The rate of obesity in Britain has more than doubled since 1980, according to Tim Gill, secretary of an international task force that studies the subject.
In order to ensure the consistency of work, UNESCO created an International Task Force whose members represent different disciplines such as information science, history, anthropology and musicology.
The workshop is organized by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All (EFA), in collaboration with UNESCO (Headquarters and Beirut regional bureau) and the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre in Bonn (Germany).
The Symposium concluded with a discussion on teachers and HIV in the Education for All (EFA) agenda, and included consideration of how these issues could be better addressed through the International Task Force on Teachers for EFA and the EFA Global Monitoring Report.
And Bosnia's 1, 700-strong international police task-force, which now does little more than monitor and occasionally train local forces, would have to be beefed up into a squad of real law-enforcers.
Stephen Morrison, co-chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Sudan Task Force, argued that while such sanctions may prove an "innovative instrument, " there are too many uncertainties surrounding their use to proceed without detailed groundwork being laid.
Working with the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust and other key partners, including the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, UNESCO promotes the development and use of educational resources that apply the lessons of the Holocaust.
Recently, a task force of the International Association of Transportation Regulators representing 15 U.S. and Canadian cities said it is planning to release a set of guidelines aimed at reining in smartphone livery services such as Uber, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The workshop is organized by UNESCO Dakar, in partnership with IICBA, UNESCO Headquarters and the International Team on Teachers for EFA (Task Force).
Don Borelli, a Senior Vice-President of The Soufan Group, a strategic consultancy, is a 25-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he was assistant special agent in charge in the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, responsible for international terrorism.
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On our part, we will contribute to the international force that is being assigned the task of maintaining security and order in Kosovo.
From 2009 to 2011, she served as Coordinator for the Interagency Provincial Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and as Senior Civilian Representative for the Combined Joint Task-Force 82 with the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command-East at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
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In 2010, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report listed 19 organizations with ongoing initiatives that influence cybersecurity and governance, including the International Telecommunication Union, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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For one thing, the 1, 500-strong "Task Force 72, " part of the international peacekeeping operation in East Timor, has been receiving plenty of favorable reports from the U.N.
The task force will need moral authority, as much as international law, to extend its reach beyond its own members and sister groups.
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As an independent task force, our role was to recommend changes to national and international tax rules to take better account of value creation by digital firms.
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Mr. Rosen is Treasurer of the United States International Council on Disabilities, a Member of the National Association of the Deaf Employment Task Force, and serves as an advisor to the World Federation of the Deaf.
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For this, we believe it is time for the intervention of the international community and the UN, to put a peacekeeping force into Afghanistan, and their first task must be to disarm all warring factions in Afghanistan.
The task force was created to help implement research, monitoring, mapping, conservation, restoration and international measures to reduce human impacts on coral reefs.
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