No steps have yet been noted aimed at recognizing the quasi judicial jurisdiction of the treaty bodies.

Since 2007, many of the cartels victims have been decapitated a tactic clearly aimed at intimidating their enemies.

2 3 of the financed projects have regularly been aimed at supporting organisations that are active in rural areas.

These efforts have been aimed at further distilling the issues which are to be negotiated or dealt with at the Conference.

Plans of action have been developed for each country aimed at devising strategies for better implementing treaty body recommendations at national level.

Notwithstanding the spread of heroin injection, activities in the area aimed at reducing its negative health and social consequences have been limited.

Probably as a result, efforts aimed at fostering cooperation and coordination within the United Nations procurement community have not been as systematic and as productive as they might have been within the CEB framework.

To facilitate those measures, there have been, over the past year, some initiatives aimed at strengthening the integrity of the IAEA safeguards regime.

Based on its analysis, the ACVZ believes that the general policy procedures aimed at achieving emancipation irrespective of gender have been well structured.

So far, China s FDI outflows have been concentrated in developing countries and a handful of resource rich developed countries, including Australia and Canada, and have been aimed at facilitating trade and acquiring access to natural resources.

Many plans have been elaborated over the last few decades aimed at resolving the question of Palestine, the most recent of which is the Quartet's road map.

In Italy's view, these efforts have been aimed at reflecting more closely and more realistically the present international situation in the field of disarmament and non proliferation.

The more familiar sound of these covers may have been more palatable to white audiences, there may have been an element of prejudice, but labels aimed at the white market also had much better distribution networks and were generally much more profitable.

Except for some odd and hapless individuals, there have been no underground armies, separatist terrorists, campaigns of civil disobedience aimed at unseating governments, or even any mass demonstrations.

So how can policymakers address these failures? There has been some progress at the international level on regulatory reforms aimed at addressing market failures, though such efforts have been limited by strident resistance from financial institutions.

Poland has traditionally been involved in the international community's efforts aimed at strengthening the disarmament machinery.

Furthermore, bills had been presented to Congress aimed at encouraging women's participation in politics and governance.

Its fellowship programme has been aimed at ensuring the transfer of technology to its member States.

Most countries have laws aimed at protecting children from abuse and neglect.

The National Post abortion Care Programme is aimed directly at reducing maternal mortality. It has been in operation since 2004 in 22 of the country's hospitals, where a total of 13,928 women with incomplete abortions have been attended.

Throughout the region, elections have been used to create a façade of democracy aimed at impressing citizens and the outside world while insulating the regimes from pressure for genuine reform.

Over recent years an international water agenda had been agreed, aimed at stable management of water resources.

Guidance counsellors had been provided with materials aimed at increasing the study of science, particularly by girls.

Our investments are aimed at overcoming structural problems that have plagued the region.

Having been delayed by two days, the flotilla aimed to reach Gaza on the afternoon of 31 May.

Many countries in the region already have policies aimed at increasing the birth rate.

Acts aimed at humiliating the victim constitute degrading treatment or punishment even where severe pain has not been inflicted.

Up to now, the greatest constraints on peacebuilding have been a lack of strategies aimed at preventing conflict, and then, in the post conflict stage, a lack of strategies aimed at creating a modern, viable economy and at building democracy, starting from small local communities and working up to the national level.

Deeds speak louder than words, and deeds on the transatlantic level have been swift and decisive for example, joint efforts aimed at choking off terrorist financing even when we had strong divergences over Iraq.

The influence of social groups on political outcomes Recently, some political scientists have been interested in many studies which aimed to analyze the relation between the behavior of social groups and the political outcomes.

Consider that the violent extremists have their own media relations committees aimed at manipulating elite opinion.

Initiatives aimed at encouraging female minors to enter the fields of science and technology have continued.

They are aimed at improving the quality of life of Iraqis in the areas of health, education, water and sanitation and have been formulated and implemented by United Nations agencies on a fast track basis.

The US has been lobbying China for some time for economic policy changes aimed at stimulating domestic demand and open markets.

Indeed, Chinese diplomacy has been busy lately in trilateral talks with Pakistan and Afghanistan aimed at achieving reconciliation with the Taliban.

Second, the country s new leaders will have to initiate unpopular measures aimed at revitalizing the ailing economy.

Since then, we have identified concrete actions aimed at promoting and reinforcing the CWC and the BTWC.

China and India have signed an agreement aimed at rapidly increasing trade across their shared Himalayan border.

Even though a number of them have not been adopted, some were aimed at overemphasizing military powers and limiting or reducing the judicial guarantees for citizens, which constitutes an important element for the rule of law.

On the territories of Abkhazia and the former South Ossetian Autonomous District dictatorships based on the clan system and aimed at strengthening the personal power of the ruling elite and obtaining illicit income have been established.

The series of training courses aimed at promoting compliance with article 76 of the Convention have been particularly useful to developing States, which lack the capacity to undertake the complex delineation exercise envisaged under article 76.

On the territories of Abkhazia and the former South Ossetian Autonomous District dictatorships based on the clan system and aimed at strengthening the personal power of the ruling elite and obtaining illicit income have been established.

In this context, a new initiative had been taken by the European Commission a help desk for export promotion, which aimed to help exporters in developing countries to have easier access to the European common market.

As financial contributions and commitments to advance the goals of the Decade have been limited so far, fund raising appeals will be needed, aimed at all stakeholders, such as Governments, non governmental organizations and private foundations.

Egypt has been rocked by mass demonstrations aimed at forcing their totalitarian leader, Hosni Mubarak, from power after 30 years in office.