States parties to the Treaty must narrow that gap.

Closing Asia s Security Gap

The proportion of men is greater than that of women, although the gap is decreasing.

These different government programmes would contribute to bridging the gaps between SMEs and large firms, as well as between local and foreign firms.

Finally, in national legislation will be closed.

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However these have yet to have an appreciable positive impact on reducing the disparity between rural and urban areas.

Existing data provides evidence of a narrowing gap in some areas in a large number of countries.

Bridging the North South divide in scientific and technological capacity

(d) Working Group 4 closing the legislative and regulatory gaps.

That would narrow the gap between these countries and developed ones.

The tables do demonstrate a mostly positive trend and women seem to be catching up with men.

The year 1993 also witnessed a decrease in the difference between men apos s and women apos s life expectancy.

Guatemala is gradually closing the gap between girls' and boys' access to primary education.

Increases in enrolment have not necessarily been accompanied by reductions in the gender gap.

But the differences must be diminished, and the Millennium Development Goals must be achieved.

He introduced the main item, stating that, although the right to one's own cultural knowledge was protected by international human rights standards, there were still implementation gaps that still had to be filled.

355. Increased school attendance by girls has produced a fairly rapid reduction in the gaps which still exist between the levels of schooling of girls and boys.

Measures to bridge the gap between policy and practice

And as soon as you've got that idea, you should immediately wonder what happens if we widen the differences, or compress them, make the income differences bigger or smaller?

Achievements in bridging the gap between policy and practice

We welcome her determination to narrow the gap in the perception of human rights.

And I think about that today because I am reminded and convinced that all of you in this school are very important parts of closing that gap.

In that context, the countermeasures recommended by the expert group to close legislative and regulatory gaps are presented below.

In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps. Brazil is the recent pacesetter, markedly expanding public education and systematically attacking remaining pockets of poverty through targeted transfer programs.

This will have positive consequences for narrowing the gender gap as far as illiteracy is concerned (Statistical Compendium of 2004).

We believe this to be the result of poor female responsiveness to higher education and the lack of government policies encouraging closure of the gap.

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Furthermore, those accomplishments have significantly contributed to narrowing the development gaps within ASEAN member countries and fostering the realization of an ASEAN community.

Identifying gender gaps, and developing and implementing strategies to close them, will be part of every initiative funded through the global programme.

The United Nations could play a vital role in closing that gap, especially through the Department of Public Information.

The reviews and evaluations all reinforce the priority the region gives to disparity reduction and disaggregated assessment and analysis of the situation of children.

I'm tickled to death to be that close.

Those gaps must be significantly narrowed through the transformation and reconstruction of our small economies, which have historically been reliant on a narrow production base and preferential market access.

Since the implementation of the Pay Equity Act, progress has been made in closing the gap in salaries.

The challenge is to bridge wide gaps that exist between the theory and the practice of public administration.

Deeply concerned at the inadequacy of measures to narrow the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries, which adversely affects the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly in the developing countries,

The number of trained female workers has mounted, thus reducing the gap with the number of trained male workers.

While this situation is not unique to Pakistan, this is no reason not to make serious efforts to reduce this gap.

That included the necessary transfer of advanced space technology by the more developed countries to the less developed, to bridge the gap between them.

Although some developing countries had been growing faster than the industrial countries, the absolute per capita income gap had not narrowed.

Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on.

The same can be said for the general student population, with the exception of the Druze sector where the gap is rapidly closing.

The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades. Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of people remain in poverty, and there has been only a little progress in reducing the gap between the least developed countries and the rest.