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It will pull out of overcrowded sectors at our partner countries' request.

Many of those centres were reported to be overcrowded and inadequately staffed.

Convinced that conditions in overcrowded prisons may affect the human rights of prisoners,

123. Rwandan prisons and detention centres are all more or less equally overcrowded.

We cannot have many millions of people on regular food handouts in overcrowded camps.

The jails visited by the Special Rapporteur were overcrowded and had inadequate medical facilities.

(c) Habitability many of the studies reveal that indigenous peoples often live in overcrowded conditions.

Kenyan prisons were 30 per cent overcrowded, but efforts were being made to decongest the prisons.

Prisons remain overcrowded, with more than 7,000 detainees occupying space for a maximum capacity of 3,750 inmates.

The region's penal institutions are poorly resourced, overcrowded and increasingly vulnerable to the spread of HIV AIDS.

They ranged from the anarchic (Sabaneta), through the grossly overcrowded (La Planta), to the exiguously restrictive (Cochecito).

45. The cachots visited by the Special Rapporteur in the provinces of Kayanza and Karuzi were equally overcrowded.

45 percent of the 14 million people who live in Delhi live in unauthorized slums, which are chronically overcrowded.

With a view to improving the situation in the country's overcrowded prisons, his Government had freed 500 common criminals.

Owing to their overcrowded and unhygienic conditions, the schools are unfit for the purpose for which they are intended.

Cities in the developing world are characterized by inadequately planned and overcrowded settlements without access to even basic urban services.

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

With the large number of persons living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, outbreaks of cholera and other diseases were common.

29. MICIVIH tallied just over 3,500 inmates in Haiti s 19 overcrowded prisons in September, some 200 more than in April.

The Government also continued the Family Housing Programme, which it started in 1996 to ease overcrowded shelters and private houses.

He was kept in an overcrowded cell with 100 other inmates, had no bed to sleep on, and received inadequate food.

As a result of their introduction, the Agency was unable to hire new teachers, and classes in its schools were overcrowded.

Prison conditions are harsh prisoners live in overcrowded and poorly ventilated cells which they generally leave for only two hours a day.

Little efforts were made by the occupying Power to improve the poor condition of 12 overcrowded schools in the occupied Golan's remaining villages.

In Southern Darfur, agencies continue to encounter obstacles to the relocation of some of the internally displaced persons in the overcrowded Kalma camp.

The situation of the refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory was dismal, characterized by high unemployment, extreme poverty, overcrowded shelters and inadequate infrastructure.

1.45 Insufficient project funding for school construction and upgrading of camp infrastructure contributes to overcrowded schoolrooms, poor environmental health conditions and dilapidation of refugee shelters.

135. Usually the ships, many of them converted fishing vessels, that are used for illegally transporting migrants are not seaworthy, dangerously overcrowded and otherwise unsafe.

In this programme the main target groups are members of the San Community, Ex soldiers, Returnees, Displaced persons, People with disabilities and people from overcrowded communal areas.

Potential homelessness may be interpreted to mean individuals living in overcrowded conditions (three or more persons in a room), in primitive housing units or in condemned buildings.

As a comparison, it has been reported that the internally displaced, often in overcrowded settlements and with fewer services provided, generally lived under worse conditions than refugees.

In practice, the detainees were allegedly held incommunicado in overcrowded and unsanitary cells, with inadequate food and washing facilities and without exercise or exposure to fresh air.

The Mission had to rent two additional buses at an extra cost of 109,000, since the available nine buses were heavily overcrowded and represented a safety hazard.

While recognizing the efforts undertaken by the State party to improve prison conditions, the Committee is concerned that most prisons, especially places of pre trial confinement, are overcrowded.

Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

Overcrowded housing tends to accelerate the deterioration of dwellings and increases the risk of the transmission of diseases and the promulgation of domestic violence and other abuses and violations.

It is essential that the judiciary exercise its responsibility for monitoring prison conditions with something like the zeal with which it is prepared to send people to overcrowded jails.

The Committee is also concerned that prison facilities are overcrowded, resulting in difficult living conditions for juvenile offenders, and that juvenile offenders do not always have access to education.

121. Despite the authorities apos efforts to relieve congestion, Rwandan detention centres are still overcrowded and conditions in some centres continue to worsen. The prison population has kept increasing.

The Committee is also concerned that prison facilities are overcrowded, resulting in difficult living conditions for juvenile offenders, and that juvenile offenders do not always have access to education.

The problems resulting from overcrowded prisons are compounded by limited access to health care facilities and legal counsel for prisoners as well as the erratic supply of water to prisons.

Conditions in prisons and detention centres in the country were reportedly abusive. Prisons were said to be severely overcrowded and unsanitary, with contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and dysentery widespread.