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.”5 The prevalence of graft cannot remain unnoticed: a taxi driver stops to hand a banknote to a policeman, following unwritten but clearly understood rules that are incomprehensible only to short-term visitors. Parents recite in agonizing detail the payments they are required to make for transferring a child from one school to another, or simply to keep their child in school. (...) The Chinese minority 34. The term “minority” is routinely associated with poverty, while for the Chinese minority in Indonesia it is the opposite - it is perceived as immensely and uniformly wealthy.

The Sovereign and the House of Representatives, the members of which are democratically elected for a three-year term, form the unicameral Parliament. (...) The standing orders of the House of Representatives prohibit a Member of Parliament from “using offensive words” against a member of the judiciary. (...) The Working Group considers that preventive detention following a punitive term of imprisonment must be justified by compelling reasons.

However, the Special Rapporteur also observed that reconstruction projects involving communities themselves had better outcomes.13 In some cases, the design of houses does not correspond to the needs of Maldivians, for whom the house is also a basic livelihood asset. For example, traditional homes in the atolls have a kitchen outside the house, used to cook or dry fish outdoors. In some newly-built houses, the kitchen was located inside the house, making it inconvenient, particularly for those who rely on cooking or the fishing industry for their livelihood. 24. (...) The Special Rapporteur believes that there is a need to promote short- and long-term research into the unique geography of Maldives.

Following the 1996 constitutional reform, Parliament now comprises a House of Representatives, whose members are directly elected, and a House of Councillors, whose members are elected by an electoral college. (...) In November 1999 the King adopted the National Education and Training Charter, a basic text establishing the framework for reform of the Moroccan education system in the medium and long term, setting forth a raft of measures for modernization, laying down the basic principles of education in Morocco and proclaiming 2000 to 2010 the Decade of Education and Training. (...) The Charter sets deadlines and concrete medium- and long-term targets for some of the fundamental objectives of educational reform, but several of these have had to be reviewed and their implementation delayed. 34.

Representatives of the Los Angeles Police Department stated that once they identify a girl, they try to liaise with NGOs providing direct services, or with the fos- 60 Report from the United States Mid-Term Review on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, ECPAT-USA, Shared Hope International and the Protection Project of John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 61 United States Periodic Report to the CRC-OPSC, January 2010, p. 15. 62 National Strategy, p. 5. (...) Similarly, the Las Vegas Metro- politan Police Department stated that the absence of a safe house in Las Vegas means that pre-adjudication detention (up to a period of 8 days) is the only alternative to get the girls off the street and to protect them. (...) Through the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, the Family and Youth Services Bureau of the Administration of Children and Families funds street out- reach, short-term shelter, and longer-term transitional living and maternity group home programs. 62.

Together, we can promote opportunities that support the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement and the development of an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework, taking into consideration the growing relevance of land-based solutions for climate action and biodiversity conservation and the mutually supportive implementation of the three Rio Conventions. (...) He shared his concern that the world is not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 because of long-term water scarcity for humans and ecosystems. Collaboration will be key, and the Global Water Partnership’s 3,000 partners across the world could be instrumental in this. (...) Achieving sustainable development at scale is a major challenge that will require all stakeholders to focus on the long-term economic sustainability of value chains and on the engagement of major businesses.

Accordingly, the outcome of the mission’s findings were applied to develop medium to long-term recommendations to prevent future such emergency situations by, for example, improving the capacity of Côte d’Ivoire to respond to similar incidents. (...) More comprehensive and responsive assistance to prevent and mitigate the short-term effects of the incident would have required resources beyond that which was available in the Fund for this case, noting the potential magnitude of emergency response activities to address a incident involving hazardous wastes. 21. (...) The interim guidelines recalls the mandate of UNEP/OCHA which is to improve the international response to environmental emergencies by serving as a clearing-house for information and a switchboard for disaster notification, and alerting and acting as a broker between affected donor countries.

First, the involvement of diplomats from the United States Interests Section in Havana in the delivery of money from the notorious terrorist Santiago Álvarez, resident in the United States, where he is serving a prison term, to mercenaries in Cuba, mercenaries in the service of United States policy in Cuba. (...) Moreover, yesterday, in the midst of this situation, the United States Interests Section staged and orchestrated another provocation against Cuba and held a meeting in the residence of one of its officials on 7th and 24th streets in Miramar. This house has become - as I said - a sort of convention centre for the counter-revolution in Cuba and for mercenary groups of the United States. (...) Regarding Bush’s speech and that whole spectacle at the White House, I must say that it was a decadent show, an irrelevant and cynical speech, an act of ridiculous propaganda in bad taste.

.: General 23 February 2010 Russian Original: English A/HRC/13/NI/4 2 GE.10-11326 Annex UK Government UPR Mid-term Report: Report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission The Equality and Human Rights Commission is Great Britain’s National Hu- man Rights Institution (NHRI), with ‘A status’ accreditation since 2009. (...) This paper comments on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mid-term re- view statement by the UK on the progress made in implementing the recommenda- tions accepted from the UK’s examination in 2008. (...) The EHRC is concerned that in the UPR Mid-Term review the Government’s primary response to prison overcrowding is building new prisons. 2.

The attack on the al-Daya family house, 6 January 2009 ............................................................ 844-866 187 G. (...) The Mission also examined the intense artillery attacks, again including white phosphorous munitions, on al-Wafa hospital in eastern Gaza City, a facility for patients receiving long-term care and suffering from particularly serious injuries. (...) The first two are attacks on houses in the al-Samouni neighbourhood south of Gaza City, including the shelling of a house in which Palestinian civilians had been forced to assemble by the Israeli armed forces.