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A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2020), para. 07
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- Alarmed at the global rise in hate speech, constituting incitement to racial discrimination, hostility and violence, stressing the importance of addressing it, and in this regard noting the launch of the United Nations Strategy and P lan of Action on Hate Speech in June 2019,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 11
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- Welcoming the International Labour Organization Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190),
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- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Violence
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 62
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- 12. Invites States Members of the International Labour Organization to ratify its Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190);
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Action against corruption (1997), para. 03
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- Also concerned about the links between corruption and other forms of crime, in particular organized crime and economic crime, including money- laundering,
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- N.A.
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Action against corruption (2000), para. 05
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- Commending the efforts in the United Nations to address corruption concerns in a global forum, including the United Nations Declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions 5 and the International Code of Conduct for Public Officials, the ongoing development of a comprehensive international convention against transnational organized crime and protocols thereto by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, and the manual prepared by the Secretariat on practical measures against corruption, 7
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Action against corruption and bribery in international commercial transactions (1999), para. 10
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- 3. Commends the work of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Secretariat in combating corruption and bribery in international commercial transactions, including the convening of an open-ended meeting of governmental experts;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
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Action against transnational organized crime:assistance to States in capacity-building with a view to facilitating the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (2002), para. 03
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- Bearing in mind that the fight against transnational organized crime is a common and shared responsibility of the international community, necessitating cooperation at the bilateral and multilateral levels,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- N.A.
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Action against transnational organized crime:assistance to States in capacity-building with a view to facilitating the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (2002), para. 07
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- 1. Welcomes the signing of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- All
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Activities of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, as well as consideration of the need to develop an instrument on the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in explosives (2000), para. 03
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- Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 1998/17 on the regulation of explosives for the purpose of crime prevention and public health and safety and 1998/18 on measures to regulate firearms for the purpose of combating illicit trafficking in firearms, of 28 July 1998,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Activities of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, as well as consideration of the need to develop an instrument on the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in explosives (2000), para. 15
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- 1. Welcomes the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and encourages it to continue the negotiation of an international legal instrument dealing with the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2005), para. 117
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- (d) Full justification of resource requirements, both at Headquarters and in the field, taking into account the specificities of each mission and based on empirical data on the actual number of allegations and cases of sexual exploitation and abuse;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2007), para. 097
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- 4. Notes with concern the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on its investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Ituri region (Bunia) in the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 17
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
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Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments (2013), para. 119
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- 68. Also notes the concerns about possible connections between transnational organized crime and illegal fishing in certain regions of the world, and encourages States, including through the appropriate international forums and organizations, to study the causes and methods of and contributing factors to illegal fishing to increase knowledge and understanding of those possible connections, and to make the findings publicly available, and in this regard takes note of the study issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on transnational organized crime in the fishing industry, bearing in mind the distinct legal regimes and remedies under international law applicable to illegal fishing and transnational organized crime;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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An effective international legal instrument against corruption (2001), para. 09
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- 2. Decides to begin the elaboration of such an instrument in Vienna at the headquarters of the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
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Arbitrary detention (2013), para. 24
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- 10. Notes with deep concern that the Working Group has received increasing information on reprisals suffered by individuals who were the subject of an urgent appeal or opinion or who applied a recommendation of the Working Group, and calls upon the States concerned to take appropriate measures to prevent such acts and to combat impunity by bringing perpetrators to justice and by providing victims with appropriate remedies;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Arbitrary detention (2016), para. 24
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- 10. Notes with deep concern that the Working Group has received increasing information on reprisals suffered by individuals who were the subject of an urgent appeal or opinion or who applied a recommendation of the Working Group, and calls upon the States concerned to take appropriate measures to prevent such acts and to combat impunity by bringing perpetrators to justice and by providing victims with appropriate remedies;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Arbitrary detention (2019), para. 25
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- 10. Notes with deep concern that the Working Group has received increasing information about reprisals suffered by individuals who were the subject of an urgent appeal or opinion or who applied a recommendation of the Working Group, and calls upon the States concerned to take appropriate measures to prevent such acts and to combat impunity by bringing perpetrators to justice and by providing victims with appropriate remedies;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Assistance to least developed countries to ensure their participation in the sessions of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice andthe sessions of conferences of States parties (2005), para. 7
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- Emphasizing the importance of the effective participation of all relevant stakeholders from the least developed countries, developing countries and countries with economies in transition in the sessions of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and in the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Assistance to least developed countries to ensure their participation in the sessions of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice andthe sessions of conferences of States parties (2005), para. 8
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- 1. Calls upon Member States, international organizations and funding institutions to redouble their efforts to increase their voluntary contributions to assist the Secretary-General in covering the cost of travel and daily subsistence allowance for the participation of representatives of least developed countries in the sessions of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and in the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to intensify efforts to ensure the increased participation of representatives of least developed countries in those meetings;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2011), para. 12
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- 2. Strongly condemns and calls for the immediate cessation of the grave and systematic human rights abuses perpetrated against the civilian population by Al Shabab and its affiliates;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 19
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- (h) The development of and agreement on key policies and plans, including a post-transition human rights road map, a national gender policy and a national plan of action on eradicating sexual violence in conflict;
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- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
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Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them (2003), para. 18
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- 5. Encourages also cooperation among State organs, international organizations and civil society in combating the illicit traffic in small arms and supporting operations to collect the said arms in the subregions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- N.A.
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Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them (2003), para. 19
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- 5. Further encourages cooperation among State organs, international organizations and civil society in combating the illicit traffic in small arms and supporting operations to collect the said arms in the subregions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- N.A.
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Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them (2004), para. 21
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- 5. Further encourages cooperation among State organs, international organizations and civil society in combating the illicit traffic in small arms and supporting operations to collect the said arms in the subregions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- N.A.
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Business and development (1996), para. 08
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- Taking note of the World Ministerial Conference on Organized Transnational Crime (Naples, 21-23 November 1994 and Buenos Aires, November 1995), and of the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Cairo, 29 April-8 May 1995), in particular the consideration by those conferences of the issue of illicit payments in international business transactions,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
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Combating glorification of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2014), para. 08
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- Alarmed, in this regard, at the spread in many parts of the world of various extremist political parties, movements and groups, including neo-Nazis and skinhead groups, as well as similar extremist ideological movements,
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- Violence
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Combating glorification of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2014), para. 28
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- 19. Emphasizes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur presented at the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, in which he emphasized the importance of history classes in teaching the dramatic events and human suffering which arose out of the adoption of ideologies such as Nazism and Fascism;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2016), para. 07
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- Alarmed, in this regard, at the spread in many parts of the world of various extremist political parties, movements and groups, including neo-Nazis and skinhead groups, as well as racist extremist movements and ideologies,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2016), para. 36
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- 25. Emphasizes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur presented at the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, in which he emphasized the importance of history classes in teaching the dramatic events and human suffering which arose out of the adoption of ideologies such as Nazism and Fascism; 16
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2018), para. 45
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- 35. Emphasizes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur presented at the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, in which he emphasized the importance of history classes in teaching the dramatic events and human suffering which arose out of the adoption of ideologies such as Nazism and Fascism; 18
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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