... so-called “offshore financial centers” (OFCs) that not comply with international standards In addition to ongoing initiatives in the FATF and the OECD, the Report ofthe OFCs Working Group ofthe Financial ... gain access to the financial system If there is obscurity about their ownership, banks and other financial institutions may not be able to discover the identity ofthe beneficiary ofthe account ... global financial world, which is characterized by the high mobility of funds and the rapid development of new payment tools To secure the benefits ofthe international financial system, we, the...
... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages ofthe compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability ofthe 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end ofthe handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... intelligent machines" can replace "the brain and hand, skill and experience" ofthe specialist The aim of this study was to verify the reliability and efficacy of one of these compact portable diode...
... management in Chapter 13 An appreciation of these concepts and tools is essential to an understanding ofthe functioning oftheglobal money marketsThe final chapter ofthe book, Chapter 14, describes ... Financial Markets 11 12 THEGLOBAL MONEY MARKETS When computing the number of days between two dates, Actual/360 and Actual/Actual will give the same answer What then is the importance ofthe 360-day ... the standard convention for bonds in the U.S and it states that if a bond’s maturity date falls on the last day ofthe month so the bond’s coupon payments 14 THEGLOBAL MONEY MARKETS Number of...
... implementation oftheglobal dumping regime 209 biased in favour ofthe Navy Twelve ofthe sixteen reactors disposed in the Kara Sea were dumped in this period, all of them before the entry into force ofthe ... and offices of several persons involved in the preparation of a report on the waste management ofthe Northern Fleet They later arrested one of them, a Russian citizen formerly with the Northern Fleet ... incident of dumping of liquid radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan to irresponsibility on the part ofthe Navy and the nuclear industry, the Russian Minister of Environment informed the Consultative...
... Every year, our Stateofthe World’s Mothers report reminds us ofthe inextricable link between the well-being of mothers and their children More than 90 years of experience on the ground have ... commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its thirteenth annual Stateofthe World’s Mothers report The focus is on the 171 million children globally who not have the opportunity ... family meals, they are the primary family caregivers and they often eat last and least Given any small amount of resources, they often spend them on the health and well-being of their families, and...
... constitutes a central feature ofthe report The voices of adolescents offering their own perspectives on thestateof their world permeate the entire report The complexities of defining adolescence ... place in the collection of health data, driven by the child survival revolution ofthe 1980s, the 1990 World Summit for Children, the Convention on the Rights ofthe Child and the push for the MDGs ... confine themselves to legal protection Much ofthe sexual violence experienced by adolescent girls is at the hands of their male partner and may not therefore come to the notice ofthe police or other...
... allowed us to extend the debate on thestateofthe nation well beyond the academy The success ofStateofthe Nation is in large measure due to the commitment and effort of its editors and in ... movements: the failed transition to democratic parties A review ofthestateof South Africa’s democracy is incomplete without a critical analysis ofthestateofthe liberation movements other than the ... global activism ofthe Mbeki era has been underpinned by the belief that the international front was one ofthe key pillars ofthe struggle that led to the defeat ofthe apartheid regime in...
... predominant metric for the Programme; a sheet of paper with these three numbers should be placed on the desk of each ofthe Heads ofthe Spearheading Agencies at the beginning of each week This action ... sanctuaries – the northern states of Borno, Kano, Sokoto and Zamfara Together, they are home to two-thirds ofthe polio cases detected so far in 2012 Borno Borno state, in the north-east corner of Nigeria, ... predominant metric for the Programme; a sheet of paper with these three numbers should be placed on the desk of each ofthe Heads ofthe Spearheading Agencies at the beginning of each week This action...
... for mothers and children that safeguards and promotes their rights The second chapter ofTheStateofthe World’s Children 2009 explores the fundamentals ofthe supportive environment and the ways ... way of strengthening health systems The World Health Organization launched the World Health Report 2008, which also addressed the theme of primary health care, on the eve ofthe conference The ... and offer security to citizens Fragile states hold around per cent ofthe world’s population, but they account for 35 per cent ofglobal maternal deaths and comprise ofthe 10 countries with the...
... advance thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, adopted in 1989, was the ... One ofthe targets of MDG – to ensure environmental sustainability – focuses specifically on improving the lives of at least 100 million ofthe 14 THESTATEOFTHE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012 A mother ... from the 1924 Geneva Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1959 Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child The Convention applies to every...
... tools Conditions for mothers and their children they need to break the cycle of poverty and in the bottom countries are grim On average, improve the quality of life for themselves, woman in 30 ... for the children, good for the families, and good for the environment Most Americans would help a hungry or sick child in front of them Tragically, the fact that we cannot see the faces ofthe ... addressing the needs of others both at home and abroad The percentage of population giving money is defined as the proportion ofthe public that had, in the month prior to the survey, given financial...
... allowed us to extend the debate on thestateofthe nation well beyond the academy The success ofStateofthe Nation is in large measure due to the commitment and effort of its editors and in ... movements: the failed transition to democratic parties A review ofthestateof South Africa’s democracy is incomplete without a critical analysis ofthestateofthe liberation movements other than the ... global activism ofthe Mbeki era has been underpinned by the belief that the international front was one ofthe key pillars ofthe struggle that led to the defeat ofthe apartheid regime in...
... the leadership ofthe ANC rejected the report for what it incorrectly saw as the equation ofthe crime of apartheid with some ofthe human rights abuses conducted in the course ofthe liberation ... weakness ofthe labour movement Our assessment ofthestateofthe nation has to be holistic, capturing both the advances made and the setbacks experienced But if our assessment ofthestateofthe nation ... position sees the new state as having arisen out ofthe ashes ofthe old, defeated state; 1 a second suggests that the post-apartheid state has been constructed on the foundations ofthe previous...
... 2004 a year of not just the customary one but of two presidential speeches on TheStateofthe Nation’ The first was delivered on February at the beginning ofthe last session ofthe outgoing ... over the state, and renovating an economy which had been run down by decades of apartheid At the beginning ofthe second decade, there are indications that there is a shift towards the taking of ... Ntsebeza Thestateof corruption and accountability 86 Sam Sole Thestateofthe public service 112 Vino Naidoo Part II: Society Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za Introduction 137 Thestate of...
... the change of power in 1994 Chapter (The stateofthe people) is a summary of South Africans’ evaluation of their state both in terms of their personal situation and that ofthe people they identify ... Coloureds, 42% ofthe Asians, and no less than 78% ofthe Whites In the year 2000 these figures changed substantially to 20.5% ofthe Blacks, 39% ofthe Coloureds, 62% ofthe Asians and 85% ofthe Whites ... reconciliation On the other hand, the even-handedness ofthe TRC’s final report may well have strengthened perceptions ofthe government’s impartiality among white citizens, especially in the light of the...
... 2004 a year of not just the customary one but of two presidential speeches on TheStateofthe Nation’ The first was delivered on February at the beginning ofthe last session ofthe outgoing ... over the state, and renovating an economy which had been run down by decades of apartheid At the beginning ofthe second decade, there are indications that there is a shift towards the taking of ... Ntsebeza Thestateof corruption and accountability 86 Sam Sole Thestateofthe public service 112 Vino Naidoo Part II: Society Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za Introduction 137 Thestate of...
... reflected upon the decline ofthe ‘Washington Consensus’, the ideas which had set the stage for the reduction ofthe role ofthestate in the ‘development thinking’ ofglobal bodies such as the International ... ofthe Department of Sociology ofthe University ofthe Witwatersrand Theirs has been a huge effort, although Stateofthe Nation has evidently become more a labour of love than a burden ofthe ... at the conceptualisation ofthe notion of poverty in the post-apartheid era We then turn to one ofthe more contentious of current issues, that of land restitution as a means of redressing the...