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Write offs or conversions into grants amounted to 3,724.

Write offs or conversions into grants amounted to  3,724.

In response to this situation, a number of initiatives had been made to enact special legislation to prohibit religious conversions or criminalize allegedly unethical conversions.

(d) Situations where so called unethical conversions have been reported

The same is true, mutatis mutandis, for prohibition of conversions.

The Secretariat failed to provide the Committee with requested justification for the conversions.

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On the first issue, she had received numerous reports, including cases of alleged forcible conversions.

It is the build system which takes care of the conversions from XML to human readable formats.

For the lower middle income countries, the Paris Club also allowed some debt reductions through debt conversions.

Such conversions are sometimes prohibited by law and the acts facilitating such conversion may constitute a criminal offence.

He suggested that the Parties might wish to consider how further HCFC production controls and conversions might impact emissions.

No conversions are being planned since there is currently no consistency in the electronic recording of data, when available

The resources for posts provide for the establishment of six P 3 posts, which represent conversions of existing posts funded from extrabudgetary resources.

As regards conversions, it should be observed that the majority of cases occurred in the past, some of them entailing changes of religion in exchange for material benefits.

The Committee was informed, on enquiry, that the three additional posts for the Executive Office represent conversions from gratis positions previously included in the Office of the Military Adviser.

It was therefore not clear to the Group why the Advisory Committee had recommended against the proposal, particularly since the General Assembly had already approved such conversions in other peacekeeping missions.

Combined, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina account for 26 of the world s Catholics. Yet Latin America s Catholic population appears to be leveling off, due to falling birth rates and conversions out of Catholicism.

That number reflected the abolition of 865 posts, the transfer of posts as a result of net budgeting, conversions from temporary assistance to established posts and the proposed creation of new posts.

25. The breakdown of the proposed conversions of 106 gratis personnel positions into temporary support account posts by offices and functions, including those positions which require military officers, is contained in annex IV below.

Furthermore, PPP conversions have little significance for some countries, most notably China. Rather than permit price surveys in a random sample of locations (required for accuracy), China restricted data collection to a few urban areas.

The report of the Special Rapporteur on her visit to Sri Lanka, which contains conclusions and recommendations with respect to the question of unethical conversions, will be submitted to the Commission at its sixty second session.

It is said that their proselytizing activities are sometimes hampered by abusive official interpretations of legislation prohibiting all forced conversion, or by accusations of obtaining conversions by offers of material benefits, and thus of exploiting hardship.

This sensitivity was not incidental, but based on the Argentines apos long and painful learning process concerning the redistribution and confiscation processes brought into effect by inflationary and depreciatory policies and by price freezes and forced conversions.

Moreover, since the right to change or maintain a religion is in essence a subjective right, any concern raised with regard to certain conversions or how they might be accomplished should primarily be raised by the alleged victim.

The post conversions required above will bring overall information technology staffing to the minimal acceptable level necessary to support the Fund's objectives and will be in line with staffing ratios of other financial institutions of similar size and complexity.

She also draws attention to the fact that the term coercion in article 18, paragraph 21, is to be broadly interpreted and includes pressure applied by a State or policies aiming at facilitating religious conversions. In the case Kang v.

Improving global poverty estimates the World Bank s extend over three decades, beginning in 1981 requires overcoming three major problems insufficient survey data, flawed survey execution, and faulty PPP conversions. Unfortunately, the World Bank s approach has evaded these issues or addressed them inadequately.

The Advisory Committee recommends approval of the conversions and is of the opinion that the option of conversion should be kept in mind when future proposals aimed at creating the desired balance between voluntary contributions and regular budget financing are being considered.

The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief has received numerous reports of situations related to the question of the right to have or adopt a religion of one's choice, including cases of alleged forcible and so called unethical conversions.

As stated in previous letters, the repeated illegal conversions are in violation of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Cooperation adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO.

The gratis positions to be converted at this stage would be unspecified and this interim action would be without prejudice to the post by post recommendations which the Committee will make in September 1998 both for conversions and for the new posts which remain to be considered.

Concerning the clashes between Christians and Hindus in Bombay, the police had made arrests, although no charges had been made for forced conversions to Christianity. It had, however, been alleged that financial assistance had been given to destitute Hindus in order to influence their conversion to Christianity.

9. Notes with satisfaction the clarity of the presentation of the proposed programme budget, including through the provision of organization charts, and requests the Secretary General to ensure that, in the presentation of such charts in the future, complete information on proposals for additional posts, conversions and reclassifications is reflected

Apart from forcible and other conversions that are improper in the sense of human rights law, there are many cases which, while not constituting a human rights violation, nevertheless raise serious concern because they disturb a culture of religious tolerance or contribute to the deterioration of situations where religious tolerance is already being challenged.

The repeated illegal conversions of churches and monasteries into mosques are in violation of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the Declaration on the Principles of International Cultural Cooperation, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1966.

During the Committee s hearings on the subject of the support account, representatives of the Secretary General, in response to queries of the Committee, confirmed that if the request for conversions were accepted by the General Assembly it would be possible to phase out all gratis personnel in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations by the end of December 1998.

According to article 3 1 4 of Order No. 03 002 PR of 28 January 2003, all natural or legal persons, including accountants and auditors, are required to report to the financial information service transactions involving deposits, exchanges, investments, conversions or other movements of capital relating to funds which appear to derive from actions that may constitute a crime or offence.

The Committee was informed upon enquiry that additional staff costs related to the proposed conversion of 64 individual contractors are estimated at 3,872,800, to be offset in part by a corresponding reduction of 2,021,800 under operational costs broken down as follows facilities and infrastructure 1,074,100, ground transportation 315,900, communications 315,900 and information technology 315,900. The conversions are proposed for the following areas

24. Decides to approve the post conversions requested by the Secretary General and recommended by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, as set out in annex IV to the present resolution, with the exception of two posts, one P 4 and one P 3, that had been proposed for conversion to section 5, Peacekeeping operations, from the Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action

UNEP continues to work with private and public banks to promote the role of the financial service sector in sustainable development. 68. Public private partnerships, whether entirely domestic or involving foreign partners, can be a means of realizing military conversions. Small and medium sized enterprises that have a high employment potential should especially be promoted, such as service businesses that originate from military research and development or military sites.