Goals for 2012-2013 ThExecutiveve Director's report gave Executive Board members and delegates a wide-ranging overview of the results that UNICEF and its partners achieved in its main focus areas last year.
Increasingly the global community is responding; delegates from a wide spectrum of organisations and governments at the 58th Session of the UN Commission on Women talked about investing in boys to change gender roles.
The interviews, conducted here and in Denver, Seattle, Maplewood, N.J., and with convention delegates in Los Angeles, evoked a wide range of opinions.
In the course of the week, the delegates were exposed to a wide range of prominent speakers presenting various aspects of diaspora engagement ranging from support to children and youth, business and start-ups to local development and culture.
"Given the white-hot attention to the conventions," said Greg Martin, a G.M. spokesman, "this is a good chance to showcase our vehicles to a wide range of delegates and opinion leaders whose influence extends beyond Washington and their communities".
"I'm looking for a partner because we alone cannot do it," he told delegates, smiling and opening his arms in a wide gesture of appeal.
But the delegate count under the intricate rules of the caucuses appeared to favor Mr. Obama because of his support from a wide swath of the state, giving him 13 delegates compared with 12 for Mrs. Clinton.
The measure passed by a wide margin and no discussion, which sent four delegates on behalf of Mr. Santorum and none for Mr. Romney or Representative Ron Paul of Texas.
The proposals for a ban, overwhelmingly backed by delegates, were part of a wide-ranging policy paper on equal opportunities for women, which also backed a "name blanking policy" on job applications to eradicate discrimination in the interview selection process.
Mr. Romney was defeating Mr. Santorum by a wide margin in the United States commonwealth, which has 20 delegates, with The Associated Press saying Mr. Romney was likely to take all of them.
In Germany, conversely, a wide range of judicial functions in bankruptcy are delegated to court registrars (called Rechtspfleger) who perform judicial functions outside the regular judiciary.
