Yet, violence against women continues and often increases even as armed conflict draws to an end.

The number of recruits volunteering to serve their country continues to increase.

However, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons continued to rise.

Diphtheria is still present in Latvia despite increasing immunisation.

While this is, in 1996, an increase over the previous years, participation continues to be very low.

This is still a very high number, and we are looking into all sorts of methods of increasing private sector investment to increase private sector employment.

The programme continued to increase sustainability despite continued growth in operating expenses.

Wages are very low, and although they have increased considerably, they are still insufficient wages have increased by 22 per cent in the public sector and as much as 300 per cent in the private sector over the last two years.

And it's expanding.

I'd gained a lot of weight and developed something called metabolic syndrome.

There is still increasing production of synthetic drugs and ATS in some countries.

The number of women in the labour force had increased considerably even if their total numbers remained low.

Although the country's export base has improved, mainly because of the export of mineral resources, the level of imports remains elevated.

The police remained in the towns as the day went on, as crowds of ethnic Albanian demonstrators grew.

(b) The increase in workload is accompanied by an ongoing re engineering effort that places a heavy burden on the staff.

The looting and pillaging continued banditry is on the increase trucks have been stolen at gunpoint and some drivers killed.

While trafficking in cannabis herb still dominates the global situation with regard to trafficking in cannabis, trafficking in cannabis resin has been increasing and indoor cannabis cultivation continues to increase in many developed countries.

As a result of these efforts, the growth rate of orbital debris will decline, although the overall debris population will still increase.

For example, these two show great growth in income, absolutely flat happiness curves.

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

Despite those efforts, drug abuse continued to rise among both young people and adults.

Despite the fact that women are still underrepresented in the political parties and that their participation in decision making is still small, some progress has been made in their representation in the legislative bodies constituted after the elections.

The 4.1 per cent increase was the highest Agency wide although considerably less than the 4.9 per cent increase in the previous reporting period reflecting a relatively high birth rate and the continuing influx of refugee families.

Nevertheless, the abundances of many of the replacements for ozone depleting substances (ODSs) still are increasing, and EESC will remain above pre 1980 levels for several decades.

Those efforts had led to increasing trade flows but the process remained fragile .

8. The capacity of the International Tribunal to fulfil its mandate is being significantly enhanced by the addition of the two new courtrooms, but the Tribunal will need resources for additional staff and equipment to carry out the activity.

Although the proposed 15 per cent increase in the MONUC budget was intended to reflect the Mission's additional mandates, it was still far from adequate.

Nonetheless, the presence of women is growing stronger every day.

Despite a steady increase in the number of facilities number, these still fall short of providing the population substantial cover in many important areas.

There has not been a great increase in women's participation in conflict resolution, and the protection of women living in situations of armed conflict is still a great challenge.

There is no doubt, however, that much remains to be done to achieve not only greater efficiency, but greater effectiveness.

Norway welcomed recent commitments to increase ODA and cancel debts however, more progress had to be made towards increasing ODA to the target of 0.7 per cent.

They noted that, even with this inclusion, UNCTAD s budget would still show significant negative growth.

In this connection, the Committee points out that the number of reports it has issued increased from 93 in the biennium 1994 1995 to 137 in the biennium 2002 2003 and is continuing to increase, despite a concerted effort to limit the number by consolidating reports on related subjects.

In social terms, although it is not considered to be a heavily indebted poor country, Gabon has prepared a poverty reduction and growth strategy paper.

I continue to be gravely concerned about the increasing number of civilian casualties and serious injuries.

However, many were now asking why, after 20 years of application of that economic model, there had been an increase in absolute poverty.

On climate change, the world continues to experience changing weather patterns and has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters.

Moreover, despite increasing growth in operating expenses over the past three years, the programme was able to continue to increase sustainability at an annual rate of 10 per cent, achieving 89 per cent coverage of operating costs by the end of 1996.

5. Recognizes the importance of accelerating the growth and development prospect of least developed countries, which remain the poorest and most vulnerable segment of the international community, and calls upon development partners to carry on their efforts to increase official development assistance, and their efforts aimed at strengthened debt relief, improved market access and enhanced balance of payments support

Momentum has been building.

Sexual education is still not adequate, and the fact is that there is the increase of early sexual activities of adolescents, the increase in number of unwanted pregnancies and the increase in rate of infectious diseases.

The United States also believed that more work had to be done to increase the number of parties to the Convention.

The number of women mayors has increased since 1980, but the overall percentage remains very small.

The slow process of increasing the number of women in the Secretariat was still a matter of concern.