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A path to the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2003), para. 14
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- Stressing the importance of education on disarmament and non-proliferation for future generations, and noting with satisfaction the submission of the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on this issue by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly, 7
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- Education
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- N.A.
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A path to the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2003), para. 18
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- Stressing the importance of education on disarmament and non-proliferation for future generations, and welcoming the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education, submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session, 6
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- Education
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- N.A.
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 06
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- Recalling its resolution 53/153 of 9 December 1998, entitled “United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995–2004, and public information activities in the field of human rights”,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 09
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- Welcoming the Amman Affirmation, adopted at the mid-decade meeting of the International Consultative Forum on Education for All, held at Amman from 16 to 19 June 1996, 4 the report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 5 and the Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning, adopted at the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, held at Hamburg, Germany, from 14 to 18 July 1997, 6
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 20
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- 8. Welcomes the convening of the World Education Forum, to be held in April 2000 in Senegal with a view to assessing the implementation of the goals of education for all and adopting an agenda for education in the twenty-first century;
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 081
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- 73. We recognize that the graduation process of least developed countries should be coupled with appropriate measures, so that the development process will not be jeopardized and that progress towards the sustainable development goals will be sustained. We further note that the level of concessionality of international public finance should take into account the level of development of each recipient, including income level, institutional capacity and vulnerability, as well as the nature of the project to be funded, including the commercial viability.
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 137
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- • The United Nations inter-agency task team on science, technology and innovation for the sustainable development goals will promote coordination, coherence and cooperation within the United Nations system on science, technology and innovation related matters, enhancing synergy and efficiency, in particular to enhance capacity-building initiatives. The task team will draw on existing resources and will work with 10 representatives from civil society, the private sector and the scientific community to prepare the meetings of the multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the sustainable development goals, as well as in the development and operationalization of the online platform, including preparing proposals for the modalities for the forum and the online platform. The 10 representatives will be appointed by the Secretary-General, for periods of two years. The task team will be open to the participation of all United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council and it will initially be composed of the entities that currently integrate the informal working group on technology facilitation, namely, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Environment Programme, UNIDO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNCTAD, the International Telecommunication Union, WIPO and the World Bank.
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 138
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- • The online platform will be used to establish a comprehensive mapping of, and serve as a gateway for, information on existing science, technology and innovation initiatives, mechanisms and programmes, within and beyond the United Nations. The online platform will facilitate access to information, knowledge and experience, as well as best practices and lessons learned, on science, technology and innovation facilitation initiatives and policies. The online platform will also facilitate the dissemination of relevant open access scientific publications generated worldwide. The online platform will be developed on the basis of an independent technical assessment which will take into account best practices and lessons learned from other initiatives, within and beyond the United Nations, in order to ensure that it will complement, facilitate access to and provide adequate information on existing science, technology and innovation platforms, avoiding duplications and enhancing synergies.
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2005), para. 85
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- (iv) Identify proactive measures such as education and training, that the United Nations can implement to minimize the number of disputes that arise;
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- Education
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- All
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2011), para. 74
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- 61. Recalls paragraph 9 of resolution 61/261, and requests the Secretary- General to report on the need for enhancing education and training of all judges, ombudsmen, legal representatives, registrars, mediators and court and office staff of the new system of administration of justice, as recommended by the Redesign Panel on the United Nations system of administration of justice in paragraphs 115 to 119 of its report; 7
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2005), para. 064
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- 2. Requests the Secretary-General to report on the finalization and implementation of the comprehensive training strategy along with the framework of the evaluation of training to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session in the context of his overview report;
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2005), para. 065
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- 3. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the comprehensive training strategy includes the training needs of national staff for the purpose of capacity-building in the mission area;
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2007), para. 036
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- 7. Takes note of paragraph 41 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 and recalls section II, paragraph 17, of its resolution 61/244 of 22 December 2006, in which it acknowledges that the interaction of United Nations personnel with the local population is necessary and that language skills constitute an important element of the selection and training processes, and therefore affirms that a good command of the official language(s) spoken in the country of residence should be taken into account as an additional asset during those processes;
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2007), para. 042
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- 1. Emphasizes the importance of further steps to make training programmes more relevant and cost-effective through, inter alia, the training of trainers and the use of videoconferencing and e-learning where feasible;
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- Education
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- N.A.
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations:cross-cutting issues (2006), para. 56
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- Requests the Secretary-General to make greater use of videoconferencing facilities and e-learning programmes for training and other purposes and to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session on improvements and efficiencies made through greater utilization of those tools;
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- Education
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Agreement between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization (2004), para. 28
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- 1. Having regard to the obligations of the United Nations to promote the objectives set forth in Article 55 of the Charter of the United Nations and the functions and powers of the Economic and Social Council, under Article 62 of the Charter, to make or initiate studies and reports with respect to international economic, social, cultural, educational, health and related matters and to make recommendations concerning these matters to the specialized agencies concerned, and having regard also to the responsibility of the United Nations, under Articles 58 and 63 of the Charter, to make recommendations for the coordination of the policies and activities of such specialized agencies, the World Tourism Organization agrees to arrange for the submission, as soon as possible, to the appropriate organ of the World Tourism Organization of all formal recommendations which the United Nations may make to it.
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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Amendments to the Charter of the United Nations University (2010), para. 3
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- Taking note of the decision on the United Nations University adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its one hundred and eighty-second session, held in Paris in September 2009, 0F 1
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Amendments to the Charter of the United Nations University (2014), para. 4
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- Taking note also of the decision on the proposal to amend the Charter of the United Nations University adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its 192nd session, held in Paris from 23 September to 11 October 2013,
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
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Amendments to the Staff Regulations (2009), para. 11
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- 8. Reaffirms that staff members recruited through the national competitive examinations and language competitive examinations who hold probationary appointments as at 30 June 2009 will be considered for conversion to permanent appointments upon successful completion of their probationary appointments on or after l July 2009;
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- Education
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2003), para. 10
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- Welcoming the establishment by the International Olympic Committee of an International Olympic Truce Foundation and an International Olympic Truce Centre to promote further the ideals of peace and understanding through sport, on whose Board the President in office of the General Assembly sits and the Secretary- General and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization are represented,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2014), para. 18
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- Welcoming the commitment made by various States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders to developing national and international programmes that promote peace and conflict resolution, the Olympic and Paralympic values and the Olympic Truce ideals through sport and through culture, education, sustainable development and wider public engagement, and acknowledging the contribution of former hosts of the Olympic Games in this regard,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2015), para. 20
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- Welcoming the commitment made by various States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders to developing national and international programmes that promote peace and conflict resolution, the Olympic and Paralympic values and the Olympic Truce ideals through sport and through culture, education, sustainable development and wider public engagement, and acknowledging the contribution of former hosts of the Olympic Games in this regard,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2017), para. 24
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- Welcoming the commitment made by various States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders to developing national and international programmes that promote peace and conflict resolution, the Olympic and Paralympic values and the Olympic Truce ideals through sport and through culture, education, sustainable development and wider public engagement, and acknowledging the contribution of former hosts of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in this regard,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2019), para. 28
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- Welcoming the commitment made by various States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders to developing national and international programmes that promote peace and conflict resolution, the Olympic and Paralympic values and the Olympic Truce ideals through sport and through culture, education, sustainable development and wider public engagement, and acknowledging the contribution of former hosts of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in this regard,
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
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Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (2001), para. 07
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- Emphasizing the need to strengthen further the political will to ensure the political, financial, technical and other support critical for the effective implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary- General not only in the two thematic areas – education and conflict prevention and post-conflict peace-building – of the deliberations of the Working Group in 2001, but also in all the areas mentioned in the report,
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Combating defamation of religions (2006), para. 31
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- (a) Integrating them into topical seminars and special debates on the positive contributions of cultures, as well as religious and cultural diversity, including through educational programmes, particularly the World Programme for Human Rights Education proclaimed on 10 December 2004; 4
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Combating defamation of religions (2009), para. 47
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- 23. Takes note of the efforts of the High Commissioner for to promote and include human rights aspects in educational programmes, particularly the World Programme for Human Rights Education proclaimed by the General Assembly on 10 December 2004, 14F 15 and calls upon the High Commissioner to continue those efforts, with particular focus on:
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
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Combating defamation of religions (2010), para. 50
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- 26. Takes note of the efforts of the High Commissioner to promote and include human rights aspects in educational programmes, particularly the World Programme for Human Rights Education proclaimed by the General Assembly on 10 December 2004, 15F 16 and calls upon the High Commissioner to continue those efforts, with particular focus on:
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- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
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Combating defamation of religions (2010), para. 52
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- (b) Collaboration with other relevant bodies of the United Nations system and regional and international organizations in holding joint conferences designed to encourage dialogue among civilizations and promote understanding of the universality of human rights and their implementation at various levels, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the unit within the Secretariat mandated to interact with various entities within the United Nations system and coordinate their contribution to the intergovernmental process;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Combating defamation of religions (2011), para. 54
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- (b) Collaboration with other relevant bodies of the United Nations system and regional and international organizations in holding joint conferences designed to encourage dialogue among civilizations and promote understanding of the universality of human rights and their implementation at various levels, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the unit within the Secretariat mandated to interact with various entities within the United Nations system and coordinate their contribution to the intergovernmental process;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
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