I am fully aware of the importance of the discussion that we are having today and fully aware of past practices.

Where possible, ecological sanitation will be promoted on the basis of its cultural and social acceptance.

In doing so, it creates an awareness of gender equality in power and decision making.

This will go a long way in making the development policy formulation process more gender sensitive.

culturally legitimised violence such as honour killings and genital mutilation of girls international trafficking in women sexual violence, forced pregnancies and forced abortions, systematic violence with serious physical and or mental consequences.

Or, as some people, especially academics prefer, beauty is in the culturally conditioned eye of the beholder.

In the case of organizations, capacity building should aim to encourage cultures that are more sensitive to and supportive of decentralization.

Actually, I thought about making it more culturally relevant, but anyway.

However, now that women were becoming more aware of their rights, they could begin to take their rightful place in society.

Australia, Canada and New Zealand are confronted with significant over representation of indigenous persons in the prison population. One recent response to that problem has been to direct judges to make greater effort to avoid prison sentencing when dealing with aboriginal defendants.

Japan is keenly mindful of the importance of peacebuilding, as seen in its efforts to advocate the consolidation of peace and human security.

Generally the media, particularly the larger national dailies, have shown great sensitivity in portrayal of women victims of violence.

In culturally diverse societies, such as Iraq and Lebanon, networks of social solidarity are based almost entirely on religious and ethnic affinity.

We need an exercise. We need a framework to learn how to be more mindful.

(d) Review current national curricula and textbooks to erase culturally discriminatory materials and enhance knowledge of indigenous cultures

Such an approach therefore implies addressing systemic obstacles in order of priority, implemented according to country specific situations and a good understanding of culturally acceptable practices.

Through hard experience, we have become more conscious of the need to build human rights and rule of law provisions into peace agreements and ensure that they are implemented.

Qatar, aware of its responsibility to safeguard peace, had joined the NPT in 1989.

Inspired in large part by the goals of the Copenhagen Declaration, the World Bank, for example, has become more sensitive to the social dimensions of development.

FAS It's been interesting. A few years back, the yardstick culturally was Black America.

Venezuela's population included 32 aboriginal peoples, who had incorporated themselves into the State as culturally and linguistically distinct entities.

Culturally appropriate measures, developed in consultation with the peoples concerned, are essential if education programmes for indigenous and tribal peoples are to be effective and sustainable.

Assuming that all States are multicultural, the Special Rapporteur believes that there are three main ways of protecting and promoting multiculturalism.

No doubt many Afghan women in burqas are equally convinced that covering their faces is a cultural command and therefore a natural duty.

France, for example, wants a cultural exception in trade agreements that would allow it to continue to support its films from which the whole world benefits.

At the communal level, more deliberate initiatives are required to promote incremental measures for more inter communal trust, interaction and accommodation.

The goal is to combat human trafficking in Africa by promoting culturally appropriate policy responses designed on the basis of a rigorous analysis of the factors that lead to the trafficking of women and children.

The Puerto Rican people had a rich Hispanic cultural background with a worldwide reputation, wished to preserve their cultural identity and should not be culturally assimilated into the United States.

Trade unions, the media and civil society were more aware of human rights however, it was still relatively rare that these groups addressed companies in the context of human rights.

In 2013 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant .

5. Calls upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with other relevant United Nations bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing the separation of refugee families, conscious of the importance of family unity

4. Calls upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with other relevant United Nations bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing the separation of refugee families, conscious of the importance of family unity

The increasing frequency of the Security Council's invitations to the High Commissioner to brief it on specific situations shows that there is now a greater awareness of the need to take human rights into account in resolutions on peace and security.

Ultimately, the goal, once we understand how these subtle effects can change our decision making, we want to be able to provide people tools so that they can consciously make themselves better savers and more conscious investors in their own future.

First, France is an indispensable link between southern and northern Europe at a time of growing economic and financial division between creditors and debtors (a fissure that has begun to assume a cultural dimension).

It is also important to narrow the mismatch between women s abilities and their career paths. The current system tends to reinforce gender roles, encouraging children to follow culturally framed paths, instead of nurturing their individual interests and potential.

Bearing in mind that the imbalance in the actual composition of the staff could result in diminishing the effectiveness of the work of the Office of the High Commissioner if it is perceived to be culturally biased and unrepresentative of the United Nations as a whole,

The Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs helps other Government agencies implement the Charter of Public Service in a Culturally Diverse Society in meeting the needs of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including women.

Foremost, the Special Court will leave behind a sense of justice for crimes committed during the decade long conflict in Sierra Leone and will engender public awareness that criminal accountability for such crimes is possible.

The fundamental problem of Mona s essay is the context and framework of how she analyzes why women in the Middle East are oppressed and the only reason she could give is because men and Arab societies (culturally and religiously) hate women.

From now on, we must think of the Charter as, politically, the lowest common denominator uniting us in a world that is globalizing but culturally fragmenting a world where there are no common strategic, political, economic or cultural perceptions.

I am a cultural omnivore, one whose daily commute is made possible by attachment to an iPod an iPod that contains Wagner and Mozart, pop diva Christina Aguilera, country singer Josh Turner, gangsta rap artist Kirk Franklin, concerti, symphonies and more and more.

There was no day when humanity came together, separate in all of those things and just shared it together that we're in this together, and that if we united and we interculturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

Today the world is being globally integrated by trade, financial flows and the digital telecommunications revolution but, at the same time, is culturally fragmenting as a result of differing perceptions of what international security is, of how to achieve development and, above all, of the relationship between human rights and the State.

Mr. Sami (Egypt), referring to the question of third States affected by sanctions, said that delegations had become increasingly aware of the repercussions that sanctions could have on both the civilian population of the target country and on third countries.