The State suffers from a serious impoverishment of resources.

Furthermore, fuel and water collection present severe challenges, as do shortages in the level of material assistance.

The lack of funding thus resulted in the cessation of vital programmes of benefit not only to the region but also to the international community as a whole.

Lack of teachers.

Extreme economic deprivation Neighbourhood disorganization

Conflict situations accounted for the worst refugee problems and usually accentuated the economic deprivations and poverty afflicting the regions in which they took place.

However, the National Defence Force and the national police are facing massive shortfalls including in the areas of equipment, logistics, housing, transportation and training.

The biggest shortages of improved water sources and sanitation services are in the rural areas of Escuintla, Retalhuleu, Petén and Alta Verapaz.

There are serious challenges linked to the relocation, including security, the choice of capital city and lack of infrastructure and resources.

Freedom from want

Freedom from want

Chapter 12 Rural women

She's going to be happy.

How can we live free from want, live free from fear, live in dignity and achieve collective action?

Among those values, human dignity and the dignity of peoples stand out as being incompatible with hunger, want and ignorance.

My delegation attaches the utmost importance to development issues under freedom from want cluster.

For them, development means freedom from want, freedom from fear and hunger and, above all, freedom to live in dignity.

Both are important, and both require allocation of scarce resources that are increasingly hard to acquire.

It was also pointed out that there was a close interrelationship between freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity.

This involuntary poverty consists of indigence and misery due to a lack of the most basic means to sustain a dignified life worthy of human persons.

My research has focused on the consequences of asymmetries in information for the functioning of the economy. But a lack of accurate information has equally, if not more, severe consequences for political processes.

Freedom from want is our primary goal.

A prolonged conflict situation creates poverty and want and uncertainty and fear, and it perpetuates a sense of helplessness and lack of dignity.

If there is to be freedom from fear and freedom from want, there must also be freedom to live in dignity.

Peace is about human security. It is about freedom to live free from want and fear, and about living in dignity.

Nevertheless, the serious shortage in development financing had been a problem for developing countries for many years, and was far from being resolved.

There s only one word for it gendercide. Left unchecked, it will leave India s next generation of men with a severe shortage of women.

69. In both cases, the resulting privations, aimed at overthrowing the leaders, have a serious impact on the civilian population and particularly on vulnerable groups, which are the first to suffer.

In view of the scarcity of resources, it was essential to draw on the experience of existing social and cultural organizations.

The Liberia National Police is greatly handicapped and unable to implement any serious security programme because of lack of resources.

Interactive session on Freedom from want

The section of the report entitled Freedom from want is one of the most important parts of the document.

(20) The Committee remains concerned about reports of serious dysfunctions in the administration of justice, owing primarily to the lack of human and material resources as well as the slow pace of proceedings.

China may come to rue the wanton eagerness with which it has embraced industrialization. Already, the Chinese are beginning to awaken from the infatuation with development that besieged them as they began to emerge from the commodity starved Cultural Revolution.

In areas of acute or chronic food insecurity and or inaccessible areas, WFP provides a monthly take home ration of wheat to both girls and boys.

Optimism is merely a lack of information.

In Eritrea, widespread food insecurity continues to be the main humanitarian challenge.

We proceed from the fact that people in developed and developing countries alike aspire to live in dignity, free from want and fear.

Accordingly, five interactive sessions were held on Freedom from want Millennium Development Goals 1 to 7 Freedom from want Millennium Development Goal 8 and issues regarding financing for development Freedom from fear Freedom to live in dignity and Strengthening the United Nations .

23. The Government still experiences a severe cash shortage.

That reflected a lack of investment which was damaging to leadership.

Lack of, and deficiencies in, information can affect businesses in different ways.

However, the immediate implementation of the projects has been constrained by lack of funds.

Those restrictions have also generated food insecurity and a decline in nutritional levels.

To make peace sustainable, it is imperative to create the right conditions for our peoples to live in dignity and in freedom from want and fear.