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Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (1997), para. 07
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- Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such an operation,
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- Economic Rights
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- All
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and returning such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to countries of origin, in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2015), para. 53
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- 21. Encourages States parties to the Convention to cooperate in order to implement the measures necessary to enable them to obtain reliable information on beneficial ownership of companies, legal structures or other complex legal mechanisms, including trusts and holdings, used to commit crimes of corruption or to hide and transfer proceeds;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and returning such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to countries of origin, in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2017), para. 014
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- Realizing that the fight against corruption at all levels, including by facilitating international cooperation to achieve the purposes enshrined in t he Convention, including on asset recovery and return, plays an important role in the promotion and protection of all human rights and in the process of creating an environment conducive to their full enjoyment and realization,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
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Commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade (2007), para. 03
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- Recalling that the transatlantic slave trade, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, involved the forced transportation of millions of Africans as slaves, mostly from West Africa to the Americas, thereby enriching the imperial powers of the time,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 144
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- 6. Where appropriate, States shall take appropriate measures to carry out agrarian reforms in order to facilitate the broad and equitable access to land and other natural resources necessary to ensure that peasants and other people working in rural areas enjoy adequate living conditions, and to limit excessive concentration and control of land, taking into account its social function. Landless peasants, young people, small - scale fishers and other rural workers should be given priority in the allocation of public lands, fisheries and forests.
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Economic Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 299
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- (h) Facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants into community life by providing them with equal access to social protection and services, justice, psychosocial assistance, vocational training, employment opportunities and decent work, recognition of skills acquired abroad, and financial services, in order to fully build upon their entrepreneurship, skills and human capital as active members of society and contributors to sustainable development in the country of origin upo n return;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
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The causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (1998), para. 21
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- 9. Calls upon the international community to supplement national efforts by providing African countries with sufficient concessional resources for capacity-building and the attainment of a substantial and sustained pace of economic growth and development;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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Industrial development cooperation (1995), para. 05
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- Taking note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization on industrial development cooperation 6/ and the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993-2002), 7/
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Financing of the United Nations Protection Force, the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force and the United Nations Peace Forces headquarters (2000), para. 13
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- Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such an operation,
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- Economic Rights
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- All
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 126
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- (c) Improve regulations on public and private recruitment agencies in order to align them with international guidelines and best practices, and prohibit recruiters and employers from charging or shifting recruitment fees or related costs to migrant workers in order to prevent debt bondage, exploitation and forced labour, including by establishing mandatory, enforceable mechanisms for effective regulation and monitoring of the recruitment industry;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
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- Persons on the move
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Entrepreneurship for sustainable development (2019), para. 48
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- 20. Encourages all relevant stakeholders to further develop financial literacy and financial education programmes that include an emphasis on the impact of finance on sustainable development, as appropriate, in order to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to access financial services, in particular women and girls, farmers and those working in micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises;
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- Economic Rights
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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The right to development (2002), para. 36
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- 15. Also affirms the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective means to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate sustainable development, as well as the importance of equal rights and opportunities for women and men, including property rights for women and their access to bank loans, mortgages and other forms of financial credit, taking into account the best practices of microcredit in different parts of the world;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
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The role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends (1995), para. 09
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- 4. Also encourages Governments to consider reviewing legal and administrative constraints on the activities of cooperatives with a view to eliminating those constraints that are not applied to other businesses and enterprises;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2016), para. 34
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- 16. Notes that the rapid economic growth of some developing countries has had a positive impact on the efforts of the African continent to sustain and expand growth, despite the fact that those developing countries continue to fa ce development challenges;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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The situation in Afghanistan (2009), para. 086
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- 74. Urges the Government of Afghanistan, supported by the international community, to work to mainstream counter-narcotics throughout all the national programmes and to ensure that counter-narcotics is a fundamental part of the comprehensive approach, as well as to increase its efforts against opium cultivation and drug trafficking in accordance with the balanced eight-pillar plan of the Afghan National Drug Control Strategy; 15F 16
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2008), para. 18
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- 3. Also recognizes that domestic economies are now interwoven with the global economy and that globalization affects all countries in different ways, and that countries on the one hand have trade and investment opportunities to, inter alia, fight poverty, while on the other face constraints in the degree of flexibility they have in pursuing their national development strategies;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to manage and sustain peacekeeping operations (2007), para. 12
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- Reaffirming the role of the General Assembly and its relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies, within their respective mandates, in planning, programming, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Commodities (2016), para. 19
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- Expressing concern about the adverse impact of the consequences of the world financial and economic crisis, including on development, and evidence of an uneven, fragile and slow recovery, cognizant that the global economy, notwithstanding significant efforts that helped to contain tail risks, improve financial market conditions and stability and sustain recovery, still remains in a challenging phase, with downside risks, including high volatility in global markets, excessive volatility of commodity prices, high unemployment, particularly among young people, unsustainable debt in some countries and widespread fiscal strains, which pose challenges for global economic recovery and reflect the need for additional progress towards sustaining and rebalancing global demand, and stressing the need for continuing efforts to address systemic fragilities and imbalances and to reform and strengthen the international financial system while implementing the reforms agreed upon to date,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (1999), para. 131
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- 3. Requests the administering Power and relevant regional and international organizations to continue to support the efforts of the territorial Government to address the socio-economic development of the Territory;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-seventh session (2014), para. 06
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- Reaffirming the mandate of the Commission, as the core legal body within the United Nations system in the field of international trade law, to coordinate legal activities in this field, in particular to avoid duplication of efforts, including among organizations formulating rules of international trade, and to promote efficiency, consistency and coherence in the modernization and harmonization of international trade law, and to continue, through its secretariat, to maintain close cooperation with other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations, active in the field of international trade law,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2018), para. 161
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- 9. Notes with concern the issues identified in the report of the Board of Auditors regarding the implementation of the Integrated Pension Administration System, requests the Pension Board to address these issues, and looks forward to receiving an update on progress thereon in the context of the next report of the Pension Board;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
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Mobility framework (2014), para. 08
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- 5. Recalls regulation 1.2 (c) of the United Nations Staff Regulations, and in this regard underlines that the calculation of post occupancy for staff members under the managed mobility framework shall include time served in their current posts;
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- Economic Rights
- Movement
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Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2019), para. 47
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- 23. Encourages the development of viable market-oriented strategies that could result in further rapid reductions in the cost of new and renewable resources of energy and could further increase the competitiveness of those technologies, including through the adoption, as appropriate, of public policies for research, development and market deployment, including rationalizing inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Towards a strengthened and stable international financial architecture responsive to the priorities of growth anddevelopment, especially in developing countries, and to the promotion of economic and social equity (2001), para. 36
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- 20. Reiterates its invitation to the International Monetary Fund to facilitate the dialogue among relevant actors to consider the possibility of establishing regulatory frameworks for short-term capital flows and trade in currencies;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Right to work (2018), para. 28
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- 16. Encourages States to effectively implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including its Goal 8 on promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, and its targets;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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Promotion at the regional level in the Organization forSecurity and Cooperation in Europe of the United Nations programme of action on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects (2003), para. 8
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- 1. Reaffirms the importance of measures to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects, including ongoing efforts at the regional and subregional levels;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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International trade and development (2010), para. 37
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- 29. Also requests the Secretary-General to transmit the present resolution to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization for circulation as a document of the World Trade Organization.
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination (2009), para. 08
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- Deeply concerned at the loss of life, the substantial damage to property and the negative effects on the policy and economies of affected countries resulting from criminal mercenary activities,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda (2018), para. 15
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- (a) The unencumbered balance and other revenue in the amount of 2,983,200 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2017, to be applied against the resources required for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Outcome document of the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries (2008), para. 45
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- 24. Acknowledge the increased attention and resources devoted by the United Nations system and international organizations to the challenges facing landlocked and transit developing countries. We recognize with appreciation the progress made towards developing effective monitoring mechanisms to measure the progress in implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action. We appreciate the work undertaken by the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States on a set of macroeconomic, trade and transport indicators, by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific on the time/cost methodology and the World Bank with its Logistics Performance Index and the Doing Business indicators that provide quantifiable data to measure the progress, and emphasize that these efforts should be pursued further;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
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