Systems of institutionalized violence only intensify and entrench the human and environmental woes plaguing us.

We must do more to improve opportunity, pursue good governance and entrench universal human rights.

The presidential and parliamentary elections of 2000 did not resolve the crisis but, arguably, served to further entrench it.

A smaller human rights body would reinforce that notion and entrench the credibility crisis that the current Commission suffers from.

The control of power and authority by a non cohesive transitional Government has served to further entrench the processes of exploitation and erosion of the natural resource base.

In this regard, Israel continues to confiscate land in Occupied East Jerusalem and to enact other unlawful measures in its drive to entrench its illegal annexation of the city.

The main role of the Forum is to establish mechanisms to entrench racial equality and to contribute to the institutional strengthening of the institutions that are similar to SEPPIR.

The measures adopted within and across countries to entrench the principles of merit, professionalism, accountability, customer care and citizen responsiveness complement efforts at mainstreaming high ethical standards in public administration systems.

Israel has resorted to excessive force in order to impose security, to expand existing settlements and to build new ones in order to entrench its occupation and create a new fait accompli.

(a) To promote the role of sport and physical education for all when furthering their development programmes and policies, to advance health awareness, the spirit of achievement and cultural bridging and to entrench collective values

(a) To promote the role of sport and physical education for all when furthering their development programmes and policies, to advance health awareness, the spirit of achievement and cultural bridging and to entrench collective values

It is still not too late not quite to start couching the broader discussion of nuclear energy in language that will inform rather than alarm, and in terms that will nurture well balanced judgments rather than entrench long held biases.

These actions are part and parcel of a continuous land grab by Israel intended to impose facts on the ground and entrench its occupation, in grave breach of international law and further complicating and undermining efforts for a peaceful resolution of this conflict.

As the latest round of enlargement proves, the EU is very effective at molding the governance and behavior of would be members. Preparations for EU entry strongly motivated the eight former communist Central European states to entrench or restore democratic institutions and market economies.

The junta leaders have done little to facilitate recovery efforts in the wake of the disaster. Indeed, they have announced their intentions to move forward with conducting a national referendum scheduled for Saturday to approve a new constitution, which they hope will entrench their power for decades to come.

Exporters in Europe and Asia have become excessively dependent on selling to the US and other, now weakened, economies like Spain and the United Kingdom. Myopic actions on both sides have helped entrench a longer term pattern of behavior that only makes it harder to move away from today s unsustainable equilibrium.

Did she create a new economic dynamism, or did she leave the United Kingdom bitterly divided, more unequal, and less cohesive than before? Did she destroy the power of vested interests and create a genuine meritocracy, or did she entrench bankers and financiers as the new elite, with disastrous consequences?

In the case of Africa, decades of colonial domination and exploitation which engendered weak political and democratic institutions and the attendant military interference in the political domains of these countries have had monumentally adverse effects on all the institutions necessary to entrench a corruption free society and strong institutions, including the judiciary.

Such decisions by Israel, the occupying Power, reveal its intentions to continue creating facts on the ground and colonizing the Palestinian land in an effort to further entrench its illegal seizure of that land, rather than pursuing a final peace settlement based on international law and on ending its occupation since 1967.

David Miles of the Bank of England predicts three more financial crises in the coming two decades. And, if the BoE s Andrew Haldane is right that rising pressures in Asia threaten future turmoil, the West will regret its failure to entrench global capital adequacy and liquidity standards and a more transparent early warning system.

These conflicts have taught Africa that, in order to contain the centrifugal pressures that encourage fragmentation within our relatively new states, a conscious effort must be made to nurture and entrench national unity, which must include democratic practices. Conflict has also communicated the unequivocal message that unity cannot be secured and maintained by force alone.

Worse, if such a convention failed to consider the underlying causes of forest loss lack of recognition of indigenous peoples' rights, unsustainable consumption and production patterns and unsustainable financial and timber trade flows it could entrench, rather than alleviate the impact of, the factors that are the driving forces of deforestation and forest degradation.

Furthermore, and perhaps because of that failure, it is far from certain that the prescriptions presented by the report would, or even could, enhance the capacity of the international community to address the very threats that have been identified, or whether they would rectify the present shortcomings of the United Nations machinery or further entrench them.

Such actions provide irrefutable proof that it is Israel's intention to entrench its occupation of the Syrian Golan and to refuse to implement relevant international resolutions, including Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981, which considered Israel's decision to impose its laws, administration and jurisprudence on the occupied Syrian Golan to be null and void and without any legal validity whatsoever.

However, at the heart of the issue lies the Iranian regime s aspiration to become a hegemonic Islamic and regional power and thereby position itself at eye level with the world s most powerful nations. It is precisely this ambition that sets Iran apart from North Korea whereas North Korea seeks nuclear weapons capability in order to entrench its own isolation, Iran is aiming for regional dominance and more.