The situation could only worsen if the level of resources for such work was reduced over the next biennium.

1. Risk that the situation will worsen

99. Some new laws worsen the situation.

In his preliminary report, the Special Rapporteur warned that the situation in Ecuador could worsen if the normal working of the country's institutions was not restored.

The fact that building industry enterprises and security companies were sometimes linked to organized crime could be seen as an additional element which would definitively worsen the general picture.

Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low carbon economies. But this threatens to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

The human rights situation in Côte d'Ivoire has continued to worsen in the reporting period.

Yet lessons learned in dealing with exotic species, combined with recent mathematical models of the evolutionary dynamics of tumors, indicate that eradicating most cancers may be impossible. Trying to do so, moreover, could worsen the problem.

83. The problem might well worsen, however, and become complicated with the large scale return of refugees.

The liberalization of services can provide significant benefits to women but can also create or worsen inequalities.48

The reason for the ranking decline is that Brazilian GDP growth is expected to worsen in the medium term.

The impact of the embargo on care for boys and girls with special educational needs has continued to worsen.

Such imbalances will continue to worsen as long as world economic structures are marked by unequal terms of trade.

Without success in diversifying their economies, therefore, these countries are likely to find their relative position continuing to worsen.

Simply put, without a shared approach to security and a dedicated joint response, overcoming our current challenges will be virtually impossible. And, in fact, the situation could worsen considerably, with so called frozen conflicts heating up and reverting to armed confrontation.

With the right international support, Sudan could move decisively towards peace and democracy in the coming months. If the international community fails the challenge, conflicts and tensions that have already cost hundreds of thousands of lives will continue and worsen.

80. Violations of property rights, which are likely to worsen, have led the authorities to take a number of measures.

Without success in diversifying their economies, therefore, these countries are thus likely to find their relative position continuing to worsen.

3. We are concerned at the possibility that the international financial crisis will continue to worsen, to the point where it could entail the risk of a world recession, which would have a highly negative impact on the economy of the region

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

The international community must continue to monitor the evolution of the debt problem, and take measures to ensure that it did not worsen.

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

Conditions in the drought affected areas in central Somalia continued to worsen as evidenced by high levels of malnutrition, ranging from 19 to 22 per cent.

For sub Saharan Africa, it is unacceptable that, despite our commitment at the Millennium Summit five years ago, the prediction is that conditions will worsen by 2015.

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of the ongoing drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of the ongoing drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

Recent events have shown again that, all too often, United Nations peacekeepers are placed in very volatile situations and would find themselves without adequate protection when circumstances worsen.

121. Despite the authorities apos efforts to relieve congestion, Rwandan detention centres are still overcrowded and conditions in some centres continue to worsen. The prison population has kept increasing.

Because of climate panic, our attempts to mitigate climate change have provoked an unmitigated disaster. We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.

The other is that, until and unless we control this epidemic, it will continue to expand and worsen for decades, killing unbelievably large numbers of people and wrecking entire societies.

It was disheartening that each year their situation continued to worsen, particularly with the escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, over the past five years.

This concern is a first cousin to the old mercantilist focus on whether a policy will improve or worsen the trade balance. A mercantilist could be defined as someone who believes that gains go only to the country that enjoys a higher trade surplus, mirrored by losses for the trading partner that runs a correspondingly higher deficit.

In 2002, the US Census Bureau reported that health insurance coverage, considered a prerequisite of adequate medical care, was not only eroding but would likely worsen over the next several years.

Socio economic conditions in the West Bank continued to worsen, a trend exacerbated by the prolonged closures, which hindered economic activity, in particular by preventing Palestinian labourers from working in Israel.

Conferring additional powers on the human rights treaty monitoring bodies, which were becoming more numerous, would only serve to complicate matters and worsen the already existing confusion in the current regime.

Meanwhile, the causes of global imbalance on the US side also seem unlikely to disappear any time soon. And now, with the Fed s QE2 on the table, conditions may worsen before they improve.

European leaders need to get serious about Europe s cocaine problem. The white lady is seducing a steadily growing number of Europeans, and remaining in a state of denial will only worsen the consequences.

But the Union could see its reputation worsen if it allows its commitment to Lebanon to become part of the emerging US strategy of isolating Iran by hardening today s regional Sunni Shia divisions. To avoid this fate, the EU s commitment in Lebanon needs to be supplemented with a nuanced political strategy that seeks to avoid isolating Lebanon s long suppressed Shia population.

52. There was also a need to increase the share of regular budget resources for the United Nations human rights system, whose chronic under funding was projected to worsen during the biennium 1998 1999.

The sharp rise in unemployment in a number of countries in Asia is a trend that is expected to worsen as a result of waves of lay offs due to corporate and financial retrenchment.

By contrast, if global populations continue to rise rapidly, the stresses on the world's resources will worsen. Governments should therefore refrain from deliberate policies to raise birthrates, even in places where birth rates are low.

32. Conditions of safety, shelter, nutrition and hygiene were inadequate in the regroupement camps, which held 10 per cent of the country s total population, or 600,000 people that tended to worsen the sufferings of displaced persons.

For the US, the fundamental cause of imbalances is not a strong dollar, but America s over consumption and over borrowing. A strengthening dollar would worsen the US trade balance, but a weakening dollar could cause panic in capital markets, which might push up risk premia on dollar denominated assets, including US government securities, in turn leading to an economic slowdown and a further weakening of the dollar.

Second, China s fiscal position will worsen rapidly because of massive local government debt. And, third, the collapse of underground credit networks in bustling cities such as Wenzhou will lead to a broad financial crisis across the country.