Prisoners were frequently reported to have been denied basic facilities, including medical treatment.

Moreover, it often leads to a lack of knowledge about rights or cynicism relating to their importance.

With reference to religious considerations, discrimination often arises from the absence of religious belief or from belief in different ethical principles, from a lack of religious freedom or from intolerance.

A lack of understanding of the rights of minorities, not only on the part of the government authorities but also the general public and persons belonging to minorities themselves, is often a cause for poor safeguarding of such rights.

Such special courts often lack independence, since sometimes the judges are accountable to the executive, or are military officers on active duty.

GFPs often do not have sufficient expertise for their varied tasks.

Local State institutions often remain absent or inefficient, however, in part because of the lack of material resources (especially in rural areas) and the lack of communication with the Transitional Government.

Policies adopted by Member States to tackle the problem have often been based on inadequate knowledge.

For too long, the international community's efforts at peacebuilding, in Africa as elsewhere, have been marked by piecemeal and uncoordinated interventions that often lack national ownership.

The lack of planning ended another economic cycle of Brazil's past.

Progress in development had often lessened migrant outflows, while lack of development had spurred them.

On the contrary, officials with a more or less free market mindset quite often suffer from a poor command of managerial functions.

It has created the national coordination that had been missing in past decades.

Junior and inexperienced staff was delegated significant responsibilities, often without sufficient support and guidance.

Better technology would help in some cases, but often States lack the infrastructure to allow any quick solution.

Mr. Martin Chungong from IPU noted that parliaments often did not have material resources to perform their duties properly.

6. The Expert Meeting found that the lack of access to finance often impeded vertical diversification in the food processing sector.

Duplication, overlap and inefficiencies had too often been the expensive result of a lack of coordination in programme planning and implementation.

The stress in refugee families, caused by lack of adequate housing and other obstacles to resettlement, often manifests itself as domestic violence.

However, despite intensified efforts in some countries, notably in parts of Asia and Latin America, safe motherhood initiatives still tend to suffer from a shortage of resources and a lack of adequate attention.

At the moment, realistically, the United Nations often lacks a single strategic plan for operations in a country that has just emerged from conflict.

However, after the engineers went to the regions, it was established that there was a lack of existing infrastructure there.

Women politicians often disappoint their female constituency, partially due to lack of information between the two groups which could be overcome with the establishment of regular meetings.

Human yearning for peace is infinite, and yet at times it lacks proper words and images.

Births assisted by traditional midwives and the acute lack of hygiene and precautions often endanger the health of women and newborns.

Often States lack not only the legislative resources to engage in inter State cooperation, but the required expertise in their ministries of justice, the interior and foreign affairs to deal adequately with those processes.

More often than not, the efforts of our Governments to provide good quality education, including the use of information and communication technologies, are hampered by a lack of resources.

59. In the absence of a comprehensive picture of the resources available, it will always be difficult to ascertain the efficiency or the pattern of their utilization.

Independent female candidates often lacked the money and support necessary for campaigning, unlike those supported by warlords and political parties.

Health professionals often lack respect for young people, and the young often do not trust the professionals.

Thus, indigenous young people do not have sufficient skills to compete with their non indigenous peers in the job market and are often inadequately prepared to face the economic and social development challenges of their own communities.

Often States lack not only the legislative resources to engage in inter State cooperation, but also the required expertise in their ministries of justice, the interior and foreign affairs to deal adequately with those processes.

This goal is not always made explicit, with the result that gender mainstreaming risks becoming a technical approach without clear direction and targets.

Such small offices also often lacked specialized technicians and therefore needed more support from headquarters compared with larger missions.

Poor single mothers, working in the informal sector, often as domestic workers, lack access to loans subsidies and are therefore unable to access or own land.

This obligation, for which the States and the international community are responsible, has often been and may long continue to be ignored in view of the lack of will on all sides.

However, one impediment to the introduction of space technology in developing countries was the lack of awareness and understanding on the part of political leaders and senior officials, which often resulted in a lack of political will.

Based on a systematic pattern of social exclusion and lack of economic opportunities, indigenous communities are usually at the bottom of the social scale and their most vulnerable groups are often children and adolescents.

In providing support in these areas, the problems of lack of coordination that plague bilateral development agencies also tend to afflict the operations of the United Nations system in Africa.

The Inspectors, as well as the representatives of the Secretary General, confirmed that there was often a lack of resources to edit, translate and process a large number of material produced under general mandates.

In addition, the populations of many rice consuming countries are often afflicted with deficiencies of iron and vitamin A.

Approximately 4 per cent of those youth are aboriginal or indigenous, and they often live in rural and isolated areas and face serious socio economic challenges, especially related to the lack of education and skills.

Thus, the discussion and passage of the constitutional treaty and the Constitution, and many other more or less important legislative acts alike, were marked by acrimonious conflict because of the lack of agreement and interaction at the highest level.

The current level of violence in Iraq has also resulted in excessive use of force by Iraqi security forces who are often poorly trained with regard to the treatment of persons and property.

6. Recognizes that most transit countries are themselves developing countries often of broadly similar economic structure and beset by similar scarcity of resources, including the lack of adequate transit transport infrastructure