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Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (1994), para. 11
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- 3. Deplores the policies and practices of Israel violating the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories, as reflected in the reports of the Special Committee covering the reporting period; 4/
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2019), para. 19
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- Acknowledging with grave concern statements made by the Secretary-General on 26 February 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 7 March 2018, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights on 6 March 2018 and the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on 27 February 2018 on the situation of human rights in Rakhine State, in which they referred to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and recalling the resolution adopted by the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at its forty - fifth session on the establishment of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation ad hoc ministerial committee on accountability for human rights violations against the Rohingya and the recommendations made by the participants in the international consultation meeting on the Rohingya crisis, which was held in Ankara on 6 July 2018,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Renewal of the mandate of the team of international experts on the situation in Kasai (2019), para. 08
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- Taking note of the observation by the team of international experts that the current lull in the violence in Kasai is fragile, ethnic tensions remain high and the situation must still be monitored closely,
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- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan (2007), para. 16
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- Reiterating its opposition to settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan and to any activities involving the confiscation of land, the disruption of the livelihood of protected persons and the de facto annexation of land,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance: special economic assistance to individual countries or regions (1996), para. 096
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- 9. Requests the Secretary-General to take all appropriate measures to increase the opportunity for countries affected by the sanctions to participate actively in the post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation of the crisis-stricken areas of former Yugoslavia after the achievement of a peaceful, lasting and just political solution of the conflict in the Balkans;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance for the Sudan in the field of human rights (2012), para. 08
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan; 1
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat (2017), para. 07
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- Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 4
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Nicaragua: aftermath of the war and natural disasters (1996), para. 16
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- 5. Requests all Member States, the international funding agencies and regional, intraregional and non-governmental organizations to continue to provide, in a broad and flexible form, support to Nicaragua at the required levels, giving particular attention to the exceptional circumstances of Nicaragua, and to stimulate a greater effort in the process of reconstruction, social investment, stabilization and development;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 18
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- Welcoming the momentum of inter-Korean dialogue created on the occasion of the participation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Olympic Winter Games held in PyeongChang, and the recent progress in inter-Korean relations,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance to Côte d’Ivoire in the field of human rights (2012), para. 16
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- 7. Welcomes the commitments undertaken by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire at the nineteenth session of the Council to endorse the independent expert’s recommendations, particularly those related to rebuilding democracy, combating impunity through the justice system and strengthening inclusive political pluralism and cultural and religious pluralism;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Dissemination of information on decolonization (1999), para. 04
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- Recognizing the need for flexible, practical and innovative approaches towards reviewing the options of self-determination for the peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories with a view to achieving complete decolonization by the year 2000,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of the Turks and Caicos Islands (2016), para. 35
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- 11. Stresses the importance of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples being apprised of the views and wishes of the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands and enhancing its understanding of their conditions, including the nature and scope of the existing political and constitutional arrangements between the Turks and Caicos Islands and the administering Power;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Status of preparation for the International Year of Mountains, 2002 (2001), para. 09
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- 2. Encourages all States, the United Nations system and all other actors to take advantage of the International Year of Mountains to ensure the present and future well-being of mountain communities by promoting conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas; to increase awareness and knowledge of mountain ecosystems, their dynamics and functioning, and their overriding importance in providing a number of crucial goods and services essential to the well-being of both rural and urban, highland and lowland people, in particular water supply, food security; and to promote and defend the cultural heritage of mountain communities and societies;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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 (2020), para. 33
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- 13. Expresses deep concern about increased frequency of attempts and activities intended 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
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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 (2010), para. 51
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- 25. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session the item entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2019), para. 50
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- (o) To revoke immediately the decision declaring the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People an extremist organization and banning its activities, repeal the decision banning leaders of the Mejlis from entering Crimea and refrain from maintaining or imposing limitations on the ability of the Crimean Tatar community to conserve its representative institutions;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2013), para. 46
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- 29. Calls upon donors to provide adequate, timely, predictable and flexible resources based on and in proportion to assessed needs, including for underfunded emergencies, to consider providing early and multi-year commitments to pooled humanitarian funds and to continue to support diverse humanitarian funding channels, encourages efforts to adhere to the Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship, 6 and in this respect encourages the private sector, civil society and other relevant entities to make relevant contributions, complementary to those of other sources;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (2011), para. 64
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- 24. Urges Member States to expedite the provision of economic, humanitarian and technical assistance to the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority during this critical period in order to help to alleviate the humanitarian crisis being faced by the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, to rehabilitate the Palestinian economy and infrastructure and to support the rebuilding, restructuring and reform of Palestinian institutions and Palestinian State- building efforts;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Observer status for the Andean Community in the General Assembly (1997), para. 5
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- Wishing to promote cooperation between the United Nations and the Andean Community,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 31
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- 20. Encourages States to adopt further measures to provide training for the police and other law enforcement bodies on the ideologies of extremist political parties, movements and groups whose advocacy constitutes incitement to racist and xenophobic violence, to strengthen their capacity to address racist and xenophobic crimes, to fulfil their responsibility for bringing to justice the perpetrato rs of such crimes and to combat impunity;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance for humanitarian relief and the economic and social rehabilitation of Somalia (2005), para. 13
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- 2. Welcomes with great satisfaction the progress made in the last two years of the reconciliation process in Kenya, in particular the elections of the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament, the Speaker of Parliament and the President, the appointment of the Prime Minister and the formation of the Cabinet, and urges all Somali parties and States members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development to fully support the new Transitional Federal Government of Somalia;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2001), para. 04
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- Commending the High Commissioner, her staff and their implementing partners for the competent, courageous and dedicated manner in which they discharge their responsibilities, paying tribute to those staff members whose lives have been endangered in the course of their duties, and strongly condemning the deaths and injuries and other forms of physical and psychological violence experienced by staff members as a consequence of generalized as well as targeted violence,
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Afghanistan (1999), para. 21
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- 10. Urges all the Afghan parties:
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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University of Jerusalem "Al-Quds" for Palestine refugees (1997), para. 7
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- 3. Calls once more upon Israel, the occupying Power, to cooperate in the implementation of the present resolution and to remove the hindrances that it has put in the way of establishing the University of Jerusalem "Al-Quds";
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2006), para. 49
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- 27. We are conscious of the crucial importance of tackling document and identity fraud in order to curb organized crime and terrorism. We seek to improve international cooperation, including through technical assistance, to combat document and identity fraud, in particular the fraudulent use of travel documents, through improved security measures, and encourage the adoption of appropriate national legislation.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Regional conference on assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in the Great Lakes region (1994), para. 24
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- (c) Appropriate financial and technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of the country’s judicial system in order to break the cycle of impunity and enable the Burundian authorities to bring to justice the perpetrators of the attempted coup d’état of October 1993 and of the subsequent ethnic massacres;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2017), para. 18
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- Regretting the lack of progress in the conduct of domestic investigations in accordance with international law standards, and aware of the existence of numerous legal, procedural and practical obstacles in the Israeli civil and criminal legal system contributing to the denial of access to justice for Palestinian victims and of their right to an effective judicial remedy,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance for humanitarian relief and the economic and social rehabilitation of Somalia (2006), para. 17
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- 1. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his continued and tireless efforts to mobilize assistance for the Somali people, and welcomes the steps being taken to strengthen the capacity of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia, as well as the appointment of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) (1996), para. 06
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- Recalling also that in its preamble the Treaty of Tlatelolco states that military denuclearized zones are not an end in themselves but rather a means for achieving general and complete disarmament at a later stage,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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. 48
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- Mindful that Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to natural disasters and that some parts of its territory continue to be affected by serious drought,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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