As such the number of children can also be used as proxy for other variables closely associated with poverty but which may be more difficult as a characteristic for targeting
With no field presence, it was difficult to systematically monitor whether the implementation of UNCTAD policy recommendations and other international agreements was sufficient or to follow up at the country level and to discern the needs of Member States first-hand, even though UNCTAD maintained working relationships with policymakers and experts on specific issues.
Mahathir's record of curbing civil liberties and his antagonism towards western interests and economic policy made his relationships with the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, among others, difficult.
[Note to the Working Group: The Working Group may wish to note that limiting the priority given to storage and repair claims over security rights by reference to the extent to which they add to or preserve the value of the encumbered assets may give rise to a difficult and costly evidentiary burden for repairers, storers or transporters.
Country life now holds little charm because of its isolation: lack of communications infrastructure (television, radio), a poor road network, making travel difficult, and underdeveloped and poorly equipped social and health facilities.
As of December 2008, 231 of the country’s approximately 400 districts continued to report near-total accessibility, while 10 were considered completely beyond the Government’s control and access to 165 remained difficult or problematic.
These included the need for building capacities and specialization which are difficult to accomplish in small states which may lack tertiary education and professional training institutions
That task is made somewhat more difficult by the fact that the central international instrument relevant to trafficking, the Palermo Protocol, is not clear on the issue of the rights of victims.
Guided by these findings and principles, the Department is working to enhance the capacity and capability of the Organization to operate in increasingly difficult environments, with the understanding that there can be no programme without security and no security without adequate resources.
By taking this important, though economically and socially difficult, decision Ukraine has reconfirmed its international commitments, in particular, those under the Ottawa memorandum on the closure of the plant
Since economic opportunism must be assessed against some relevant norm or principle, controversy about what that norm or principle should be, makes a general definition difficult.
We may well imagine that a journey of this kind could have aroused worry and uncertainty, but Epaphroditus (not to be confused with Epaphras of Colossae) was willing to carry out that difficult mission.
The Committee is deeply concerned about the difficult situation and living conditions of Western Saharan refugee children living in refugee camps in the State party.