The levels of violence remain too high.

High levels of violence, exploitation and abuse were also perpetrated against children in these areas.

Although most observers had expected a resumption of violence in the spring, the extent and reach of the violence have exceeded the levels of previous years.

Violence against women has become an important focus of action at the national and international levels.

High levels of urban violence and victimization have generated increasing fear and insecurity among urban populations.

I'm going to talk about four different levels of civil response against violence, from weakest to strongest.

While levels of organized violence have recently abated, banditry continues to plague humanitarian activities in Darfur, Sudan.

The world we envision as being free of violence for all women requires early interventions at all levels.

For example, they are more vulnerable to sexual and gender based violence, especially in camps, where the risks also include increased levels of domestic violence and child abuse.

When certain levels of violence and denial of human rights are reached, the international community finds itself compelled to act.

In Kyrgyzstan, just over the last few weeks, unprecedented levels of violence occurred between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.

Levels of violence were very high, with sustained attacks on candidates, election workers and Iraqi and multinational security forces.

Nevertheless, despite the increase in the last two months of 1992, anti Semitic violence did not reach the levels of 1991.

The high voter turnout defied expectations, given the levels of violence and intimidation from insurgents attempting to disrupt the process.

The Armed Violence Prevention Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to strengthen national capacities and to promote coherent institutional synergies at international and regional levels on armed violence prevention.

3. Invites Member States to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace and non violence, in particular during the Decade, at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non violence is fostered at all levels

2. Invites Member States to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace and non violence, in particular during the Decade, at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non violence are fostered at all levels

Violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women on both individual and societal levels.

Aware that inadequate understanding of the root causes of all violence against women, including crimes committed in the name of honour, and inadequate data on such violence hinder informed policy analysis, at both the domestic and the international levels, and efforts to eliminate such violence,

Have Governments done enough over the past five years to foster peace and non violence at all levels?

They have pointed out that domestic violence against women is still very common, affecting large numbers of women at all levels of society.

2. Invites Member States to continue to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace and non violence, in particular during the Decade, at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non violence are fostered at all levels

2. Invites Member States to continue to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace and non violence, in particular during the Decade, at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non violence are fostered at all levels

2. Invites Member States to continue to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace and non violence, in particular during the Decade, at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non violence are fostered at all levels

2. Invites Member States to continue to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace and non violence, in particular during the Decade, at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non violence are fostered at all levels

24. Since the beginning of the decade, humanitarian staff have been increasingly exposed to unacceptable levels of violence in the course of their work.

An extremely fragmented society devastated by high levels of violence is now endeavouring to rediscover ways of becoming part of the peace construction process.

The study, based on children's human rights to protection from all forms of violence, aims to promote action to prevent and eliminate violence against children at the international, regional, national and local levels.

Its landmark Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (resolution 48 104), which also contains a definition of violence against women, provides the framework for analysis and action at the national and international levels.

The dearth of data on violence against women at all levels is cited to explain why the globally agreed Millennium Development Goals do not include the elimination of such violence as a target or indicator.

D. Measures and concerted action at the regional and international levels aimed at the elimination of violence against women 63 64 19

Aware that inadequate data on violence against women, including crimes committed in the name of honour, hinder informed policy analysis, at both the domestic and the international levels, and efforts to eliminate such violence,

In this respect, patterns of discrimination and disadvantage, if unchecked, have the potential to develop into levels of violence that may reach genocidal proportions.

This includes levels of residential burglary, property and street crime, incivilities , substance abuse and violence against women, and there is more intolerance of crime.

Urban youth in many countries experience high levels of violence and crime, associated with drug trafficking, the presences of small arms and sexual exploitation.

The chapter will consider the costs of violence against women by assessing surveys, research and studies on the costs of violence against women at the individual, family, community and societal levels and their scope, content and findings.

The extensive work undertaken by different actors at different levels has led to a better understanding of violence against women and appreciation of its impact.

78. In recent years, the Brazilian legislature has taken many initiatives regarding violence against women at federal and State levels.

The effects of children witnessing or suffering violence on their way to and inside school were noted, including by the children themselves, who indicated that getting to school involved unpredictable levels of violence and difficulties caused by checkpoints and similar obstacles.

Efforts should be made to address the fundamental causes of violence against women and the means of combating it, including legislation at the national and international levels.

The results of the research, which were published in 1990, highlighted the many causal factors involved in conjugal violence in the area at all levels of society.

Her delegation believed that the United Nations system had played a fundamental role in raising levels of awareness of the issues of gender equality and violence against women.

Some evidence suggests that the prevalence of uncertainty may boost competition, thereby sparking innovation. Furthermore, social environments that are characterized by lower levels of consensus and higher levels of violence may be more likely than their more harmonious counterparts to catalyze radical innovation.

I'm going to talk about the role we members of society play in this phenomenon, and about four different response levels we citizens have against violence.

Levels of victimization from crime and violence are higher among youth than among persons in other age groups, and are particularly high among youth at risk.