This is a picture of almost unrelieved gloom.

It is a memory of suffering unrelieved by strong condemnation and unequivocal recognition.

Ours is a time characterized, as never before, by the parallel existence of unbounded wealth and unrelievable poverty, of major scientific breakthroughs and pervasive illiteracy, of overwhelming gestures of kindness and charity and of atrocious acts of wickedness and inhumanity.

Constraints. Israeli military operations and the imposition of closures in the Gaza Strip continued to hamper the Agency's relief and social services, at the same time that demand for these services remained elevated as a result of the strife and largely unrelieved socio-economic hardship.

It has now become very clear that in order to make a strong case for widows rights as against women's human rights more detailed information is needed on the numbers, ages, and the practices which lead so many of them into lives of unrelieved misery.

However, since such problems may result in unrelieved double taxation or non-taxation of certain profits, it is more important for tax authorities to agree on mutually consistent methods of dealing with these problems, using, where appropriate, the mutual agreement procedure provided for in Article 25, than to adopt unilateral interpretations of basic principles to be adhered to despite differences of opinion with other States.