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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 48
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- 14. Calls upon all States to continue to develop and enhance standards and methodologies at the national and international levels to improve the collection, analysis and dissemination of gender statistics and sex- and age-disaggregated data by strengthening national statistical capacity, including by enhancing the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance for enabling developing countries to systematically design, collect and ensure access to high-quality, reliable and timely data disaggregated by sex, age, income and other characteristics relevant in national contexts;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Sep 22, 2021
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe (2016), para. 15
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- 5. Notes the effective implementation of the joint declaration on the reinforcement of cooperation between the secretariat of the Council of Europe and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and in this respect encourages further cooperation between the United Nations, includin g the Human Rights Council, its special procedures, the Office of the High Commissioner and the human rights treaty bodies, and the Council of Europe, along with its Commissioner for Human Rights, with regard to promoting and ensuring respect for human rights and the role of human rights defenders;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Activists
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- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Twentieth anniversary and promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2018), para. 08
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- Stressing, in this regard, that all human rights and fundamental freedoms apply to all persons equally, including human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration, 6 and that these rights and freedoms must be respected, protected and fulfilled without discrimination,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Activists
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- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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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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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (2009), para. 08
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- Reaffirming also that, while democracies share common features, there is no single model of democracy and that democracy does not belong to any country or region, and reaffirming further the necessity of due respect for sovereignty, the right to self-determination and territorial integrity,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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National human rights institutions (2020), para. 04
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- Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 4 which reaffirmed the important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in __________________ particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and their role in preventing and remedying human rights violations, in disseminating information on human rights and in education in human rights,
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (1998), para. 12
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- (d) Widespread, systematic torture in its most cruel forms, the enactment and implementation of decrees prescribing cruel and inhuman punishment, namely mutilation, as a penalty for offences and the diversion of medical care services for such mutilations;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
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- All
- Date modified
- 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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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Proclamation of 19 August as the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism (2011), para. 7
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- 1. Recommends that the General Assembly proclaim 19 August the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 26
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- Reaffirming that agriculture remains a fundamental and key sector for developing countries, and noting the importance of working towards eliminating all forms of protectionism,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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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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- N.A.
- Date modified
- 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.
- Date modified
- 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.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 021
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- 2. Encourages all partners to support constructively the Kabul process, building upon a deep and broad international partnership towards further increased Afghan responsibility and ownership in security, governance and development, aiming at a secure, prosperous and democratic Afghanistan, focusing on strengthening the constitutional checks and balances that guarantee citizens’ rights and obligations and implementing structural reform to enable an accountable and effective Government to deliver concrete progress to its people;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- All
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons (2011), para. 04
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- Convinced that a multilateral, universal and binding agreement prohibiting the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons would contribute to the elimination of the nuclear threat and to the climate for negotiations leading to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons, thereby strengthening international peace and security,
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2007), para. 45
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- 31. Decides to continue the consideration of the question at its sixty-second session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.
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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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Assistance for humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and development for Timor-Leste (2003), para. 17
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- 7. Welcomes the continuing response of the international community to the need for food aid, and calls upon the United Nations, other intergovernmental organizations, Member States and non-governmental organizations to assist Timor- Leste in ensuring sustainable development in the areas of agriculture, livestock and fisheries;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1998), para. 15
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- 5. Invites the organizations and agencies of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts with a view to disseminating information on and promoting understanding of the Convention;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of Americaagainst Cuba (2019), para. 12
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- 3. Once again urges States that have and continue to apply such laws and measures to take the steps necessary to repeal or invalidate them as soon as possible in accordance with their legal regime;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2016), para. 27
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- (c) To report to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, as well as to the Human Rights Council, on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (2004), para. 09
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- 2. Requests the Secretary-General to publish the Legislative Guide and to make all efforts to ensure that it becomes generally known and available;
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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 use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination (2018), para. 01
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- The Human Rights 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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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2008), para. 16
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- Noting the continuing efforts of the open-ended Working Group on the Right to Development of the Human Rights Council, and reaffirming in particular its criteria, according to which unilateral coercive measures are one of the obstacles to the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to Palestine refugees (2015), para. 04
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- Recalling further 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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The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (2013), para. 19
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- 3. Calls upon that State to accede to the Treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and to place all its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full- scope Agency safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all States of the region and as a step towards enhancing peace and security;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: a new agenda (2003), para. 16
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- Convinced that the further reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons constitutes an integral part of the nuclear arms reduction and disarmament process,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context (2003), para. 03
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- Recalling its resolution 57/337 of 3 July 2003 entitled “Prevention of armed conflict”, in which it calls upon Member States to settle their disputes by peaceful means, as set out in Chapter VI of the Charter, inter alia, by any procedures adopted by the parties, including the most effective use of the International Court of Justice,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (2008), para. 30
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- 11. Reaffirms that it is imperative that all States work to uphold and protect the dignity of individuals and their fundamental freedoms, as well as democratic practices and the rule of law, while countering terrorism;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 090
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- 81. We acknowledge that lack of access to trade finance can limit a country’s trading potential and result in missed opportunities to use trade as an engine for development. We welcome the work carried out by the WTO Expert Group on Trade Financing, and commit to exploring ways to use market-oriented incentives to expand WTO-compatible trade finance and the availability of trade credit, guarantees, insurance, factoring, letters of credit and innovative financial instruments, including for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. We call upon the development banks to provide and increase market- oriented trade finance and to examine ways to address market failures associated with trade finance.
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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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Reducing nuclear danger (2009), para. 06
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- Considering that, until nuclear weapons cease to exist, it is imperative on the part of the nuclear-weapon States to adopt measures that assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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