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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations (2018), para. 28
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- 12. Welcomes the determination of the Secretary-General to implement fully the United Nations policy of zero tolerance of sexual exploitation and abuse;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses (2013), para. 26
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- (b) To strengthen the enforcement of their labour laws and, in particular, to specifically train and increase awareness of labour inspectors and other competent authorities in addition to allocating adequate resources so that they have the capacity to identify victims of trafficking during labour inspections of establishments where trafficked persons are likely to be exploited, including in small or informal establishments;
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- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2014), para. 03
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- Reiterating its concern that, despite sustained measures taken at the international, regional and national levels, trafficking in persons remains one of the grave challenges facing the international community, which also impairs the enjoyment of human rights and needs a more concerted collective and comprehensive international response,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization (2016), para. 37
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- 33. Acknowledges the ongoing efforts of the States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization to strengthen regional cooperation to combat drugs and organized crime, including the establishment of a police mechanism, a regiona l judicial and legal cooperation mechanism and the Economic Cooperation Organization regional centre for the cooperation of anti-corruption agencies and ombudsmen, and invites the relevant organizations of the United Nations system and other international organizations, including the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to assist and support those efforts;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for Yemen in the field of human rights (2016), para. 20
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- 4. Calls upon the Government of Yemen to take further measures to protect civilians, and to ensure the continued efforts of effective investigation by the national commission, in order to, inter alia, end impunity;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 06
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- Condemning the grave deterioration of the human rights situation and the indiscriminate or deliberate targeting of civilians as such, in violation of international humanitarian law, and acts of violence that foment sectarian tensions,
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2015), para. 064
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- 12. Encourages all States to have national and local action plans for crime prevention in order to take into account, in a comprehensive, integrated and participatory manner, inter alia, factors that place certain populations and places at higher risk of victimization and/or of offending and to ensure that such plans are based on the best available evidence and good practices, stresses that crime prevention should be considered an integral element of strategies to foster social and economic development in all States, and in this regard welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 2014/21 of 16 July 2014 on strengthening social policies as a tool for crime prevention;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2016), para. 024
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- 11. Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to provide technical assistance to facilitate the ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 7 the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto 8 and the international counter-terrorism instruments;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (2017), para. 32
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- 25. We will promote partnerships and engage the business community and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, in developing and implementing sustainable initiatives to prevent and combat trafficking in persons in supply chains, taking into account the views and experiences of trafficked persons in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating such initiatives, and encourage businesses to support efforts to combat trafficking in persons. We urge the Secretary -General to ensure that all United Nations procurement is free from trafficking in persons.
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- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem (2017), para. 110
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- 73. Reaffirms the importance of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and its field offices in building capacity at the local level in the fight against transnational organized crime and drug trafficking, and encourages the Office to maintain an effective level of support for national and regional efforts in countering the world drug problem;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2017), para. 058
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- 5. Reaffirms that the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto represent the most important tools of the international community for fighting transnational organized crime, and notes with appreciation that the number of States parties has reached 187, which is a significant indication of the commitment shown by the international community to combating transnational organized crime;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations (2001), para. 31
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- (c) Ways and means to assist the Territories to fight drug trafficking, money-laundering and other illegal and criminal activities;
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- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2016), para. 055
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- 15. Reaffirms the need for Member States to review and, if necessary, strengthen coordinated measures, enhance capacity-building to combat money- laundering arising from drug trafficking and improve judicial cooperatio n, where appropriate, at the national, regional and international levels, to dismantle organized criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, in order to provide for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators of such crim es;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (2011), para. 09
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- Bearing in mind that all States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent trafficking in persons, to investigate instances of trafficking and punish perpetrators, to rescue victims and to provide for their protection and access to remedies, and that not doing so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of victims,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations action on sexual exploitation and abuse (2017), para. 07
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- Emphasizing that proper discipline and conduct of United Nations personnel, in accordance with United Nations rules and regulations, are crucial for their effectiveness in fulfilling their respective mandates, as well as for the credibility of the United Nations and the security and well-being of the populations it is mandated to protect, and in this regard noting the importance of the ongoing efforts to strengthen predeployment training on the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade (2007), para. 04
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- Honouring the memory of those who died as a result of slavery, including through exposure to the horrors of the middle passage and in revolt against and resistance to enslavement,
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- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2015), para. 072
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- 20. Emphasizes the importance of preventing and combating all forms of trafficking in persons, and in this regard expresses its concern about the activities of transnational and national organized criminal groups and others who profit from such crimes, including for the purpose of organ removal, and calls upon Member States to strengthen national efforts to combat all forms of trafficking in persons and to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in accordance with all relevant legal obligations and in collaboration with international organizations, civil society and the private sector;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 52
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- 34. Also strongly condemns the damage and destruction of the cultural heritage of the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular that of Palmyra and Aleppo, and the organized looting and trafficking of Syrian cultural property, as outlined by the Security Council in its resolution 2199 (2015) of 12 February 2015, affirms that attacks intentionally directed against historic monuments may amount to war crimes, and underlines the need to bring the perpetrators of such crimes to justice;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (2018), para. 75
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- 11. Stresses the need for an immediate and complete cessation of all acts of violence, including military attacks, destruction and acts of terror;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2015), para. 35
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- 3. Underscores its very serious concern at the systematic abduction, denial of repatriation and subsequent enforced disappearance of persons, including those from other countries, on a large scale and as a matter of State policy, and in this regard strongly calls upon the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea urgently to resolve these issues of international concern, in a transparent manner, including by ensuring the immediate return of abductees;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2000), para. 24
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- (c) The excessive accumulation and spread of small arms and light weapons and the illicit distribution, circulation and trafficking of arms in the region and their negative impact on human rights;
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- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (2003), para. 31
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- (e) To establish the independence of the judiciary and to abrogate all laws granting impunity to specified forces or persons killing or injuring individuals for any purpose beyond the administration of justice under the rule of law as prescribed by international standards;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 64
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- 33. Stresses the need for the systematic collection of sex- and age-disaggregated data and comprehensive studies at both the national and the international levels and the development of common methodologies and internationally defined indicators to make it possible to develop relevant and comparable figures, and encourages Governments to enhance information-sharing and data-collection capacity as a way of promoting cooperation to combat the trafficking problem;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (2002), para. 098
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- V. Action against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition
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- Violence
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- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2007), para. 10
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- Bearing in mind the important role that civil society, including non- governmental organizations, plays in combating the drug problem,
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- Health
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2012), para. 07
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- 1. Strongly condemns the widespread, systematic and gross violations of human rights, acts of violence, ongoing atrocities and indiscriminate targeting of civilians by the Syrian authorities, and also condemns the human rights violations and crimes that members of the Government-controlled militia Shabbiha continue to commit against the Syrian people;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 31
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- 16. Recognizes the permanent damage that torture and ill-treatment, including sexual abuse and violence, cause to victims and their families, and condemns the denial of medical services in all prisons and detention facilities;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2016), para. 19
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- Noting with regret the use of conscripts as forced labour in a wide range of economic activities,
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- Violence
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2009), para. 07
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- Recalling also Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 51/11 of 14 March 2008, 8 in which the Commission recognized the increasing links between illicit drug trafficking and illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms,
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- Health
- Violence
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- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2016), para. 11
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- Taking note of the identical letters dated 18 June 2015 addressed to the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council, on behalf of 71 Member States, expressing outrage regarding the continued bloodshed and violence against civilians in Syria, caused i n particular by the systematic use of barrel bombs,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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