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General and complete disarmament (2001), para. 132
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- 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures”.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities (2009), para. 09
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- Noting the report of the Group of Governmental Experts established pursuant to resolution 60/81 of 8 December 2005 to consider further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons 2F 3 as an international initiative within the framework of the United Nations,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian LawViolations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 (2004), para. 07
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- 1. Takes note of the documents submitted by the Secretary-General on the financing for the biennium 2004–2005 of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 2
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (2018), para. 45
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- 25. Decides to continue its consideration of this matter at its fortieth session under the same agenda item.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (2007), para. 078
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- Noting the appointment by the administering Power of a new Governor who maintains reserved powers in the Territory,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 069
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- 11. Recalls, in this regard, that, in “The future we want”, 7 States recognized the importance of building the capacity of developing countries to be able to benefit from the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and seas and their resources, and in this regard emphasized the need for cooperation in marine scientific research to implement the provisions of the Convention and the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, as well as for the transfer of technology, taking into account the Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology adopted by the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twenty-second session, in 2003;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament (2018), para. 08
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- Cognizant also of the discussions in the Conference on Disarmament in 2018 under its subsidiary body 5,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives (2001), para. 15
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- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2001), para. 33
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- A. Noblemaire principle and its application
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (2011), para. 57
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- 22. Welcomes the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to implement the mandate given to her in 2005, in resolution 60/158, and requests the High Commissioner to continue her efforts in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2017), para. 04
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- Acknowledging that the United Nations congresses on crime prevention and criminal justice, as major intergovernmental forums, have influenced national policies and practices and promoted international cooperation in that field by facilitating the exchange of views and experience, mobilizing public opinion and recommending policy options at the national, regional and international levels,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 282
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- 220. Urges States to cooperate in correcting the shortfall in port waste reception facilities in accordance with the action plan to address the inadequacy of port waste reception facilities developed by the International Maritime Organization;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2003), para. 043
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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.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2013), para. 19
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- 3. Emphasizes that extreme poverty is a major issue to be addressed by Governments, civil society, community-based social organizations and the United Nations system, including international financial institutions, and in this context reaffirms that political commitment is a prerequisite for the eradication of poverty;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2008–2009 (2007), para. 02
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- Reaffirming its resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, in which it requested the Secretary-General to submit in off-budget years an outline of the proposed programme budget for the following biennium,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives (2009), para. 12
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- Convinced that the role of the United Nations, which includes the reporting procedures established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 35/168 of 15 December 1980 and further elaborated in subsequent Assembly resolutions, is important in promoting efforts to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2003), para. 5
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- Noting with deep appreciation the effective manner in which the Office of the High Commissioner has been dealing with various essential humanitarian tasks entrusted to it,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-second session (2000), para. 22
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- 9. Appeals to Governments, the relevant United Nations organs, organizations, institutions and individuals, in order to ensure full participation by all Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to make voluntary contributions to the trust fund for travel assistance to developing countries that are members of the Commission, at their request and in consultation with the Secretary- General;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Harmony with Nature (2018), para. 10
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- Noting with appreciation the interactive dialogue on Harmony with Nature convened by the President of the General Assembly with the overall theme of Earth jurisprudence, held on 21 April 2017, in commemoration of International Mother Earth Day and to inspire citizens and societies to reconsider how they interact with the natural world in order to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in harmony with nature, and noting that some countries recognize the rights of nature in the context of the promotion of sustainable development,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification (2008), para. 4
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- Recalling its request to the Secretary-General, in resolution 59/60, to transmit to it the report of the Panel of Government Experts on verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification, and the intent of the Panel to produce a report that is forward-looking and discerning of new trends and requirements,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (2018), para. 15
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- (b) The plenary segment, to be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5:30 p.m. will comprise statements by Member States and observers of the General Assembly; a list of speakers will be established in accordance with established practices of the Assembly and the time limits for these statements will be three minutes for individual delegations and five minutes for statements made on behalf of a group of States;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening investigations (2008), para. 03
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- Recalling also paragraph 10 of its resolution 59/287,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2013), para. 09
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- Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice, 7 and recalling also General Assembly resolutions ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and ES-10/17 of 15 December 2006,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments (2013), para. 105
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- 54. Encourages States within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to continue the work of the Technical Consultation on Flag State Performance with regard to the draft criteria for flag State performance, assessing flag State performance and possible actions in accordance with international law to encourage compliance, and assistance to developing countries to improve their performance as flag States;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of equitable geographical distribution in the membership of the human rights treaty bodies (2016), para. 16
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- 3. Encourages the States parties to the United Nations human rights instruments to consider and adopt concrete actions, inter alia, the possible establishment of quotas by geographical region for membership of the treaty bodies, thereby ensuring the paramount objective of equitable geographical distribution in the membership of those human rights bodies;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development and related commitments on alternative development and regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented, balanced drug control policy addressing socioeconomic issues (2018), para. 05
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- Reaffirming the commitments contained in the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, 8 adopted at the high-level segment of the fifty- second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/182 of 18 December 2009, and the Joint Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review by the Commission of the implementation by Member States of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action, adopted at the high-level segment of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission, 9
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (2010), para. 14
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- 7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission II (1995), para. 13
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- 4. Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2/ subject to the provisions of the present resolution;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan (2010), para. 27
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- 5. Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, comply with its legal obligations, as mentioned in the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice; 4 2H
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elaboration of an international convention to combat desertification in thosecountries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa (1997), para. 22
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- 10. Notes with appreciation the contributions made thus far to the Trust Fund established pursuant to resolution 47/188, and invites Governments, regional economic integration organizations and other interested organizations to continue to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund to support the interim secretariat of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee and the work of the Committee, and also for the transition period following the first session of the Conference of the Parties to support the secretariat of the Convention and the work of the Conference of the Parties;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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