Article 4 Unfavourable Discriminations

Oil and gas export revenues were being paid into a national fund, to assure sustainable social and economic development and cushion the country against the impact of unfavourable external factors.

Public opinion survey conducted by Zogby International (June 2004), selected Arab countries responses to the question, In general, is your overall opinion of the United Nations very favourable, somewhat favourable, somewhat unfavourable or very unfavourable?

But, despite this, the existence of informal development is undesirable owing to its unfavourable effect on equality and the large number of workers not entitled to social welfare or pension insurance.

In addition, the existence of legal disputes creates an atmosphere unfavourable to international cooperation.

The Decree also provides measures to eventually eliminate backward and unfavourable customs for women in these areas.

This is due to the unfavourable ratio of income earners and the number of those being supported.

The consequences of Mr. Hariri's assassination are, in their view, obviously unfavourable to the Syrian Arab Republic.

Noting with concern the deterioration in the Central American economies, mainly due to an unfavourable international economic climate and its negative effects on the efforts of the peoples and Governments of the region to achieve sustainable economic development,

Recognizing that the slow development of the economies of the area has been aggravated in the past two years by an unfavourable international economic climate, which has had an adverse effect on the efforts of the peoples and Governments of the region to promote sustainable economic development in an efficient manner,

There was wide recognition of the need to mitigate the negative effects of globalization and to address the unfavourable trade relationships that marginalized some populations, exacerbated income inequalities between countries and hindered the ability of developing countries to mobilize resources and advance social development.

He highlighted the purposeful work on minimizing negative impacts of unfavourable geographical location of the landlocked developing countries, eliminating barriers in international transport communications.

The lack of any explanation of this important point again sheds an unfavourable light on the objectivity, hence the fairness of the criminal procedure.

Because sustainable development was often complicated by the unfavourable geographical or climatic conditions of many Non Self Governing Territories, the United Nations and its specialized agencies had a particularly important role to play in planning and implementing economic and social development projects as well as building capacity to deal with natural disasters and providing basic services, education and vocational training and communications.

Noting with concern the deterioration in the Central American economies, due, inter alia, to an unfavourable international economic climate and the fall in exports, as well as the adverse effects on the efforts of the peoples and Governments of the region to achieve sustainable economic development, and underlining the need for economic reforms,

However, none were disposed of in 2004 as a result of unfavourable real estate market conditions in addition, the buildings of the countries under review are situated on government properties.

While allowing the mandate of my Special Adviser to expire in April, given the unfavourable climate for peace talks, I made it clear that United Nations good offices remained available to Colombia.

The difficulties in that area had been partly due to the unilateral imposition of an unfavourable security status on the region by the Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator in 2000.

The above factors contribute to the unfavourable health situation of women in the special zones. For the past five years, these departments have been among the ones with the highest maternal mortality.

On the other hand, in the context of an unfavourable economic environment, the structural adjustment measures recommended by the Bretton Woods institutions have contributed to a suspension of recruitment in the public sector.

(k) Take effective steps to ensure that all persons reporting acts of torture or ill treatment are protected from intimidation and from any unfavourable consequence of their action in making such a report

(l) Take effective steps to ensure that all persons reporting acts of torture or ill treatment are protected from intimidation and from any unfavourable consequences of their action in making such a report

The Committee is also concerned at the unfavourable situation faced by immigrants and population groups of immigrant origin in the field of employment and education, despite the State party's substantial efforts in this area.

This reduction became necessary in order to reflect the loss of purchasing power of the support cost income earned in United States dollars, due to the unfavourable euro dollar rate of exchange experienced during 2004.

The Committee reiterates that the requirement that an author exhaust domestic remedies attaches to each allegation of an alleged violation of the Covenant, not simply to the decision of a court or tribunal unfavourable to an author.

Apart from the declining reimbursement rates, the euro dollar exchange rate was unfavourable for the operational budget during 2003 and 2004, resulting in a lower support cost income in the euro currency, despite an increasing volume of technical cooperation delivery.

4.4 The State party does not consider it admissible that the mere existence of a number of judgements unfavourable to a lawyer's other clients should oblige a judge to abstain from hearing a new case in which the same lawyer participates.

The report noted that progress in achieving the Copenhagen goals had been largely uneven and that far reaching efforts were still needed, in particular to mitigate the negative effects of globalization and address unfavourable trade relationships between developed and developing countries.

But Libya is not the only country that has tried to move from dictatorship to democracy with weak institutions and strong tribal identities. Albania, Mongolia, and India successfully passed more complicated tests and offer some useful lessons in democratic transitions under unfavourable conditions.

While taking note of the Act of 1 August 2003 on general principles and planning for cities and urban renewal, the Committee remains concerned at the unfavourable situation faced by immigrants and population groups of immigrant origin in the field of housing.

3. In the event that the recommendations made by the joint body and accepted by the Secretary General are unfavourable to the applicant, and insofar as this is the case, the application shall be receivable, unless the joint body unanimously considers that it is frivolous.

The fact that Mr. Marynich's version of events was disregarded by the authorities sheds a fairly unfavourable light on the adversarial nature of the criminal proceeding, which requires that the arguments of the defence shall be given the same attention as those of the prosecution.

Ms. Gabr applauded the extension of compulsory basic education to eight years of schooling but requested more information on the patriarchal values and unfavourable economic conditions which adversely affected the educational status of girls, as indicated in the written report (CEDAW C TUR 4 5, p. 22).

Although UNIDO's technical cooperation delivery is expected to grow further, the Organization's support cost income is declining as a result of an unfavourable euro dollar exchange rate and ever increasing donor demands for a significant reduction in support costs to be paid to the Organization for its services.

It is not allowed to present people in a manner which, under the circumstances at hand, may encourage debasement, social exclusion or unfavourable discriminations against them by the public, on the basis of mainly gender, race, nationality, language, religion, ideology, age, illness or disability, sexual orientation or occupation.

The unfavourable currency exchange fluctuation of the EuroEUR and the USUnited States dollarD since 2003 has increased the relative share of staff costs that are mainly effected in EURuros, resulting in the need to freeze three key staff posts and limit the use of budgetary resources to travel and consultancy.

Some factors, like the decline in per capita GNP during the triennium 2001 2003,1 and the unfavourable external environment resulting from reduced foreign demand for exports and the falling international prices for certain crops, especially coffee and sugar, have limited progress towards the achievement of a sustained reduction of poverty in its monetary dimension.

Despite the difficulties, however, Bosnia and Herzegovina has made a tremendous effort to give concrete and sound answers on complying with the commitments that Bosnia and Herzegovina is bound to fulfil under the Covenant, without trying to amend the reality, but to reflect realistically the situation in the country in both favourable and unfavourable light, as a standard required by all signatories to the Covenant.

The first author states that, if he had known the name of the reporting judge previously, he would have lodged an objection, as he had well founded suspicions that the aforementioned judge had regularly been handing down judgements unfavourable to his clients since 1992, when the first author had publicly criticized in the press a judgement in penal proceedings in which the judge had participated.

Sustainable development sustainable development in mountain

Source Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Assistance Committee, International Development Statistics, online.

(a) Millennium Development Goals development and consultation

United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1997 Human Development to Eradicate Poverty, box 5.8

Group of 77 (on draft resolutions on women in development science and technology for development global partnerships for development on international migration and development)

Human development (e.g. achieving the Millennium Development Goals) ___________