The percentage of households with women as the head of the households is 14.8 .

The ratio of households headed by women increased to nearly 27 in the year 2003.

The commission, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Eliyahu Winograd, has just published its interim report.

In rural areas, almost 19 per cent of households are headed by women.

The opening ceremony was presided over by the Ministry of Justice and was graced by the presence of many eminent persons such as

Within eight days of the rape, a special commission, led by former Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Verma, was established.

The trainees must come form families living under the poverty line and mostly from female headed households.

Female farmers in the mountainous and remote areas, especially single, household headed and old women, are the most vulnerable group.

The emerging diversity of household types includes an increasing number of households headed by women, as well as those containing several generations.

The Technical Secretariat, chaired by the Vice Ministry of Defence, plays a vitally important role in activities aimed at controlling weapons of mass destruction.

Female farmers in remote and mountainous areas, especially single, household headed and elderly women are the most vulnerable.

Among households headed by women, non agricultural income accounts for 77 per cent of the total.

In some female headed households, men are away on temporary and seasonal migration, while continuing to maintain decision making powers.

There are female headed households without a link to males because women are unmarried, widowed, divorced or abandoned.

The World Association of Children's Friends, presided over by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hanover, decided to allocate funds received to the restoration of schools and health care centres.

According to surveys carried out in some localities, the number of households headed by women who enter into loan contracts accounts for 37 .

I should like also to express our appreciation to the President of the Gabonese Republic for the efforts made by his country in guiding the work of the previous session of the General Assembly.

In the case of children aged 11 to 14 years who live in families headed by women

Attention should be drawn to the correlation, in rural areas, between poverty levels and the receipt or non receipt of remittances, particularly among households headed by women.

The inter agency focal point network on sexual exploitation and abuse, chaired by MONUC, is following a joint approach to combating sexual exploitation and abuse.

In preparation for the open debate, the Council held an Arria Formula meeting on 16 February chaired by Jean Marc de La Sablière, the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations.

The Western and Central Pacific Ocean Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), currently chaired by Australia, held its first meeting in the Federated States of Micronesia in December 2004.

In the preceding year, 4.1 per cent of households headed by men were visited by a technical expert, compared to a negligible 1.3 per cent of households headed by women.

Some households, including female headed multi generational households, may also have a missing middle generation as a result of migration or the impact of HIV AIDS.

The Task Force, chaired by the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, comprises representatives of 22 United Nations system entities and observers from intergovernmental organizations and civil society.1

The Panel considered information from the report to the Secretary General by a United Nations Mission led by former Under Secretary General Mr. Abdulrahim A. Farah (S 22535) (the Farah Report ).

On behalf of the Council, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to all the members of the Security Council mission, which was very ably led by Ambassador Sardenberg, for the manner in which they carried out their important responsibility on behalf of the Council.

Session I was chaired by Mr. Zorhino Massamba and considered two topics (a) an overview of traditional political institutions in Central Africa and (b) political involvement in traditional public life.

There should be a concerted inter ministerial programme to address issues of land and property reform, with particular emphasis on vulnerable groups, households headed by women, nomadic peoples, internally displaced persons and returnees, among others.

According to the Bank of Social Policy, by December 2002, woman headed poor households accessing to credit loan accounted for 60 (increased by 20 as compared to the third and fourth reports).

Through this mechanism, Dr. Ezekwesili's BMIU, as of the time of preparing this study, has saved her country over US  1 billion that would have been paid out in inflated contracts.

Generally speaking, between 1998 and 2001 the percentage of households headed by women declined among the extremely poor population (except in rural areas of the central region, where it remained stable), but increased among the non indigent poor and non poor populations.

Mainstreaming a gender perspective in the United Nations African Union led process for the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region was a focus of UNIFEM efforts in 2004.

Among the most hit by food insecurity were households headed by women, those with a large number of dependents and unskilled breadwinners, and those with chronic ailments or disabled members.

This session was chaired by Mr. Blaise Diba and focused on two topics (a) the media the press, television and radio in particular and efforts to combat discrimination, introduced by Mr. Athanase Karayenga and (b) the media and the promotion of tolerance, introduced by Mr. Teferra Shiawl Kidanekal.

In contrast to these official figures, research by the International Foundation for Global Economic Development directed towards detecting gender gaps put the percentage of female headship in rural areas at 27.5 per cent in 2002.

Key US foreign policymakers now openly contradict conclusions reached last year by the Independent Task Force on Chinese Military Power headed by former defense secretary Harold Brown and retired admiral Joseph Prueher.

In 2004, the incidence of poverty was higher among male headed households (23 per cent) than in households headed by women (13 per cent), a pattern similar to the one observed in 2000.3

The increase was more pronounced among the non indigent poor than among the non poor (except in rural areas of the Pacific region, where it declined among the non indigent poor but increased among the non poor).

Although India is right to avoid taking financial liberalization to the extreme that the United States did in the decades before the recent meltdown, it can do quite a lot without assuming inappropriate risks, as a commission headed by Rajan detailed a few years back.