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The girl child (2016), para. 40
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- 18. Also calls upon States to strengthen research, data collection and analysis on the girl child, disaggregated by household structure, sex, age, disability status, economic situation, marital status and geographical location, and improve gender statistics on time use, unpaid care work and water and sanitation in order to provide a better understanding of the situations of girls, especially of the multiple forms of discrimination that they face, and to inform the development of necessary policies and programme responses, which should take a holistic age-appropriate approach to addressing the full range of the forms of discrimination that girls may face, in order to protect their rights effectively;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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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. 37
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- 5. Recognizes the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the right to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work, which includes, inter alia, having access to safe and healthy working conditions;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03
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- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 108
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- 61 (m). Commit to reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women by providing them with quality information and education, mentoring, social protection and social services, which evidence shows reduce their risk of HIV infection, by ensuring girls’ access and transition to secondary and tertiary education and addressing barriers to retention, and by providing women with psychosocial support and vocational training to facilitate their transition from education to decent work;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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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 (2009), para. 16
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- Welcoming, in this regard, the implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme in such a way as not to impede the legitimate trade in diamonds or impose an undue burden on Governments or industry, particularly smaller producers, nor hinder the development of the diamond industry,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2017), para. 43
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- 12. Stresses the role that all funding instruments, including the European Commission’s Palestinian-European Mechanism for the Management of Socioeconomic Aid and the World Bank trust fund, have been playing in directly assisting the Palestinian people;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 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 andsettlement of conflicts (2002), para. 26
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- 7. Underlines the need, as an essential tool for the successful implementation of the proposed international certification scheme, for the collation and dissemination of relevant statistical data on the production of and international trade in rough diamonds;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 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 andsettlement of conflicts (2007), para. 07
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- Bearing in mind the positive benefits of the legitimate diamond trade to producing countries, and underlining the need for continued international action to prevent the problem of conflict diamonds from negatively affecting the trade in legitimate diamonds, which makes a critical contribution to the economies of many of the producing, exporting and importing States, especially developing States,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 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. 056
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- (f) The reduction of opportunities for the transfer and concealment of proceeds of corruption, and measures to address the question of returning such proceeds to their countries of origin; actions may include ensuring the implementation of measures against money-laundering, pursuant to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and other international legal instruments, and the development and implementation of new measures.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011 (2011), para. 30
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- 5. Also decides that the annual net compensation of the Chairs of the International Civil Service Commission and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions shall be set at 224,833 dollars, including the special allowance, with retroactive effect from 1 January 2011, and that the pensionable remuneration shall be adjusted accordingly to 279,283 dollars;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2019), para. 44
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- 13. Urges Member States to open their markets to exports of Palestinian products on the most favourable terms, consistent with appropriate trading ru les, and to implement fully existing trade and cooperation agreements;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (2019), para. 22
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- 9. Requests the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to continue to report to the General Assembly on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people, and, while drawing attention to the alarming findings, as reflected in the recent reports 7 in this regard, calls for the exertion of all efforts for the provision of the resources necessary to expedite the completion and publication of the report, including the facilitation and coordination of pertinent inputs from the relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United Nations system;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such funds to the countries of origin (2002), para. 03
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- Concerned about the seriousness of problems posed by corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin, which may endanger the stability and security of societies, undermine the values of democracy and morality and jeopardize social, economic and political development,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Role of microcredit in the eradication of poverty (1998), para. 04
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- Noting that in many countries of the world, microcredit programmes, by providing access to small amounts of capital to people living in poverty, have succeeded in generating productive self-employment,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Towards a New International Economic Order (2015), para. 20
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Updated overview of the major international economic and policy challenges for equitable and inclusive sustained economic growth and sustainable development, and of the role of the United Nations in addressing these issues in the light of the New International Economic Order”; 6
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (2000), para. 07
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- Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such an operation,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2020), para. 18
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- Cognizant that the future prospects of entire economies and societies will depend on how effectively all stakeholders respond to the technological trends and challenges and to the interplay of those trends with other major trends, such as urbanization, the changing nature of work, demographic shifts, climate change, the increasing magnitude of disasters and environmental challenges and increasing inequality within countries,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization (2002), para. 17
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- 10. Also welcomes the efforts of the States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization in opening international passenger traffic and the launching of a demonstration container train on the Almaty-Tashkent-Tehran- Istanbul route of the Trans-Asian Railway main line;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows and strengthen good practices on assets return to foster sustainable development (2020), para. 25
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- Recognizing the important work undertaken by academia and civil society, including the International Centre for Asset Recovery and the U4 Anti -Corruption Resource Centre, in assisting Member States in understanding the challenges associated with the return of stolen assets under chapter V of the United Nations Convention against Corruption,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Question of Saint Helena (2018), para. 24
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- Aware of the efforts of the administering Power and the territorial Governme nt to improve the socioeconomic conditions of the population of Saint Helena, in particular in the areas of employment, transport and communications infrastructure,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Health
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The role of the international community in the prevention of the radiation threat in Central Asia (2019), para. 17
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- Expressing gratitude to donor countries, in particular Czechia, Finland, Germany, Japan, Norway, the Russian Federation, Switzerland and the United States of America, and to international and regional organizations and financial institutions, including the United Nations Development Programme, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europ e, the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Global Environment Facility, the World Bank and others, which are providing assistance in addressing the problems of uranium tailings in the Central Asian region,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2013), para. 09
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- Noting the great economic and social challenges facing the Palestinian people and their leadership,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan and the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for (2004), para. 35
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- 14. Welcomes, in this regard, the signing of the Declaration on Encouraging Closer Trade, Transit and Investment Cooperation as a further sign of the commitment of Afghanistan and its neighbours to closer regional cooperation;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International trade and development (2006), para. 36
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- 22. Welcomes the generous offer by the Government of Ghana to host the twelfth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in 2008, and expresses its gratitude to the African Union for its support for Ghana in this connection;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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World Summit Outcome (2005), para. 092
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- Employment
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- Economic Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2019), para. 54
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- 38. Recalls the mandates of the Investments Committee and the Committee of Actuaries, welcomes the established practice of holding joint meetings, and encourages the Committees to increase joint interaction with the Pension Board;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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External debt sustainability and development (2018), para. 38
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- 23. Expresses its concern regarding the ability of non-cooperative minority bondholders to disrupt the will of the large majority of bondholders who accept a restructuring of a debt-crisis country’s obligations, given the potential broader implications in other countries, notes legislative steps taken by certain countries to prevent these activities and encourage all Governments to take action, as appropriate, and furthermore, takes note of discussions in the United Nations on debt issues;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 079
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- 67. Welcomes and urges further efforts to strengthen the process of regional economic cooperation, including measures to facilitate regional trade and transit, including through finalizing bilateral transit trade agreements, to increase foreign investments and to develop infrastructure, including infrastructural connectivity, energy supply and integrated border management, noting the historic role of Afghanistan as a land bridge in Asia;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan (2019), para. 28
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- Noting that the agricultural sector, considered the cornerstone of Palestinian economic development, has not been able to play its strategic role because of the dispossession of land and the denial of access for farmers to agricultural areas, water resources and domestic and external markets owing to the construction, consolidation and expansion of Israeli settlements,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (2014), para. 25
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- 14. Reiterates the importance of regional integration in the Southeast Asia region and its potential contribution to regional and global prosperity, stability and development, and encourages cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations to narrow development gaps through poverty alleviation and rural development measures, to promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and to enhance Association of Southeast Asian Nations connectivity;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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