A logo has been developed for use in combating abductions of women and children.

It has established effective coordination mechanisms in the overall administrative effort to prevent abductions.

Meanwhile, on 3 June 2004, two concurrent campaigns were launched, a Sino Vietnamese publicity campaign to combat cross border abductions and trafficking and a China publicity campaign to combat cross border abductions and trafficking of women and children.

Cooperation with bordering countries in law enforcement has been strengthened to clamp down on cross border abductions and trafficking.

In June 2004, the two ministries ran a training session in Bangkok on joint efforts to combat abductions and maintain order.

In eight provinces particularly prone to crimes of this type, powerful publicity campaigns against abductions have reached several hundred thousand people.

There were other reports of forced tax collection by civilians on behalf of FNL, abductions, looting and destruction of property by FNL.

The Office of the Prosecutor is investigating the situation in Uganda, which involves allegations of large scale abductions, killings, torture and sexual violence.

Now, Japan has inserted a clause on abductions into the draft resolution and is demanding that the countries of Asia and Africa support it.

By improving their employability and adaptability to the market economy, this Fund has reduced the numbers of girls straying aimlessly and falling victim to abductions.

In Ituri, arbitrary killings, sexual violence and abductions continued to take place on a daily basis, as a result of raids carried out by militia groups.

Calls upon Member States to put an end to impunity and to take appropriate steps to identify those responsible for child abductions and bring them to justice

In July 2004, a delegation of Vietnamese criminal police visited China for in depth discussions on suppressing cross border abductions and other forms of organized criminal activity.

There is an urgent need for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to address, expeditiously and effectively, the issue of abductions committed by agents of that country.

Welcomes the continuing relative calm in the Kodori valley and condemns the continuing criminal activities, including killings and abductions of civilians, in the Gali and Zugdidi districts

It provided an opportunity to raise the issue among participants and in the local media, including questions such as links to slavery and how abductions could be addressed.

Calls upon Member States to put an end to impunity and to take appropriate steps to identify those responsible for child abductions in Africa and bring them to justice

For many months now, there have been no abductions whatsoever by the so called Resistance Army, nor has there been any recruitment or attacks on internally displaced persons camps.

On this foundation and against a backdrop of labour mobility, the All China Women's Federation and ILO continue their work to prevent abductions and trafficking of women and children.

This was primarily achieved through extensive patrolling, direct interventions to resolve various incidents relating to border crossing, cattle rustling or abductions, liaison with the parties and other confidence building measures.

Since 1999, the Ministry of Public Security, the All China Women's Federation and UNICEF have operated a joint programme to oppose abductions, trafficking and other violence against women and children.

In Katanga, Mayi Mayi groups remain a key source of instability in the province, and MONUC has investigated several cases of killing, rapes and abductions of civilians that they have perpetrated.

During the war, women suffered abductions, violation, floggings, profound trauma, and lived without any survival conditions both as displaced persons and as returnees to their country or areas of origin after the war.

(xiii) The difficulties encountered by United Nations and humanitarian staff in carrying out their mandate because of abductions and harassment by both parties to the conflict, indiscriminate aerial bombings and the reopening of hostilities

Since my last report, UNMEE continued to monitor cross border incidents, particularly cases of reported abductions and missing persons from both Ethiopia and Eritrea, and to seek to promote a peaceful resolution of incidents.

UNMEE continued to monitor and follow up cases of cross border incidents that included alleged abductions and missing persons from both Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well cattle rustling incidents, especially in the area of Badme.

Numerous international agreements had been violated in the form of killings, attacks, abductions, harassment, looting of property, recruitment of children into armed forces, violence against children and rape, which was also a crime against humanity.

The Human Rights Committee has specifically recognized as non derogable in all circumstances the prohibitions against the taking of hostages, abductions and unacknowledged detention, given the status of these proscriptions as norms of general international law.

In April 2004, in response to an increase in abductions of women and children to be coerced into prostitution, the public security bureau in Leshan, Sichuan Province, launched a two month, citywide crackdown on these offences.

Throughout March, there were cases of attacks on civilians in villages and on the roads, particularly in Southern and Western Darfur, ill treatment of civilians, torture, sexual and gender based violence and child protection concerns, including abductions.

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Encourages all States, and particularly their agencies responsible for internal security, as well as the International Criminal Police Organization, to cooperate and take steps to prevent abductions, and to exchange information with the aim of preventing the abduction of children

The clearest trend to emerge over the present reporting period is a considerable rise in abductions, harassment, extortion and looting, by both the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Movement Army (SLM A), victimizing civilians and jeopardizing humanitarian activities.

Encourages all States, and particularly their agencies responsible for internal security, as well as the International Criminal Police Organization, to cooperate and take steps to prevent cross border abductions, and to exchange information with the aim of preventing the abduction of children in Africa

Encourages all States, and particularly their agencies responsible for internal security, as well as the International Criminal Police Organization, to cooperate and take steps to prevent cross border abductions, and to exchange information with the aim of preventing the abduction of children in Africa

Although there are signs that SLM A has reined in some of its fighters, for example the number of civilian abductions has declined since the month of July, it appears that elements of the movement are still perpetrating acts of violence, extortion and looting.

BRUSSELS The recent abductions of Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Paul Yazigi, reflect not only the increasing brutality of Syria s civil war, but also the escalating crisis for Christians across the Arab world one that could end up driving them away altogether.

From 9 to 15 October 2004, the county held a township competition to identify leading collectives and individuals in the campaign to prevent abductions, and arranged speaking tours around the county for those chosen in an effort to increase the public profile of the Zero Plan.

In March 2003, the Ministry of Public Security, the All China Women's Federation and UNICEF jointly designed and promoted a logo for use in campaigns against abductions and trafficking in women and children its introduction served to stimulate public interest in, understanding and support for the goals of these campaigns.

Moreover, Israel is disappointed that the United Nations, despite various organs represented in Lebanon, is incapable of preventing such grave violations of the blue line from the Lebanese side the infiltration of army posts, gunfire attacks against military and civilians, attempted abductions and mortar and rocket fire attacks against Israeli communities.

Strongly condemns in that respect the repeated abductions of personnel of those missions in the past, deeply deplores that none of the perpetrators have ever been identified or brought to justice, reiterates that it is the responsibility of the parties to end this impunity and calls upon them to take action

The trial anti abduction programme jointly operated by the All China Women's Federation and UNICEF in Renshou County, Sichuan Province, uses social mobilization, interdepartmental cooperation and overlapping training programmes offering families, schools and communities information to help combat abductions and legal, medical, psychological and other institutional services to help victims reintegrate into society.

Increasingly, young people around the world see the connection between the abductions in Nigeria, the rape and murder of young girls in India, so called honor killings of Pakistani girls who marry against their families wishes, genital mutilation of girls across Africa, and child trafficking for full time work, often in slave labor conditions.

(e) The gross violations of the human rights of women and girls, including all forms of discrimination against them, notably in areas under the control of the Taliban where findings of further gross violations of the human rights of women and girls include abductions and kidnappings, as well as accounts of many instances of forced marriage and of trafficking

In October 2004, a delegation of representatives of the State Council National Working Committee for Women and Children, the National People's Congress, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Commerce and the All China Women's Federation attended the Ministerial Conference to Combat Abductions and Human Trafficking in the Mekong Subregion in Myanmar.