Biological prospecting is an emerging sector based on increased cooperation between the private sectors, academic centres, medical centres and foundations.

It also welcomed the regrouping of information centres in Western Europe, which would make it possible to make funds available for less well endowed sectors such as information centres located in developing countries, or for strengthening multilingualism on the United Nations website.

Trafficking victims were taken in by church based centres, legal aid centres and women's rights centres.

We have also focused our efforts on establishing scientific research centres.

International workshop on the GHS for first aid and poison centres

Where research centres exist, studies concentrate on climatology and climate change.

Furthermore, it encouraged ESCAP to continue its work in developing sustainable models for community e centres, documenting good practices and conducting training workshops for those centres.

Model 2 Regional and subregional centres linked to existing centres

Gender centres were active on all eight Objectives, particularly the Objective 3 on gender equality.

It planned to triple the number of such centres currently 2,000 by 2008.

The six centres will work on the following priority areas in public health

Feasibility study on regional and subregional centres for capacity building and technology transfer

Development and maintenance of the United Nations Information Centres web page on the United Nations website and those in local languages by the network of United Nations information centres

centres and offices

and subregional Centres

Six health centres.

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It must somewhere be believed that it is better to group United Nations personnel in so called regional centres and to periodically visit States like Palau, or to bring Palauans to those regional centres for seminars and workshops.

The Subcommittee expressed strong support for the secretariat's efforts in documenting national initiatives and conducting training programmes on community e centres to build capacity in the establishment of the centres.

To this end, it provides financial resources and technical advice to centres within these countries.

This will be done in partnership with Southern centres of excellence, universities and research centres.

The police were cooperating well with State and municipal institutions and non governmental organizations in the field, and there were various crisis centres, resource centres and psychological and medical assistance centres for women, as well as child rehabilitation centres.

In this regard, it noted with interest the information on the activities of welfare protection and vocational development centres set up under the Act, including statistical information.

The Juvenile Justice Code and the Law on Prisons and Detention Centres were also adopted.

Did it also subsidize grass roots activities by NGOs and did it operate shelters and rehabilitation centres for trafficking victims?

United Nations information centres

United Nations information centres

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To that end, the parties have reached an agreement on the reciprocal opening of cultural centres.

In order to have closer collaboration with existing centres that have complementary mandates to the Stockholm Convention, the regional and subregional centres for the Stockholm Convention could be housed in hosting institutions alongside Basel Convention regional centres or UNIDO UNEP national cleaner production centres.

The Government also agreed to cooperate on granting access to detention centres and on identifying mechanisms to avoid forced relocation.

The financial arrangements by which the centres will be funded are critical to the success of such centres.

(e) The option and benefit of funding the United Nations information centres on a cost shared basis with other United Nations entities that benefit from the services of the information centres in each location

Ms. Heyzer (Executive Director, UNIFEM), referring to the question on non resident agencies and possible alternatives, said that the issue was how the regional centres could become technical centres that could support country teams.

(e) Regional remote sensing centres

Existing regional and subregional centres

UNIDO UNEP cleaner production centres

In that regard, States parties should promote, in the areas where such persons live, institutions such as free legal help and advice centres, legal information centres and centres for conciliation and mediation.

The thrust of our national youth policy centres on youth empowerment in different spheres of national life.

It has a global network of country offices and regional service centres and a close association with UNIFEM.

Monitoring food caused diseases, when it comes to microbiological contamination, is performed by the Epidemiology Service of the Health Protection Institute on the basis of the reports sent on regular basis from the health centres.

It endorsed the secretariat's proposal on the areas of capacity building activities the establishment of community e centres e government, e business and other ICT applications and public private partnerships.

Network of United Nations information centres

Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres

The domestic violence reporting centres, which provide information on available places, do not yet function as they should.