Intolerance was perhaps the most difficult challenge to address.

Greek society is gradually realizing that racism is a threat and must be confronted.

It is a menace affecting all of us, and the international community must continue to work together to confront and defeat it.

Another issue is that of the threat to international peace and security posed by terrorism and the means to combat it.

Opposition leaders do not like the subject, but they avoid challenging it.

This presents a challenge that must be addressed if workers are to support efforts to address climate change.

But he is deeply mistrusted by other Shi a leaders, who fear that they may one day have to take him on by themselves.

We must keep on pressing for the development and adoption of strategies that mitigate, and build resilience to, the impact of climate change.

We also believe more equitable representation of the developing countries for the non permanent seats of the Council is vital and long overdue.

Despite earlier differences on how to deal with Musharraf, Pakistan s leading political parties are now united against him.

The Assad regime, with its own external supporters, seems likely to have no difficulty matching any new hardware thrown at it.

The new global threat would only be countered effectively through the implementation of an integrated United Nations strategy based on international law.

From a young age, Pedro viewed her gender identity as that of a woman, despite the lack of understanding, discrimination, and exclusion that she endured. She now counts on the support of her family.

As Brazil qualified automatically as hosts, each team had a bye on the date they would normally have been scheduled to play Brazil.

Help me democratize sustainability by bringing everyone to the table and insisting that comprehensive planning can be addressed everywhere.

Without this nuance, an American citizen who is armed now has no obligation to withdraw when faced with a threat.

The Bush administration has created a transnational apparatus of lawlessness that he alone, without global intervention, can neither roll back nor control.

Russian leaders continue to perceive the West as a phantom enemy in opposition to which all the traditional mythologies of Russian foreign policy are being resurrected.

But those who adhere to the motto Terror can only be countered with terror should remember who coined that phrase Adolf Hitler.

The positive comments and the excitement and readiness of the patients in embracing the surgery made her forget the potential risk that she would be undertaking.

And an especially important challenge that I've had to face is the great shortage of mental health professionals, such as psychiatrists and psychologists, particularly in the developing world.

In a country that has one of the youngest and fastest growing populations in the world, access to land is a challenge that refugee policy in Uganda must face.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

Women and girls are particularly vulnerable owing to gender as well as ethnicity to a horrific practice whose aim is to demonstrate the army s power and punish those who confront it.

Several Latin American leaders and commentators recommended that US President Barack Obama attend, despite Castro s presence, in order to confront him about Cuba s dearth of democracy.

The uprising in Tibet, and the government s response, have highlighted ethnic tensions within China that the Chinese government is having difficulty managing.

At the same time, France has given a strong mandate to its new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is without question the most formidable political adversary the ECB has had to face in its brief history.

And while important work has been done on issues as diverse as migration and climate change, the scale of such long term challenges is far greater than our collective action to date to meet them.

Such a policy is fraught with danger indeed, it is inherently self defeating, as the establishment of a peg or a band provides an obvious target against which speculators can take huge positions.

Leaders of major US companies have decided that global man made climate change is real, must be controlled, and that business must play a constructive part in the process.

When faced with the next Ebola like challenge, our ability to meet it will depend on the strength of local institutions and our ability to develop the right tools with which to fight it. There is no telling how many lives may depend on the steps we take now.

The challenge of providing sufficient funds for an adequate international response to all humanitarian needs, including forgotten emergencies, disaster preparedness and so on, should be addressed in the broader perspective of the need to increase the total volume of donor contributions.

If the above is the true test, the problem which must be faced by international lawyers is that of formulating a series of presumptions to meet the cases where the words in the treaty itself do not show clearly what was the intention of the parties at the time when they made it.

How did Ukraine reach this state of cynicism? A year ago, everyone gathered in the streets of Kyiv knew what we were standing up against a corrupt government that sought to command life and labor, and to dispose of state property, at its will.

UNCTAD reported in 2004 that the growing foreign role of Southern corporations was not receiving much attention from the Governments of the South even though this aspect of their countries' integration into the world economy would be a challenge that more and more of them will face .13