with different groups and individuals of concern have been integrated into the programming effort, ensuring that requirements are targeted as much as possible to the needs of the most vulnerable.

The Committee recommends that the State party adopt evaluation measures to assess the impact of its poverty and social reduction strategies and identify its weaknesses, and requests that the State party include, in its next report, comparative data disaggregated by gender, age, rural and urban populations, as well as indicators on the number of persons living in extreme poverty, and on the progress made in its efforts to combat poverty.

Other noteworthy initiatives include the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Action Plan, which provided increased numbers of mammograms, breast biopsies and Pap smears and reduced the number of radical, mutilating surgeries; field-level obstetrical care, such as training in emergency care for doctors and nurses and normal childbirth campaigns; the National Sickle-Cell Anaemia Carrier Treatment Programme, which focuses on women of reproductive age; and the Mobile Emergency Care Service.

Save as disclosed above, at no time during the year was the Company or any of its subsidiaries, its holding company, or any of its fellow subsidiaries a party to any arrangement to enable the Company’s Directors (including their spouses or children under 18 years of age) or chief executive of the Company to acquire benefits by means of the acquisition of shares in or debentures of, the Company or any other body corporate.

Such measures should address the special needs of these groups, including gender-sensitive and age-appropriate measures.

The Chief of the Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, OHCHR, in reference to the findings in the report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 65/182 (A/66/173), underscored that age-related discrimination was one of the most frequent challenges faced by older persons around the world.

To achieve the strategic goals set by the Committee, there must be significant improvements in the capacity of many national statistical systems in the region and a transformation of national statistical systems from “data producers” to “information service providers” to address the fact that the information age of the twenty-first century has generated new information needs for decision makers and the general public.

According to the most recent data for each country, which refers mostly to the late 1990s, women in high-fertility countries had their first child at much younger ages than those in low-fertility countries: of the 34 high-fertility countries for which data were available, all but Tajikistan showed that the mean age at first birth was below 23 years, whereas of the 60 low-fertility countries, all but 4 (Brazil, Costa Rica, Maldives and Viet Nam) showed mean ages at first birth of at least 23 years.

The Unit’s report on the age structure of human resources in the organizations of the United Nations system (A/62/628) assessed the age structure of staff in that system, the overall implications of staff ageing in general and its impact on human resources management policies.

Oil price levels were projected to vary according to different policy scenarios, but there were clear indications that the “age of cheap oil” was over and that, in the absence of policy action, oil prices would rise substantially.

Commit to strengthen national social and child protection systems and care and support programmes for children, in particular for the girl child, and adolescents affected by and vulnerable to HIV, as well as their families and caregivers, including through the provision of equal opportunities to support the development to their full potential of orphans and other children affected by and living with HIV, especially through equal access to education, the creation of safe and non-discriminatory learning environments, supportive legal systems and protections, including civil registration systems, and the provision of comprehensive information and support to children and their families and caregivers, especially age-appropriate HIV information, to assist children living with HIV as they transition through adolescence, consistent with their evolving capacities

At no time during the year was the Company, its subsidiaries, its associated companies, its fellow subsidiaries or its parent Company a party to any arrangement to enable the Directors and chief executives of the Company (including their spouse and children under 18 years of age) to hold any interests or short positions in the shares or underlying shares in, or debentures of, the Company or its associated companies.