Under the leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), a Regional Strategy was prepared to facilitate the introduction and promotion of ESD.

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The Council of Europe is a key partner of the United Nations in our shared global quest, united behind the principle of all human rights, for all people.

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The idea of relative poverty as a measure of social exclusion, however, had taken hold - not just in Britain but also at the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the OECD.

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Like the nations of southern Europe, the United States consumes far more than it produces.

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By 1986, the United Nations reported that 23% of all trees in Europe were moderately or severely damaged by acid rain.

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In other words, the G-7 leaders were unwilling to put their friend Gorbachev in the awkward position of formally vetoing the insertion of monitors from either the United Nations or the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (or both).

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Lower interest rates would of course also benefit Europe, whose nations owed so much to the United States.

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Of their top 100 globalizing companies from outside of the core economies of Japan, United States and Europe, 7 new ones have been added from emerging nations.

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Research by Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund in 2007 assessed the well-being of children in the UK as the worst in Europe, and in Wales there are record levels of children growing up in poverty, childhood obesity and substance abuse and pregnancy in young teens.

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Turkey, in comparison to its European neighbors, does not face population decline, with a projected population growth rate of 1.14% compared with Europe's 0.11%, according to the United Nations.

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