The second is the elimination of child labour, which is a major impediment to education.

Therefore, desertification ranks among the greatest environmental challenges today and is a major impediment to meeting basic human needs in drylands.

As is rightly pointed out by the Secretary General, poverty and associated problems remain a major impediment to the progress of youth worldwide.

If not resolved, this issue will create a major impediment to the proper planning and execution of audit assignments, particularly for field audits.

We are convinced that disasters seriously undermine the results of development investments in a very short time, and therefore, remain a major impediment to sustainable development and poverty eradication.

The 2005 World Summit Outcome stressed the need to find a timely, effective, comprehensive and durable solution to developing countries' debt problems, which were a major impediment to sustainable growth.

Landmines and unexploded ordnance were seriously damaging the country's economy, in particular agriculture, because vast areas of farming and grazing lands remained unsafe for use. They were a major impediment to post conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, including major road repair and utilities projects.

However, in countries that were short of human capital and lacked the capacity to replace the loss of their most qualified workers, such outflows were a major impediment to economic growth.

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It was to be hoped that such a major impediment to the universality of the Convention could be treated in a constructive manner in the draft instrument enlarging the scope of protection.

The recognition that crime is a major impediment to effective operations and to an environment conducive to attracting investment has raised the interest of the private sector in forming partnerships with crime prevention authorities.

(c) It may be an impediment to electronic commerce.

There is an emerging consensus that high levels of crime constitute a major impediment to sustainable development, undercutting in particular prospects of achieving stable and economically viable societies that would bring benefits to all citizens.

1. Recognizes that violence against women and girls persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of the enjoyment of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development and peace

Mr. Noble said that although climate change is a minor factor in the Bank's development decision making processes, it is becoming more relevant to project planning, and climate variability is already a major impediment to development.

Would that constitute an impediment to their signing the convention?

It is evident from the current report that lack of technical capacity is a major impediment that requires urgent, time bound remedial measures to accelerate the capacity building programmes and thereby move the infrastructure building agenda forward.

For six years now, I have had to report to the Council that the failure to bring Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic into the custody of the Tribunal is the major impediment to the success of our work.

That energy shortage in developing countries is a basic impediment to development.

The non extradition of nationals remains an important legal impediment to extradition.

Such inconsistency is often a major impediment to development. By contrast, the success of the United States as an innovation powerhouse relies on a high degree of consistency across fields ranging from education and immigration to taxation and the labor market.

Senegalese Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye has cited high interest rates as a major impediment to GDP growth. Last November, at a conference marking the Central Bank of West African States 50th anniversary, Senegalese President Macky Sall pleaded for an interest rate reduction.

Ignorance of the law on the part of women was a major impediment to their advancement, and she wondered what steps were being taken at the grass roots level and in rural areas to educate women about their social rights and obligations.

Illiteracy is a definite impediment for citizens of Pakistan, including women, in realizing their rights.

This would include, at a minimum, reforms of labor rules, pension systems, and anti growth provisions of tax codes. It would also include an aggressive attempt to reduce the sovereign debt overhang that remains a major impediment to growth and continues to threaten some European banks.

Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

The cultivation of illicit drug crops remains a serious impediment to the sustainable development of some countries.

The Committee understands that there is no legal impediment to constructing a building on the North Lawn.

But the confusion that has resulted is anything but harmless. On the contrary, it has become a major impediment to a common understanding of current challenges, and thus to achieving a broad consensus on the right path forward one with well defined and differentiated responsibilities in confronting them.

Lack or inaccuracy of reporting is a key impediment to assessing the extent and nature of the problem.

In some areas, the lack of security is still an impediment to effective humanitarian assistance and project implementation.

It also represents a serious impediment to the conduct of effective investigations in Darfur by national judicial bodies.

The tension between Modi s avowed economic reformism and the cultural nativism that animates his government s electoral base is a major impediment to progress. After all, the political majority that Modi needs to pursue his economic policies depends on the organizational capacity of the very people whose chauvinism is undermining him.

Am I not better than this contemptible (man), who can scarcely make things clear (because of the impediment of his speech)?

Am I not better than this contemptible (man), who can scarcely make things clear (because of the impediment of his speech)?

The cultivation, production and trafficking of narcotic drugs is another impediment to the consolidation of peace, stability and development in Afghanistan.

Secondly, an expansion involving six new permanent seats would constitute a formidable impediment to the effective functioning of the Security Council.

Recognizing that violence against women is rooted in historically unequal power relations between men and women and that all forms of violence against women seriously violate and impair or nullify the enjoyment by women of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to the ability of women to make use of their capabilities,

Germany refuses to accept that its beggar thy neighbor economic policies reflected in its massive current account surpluses are both a cause of the eurozone crisis and a major impediment to resolving it. Instead, it bullies others to get its way, wrongly identifying its narrow interests as a creditor with those of the system as a whole.

The world should be thankful that there is at least one. Where she was born should not be an impediment to her prospects.

Unilateral sanctions, imposed outside the United Nations, were a violation of the sovereignty of developing countries and an impediment to their sustainable development.

This impediment to communication will be removed by the end of 2005, when the staff will again be accommodated in a single building.

The lack of adequate capacity in many developing countries is a serious impediment to the implementation of the Convention and its related agreements.

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.