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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (1999), para. 60
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- (b) Consideration of the item entitled “Spin-off benefits of space technology: review of current status”;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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International financial system and development (2017), para. 08
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- Taking note of the work of the United Nations in the area of external debt sustainability and development,
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Question of the Cayman Islands (2018), para. 09
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- Concerned by the use and exploitation of the natural resources of the Non-Self- Governing Territories by the administering Powers for their benefit, by the use of the Territories as international financial centres to the detriment of the world economy and by the consequences of any economic activities of the administering Powers that are contrary to the interests of the people of the Territories, as well as to resolution 1514 (XV) ,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Tokelau, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (1995), para. 188
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- 2. Requests the administering Power to assist the territorial Government in its efforts to balance the budget and to diversify the Territory’s economy;
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- Economic Rights
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Towards global partnerships: a principle-based approach to enhanced cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners (2014), para. 25
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- 7. Also recognizes the importance of giving due consideration to the various contributions of all relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, to the intergovernmental process of elaborating the post-2015 development agenda, and in this regard takes note of the important role that the Global Compact Local Networks have played in gathering input from businesses on a post-2015 development framework and promoting poverty eradication and sustainable development through, inter alia, the exercise of corporate social responsibility;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
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Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments (2008), para. 110
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- 71. Urges States to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and to fishing overcapacity, while completing the efforts undertaken at the World Trade Organization in accordance with the Doha Declaration 10F 11 to clarify and improve its disciplines on fisheries subsidies, taking into account the importance of this sector, including small-scale and artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, to developing countries;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
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Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy (2010), para. 20
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- (a) The unencumbered balance and other income in the total amount of 4,844,300 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2009 to be applied against the resources required for the period from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011;
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Enhancing capacity-building in global public health (2003), para. 16
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- Welcoming also the Doha Declaration on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health, adopted on 14 November 2001, 3 and noting the decision of the World Trade Organization General Council of 30 August 2003 on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration, 4
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Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017 (2016), para. 094
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- Economic and social affairs
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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Integration of the economies in transitioninto the world economy (2005), para. 16
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- 4. Stresses the need to focus international assistance to countries with economies in transition on those facing particular difficulties in socio-economic development, implementing market-oriented reforms and meeting internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 5 and welcomes efforts made by countries with economies in transition to improve governance and institutional capabilities in order to use aid more effectively;
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- Economic Rights
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Permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade (2019), para. 07
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- Stressing the importance of educating and informing current and future generations about the causes, consequences, lessons and legacy of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
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Procurement reform (2005), para. 12
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- 8. Notes the efforts made by the Secretary-General to increase procurement opportunities for developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and requests the Secretary-General:
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- Economic Rights
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International trade and development (1998), para. 30
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- 19. Stresses that all members of the World Trade Organization should implement their commitments in respect of the Uruguay Round agreements in a full, timely, faithful and continuous manner and that all provisions of the Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations 5 should be applied effectively, taking into account the specific interests of developing countries, so as to maximize economic growth and the developmental benefits for all and, in this respect, reiterates the need for the full implementation of special and preferential treatment for developing countries in accordance with the Uruguay Round agreements;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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The role of the United Nations in promoting a new global human order (2013), para. 33
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- 18. Urges Governments, with the cooperation of relevant entities, to develop systems of social protection that support labour-market participation and address and reduce inequality and social exclusion, and to extend or broaden, as appropriate, their effectiveness and coverage, including for workers in the informal economy, invites the International Labour Organization to strengthen its social protection strategies and policies on extending social security coverage, and urges Governments, while taking account of national circumstances, to focus on the needs of those living in or vulnerable to poverty and to give particular consideration to universal access to basic social security systems, including the implementation of social protection floors which can provide a systemic base for addressing poverty and vulnerability, and in this regard takes note of Recommendation No. 202 concerning national floors of social protection, adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 101st session, on 14 June 2012;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
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External debt crisis and development (2005), para. 19
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- 12. Takes note of the acceptance that the debt of some non-HIPC debtor countries is unsustainable and that prudent and appropriate steps are needed to deal with these problems, in this regard welcomes the Evian Approach of the Paris Club, and calls upon creditor countries to ensure that a more tailored response to debt restructuring is granted only in case of imminent default and is not considered by debtor countries as an alternative to more expensive sources of financing and that the debt of such countries is treated in a way that reflects their financial vulnerabilities and the objective of enhancing long-lasting debt sustainability;
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