In older age groups, the number of women, both native Aruban and foreign born, is significantly higher than the number of men.

The number of women is higher in the 45 64 and 65 age groups.

The Expert Group also established contact groups on a number of cross cutting issues.

The personal religious law limits the marriage option for a number of groups in Israel.

The number of participants from the militias and paramilitary groups has yet to be determined.

A number of speakers expressed their concern over the increasing rate of kidnapping, stressing that such actions were linked with organized criminal groups and terrorist groups.

There are a number of groups that are proposing that life evolved at these vent sites.

This is followed, in section II, by a presentation of the recommendations of a number of working groups.

The questionnaire sought advice on a number of conceptual issues and on the treatment of specific occupational groups. It also sought concrete recommendations on the creation of new occupational groups and on improving the descriptions of already existing groups.

Of this number, 11 were disqualified for failing to disarm or having links with illegal armed groups.

The third meeting of the GoE also included a number of working groups which deliberated on various agenda topics.

During the reporting period, MONUC investigated a number of attacks by armed groups on villages in South Kivu.

The number of stakeholder groups has increased over time owing to an increased focus on the multiple values of forests.

The territory was developing relations with its neighbours and was a member of a number of regional international organizations and groups.

The Government of National Reconciliation (GNR) and a number of civil society groups have roundly decried these statements and consequent actions.

It is true that we have been discussing the issue for a number of years now in various working groups.

The total number of participants from governments, the CPF, Intergovernmental Organizations, Non Governmental Organizations and Major Groups was 162 persons.

To flesh out its social policy, SZ I established a number of working groups, including one that focused on gender.

The Act supports the goal of improving the representation of the four designated groups in a large number of workplaces across Canada.

(b) Increase in the number of countries adopting modernized law enforcement procedures to counter organized crime and in the number of countries introducing the use of special investigative techniques to prosecute crime groups

The Bureau noted that a number of regional groups had not yet filled the totality of their respective seats in the Commission.

Thanks partly to this opening, a number of organizations have sprung up such as NGOs, local development associations, groups and cooperatives.

Outside Europe, and particularly in Africa, countries are often composed of a large number of groups, none of which make up a majority.

Similarly, the increasing number of expert groups created a growing need for additional resources on the part of developing country Parties, in particular, as they lacked sufficient experts to guarantee a balanced representation in these groups.

The working groups also made a number of recommendations which aim at enhancing the use of ERS data by countries within the region.

8 The questionnaire identified a number of activities of the international arrangement, including contacts made at Forum sessions and ad hoc expert groups .

Thirdly, there are a significant number of allegations concerning the coalescing of dissident factions of former Ituri armed groups, and newly emerging resupply corridors.

It should be noted that previous studies conducted in 2001 02 on the real number of combatants have always produced far lower figures, with an overall number of combatants barely above 15,000, counting all groups.

While the Government has repeatedly refused to disclose the exact number of administrative detainees, even to the national human rights council, the number of these detainees estimated by independent human rights groups ranges between 16,000 and 20,000.

Saikia and Mohanty compared three Grade 4 groups, with 45 children in each group, on a number of achievement measures in languages and mathematics.

In the case of Guatemala, the number of indigenous people in all age groups completing primary education is lower than the number of indigenous people, even though this traditional gap is gradually narrowing, reflecting a positive but slow trend.

As demonstrated below, there was a slight decrease in the total number of members of affirmative action groups in the public service between 2000 and 2005.

During the last several years, the issue of mobility, especially inter agency mobility, has been discussed in a number of inter agency bodies and working groups.

The legislature today comprises a mix of directly elected members and those representing functional constituencies corporate interests and groups of employees. Some civic groups have advocated increasing the number of directly elected legislators and opening up the functional constituencies to broader electorates.

A number of participants expressed their support for a more active role for regional groups in the nomination process in order to ensure geographical rotation.

Moreover, it would give disproportionate weight to some regional groups that already have it, by creating a Security Council with an excessive number of permanent members.

Ms. Hounkpe Ahougbenou (Benin) said that the great number of ethnic groups in Benin had never posed a problem all had always lived together in friendship.

The security situation in Port au Prince remained volatile, and there was an increased number of violent acts by various illegal armed groups beginning in February.

Almost half of the total number of Puerto Ricans resided in various parts of the United States where, for many generations, Puerto Ricans had intermarried with other ethnic groups.

The SLM A and the tribal militia must also share some responsibility for the deterioration in security, insofar as these groups instigated a significant number of attacks.

The Chair also noted concerns raised by participants about the number of contact groups and informal consultations during sessions and the problems these posed for effective participation.

If we compare data on the education structure 20 years ago and the number of women graduating from secondary schools and university, we see that the number of women in these groups is very high, i.e., number of women with higher and university degrees seeking jobs and does not correspond to the education structure.

26. The Commission also condemns the recruitment of a large number of children by illegal armed groups and urges those groups to stop such recruitment and to demobilize immediately those children currently in their ranks, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004.

The SBI may wish to review such arrangement and recommend to the COP that it revise its previous decisions on the number of mandatory meetings of the expert groups.

Mr. O'Callaghan (Ireland) said that the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform had funded a number of initiatives designed to promote the nomination of female candidates by minority groups.