Australia remains concerned at the high levels and pervasiveness of opium production in Afghanistan.

Now, that might seem a bit whimsical, but this pervasiveness of this tendency towards spontaneous order sometimes has unexpected consequences.

(d) Ethics. Given the pervasiveness of information systems and networks in modern societies, participants need to respect the legitimate interests of others and recognize that their action or inaction may harm others

Deeply concerned about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls in all its forms and manifestations worldwide, and reiterating the need to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls throughout the world,

Deeply concerned about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls in all its different forms and manifestations worldwide, and reiterating the need to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls throughout the world,

In China, three quarters of Internet users get online via mobile phones already in Ethiopia and Uganda, four out of five do. Thus, given the pervasiveness of mobile telephony and recent technological advances in mobile networks, rolling out mobile broadband seems a cost effective solution.

We should not underestimate the creativity of financiers seeking to escape capital requirements and leverage up. A brilliant book by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig, The Bankers New Clothes, demonstrates the pervasiveness of this problem and highlights its potentially devastating consequences for the economy.

Given the pervasiveness of Chinese made goods, China s safety record concerns consumers worldwide. But Chinese officials piecemeal efforts to restore confidence in the country s exports for example, establishing limits for trace amounts of melamine in dairy products and tightening quality control regulations for the dairy industry are unlikely to reassure foreign consumers or importers.

Of course, Germany s eagerness to discharge the burden of history is not new. Back in 1998, the renowned intellectual Martin Walser publicly attacked the pervasiveness of Auschwitz in Germany s remembrance culture, declaring that the Holocaust had become a moral cudgel with which to intimidate all Germans and keep them in a perpetual state of guilt.

Yet, incredibly, the rapid spread of HIV and the rising toll of AIDS related deaths failed to galvanize the country s post apartheid leaders, especially former President Thabo Mbeki, into meaningful action. For years, the top ranks of the governing Africa National Congress seemed to be in denial over the pervasiveness of HIV AIDS and how best to combat it.

In her press statement of 18 July 2005, the Special Rapporteur noted that although considerable change in the legal and institutional framework concerning the situation of women in Afghanistan had occurred in the past three and a half years, violence against women remained dramatic in its intensity and pervasiveness in the public and private spheres of life.

Mr. Litver (Netherlands) asked the Special Rapporteur about the consequences on the economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinians of the three main problems he had examined in his report the military incursions into the Gaza Strip, the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law arising from the construction of the Wall, and the pervasiveness of restrictions on freedom of movement.