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Question of New Caledonia (2010), para. 28
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- 21. Welcomes, in this regard, the participation of New Caledonia at the 39th Summit of the Pacific Islands Forum, held in Niue from 19 to 21 August 2008, following its accession to the Forum as an associate member in October 2006;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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External debt sustainability and development (2020), para. 27
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- 4. Notes the growing concerns about fast-rising corporate debt, high-risk exposure to volatile international financial markets and fast-growing debt servicing burdens as potential triggers of financial and debt crises and the consequent need for coordinated policy responses;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (2017), para. 138
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- 79. Stresses the importance of comprehensive and effective monitoring and reporting of system-wide and individual-entity strategic planning and implementation of the provisions of the present resolution to ensure coherent and coordinated support for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other internationally agreed development goals by the United Nations development system, and in this regard requests the entities of the United Nations development system carrying out operational activities for development to ensure that their planning and activities, and strategic plans where applicable, are consistent with and guided by the provisions of the present resolution, in order to build synergies and reduce overlap across the system, and clearly identify the entity’s specific contribution to the system-wide support provided by the United Nations development system, including how staff are incentivized to work towards system-wide goals;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Commodities (2003), para. 20
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- 4. Urges Governments and invites international financial institutions to continue to assess the effectiveness of the systems for compensatory financing of export-earnings shortfalls, and in this regard stresses the importance of empowering developing country commodity producers to insure themselves against risk, including natural disasters;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2002), para. 45
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- 16. Calls upon all States to report biennially to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on their efforts to meet the goals and targets for 2003 and 2008, as set out in the Political Declaration adopted at the special session, in accordance with the terms established in the guidelines adopted by the Commission at its forty-second and forty-fourth sessions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Supervision Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic (2014), para. 5
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- Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the Mission with the financial resources necessary to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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External debt sustainability and development (2011), para. 43
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- 24. Invites donor countries, taking into account country-specific debt sustainability analyses, to continue their efforts to increase bilateral grants to developing countries, which could contribute to debt sustainability in the medium to long term, and recognizes the need for countries to be able to promote employment and productive investment and to invest in, inter alia, health and education while maintaining debt sustainability;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2020), para. 74
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- 64. Requests the High Commissioner to report on his annual activities to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations (2017), para. 34
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- 12. Recommends that States consider implementing, as appropriate, the various measures suggested in the report of the Open-ended Working Group taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations, established by the General Assembly by its resolution 70/33 , 10 including but not limited to transparency measures related to the risks associated with existing nuclear weapons, measures to reduce and eliminate the risk of accidental, mistaken, unauthorized or intentional nuclear weapon detonations, additional measures to increase awareness and understanding of the complexity of and interrelationship between the wide range of humanitarian consequences that would result from any nuclear detonation, an d other measures that could contribute to taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Further measures for the restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields (1996), para. 052
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- 36. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Economic and Social Council must continue to strengthen its role as the central mechanism for coordination of the activities of the United Nations system and its specialized agencies and supervision of subsidiary bodies, in particular its functional commissions, in the economic, social and related fields. It should provide overall guidance and coordination to the United Nations development system. It must also promote a coordinated follow- up to the outcomes of major international conferences in the economic, social and related fields.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2003), para. 26
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- 15. Further recognizes that adequate mobilization of resources at the national and international levels, as well as new and additional resources for the developing countries, including the least developed countries and countries with economies in transition, from all available funding mechanisms, including multilateral, bilateral and private sources, will also be required;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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General and complete disarmament (2002), para. 184
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- 9. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes”.
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (2015), para. 31
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- 7. Encourages the Economic Community of Central African States and the Economic Community of West African States, in coordination with the African Union Commission, to accelerate joint efforts to adopt a comprehensive strategy to more effectively and urgently combat the threat posed by Boko Haram, and in this regard welcomes plans to convene a summit, and urges the two subregional organizations to adopt a common strategy and develop active cooperation and coordination;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (2011), para. 90
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- Dissemination and information on the Optional Protocol
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2015), para. 30
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- 14. Commends the important role that the Special Rapporteur plays towards the elimination of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue, within his mandate, to collect information from all concerned, to respond effectively to reliable information that comes before him, to follow up on communications and country visits and to seek the views and comments of Governments and to reflect them, as appropriate, in his reports;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Report of the International Criminal Court (2011), para. 17
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- 4. Calls upon States parties to the Rome Statute that have not yet done so to adopt national legislation to implement obligations emanating from the Rome Statute and to cooperate with the International Criminal Court in the exercise of its functions, and recalls the provision of technical assistance by States parties in this respect;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2001), para. 24
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- 15. Decides further that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 A (X) of 15 December 1955, there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraph 14 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the estimated additional staff assessment income of 353,300 dollars approved for the Mission for the period from 31 July 2000 to 30 June 2001, 162,413 dollars being the amount pertaining to the period ending 31 December 2000 and the balance, that is, 190,887 dollars, pertaining to the period from 1 January to 30 June 2001;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (1998), para. 18
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- 9. Takes note of the observation of the Commission in paragraph 47 (c) of the addendum to its twenty-first annual report 5 and the views expressed thereon by Member States;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of Charter provisions related to assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions (1996), para. 28
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- 4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly, at its fifty-first session, on the implementation of paragraph 3 above and on possible guidelines which might be adopted on technical procedures to be used by the appropriate parts of the Secretariat:
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict as a contribution to prevention and settlement of conflicts (2016), para. 33
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- 8. Notes that the annual reporting process on Kimberley Process Certification Scheme implementation is the main comprehensive and regular source of information on the implementation of the Kimberley Process provided by Participants, and calls upon Participants to submit consistent and substantive annual reports in order to conform to this requirement;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict as a contribution to prevention and settlement of conflicts (2001), para. 04
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- Recognizing that the vast majority of rough diamonds produced in the world are from legitimate sources,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2017), para. 071
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- 35. Welcomes the continued efforts of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to build partnerships with regional organizations, traditional and non-traditional donors and the private sector, and encourages Member States and the United Nations system to continue to strengthe n partnerships at the global, regional, national and local levels in support of national efforts in situations of natural disasters, in order to cooperate effectively in providing humanitarian assistance to those in need and ensure that their collaborative efforts adhere to the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session (1997), para. 20
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- 3. Also reaffirms the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Towards the sustainable development of the Caribbean Sea for present and future generations (2011), para. 26
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- 2. Notes the efforts of the Caribbean States and the work undertaken by the Caribbean Sea Commission of the Association of Caribbean States, including the development of their concept of the designation of the Caribbean Sea as a special area in the context of sustainable development, and invites the international community to support such efforts;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Human resources management (1999), para. 045
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- (d) The role of the programme managers in the preparation and submission of budget proposals as well as programme delivery;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Investing in the United Nations for a strongerOrganization worldwide: detailed report (2006), para. 11
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- 3. Looks forward to considering the results of the independent external evaluation of the audit and oversight system of the United Nations, as well as other relevant reports in this regard, and to taking action on proposals contained therein on, inter alia, ensuring the full operational independence of the Office of Internal Oversight Services and strengthening the evaluation capacity of the Office at the programme and subprogramme levels, as well as any budget requirements;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The negative impact of the non-repatriation of funds of illicit origin to the countries of origin on the enjoyment of human rights, and the importance of improving international cooperation (2019), para. 48
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- 27. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all assistance and financial resources necessary to allow the Advisory Committee to carry out the mandate set out in the present resolution, and calls upon all relevant stakeholders, including States and United Nations bodies and agencies, and other international and regional entities to cooperate fully with the Advisory Committee in this regard;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (2003), para. 07
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- 4. Acknowledges that the measures referred to in paragraph 2 above should be taken as provided within the context of the Secretary-General’s programme for reform, as outlined in his report dated 14 July 1997 3 and in accordance with the recommendations contained in section VI.D of the report;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to development (2013), para. 33
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- 12. Also stresses that it is important that the Chair-Rapporteur and the Working Group, in the discharge of their mandates, take into account the need:
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2015), para. 02
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- Recalling section XI of its resolution 55/258 of 14 June 2001, its resolutions 57/307 of 15 April 2003, 59/266 of 23 December 2004, 59/283 of 13 April 2005, 61/261 of 4 April 2007, 62/228 of 22 December 2007, 63/253 of 24 December 2008, 64/233 of 22 December 2009, 65/251 of 24 December 2010, 66/237 of 24 December 2011, 67/241 of 24 December 2012 and 68/254 of 27 December 2013,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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