The world is facing serious, new challenges today.

In spite of the commendable drop in the infection rate, Kenya's health sector continues to face serious challenges from malaria and other communicable diseases.

Ms. Holguín Cuéllar (Colombia) said that, despite significant achievements, her country still faced many challenges in promoting the advancement of women.

With respect to Iraq, the people of Iraq face appalling challenges from terrorism.

Progress on the social and economic front will continue to face several challenges.

I believe it will be referred to as a revolution, so to speak when society, faced with great challenges, made a seismic shift from individual getting and spending towards a rediscovery of collective good.

But this stability will face new challenges in 2006.

Nonetheless, the alliance faces three major challenges in a new external environment.

However, serious challenges remain.

Franchising poses particular regulatory challenges.

Five years later, the world is still faced with the challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy.

The Board also notes that UNOPS experienced challenges relating to the integrity of its financial data.

Nevertheless, great challenges still lie ahead for Afghanistan.

These promises meant a great deal to Sharon as he faced domestic political challenges. What is needed now is a parallel letter from Bush to Abu Mazen.

However, the current generation of young people is facing even more complicated challenges than those envisaged 10 years ago.

But let us be clear the people of the Sudan, the donor community and the United Nations face extraordinary challenges in implementing the Peace Agreement.

While stability has been successfully restored in Sierra Leone, serious challenges continue to be faced in building durable peace.

The challenges that remain for Afghanistan, however, are still considerable.

ANKARA As the Arab Spring enters its fourth month, it faces challenges but also presents opportunities.

My country continues to face critical challenges in determining our political agenda, which in turn affect our development efforts.

The country was still facing challenges, with 67,000 people living in emergency shelters built on sand.

Major improvements have been made in the situation of young women and young men in many areas, but we are still facing great challenges.

By contrast, Cameron will face 27 distinct countries (including Croatia, which will join later this year), many of which are facing serious domestic challenges.

The challenges of keeping the world's people alive and healthy are many.

This poses significant challenges for in country coordination and harmonization.

The Islamist Ennahda party leads the government, but it faces a serious challenge from the ultra conservative Salafists of Hizb Ut Tahrir.

At the same time, several major challenges stand in the way of sustainable peace and security.

There are good signs of progress, but children still face major challenges.

Of course, every year has its growth challenges, and 2007 will be no exception.

As the world faced new challenges, it was of paramount importance for Member States to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without conditions.

In some countries, however, the provision of social services poses extreme challenges owing to the large number of families living in poverty.

There are substantial challenges related to biodiversity in areas outside national jurisdiction.

National systems are expected to deliver security and respond to growing public expectations. In addition, many criminal justice systems are facing other difficult challenges, such as corruption, inadequate resources, political interference and inefficiency.

In a world confronted with the challenges of poverty and growing inequality, and exposed to the risks of violence and terrorism, organized and constitutional Government becomes the only guarantee of personal and collective security.

For instance, there are significant challenges at the country level, before the actual provision of services.

No State can hope today to resolve on its own the common challenges and threats to the coexistence and well being of our peoples.

The crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan continued to pose major challenges to the humanitarian community at large.

However, the already dire humanitarian situation, coupled with the tsunami, poses considerable new challenges for the incipient Government of Somalia.

Natural disasters present particular challenges for the fulfilment of national responsibility as regards protection in the context of displacement.

The international community must maintain its commitment to Afghanistan, where President Karzai's Government continues to face significant challenges.

Failing or failed States and those emerging from conflict pose great challenges to international security.

Having withstood the test of war, the Palestinian unity government that was created less than two months before the conflict began will now become the main vehicle for Gaza s reconstruction. But Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah will face considerable challenges beginning with Gaza, where his executive authority is severely limited.

Ongoing decentralization and the attendant administrative reforms have created significant challenges to effective implementation of vector control programs.

She recommended that the participants reflect upon those challenges, review the way in which mandate holders performed their tasks, think about the way they interacted with the broader system, and identify the steps to be taken to ensure that human rights were protected in the most effective manner.

The President said that the world faced enormous challenges affecting children, including poverty, AIDS, conflict and the critical issues of violence and exploitation.