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Question of responsibility for attacks on United Nations and associated personnel and measures to ensure that those responsible for such attacks are brought to justice (1993), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Gravely concerned at the increasing number of attacks on United Nations personnel that have caused death or serious injury, |
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Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (2006), para. 08 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Gravely concerned about the continuing detrimental impact of the events that have taken place since 28 September 2000, including the excessive use of force by the Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians, resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries, and the widespread destruction of property, |
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Questions relating to information (2011), para. 084 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 53. Requests the Department of Public Information and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to continue to cooperate in implementing an effective outreach programme to explain the zero-tolerance policy of the Organization regarding sexual exploitation and abuse and to inform the public of the outcome of all such cases involving peacekeeping personnel, including cases where allegations are ultimately found to be legally unproven, and also to inform the public of the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Staff and Related Personnel; 13F 14 |
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Political declaration on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (2017), para. 18 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 13. We recognize the important role played by the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons in the United Nations system, and invite it to continue to increase its activities related to the implementation of the Global Plan of Action and, to that end, to incorporate aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development relevant to preventing and combating trafficking in persons and to consider how future activities will be coordinated and how the duplication of efforts will be avoided. We encourage the Coordination Group to expand its working group to include entities of the United Nations system that are not currently active in the working group but that have a role in addressing trafficking in persons. |
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Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (2017), para. 54 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Emphasizing the importance of the safety, protection and well-being of all civilians in the whole Middle East region, and condemning all acts of violence and terror against civilians on both sides, including the firing of rockets, |
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Promoting efforts to eliminate violence against migrants, migrant workers and their families (2013), para. 17 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling its resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010, entitled “United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons”, and Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution 20/3 of 15 April 2011, entitled “Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons”, 5 stressing the need for full and effective implementation of the Plan of Action, and expressing the view that it will, inter alia, enhance cooperation and better coordination of efforts to fight trafficking in persons and for full implementation of the Convention and the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, |
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2002), para. 42 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (h) The acts of intimidation and persecution against representatives of the Churches, as well as the killings of those persons in the eastern part of the country; |
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Terrorism and human rights (2019), para. 33 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 12. Strongly condemns terrorist acts and all acts of violence committed by terrorist groups, including trafficking in persons, kidnapping and hostage-taking with demands for ransom and/or political concessions, and the continued systematic and widespread abuses of human rights perpetrated by such groups, and calls upon all Member States to prevent terrorists from benefiting from ransom payment and political concessions and to secure the safe release of hostages, in accordance with applicable legal obligations, while noting the initiatives in this regard, including the Algiers Memorandum on Good Practices on Preventing and Denying the Benefits of Kidnapping for Ransom by Terrorists; |
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The situation in Afghanistan (2012), para. 131 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 103. Pays homage to all those who have innocently lost their lives in the fight against drug traffickers, in particular members of the security forces of Afghanistan and its neighbours; |
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 51 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 32. Strongly condemns violence against all persons based on their religious or ethnic affiliation, including the indiscriminate use of car and suicide bombs, snipers and hostage-taking; |
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Questions relating to information (2013), para. 078 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 48. Requests the Department of Public Information and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to continue to cooperate in implementing an effective outreach programme to explain the zero-tolerance policy of the Organization regarding sexual exploitation and abuse and to inform the public of the outcome of all such cases involving peacekeeping personnel, including cases where allegations are ultimately found to be legally unproven, and also to inform the public of the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Staff and Related Personnel; 11 |
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Consideration of effective measures to enhance theprotection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives (2003), para. 13 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 2. Strongly condemns acts of violence against diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, as well as against missions and representatives of international intergovernmental organizations and officials of such organizations, and emphasizes that such acts can never be justified; |
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Forensic genetics and human rights (2010), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Noting the general comment of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on the right to the truth with regard to enforced disappearances, in which the Working Group highlighted the importance of identifying the victims of enforced disappearances through, among other methods, DNA analysis, |
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Enforced or involuntary disappearances (2011), para. 08 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Taking note with interest of the general comment of the Working Group on the right to the truth in relation to enforced disappearances, |
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International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2014), para. 12 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Stressing the importance of the work of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and welcoming in this regard the holding of its 100th session in New York from 15 to 19 July 2013, |
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2019), para. 09 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Noting that enforced disappearances can end in extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, recalling the importance in this regard of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 6 and calling upon all States which have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Convention, |
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International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2015), para. 14 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Stressing the importance of the work of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, |
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2018), para. 046 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Welcoming its resolution 72/1 of 27 September 2017, by which it adopted the political declaration on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, |
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam,Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (2002), para. 143 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Noting with concern the vulnerability of the Territory to drug trafficking and related activities, as well as its problems caused by illegal immigration, |
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Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (2017), para. 44 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 18. Calls upon Member States and subregional bodies to take immediate concerted action to counter the phenomenon of poaching and trafficking in wildlife, including through the implementation of the provisions of its resolutions 69/314 , 70/301 and ; |
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Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2010), para. 29 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 9. Recognizes the efforts made by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to assist Member States in developing abilities and strengthening their capacity to prevent and combat kidnapping, and requests the Office to continue to provide technical assistance with a view to fostering international cooperation, in particular mutual legal assistance, aimed at countering effectively this growing serious crime; |
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Enforced or involuntary disappearances (2012), para. 45 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (i) To adopt an archival policy that ensures that all archives pertaining to human rights violations related to enforced disappearances held by all types of institutions are preserved, protected and accessible in accordance with applicable law, in order to habilitate victims to realize their right to the truth to judicial accountability and non-judicial truth seeking process and for reparations; |
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Enforced or involuntary disappearances (2011), para. 16 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 3. Takes note of the report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on best practices on enforced disappearances in domestic criminal legislation, 1 and encourages States to give due consideration to the good practices identified in the report; |
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Rape and abuse of women in the areas of armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia (1997), para. 13 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Deeply alarmed at the situation facing victims of rape in armed conflicts in different parts of the world and any use of rape as a weapon of war, in particular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, |
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Measures for prevention of the smuggling of aliens (1997), para. 06 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that international criminal groups often convince individuals to migrate illegally by various means for enormous profits and use the proceeds from smuggling human beings to finance other criminal activities, |
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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. 18 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 7. Expresses concern about recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; 13 |
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Situation of human rights in Uzbekistan (2006), para. 22 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (c) To put an end to the harassment and detention of eyewitnesses to the events in Andijan; |
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Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife (2019), para. 07 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Expressing serious concern over the extraordinarily detrimental levels of rhinoceros poaching, the alarmingly high levels of killings of elephants in Africa and the significant increase in illicit pangolin trafficking, as well as the illegal trade in other protected wildlife species, including but not limited to tortoises, marine and freshwater turtles, land and marine iguanas, other reptiles, sharks, ornamental fish, great apes, parrots, raptors, the helmeted hornbill and big cats, which threaten those species with local extinction and, in some cases, with global extinction, |
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Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus (2019), para. 02 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Mindful of the dangers posed by unplanned explosions at munitions sites and the diversion of materials from conventional ammunition stockpiles to the illicit market, including for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices, |
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobiaand related intolerance (2017), para. 18 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 7. Expresses concern about recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; 13 |
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