It has become a convenient element of modern life, but it is also one of life's greatest threats.

Humanitarian assistance operations respond to human need in life threatening situations.

Interim measures are designed to respond to exceptional or life threatening situations.

However, they continued to be exposed to life threatening risks in the discharge of their mandates.

Threats to our natural environment are therefore threats to our very existence.

Libya was thus a vivid reminder of the serious gaps that exist in helping migrants in life threatening situations.

The country spends roughly 60 million annually fighting invasive alien plants that threaten native wildlife, water supplies, important tourism destinations, and farmland.

Threats to international peace and security

For the purpose of this Convention, the term exceptional risk means those conditions that expose United Nations personnel and associated personnel to loss of life or to physical injury.

Noting with concern also the devastating effects of difficult social and economic conditions, armed conflicts and natural disasters on family life,

With global problems like food insecurity and climate change threatening livelihoods around the world, nomadic and pastoral lifestyles have the potential to protect and sustain millions of people.

The problems in Cyprus now threaten international financial stability.

Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts

Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts

The meeting was called to order at 10.15 a.m.

The situation in Côte d'Ivoire

Everyone is broken by life, Ernest Hemingway once said, but some people are stronger in the broken places.

The improved indicators are the direct result of the consistent and concerted efforts on the part of the humanitarian community, resulting in better conditions in all life saving sectors.

In cases that progress beyond a throat infection, diphtheria toxin spreads through the blood and can lead to potentially life threatening complications that affect other organs, such as the heart and kidneys.

Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.

Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.

Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.

Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.

When Sovereignty Risks Global Health

But the first step is to start to create conditions in the region that make living and working there attractive to Russians.

Factors that influence health conditions

First, threats to women's security prevent women from being actors.

And if the very few that survive pass onto their offspring whatever it was that helped them survive, then those offspring must be better adapted to the circumstances in which all this happened than their parents were.

An estimated two of three survivors of childhood cancer will ultimately develop at least one chronic and sometimes life threatening health problem within 20 to 30 years after the cancer diagnosis.

The warlords of al Shabaab are not the only threat to the region s security.

Structural and competitive impediments to growth have been largely ignored.

But this logic failed to account for the political ramifications, which threaten to undermine European unity further.

It also points to serious dangers for the unfinished task of development.

The new and grave threats to international security have permeated the whole spectrum of international debate.

Creation of conditions so that both women an men in Mozambique can participate, on equal basis, in spheres of public life

Now what I learned from her, is a woman, not only who could be so generous under these present circumstances and what it was then, and what was being done to her son, but the life she's had.

Systemic risks drive most crises, and pose a challenge for several reasons.

New York A perfect storm is brewing that could threaten China s relations with the world.

The Japanese police usually overlook private gambling that does not threaten public peace and order.

The existence of weapons of mass destruction represents one of the greatest threats to international peace and security.

We are convinced that the new threats to peace and security require that this standstill be overcome.

But the only economic rights the Bush administration recognizes are intellectual property rights, putting the interests of drug companies ahead of those with life threatening diseases, and the free mobility of capital, which has had such devastating effects on many countries.

We consider it our responsibility to combat dangers threatening our countries, our peoples, our children with the utmost determination. We consider it our responsibility to promote peaceful cooperation and confidence building with the perspective of a new world order to prevent genocide and other dangers for mankind.

That's not the way human circumstances operate.

Overview of information National circumstances that influenced choice of measures Choice of measures was influenced by key national circumstances relating to population, the economy, energy, industry, transport, agriculture and forestry.