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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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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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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 financial system and development (2017), para. 43
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- 18. Notes that the members of the International Monetary Fund are committed to concluding the fifteenth general review of quotas and to agreeing on a new quota formula as a basis for a realignment of quota shares, which will result in increased shares for dynamic economies in line with their relative positions in the world economy and hence likely in the share of emerging market and developing countries as a whole, while protecting the voice and representation of the poorest members;
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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 trade and development (2017), para. 05
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- Recognizing that international trade is an engine for economic growth and poverty reduction, that it contributes to the promotion of sustainable development and that it is recognized as one of the action areas of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and one of the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (2000), para. 26
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- 15. Decides further that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (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 staff assessment income of 2,422,767 dollars approved for the Observation Mission for the period from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (1994), para. 12
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- 3. Requests the Secretary-General to assign to the Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the Secretariat, in cooperation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the function of continuing to monitor the imposition of measures of this nature, as well as to continue the preparation of studies in this field as mandated by the General Assembly in its resolutions 44/215 and 46/210;
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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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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2016), para. 19
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- Taking note also of the declaration of the high-level meeting of Heads of State and Government of landlocked developing countries on the theme “Linking Landlocked Developing Countries to Global Opportunities”, held at United Nations Headquarters on 28 September 2015,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-sixth session (2004), para. 05
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- Concerned that activities undertaken by other bodies in the field of international trade law without adequate coordination with the Commission might lead to undesirable duplication of efforts and would not be in keeping with the aim of promoting efficiency, consistency and coherence in the unification and harmonization of international trade law,
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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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Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (2006), para. 29
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- 20. Decides also that, for Member States that have not fulfilled their financial obligations to the Mission, there shall be set off against their outstanding obligations their respective share of the unencumbered balance and other income in the amount of 10,423,600 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2005, in accordance with the scheme set out in paragraph 19 above;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2019), para. 05
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- 3. Further takes note of the report of the Secretary of the Pension Board and the Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the Fund on the implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors contained in its report for the year ended 31 December 2017 on the Fund; 4
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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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Integration of the economies in transition into the world economy (2001), para. 08
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- Recognizing further the important role foreign investment should play in those countries, and stressing the need to create an enabling environment to attract more foreign direct investment,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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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. 48
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- 16. Encourages States parties to the Convention to give full effect to the resolutions, including those on asset recovery, of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects (2019), para. 08
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- Welcoming the successful conclusion of the third United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (the third Review Conference), held in New York from 18 to 29 June 2018,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International financial system and development (2019), para. 33
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- 14. Encourages, in this regard, the multilateral development banks to continue to move forward on flexible, concessional, fast-disbursing and front-loaded assistance that will substantially and quickly assist developing countries facing financing gaps in their efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, taking into consideration the individual absorptive capacities and debt sustainability of those countries;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening of the rule of law (1994), para. 16
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- 2/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992, Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II, sect. A.
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015 (2015), para. 061
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- Enterprise resource planning project, Umoja
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- Economic Rights
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2018), para. 14
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- Recognizing also that the lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by remoteness from world markets and high transit costs and risks, continues to impose serious constraints on export earnings, private capital inflow and the domestic resource mobilization of landlocked developing countries and therefore adversely affects their overall growth and socioeconomic development,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
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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 (2011), para. 09
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- Convinced that the illicit acquisition of personal wealth can be particularly damaging to democratic institutions, national economies and the rule of law,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2016), para. 098
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- 64. Commends the Government of Afghanistan for improving budgetary transparency, its efforts to reach fiscal sustainability and its efforts to date to implement its agreement with the International Monetary Fund, notes the challenges ahead, and urges that continued efforts be made to meet revenue targets;
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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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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2016), para. 50
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- 19. Stresses the need for the continued implementation of the Paris Protocol on Economic Relations of 29 April 1994, fifth annex to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington, D.C., on 28 September 1995, 6 including with regard to the full, prompt and regular transfer of Palestinian indirect tax revenues;
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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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Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (2002), para. 21
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- 13. Decides further that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraph 12 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the estimated staff assessment income of 779,197 dollars approved for the Transitional Administration for the period from 1 to 31 January 2002;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures (2019), para. 13
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- Recalling that, in its resolution 66/20 , the General Assembly recommended that, for the purpose of reporting by Member States of their national military expenditures in the framework of the Report on Military Expenditures, “military expenditures” be commonly understood to refer to all financial resources that a State spends on the uses and functions of its military forces and information on military expenditures represents an actual outlay in current prices and domestic currency,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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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 (2003), para. 143
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- 4. Also welcomes the Chief Minister’s 2002 budget presentation, in which he noted that in 2001, for the first time in seven years, the economy of Montserrat experienced positive growth, from a negative rate of 5.43 per cent in 2000 to 0.4 per cent in 2001, the implementation of several major public works projects accounting for growth in the construction sector;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade (2013), para. 04
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- Recognizing how little is known about the transatlantic slave trade and its lasting consequences, felt throughout the world, and welcoming the increased attention that the annual commemoration by the General Assembly has brought to the issue, including raising awareness in many States,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2018), para. 026
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- Recalling its resolution 71/208 of 19 December 2016 on 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,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 1863 (2009) (2015), para. 25
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- 15. Further decides that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (X), 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 3,393,650 dollars, comprising the estimated staff assessment income of 2,351,450 dollars approved for the Support Office, the prorated share of 826,300 dollars of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the support account and the prorated share of 215,900 dollars of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the United Nations Logistics Base;
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2015), para. 13
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- 1. Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 5 and on strengthening investment promotion regimes for foreign direct investment in the least developed countries; 6
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (2014), para. 133
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- Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on Pitcairn 17 and other relevant information,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International Year of Microcredit, 2005 (1999), para. 11
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- 2. Requests that the observance of the Year be a special occasion for giving impetus to microcredit programmes throughout the world;
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- Economic Rights
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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