A refusal to act, after all, is also a political choice.

Besides, is inaction a real alternative?

Integration into the European labour strategy would be yet another step towards increasing female participation in the labour force.

Working in so uncompetitive a market is a real stroke of luck.

For UNICEF, achievement of the Goals is the central to the agenda for children.

One of the gravest problems at present is terrorism. We believe that there is an urgent need for collective efforts in the face of that scourge.

Solomon Islands hopes that the approach taken by the General Committee this year in discussing the two items must not and should not set a precedent for future General Committee working methods.

Acknowledging that we have been using the wrong framework is the first step toward finding a solution.

In Africa, the integration of the NAPs into macro economic planning is an important issue.

In the workplace, noise pollution is generally a problem once the noise level is greater than 55 dB(A).

We urge States to participate actively in that work, which constitutes a fundamental element of the Court's mandate.

The International Labor Organization s Decent Work Agenda of employment and enterprise, social protection, sound labor relations, and fundamental rights at work creates a solid platform for fair globalization.

Embracing the new rice is part of the working smarter formula.

Working together with a genuine sense of regional community is a challenge in itself, but one well worth addressing.

What can be done? There is no universal fix in economic development, and pluralism of approaches has great value.

Anything less is a dereliction of moral duty.

Acting now can be thought of as buying what financiers call tail insurance some protection against the most adverse among all the possible outcomes.

Decent employment is the surest way for the poor to escape poverty, and must therefore be a priority of any serious effort to reduce poverty on a sustained basis.

A major theme of the underlying political debate in the United States is the role of the state and the need for collective action.

It represents the largest foreign direct investment project in Afghanistan s history and creates hundreds of jobs.

Pushing the Muslim Brotherhood back underground is a recipe for further instability.

In poorer countries, women s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children s well being than the stability of marriage.

By 2020, for example, young Roma will make up one third of the new entrants to the workforce in Hungary.

Supporting the development of such capacity is perhaps the single highest priority on the international disaster reduction agenda.

Building of partnerships for the implementation of the NAP process is one of the central provisions of the Convention and its regional implementation annexes.

stressing the absolute necessity of full compliance with all the provisions of the NPT by all States Parties

The training of professionals in member States would be critical for the success of PACT.

My delegation still supports the five Ambassadors' proposal and considers that it forms a good basis for relaunching the work of the CD.

Nevertheless, the Programme of Action constitutes a good basis for addressing the phenomenon of illicit small arms and light weapons.

This last element is important because only the working age population represents an economy s productive potential.

Reaffirming its determination that this terrorist act and its implications constitute a threat to international peace and security,

In the coming years, a more fully fledged service economy will be an essential ingredient to increase employment and lessen China s reliance on manufacturing.

The IMF s change of heart is important, but it needs to be followed by further action.

In Sweden, the disability dimension was an integral part of the baseline study of the new National Action Plan for Human Rights.

The work of UNIDIR constitutes a particularly relevant contribution to the consideration and the analysis of international security issues in the current situation.

Despite their similar objectives, establishing linkages between NAPs and PRSPs constitutes a challenge.

This is crucial for rural employment, without which poor rural young people will be driven away from their communities in search of work in the cities.

Alternative modes of action remain limited and vulnerable, but they exist and will not disappear in an authoritarian regime, that is already a significant achievement.

Banking is inherently competitive but at the same time, it is not an industry where competition ever worked very well.

It was further explained to the Group that the articulation of the work being done by ONUB and the United Nations agencies was a major challenge.

The work of the United Nations development agencies and funds has been a concern for the Special Rapporteur since the beginning of her mandate.

In the framework developed by the development economist Dani Rodrik, a shortage of capital can be a binding growth constraint the place where the biggest bang for the policy reform buck can be obtained.

Unfortunately, standard cost accounting methods developed about 100 years ago, when labor comprised the most important cost in manufactured goods.

The promotion of interreligious dialogue and dialogue among civilizations are, in our point of view, two components of the same action to fight obscurantism and extremism of all types.

During the last years, there has been an increase in female labor participation in the labor market is one of the main changes in this field in Brazil.