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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 34
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- Encourages countries to give due consideration to the dissemination, promotion and implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, as well as the voluntary Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, as endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in 2012 and 2014, respectively;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 3
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- Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation), the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries and the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 5
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- Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 4
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- Expresses concern that the world is not on track to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2030 and that scarce and unsustainably managed natural resources, combined with insecure and uneven tenure rights for smallholders, are severely affecting those in vulnerable situations in rural areas, that climate change, drought, desertification and conflict and post-conflict situations are challenges with regard to food security and nutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases in many places, preventing progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, and that countries in protracted crises are at risk of being left behind;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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- N.A.
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- 2017
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 29
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- Expressing concern that climate change has contributed and continues to contribute to the increased frequency and intensity of both sudden-onset natural disasters and slow-onset events, and that these events have adverse effects on the full enjoyment of all human rights, including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 24
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- Recognizing that, in progressively realizing the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, as well as other human rights, States should increasingly pursue integrated approaches and strengthen their water resource management, including by improving wastewater treatment and by preventing and reducing surface and groundwater pollution,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 7
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- Welcoming the Paris Agreement and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 31
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- Notes the International Fund for Agricultural Development initiative of organizing the first International Conference on South-South and Triangular Cooperation, on the theme “Leveraging Innovations from the Global South to Support Rural Transformation”, held in Brasilia on 20 and 21 November 2017;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 14
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- Recalling the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, acknowledging that forests provide essential ecosystem services, such as timber, food, fuel, fodder, non-wood products and shelter, as well as soil and water conservation and clean air, and that forests prevent land degradation and desertification and reduce the risks of floods, landslides and avalanches, droughts, dust and sand storms and other disasters, and stressing in this regard the role of all types of forests, including boreal, temperate and tropical forests, in providing food security,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 5
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- Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development of June 1992 and its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, entitled “The future we want”, and emphasizing the critical importance of water and sanitation within the three dimensions of sustainable development,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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Women in development 2017, para. 8
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- Welcoming the Paris Agreement and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible,
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 30
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- Noting the convening of the thirty-first session of the Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Voronezh, Russian Federation, in May 2018, with a focus on agricultural, food security and nutrition issues, including their links with climate change,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2017
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 8
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- Welcoming also the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 to 20 October 2016,
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Effects of atomic radiation (2007), para. 18
- Original document
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- 10. Welcomes, in this context, the readiness of Member States to provide the Scientific Committee with relevant information on the effects of ionizing radiation in affected areas, and invites the Scientific Committee to analyse and give due consideration to such information, particularly in the light of its own findings;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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R e p o r t o f t h e G o v e r n i n g C o u n c i l o f t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s Environment Programme (1999), para. 04
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- Further recalling the Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme, 3 adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its nineteenth session,
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2003), para. 043
- Original document
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- VII. The continental shelf and the work of the Commission
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the highseas/illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other developments (2003), para. 32
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- 8. Encourages coastal States to develop ocean policies and mechanisms on integrated management, including at the subregional and regional levels, and also including assistance to developing States in accomplishing these objectives;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (2019), para. 31
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- 13. Notes with concern that, along with the threat of the possible production, acquisition and use of chemical weapons by States, the international community also faces the danger of the production, acquisition and use of chemical weapons by non-State actors, including terrorists, concerns which have highlighted the necessity of achieving universal adherence to the Convention, as well as the high level of readiness of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and stresses that the full and effective implementation of all provisions of the Convention, including those on national implementation (article VII) and assistance and protection (article X), constitutes an important contribution to the efforts of the United Nations in the global fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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The right to food (2018), para. 16
- Original document
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- Recognizing further the complex character of food insecurity and its likely recurrence owing to a combination of several major factors, such as the effects of the global financial and economic crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the impacts of global climate change, as well as poverty, natural disasters, armed conflicts, drought, volatility in commodity prices and the lack in many countries of the appropriate technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact, particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States, and the need for coherence and collaboration between international institutions at the global level,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2016), para. 26
- Original document
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- Emphasizing the need to address vulnerability and to integrate disaster risk reduction, including preparedness, into all phases of natural disaster management, post-natural disaster recovery and development planning through close collaboration of all relevant actors and sectors,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2017), para. 49
- Original document
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- 28. Further recognizes that landlocked developing countries are vulnerable to climate change, which is exacerbating desertification and land degradation, and that they remain negatively affected by desertification, land degradation and drought;
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- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (2014), para. 23
- Original document
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- 18. We reaffirm all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 7 including, inter alia, the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, as set out in principle 7 thereof.
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2018), para. 60
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- 37. Also stresses the importance of promoting corporate social responsibility and accountability, encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, 20 invites the private sector to take into account not only the economic and financial implications but also the development, social, human rights, gender and environmental implications of its undertakings, and underlines the importance of the International Labour Organization Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy;
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- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2018), para. 112
- Original document
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- 15. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that resource requirements at each stage of the project are based on a thorough review of actual and up -to-date needs on the ground and to provide detailed information in the context of future progress reports;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 353
- Original document
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- 285. Encourages Member States to consider contributing to mechanisms that encourage the widest possible availability of all bathymetric data, so as to support the sustainable development, management and governance of the marine environment;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2007), para. 23
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- 4. Calls for continued financial support to UN-Habitat through increased voluntary contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, and invites Governments to provide predictable multi-year funding to support programme implementation;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
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Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development (2017), para. 25
- Original document
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- Recalling the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its ninth meeting of the strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the three objectives of the Convention, 20 as well as decision X/3, adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting, 21 on the review of its implementation, and the targets for resource mobilization, under Aichi Target 20 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, adopted by the Conference of the Parties in its decision XII/3, 22 Noting the outcomes of the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, all held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, in 2014,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 323
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- 256. Recalls that, in “The future we want”, States reaffirmed the importance of area-based conservation measures, including marine protected areas, consistent with international law and based on best available scientific information, as a tool for conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of its components, and noted decision X/2 of the tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, that by 2020, 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are to be conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area- based conservation measures; 106
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
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- N.A.
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2014), para. 044
- Original document
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- Reaffirming the importance of the work of the International Seabed Authority (the Authority) in accordance with the Convention and the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (the Part XI Agreement), 17
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2008), para. 044
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- 12. Calls upon States and international financial institutions, including through bilateral, regional and global cooperation programmes and technical partnerships, to continue to strengthen capacity-building activities, in particular in developing countries, in the field of marine scientific research by, inter alia, training personnel to develop and enhance relevant expertise, providing the necessary equipment, facilities and vessels and transferring environmentally sound technologies;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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