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Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (2008), para. 01
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- The General Assembly,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effects of atomic radiation (2007), para. 18
- Original document
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- 10. Welcomes, in this context, the readiness of Member States to provide the Scientific Committee with relevant information on the effects of ionizing radiation in affected areas, and invites the Scientific Committee to analyse and give due consideration to such information, particularly in the light of its own findings;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- 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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Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (1999), para. 124
- Original document
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- 3. Commends the Secretary-General for the diligence with which the programme has continued to be carried out;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala (1995), para. 15
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- 2. Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Director of the Mission on the first three months of the Mission’s activities;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (2019), para. 20
- Original document
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- 14. Requests the Secretary-General to include, in the performance report of the Mission, detailed information on programmatic activities, including on how the implementation of those activities has contributed to implementing mission mandates;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes (2013), para. 20
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- 6. Also requests the Conference on Disarmament to intensify efforts towards an early conclusion of such a convention and to include in its report to the General Assembly at its seventieth session the progress recorded in the negotiations on this subject;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development (1999), para. 15
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- 11. Takes note of the decision adopted by the Preparatory Committee at its resumed first session on accreditation and modalities for participation of non-governmental organizations at the special session, 6 and recalls General Assembly decision 54/407 of 8 October 1999 on arrangements regarding participation of non- governmental organizations in the special session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Transparency in armaments (2002), para. 13
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- 5. Requests the Secretary-General to implement the recommendations contained in his 2000 report on the continuing operation of the Register and its further development and to ensure that sufficient resources are made available for the Secretariat to operate and maintain the Register;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (1997), 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
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2011), para. 83
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- 51. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit a report on the implementation of the present resolution to the Council at its nineteenth session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and returning such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to countries of origin, in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2015), para. 53
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- 21. Encourages States parties to the Convention to cooperate in order to implement the measures necessary to enable them to obtain reliable information on beneficial ownership of companies, legal structures or other complex legal mechanisms, including trusts and holdings, used to commit crimes of corruption or to hide and transfer proceeds;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- 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. 117
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- 60. Encourages States Parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to consider making a written declaration, choosing from the means se t out in article 287 of the Convention for the settlement of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of the Convention and the Part XI Agreement, bearing in mind the comprehensive character of the dispute settlement mechanism provided for in Part XV of the Convention;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2019), para. 089
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- and its request that all documents submitted to legislative organs, including the Committee on Conferences, by the Secretariat and intergovernmental and expert bodies for consideration and action have conclusions and recommendations in bold print;
- 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 Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (2001), para. 13
- Original document
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- 5. Expresses concern at the delay experienced by the Secretary-General in deploying and providing adequate resources to some recent peacekeeping missions, in particular those in Africa;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (2010), para. 17
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- Recalling the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, issued on 8 July 1996, 10F 11
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Development cooperation with middle-income countries (2014), para. 19
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- 5. Requests the United Nations development system to ensure that it addresses the diverse development needs of middle-income countries in a coordinated manner through, inter alia, an accurate assessment of the national priorities and needs of these countries, taking into account the use of variables that go beyond per capita income criteria;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2010), para. 52
- Original document
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- 42. Invites the Secretary-General, as a follow-up to the 2005 World Summit, to urge the United Nations development system to assist African countries in implementing quick-impact initiatives through, inter alia, the Millennium Villages Project, and requests the Secretary-General to include in his report an assessment of those quick-impact initiatives;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order (2019), para. 03
- Original document
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- Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on the institution-building of the Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013 (2013), para. 92
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- 12. Also stresses the importance of ensuring that all measures necessary are taken to avoid legal and reputational risks for the Organization in using armed security services of private security companies;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2010), para. 001
- Original document
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- The General Assembly,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Establishment of the International Criminal Court (2003), para. 19
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- 13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session an item entitled “International Criminal Court”.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Review of the Human Rights Council (2011), para. 073
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- 38. The annual report of the Advisory Committee shall be submitted to the Council at its September session, and be the subject of an interactive dialogue with the Committee Chair. The present provision does not exclude other interaction with the Committee should such opportunities arise and be deemed appropriate by the Council.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development (2017), para. 15
- Original document
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- 6. Looks forward to the inclusion, in the 2017 report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development, of an analysis of the theme of the present resolution, pursuant to the Task Force’s mandate, and also looks forward to the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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R e p o r t o f t h e G o v e r n i n g C o u n c i l o f t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s Environment Programme (1999), para. 04
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- Further recalling the Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme, 3 adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its nineteenth session,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (2011), para. 25
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- (a) About human rights, which includes providing knowledge and understanding of human rights norms and principles, the values that underpin them and the mechanisms for their protection;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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System-wide coherence (2010), para. 035
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- “Delivering as one”
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in theCentral African Republic (2014), para. 08
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- 3. Authorizes the Secretary-General to establish a special account for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic for the purpose of accounting for the income received and the expenditure incurred in respect of the Mission;
- 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 (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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Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the highseas/illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other developments (2003), para. 32
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- 8. Encourages coastal States to develop ocean policies and mechanisms on integrated management, including at the subregional and regional levels, and also including assistance to developing States in accomplishing these objectives;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations: requests under Article 19 of the Charter (2019), para. 6
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- 3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to bring to the attention of Member States the deadline specified in resolution 54/237 C, including through an early announcement in the Journal of the United Nations and through direct communication;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Panel discussion on the negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights (2012), para. 01
- Original document
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- The Human Rights Council,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (2016), para. 15
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- 8. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (1999), para. 121
- Original document
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- Believing that the forms of assistance available to Member States, in particular to developing countries, under the programme will enhance the capabilities of their officials to follow ongoing deliberations and negotiations on disarmament, both bilateral and multilateral,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments (2007), para. 02
- Original document
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- Recalling its resolution 60/56 of 8 December 2005,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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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Strengthening investigations (2008), para. 03
- Original document
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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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Second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2014), para. 18
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- 14. Decides that the Secretariat shall publish the list of applications received and disseminate the list in advance to members of the Preparatory Committee, at least one month before the first meeting of the second session of the Committee, at which time a decision on such applications will be taken;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (2008), para. 12
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- 4. Emphasizes the importance of interaction and coordination with troop- contributing countries;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Unforeseen and extraordinary expenses for the biennium 2010–2011 (2010), para. 02
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- 1. Authorizes the Secretary-General, with the prior concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and subject to the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations 0F 1 and the provisions of paragraph 3 below, to enter into commitments in the biennium 2010–2011 to meet unforeseen and extraordinary expenses arising either during or subsequent to the biennium, provided that the concurrence of the Advisory Committee shall not be necessary for:
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2003), para. 34
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- 11. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit, through the Secretary-General, a report on the implementation of the programme of activities for the Decade to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in (2002), para. 16
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- 6. Also expresses concern at the delay experienced by the Secretary-General in deploying and providing adequate resources to some recent peacekeeping missions, in particular those in Africa;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of French Polynesia (2015), para. 15
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- 3. Calls upon the administering Power to participate in and cooperate fully with the work 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 in order to implement the provisions of Article 73 e of the Charter and the Declaration and in order to advise the Special Committee on the implementation of the provisions under Article 73 b of the Charter on efforts to promote self-government in French Polynesia, and encourages the administering Power to facilitate visiting and special missions to the Territory;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2005), para. 02
- Original document
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- Recalling its resolutions 44/236 of 22 December 1989, 49/22 A of 2 December 1994, 49/22 B of 20 December 1994, 53/185 of 15 December 1998, 54/219 of 22 December 1999, 56/195 of 21 December 2001, 57/256 of 20 December 2002 and 58/214 of 23 December 2003 and Economic and Social Council resolutions 1999/63 of 30 July 1999 and 2001/35 of 26 July 2001, and taking into due consideration its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade (2007), para. 03
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- Recalling that the transatlantic slave trade, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, involved the forced transportation of millions of Africans as slaves, mostly from West Africa to the Americas, thereby enriching the imperial powers of the time,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Smooth transition for countries graduating from the list of least developed countries (2013), para. 08
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the ad hoc working group to further study and strengthen the smooth transition process for the countries graduating from the least developed country category; 3
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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World Climate Change Conference (2003), para. 13
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- 2. Encourages Member States and relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, as well as other international and national organizations, parliaments, the scientific community, the private sector and other representatives of civil society, to participate actively in the Conference;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction (2004), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 57/83 of 22 November 2002,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2020), para. 45
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- Group of Independent Eminent Experts on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (2009), para. 21
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- 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General; 2
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (2019), para. 31
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- 13. Notes with concern that, along with the threat of the possible production, acquisition and use of chemical weapons by States, the international community also faces the danger of the production, acquisition and use of chemical weapons by non-State actors, including terrorists, concerns which have highlighted the necessity of achieving universal adherence to the Convention, as well as the high level of readiness of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and stresses that the full and effective implementation of all provisions of the Convention, including those on national implementation (article VII) and assistance and protection (article X), constitutes an important contribution to the efforts of the United Nations in the global fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (2006), para. 32
- Original document
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- 16. Thanks the Secretary-General for having established the Trust Fund for the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the rule of law and the reform of criminal justice institutions, particularly in the areas related to the United Nations system-wide approach to fighting transnational organized crime and drug trafficking (2013), para. 28
- Paragraph text
- 14. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session a report 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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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1999), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Article 4
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures (2004), para. 17
- Original document
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- 7. Thanks the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 57/81, 3 taking into consideration the activities of the Group of Interested States in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2013), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Welcomes the report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 19/22, 11 and the recommendations contained therein;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination (1997), para. 11
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- 5 Ibid., 1983, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/1983/13 and Corr.1), chap. XXVII, sect. A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2000), para. 11
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- (c) To submit, through the Secretary-General, an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the programme of activities of the Decade;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- 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-sixth session (2004), para. 17
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- 8. Decides, in order to ensure full participation by all Member States in the sessions of the Commission and its working groups, to continue, in the competent Main Committee during the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly, its consideration of granting travel assistance to the least developed 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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Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem (1999), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, the most recent of which are resolutions 904 (1994) of 18 March 1994 and 1073 (1996) of 28 September 1996,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1999), para. 32
- Original document
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- (d) It is an abuse of the right to submit a communication;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Institute for Training and Research (2003), para. 05
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- Noting with concern that contributions to the General Fund have not increased, while the participation of the developed countries in training programmes in New York and Geneva is increasing,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2020), para. 064
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- Paragraph text
- 52. Emphasizes that multilingualism, as a core value of the Organization, entails the active involvement and commitment of all stakeholders, including all United Nations duty stations and offices away from Headquarters;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region (2019), para. 17
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- 3. Commends the Mediterranean countries for their efforts in meeting common challenges through coordinated overall responses, based on a spirit of multilateral partnership, towards the general objective of turning the Mediterranean basin into an area of dialogue, exchanges and cooperation, guaranteeing peace, stability and prosperity, encourages them to strengthen such efforts through, inter alia, a lasting multilateral and action-oriented cooperative dialogue among States of the region, and recognizes the role of the United Nations in promoting regional and international peace and security;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2019), para. 20
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- (a) The terms of reference and self-evaluation methodology of Board members;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 16
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- Recognizing further the complex character of food insecurity and its likely recurrence owing to a combination of several major factors, such as the effects of the global financial and economic crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the impacts of global climate change, as well as poverty, natural disasters, armed conflicts, drought, volatility in commodity prices and the lack in many countries of the appropriate technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact, particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States, and the need for coherence and collaboration between international institutions at the global level,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and the future role of the Commission on Human Settlements (1998), para. 30
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- (d) International cooperation and coordination;
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- Equality & Inclusion
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (2019), para. 13
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- 7. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that proposed peacekeeping budgets are based on the relevant legislative mandates;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to information (2003), para. 009
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- (e) To aim at, in addition to bilateral cooperation, providing all possible support and assistance to the developing countries and their media, public, private or other, with due regard to their interests and needs in the field of information and to action already adopted within the United Nations system, including:
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Commodities (2020), para. 55
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- 29. Stresses that revenues from commodity production and exports remain critical for developing countries, in particular in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, given that developing countries need to mobilize resources in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and that commodity prices have been decreasing since 2011, which has put pressure on government budgets in developing countries;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome of the action dedicated to the 1999 c e ntennial of the first International Peace Conference (2000), para. 14
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- 2 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Plenary Meetings, 54th and 55th meetings (A/54/PV.54 and 55), and corrigendum.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Prevention of an arms race in outer space (2004), para. 09
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- Emphasizing the paramount importance of strict compliance with existing arms limitation and disarmament agreements relevant to outer space, including bilateral agreements, and with the existing legal regime concerning the use of outer space,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (2011), para. 194
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- Recalling its resolutions 64/244 A and B of 24 December 2009, 64/260 of 29 March 2010 and 64/288 of 24 June 2010,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (1999), para. 01
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- Bearing in mind its relevant resolutions,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
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- 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 (2018), para. 31
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- 11. Decides to remain seized of the matter.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Thirtieth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations Population Fund (1999), para. 2
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- Recalling its resolution 2211 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, in response to which a trust fund, subsequently named the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, was established in 1967 by the Secretary-General,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Arbitrary detention (2019), para. 08
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- 2. Takes note with interest of the latest reports of the Working Group, 1 including the issues and recommendations contained therein;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (2011), para. 12
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- 1. Invites all States that have not signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction 1 0H to accede to it without delay;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons (2002), para. 01
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- The General Assembly,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2016), para. 26
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- Emphasizing the need to address vulnerability and to integrate disaster risk reduction, including preparedness, into all phases of natural disaster management, post-natural disaster recovery and development planning through close collaboration of all relevant actors and sectors,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (2018), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolution 71/247 of 21 December 2016, and taking note of Economic and Social Council resolution 2017/30 of 25 July 2017,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001), para. 33
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- 8. Recognizes that the role of the international community remains essential, welcomes the readiness of the international community to continue its efforts towards a self-sustaining peace, and recalls that the responsibility for consolidating peace and security primarily lies with the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 30
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- 9. Stresses the important role of the international cooperation and technical assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system, international and development partners, as well as by donor agencies, in particular in the timely achievement of the relevant Millennium Development Goals, and urges development partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing and implementing development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans of action related to the right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (2005), para. 23
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- 15. Encourages the Secretary-General to continue to take additional measures to ensure the safety and security of all personnel under the auspices of the United Nations participating in the Mission;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance (1996), para. 36
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- 19. Requests the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2014), para. 15
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- B. Mandatory age of separation
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- Civil & Political Rights
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (2002), para. 13
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- Taking note of the report of the Director General to the General Conference of the Agency on the implementation of Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq, 4 of his report to the Security Council of 10 April 2002, 5 and of resolution GC(46)/RES/15 of 20 September 2002 of the General Conference, 6 noting with increasing concern that three and a half years have passed since the Agency has been able to implement its mandate in Iraq, and that the longer the suspension of Security Council resolution-related inspections in Iraq lasts, the more difficult it will be to re-establish a level of knowledge of the status of Iraq’s nuclear-related assets comparable to that achieved at the end of 1998, and also noting the announced decision of the Government of Iraq to let the weapons inspectors return to Iraq without conditions,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2017), para. 49
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- 28. Further recognizes that landlocked developing countries are vulnerable to climate change, which is exacerbating desertification and land degradation, and that they remain negatively affected by desertification, land degradation and drought;
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- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Capital master plan (2006), para. 11
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- 7. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that no action is taken that would preclude any decision that the General Assembly might take on the construction of a new permanent building on the North Lawn at some future date;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Palestine refugees (2013), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolution 194 (III) of 11 December 1948 and all its subsequent resolutions on the question, including resolution 67/114 of 18 December 2012,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Nuclear disarmament (2008), para. 18
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- Recalling paragraph 70 and other relevant recommendations in the Final Document of the Fourteenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Havana on 15 and 16 September 2006, 12 calling upon the Conference on Disarmament to establish, as soon as possible and as the highest priority, an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament and to commence negotiations on a phased programme for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons with a specified time framework,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self- determination (2001), para. 19
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- 9. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the necessary assistance, both professional and financial;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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White Helmets Commission: participation of volunteers in the activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation for development (2019), para. 24
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- 10. Recognizes the agreement signed between the United Nations Office for Project Services and the White Helmets Commission, which extends until 2019 and will allow for the continuation of the work launched in 1995, and invites Member States to consider means of supporting collaboration of the White Helmets with their programme activities and to consider making financial resources available to the special voluntary fund of the United Nations Office for Project Services;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2016), para. 13
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- 1. Emphasizes that the general debate under agenda item 10 remains an essential platform for Members and observers of the Human Rights Council to share their visions and views to promote more effective technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights, and to share experiences, challenges and information on assistance needed in the implementation of their human rights obligations and voluntary pledges and commitments, including accepted universal periodic review recommendations, and their achievements and good practices in this area;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- 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 LawCommitted in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 (2002), para. 18
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- 13. Decides to apportion for the year 2002 the amount of 47,844,850 dollars gross (43,237,650 dollars net) among Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments applicable to the regular budget of the United Nations for the biennium 2002–2003 as set out in its resolution 55/5 B of 23 December 2000;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Natural disasters and vulnerability (2006), para. 05
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- Reaffirming also the Hyogo Declaration 3 and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, 4 as adopted by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held at Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2006), para. 21
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- 8. Invites Member States to provide voluntary contributions to ensure adequate execution of and follow-up to the activities being implemented by the Office of Sport for Development and Peace in Geneva and in New York;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scope of legal protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (2002), para. 17
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- 8. Requests the Secretary-General to invite the International Committee of the Red Cross to participate as an observer in the deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 06
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- Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 1 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 2 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 3 and the outcomes of their review conferences,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (2014), para. 23
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- 18. We reaffirm all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 7 including, inter alia, the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, as set out in principle 7 thereof.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and further efforts to achieve the sustainable development of water resources (2015), para. 03
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- Recalling also its resolution 68/309 of 10 September 2014, in which it welcomed the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and decided that the proposal of the Open Working Group contained in the report shall be the main basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be considered, in the intergovernmental negotiation process at the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2018), para. 60
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- 37. Also stresses the importance of promoting corporate social responsibility and accountability, encourages responsible business practices, such as those promoted by the Global Compact and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, 20 invites the private sector to take into account not only the economic and financial implications but also the development, social, human rights, gender and environmental implications of its undertakings, and underlines the importance of the International Labour Organization Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy;
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- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance (1999), para. 04
- Original document
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- Recalling, in this fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 18 of the 1 Declaration,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development (2014), para. 53
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- 33. Stresses that the financial and economic crisis has highlighted the need for reform and has added new impetus to ongoing international discussions on the reform of the international financial system and architecture, including on issues related to mandate, scope, governance, responsiveness and development orientation, as appropriate, and in this regard encourages continued open, inclusive and transparent dialogue;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2018), para. 112
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- 15. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that resource requirements at each stage of the project are based on a thorough review of actual and up -to-date needs on the ground and to provide detailed information in the context of future progress reports;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twelfth special session and the implementation of section IV.C, entitled“Environmental pillar in the context of sustainable development”, of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (2013), para. 07
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- Recalling also the Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity- building, 7
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East (1997), para. 14
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- 1. Urges all parties directly concerned to consider seriously taking the practical and urgent steps required for the implementation of the proposal to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, and, as a means of promoting this objective, invites the countries concerned to adhere to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; 3
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2015), para. 04
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- Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 and the development goals contained therein, as well as the commitments made at major United Nations summits, conferences and special sessions, including the commitments made at the 2005 World Summit 4 and at the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 5 and the outcome of the 2013 special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 6
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (2013), para. 10
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- 4. Encourages all Governments to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the requests made by the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the mandate effectively;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Office of Verification in El Salvador (1996), para. 05
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- Paying tribute to those Member States which have contributed personnel and voluntary funding to the Mission,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-fourth session (2003), para. 18
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- 10. Stresses the desirability of further enhancing the dialogue between the International Law Commission and the Sixth Committee, and in this context encourages, inter alia, the holding of informal discussions between the members of the Sixth Committee and those members of the Commission attending the fifty- eighth session of the General Assembly;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Second Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia (2010), para. 11
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- 3. Urges the States parties and signatories to treaties that have established nuclear-weapon-free zones to develop activities of cooperation and coordination in order to promote their common objectives in the framework of the Conference;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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World Youth Skills Day (2015), para. 04
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- Reaffirming its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and anniversaries, particularly paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto on the agreed criteria for the proclamation, as well as paragraphs 13 and 14, stating that an international day or year should not be proclaimed before the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Integrated Management Information System (1998), para. 07
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- 5. Endorses the observations and recommendations of the Board of Auditors contained in its report on the updated special audit;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 353
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- 285. Encourages Member States to consider contributing to mechanisms that encourage the widest possible availability of all bathymetric data, so as to support the sustainable development, management and governance of the marine environment;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (2011), para. 77
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- 4. After examining the findings of such an inquiry, the Committee shall transmit without delay these findings to the State party concerned, together with any comments and recommendations.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (2006), para. 01
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- The General Assembly,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (2013), para. 07
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- Recalling also that the proliferation of ballistic missiles capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction, as recognized by the Security Council in its resolution 1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004 and subsequent resolutions, constitutes a threat to international peace and security,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
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- 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 (2004), para. 36
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- 15. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the item entitled “Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives”.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (2004), para. 11
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- 5. Emphasizes that all future and existing peacekeeping missions shall be given equal and non-discriminatory treatment in respect of financial and administrative arrangements;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (2014), para. 38
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- 28. Encourages the Secretary-General to continue to take additional measures to ensure the safety and security of all personnel participating in the Force under the auspices of the United Nations, bearing in mind paragraphs 5 and 6 of Security Council resolution 1502 (2003) of 26 August 2003;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
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- All
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Composition of staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2017), para. 22
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- Abstaining: Togo]
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors (2013), para. 16
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- 12. Recalls paragraphs 45 and 46 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, requests the United Nations entities concerned to take all adequate measures to address the issues raised therein, and requests the Advisory Committee to request the Board to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on Biological Diversity (2001), para. 18
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- Welcoming the generous offer of the Government of France, accepted by the Conference of the Parties at its fifth meeting, to host the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol, held at Montpellier from 11 to 15 December 2000,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development (2014), para. 13
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- 4. Encourages Member States, international organizations, international financial institutions, entities and other relevant stakeholders to take into account the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development when designing and implementing alternative development programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2007), para. 23
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- 4. Calls for continued financial support to UN-Habitat through increased voluntary contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, and invites Governments to provide predictable multi-year funding to support programme implementation;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Industrial development cooperation (1995), para. 05
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- Taking note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization on industrial development cooperation 6/ and the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993-2002), 7/
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- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems (2013), para. 014
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- 3. Invites Member States, consistent with their national legislation, to adopt and strengthen measures to ensure that effective legal aid is provided, in accordance with the spirit of the Principles and Guidelines, bearing in mind the diversity of criminal justice systems among different countries and regions around the world and the fact that legal aid is developed in accordance with the overall balance of the criminal justice system, as well as the circumstances of countries and regions;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development (2017), para. 25
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- Recalling the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its ninth meeting of the strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the three objectives of the Convention, 20 as well as decision X/3, adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting, 21 on the review of its implementation, and the targets for resource mobilization, under Aichi Target 20 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, adopted by the Conference of the Parties in its decision XII/3, 22 Noting the outcomes of the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, all held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, in 2014,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (2009), para. 31
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- 7. Requests the Special Committee to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels (2003), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolutions 48/75 J of 16 December 1993, 49/75 O of 15 December 1994, 50/70 L of 12 December 1995, 51/45 Q of 10 December 1996, 52/38 Q of 9 December 1997, 53/77 P of 4 December 1998, 54/54 M of 1 December 1999, 55/33 P of 20 November 2000 and 56/24 I of 29 November 2001,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome document of the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of Landlocked Developing Countries within a New Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation for Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries (2008), para. 33
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- 14. Note that some progress, although limited and uneven, has been achieved by landlocked developing countries in the area of international trade;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-second session (2001), para. 17
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- 9. Invites the International Law Commission to continue taking measures to enhance its efficiency and productivity;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Protection Force, the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force and the United Nations Peace Forces headquarters (2000), para. 13
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- 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) (1997), para. 04
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- Considering that in its resolution 2028 (XX) of 19 November 1965 it established the principle of an acceptable balance of mutual responsibilities and obligations between nuclear-weapon States and those which do not possess such weapons,
- 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. 323
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- 256. Recalls that, in “The future we want”, States reaffirmed the importance of area-based conservation measures, including marine protected areas, consistent with international law and based on best available scientific information, as a tool for conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of its components, and noted decision X/2 of the tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, that by 2020, 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are to be conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area- based conservation measures; 106
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 224
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- Cooperation within the United Nations system
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Prevention of an arms race in outer space (2007), para. 16
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- Recalling, in this context, its previous resolutions, in particular resolutions 45/55 B of 4 December 1990, 47/51 of 9 December 1992 and 48/74 A of 16 December 1993, in which, inter alia, it reaffirmed the importance of confidence- building measures as a means conducive to ensuring the attainment of the objective of the prevention of an arms race in outer space,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (2013), para. 35
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- 25. Decides that the decrease of 805,700 dollars in the estimated staff assessment income in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2012 shall be set off against the credits from the amount of 11,462,430 dollars referred to in paragraphs 23 and 24 above;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Prevention of an arms race in outer space (2004), para. 11
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- Noting that the Ad Hoc Committee on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space, taking into account its previous efforts since its establishment in 1985 and seeking to enhance its functioning in qualitative terms, continued the examination and identification of various issues, existing agreements and existing proposals, as well as future initiatives relevant to the prevention of an arms race in outer space, 3 and that this contributed to a better understanding of a number of problems and to a clearer perception of the various positions,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources development (2016), para. 45
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- 28. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues” the sub -item entitled “Human resources development”, unless otherwise agreed in the discussions on the revitalization of the Second Committee.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of Tokelau (2011), para. 07
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- Recalling that New Zealand and Tokelau signed in November 2003 a document entitled “Joint statement of the principles of partnership”, which sets out the rights and responsibilities of the two partners,
- 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 (2014), para. 044
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- Reaffirming the importance of the work of the International Seabed Authority (the Authority) in accordance with the Convention and the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (the Part XI Agreement), 17
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Multilingualism (2017), para. 92
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- 72. Takes note of the ongoing initiatives outlined in the report of the Secretary- General related to field operations, requests the Secretary-General to continue his ongoing efforts in this regard, and recalls its resolution 66/297 of 17 September 2012 without prejudice to Article 101 of the Charter;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- 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, Tokelau, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (1995), para. 008
- Paragraph text
- Noting with satisfaction the participation of New Zealand in the work of the Special Committee,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (2007), para. 07
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- Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the Mission with the necessary financial resources to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (2003), para. 27
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- 19. Invites voluntary contributions to the Observer Mission in cash and in the form of services and supplies acceptable to the Secretary-General to be administered, as appropriate, in accordance with the procedure and practices established by the General Assembly;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (2007), para. 19
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- (i) General exchange of views;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2008), para. 044
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- 12. Calls upon States and international financial institutions, including through bilateral, regional and global cooperation programmes and technical partnerships, to continue to strengthen capacity-building activities, in particular in developing countries, in the field of marine scientific research by, inter alia, training personnel to develop and enhance relevant expertise, providing the necessary equipment, facilities and vessels and transferring environmentally sound technologies;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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General and complete disarmament (2001), para. 413
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- 6. Requests the Secretary-General to implement the recommendations in his 2000 report on the continuing operation of the Register and its further development and to ensure that sufficient resources are made available for the Secretariat to operate and maintain the Register;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (1993), para. 03
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- Taking into account the desire of both organizations to cooperate more closely in their common search for solutions to global problems, such as questions relating to international peace and security, disarmament, self- determination, decolonization, fundamental human rights and economic and technical development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to informationInformation in the service of humanity (2017), para. 128
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- 92. Notes the continued growth of the United Nations Academic Impact, calls upon the Department of Public Information to promote global awareness of the Academic Impact in order to encourage balanced participation among Member States and their continued support for the initiative, within existing resources, and encourages Member States to promote the initiative among their academic institutions, as appropriate, with a view to their joining it, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 70/93 A and B of 9 December 2015;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2013), para. 121
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- 15. Requests the Secretary-General to make further concerted efforts to promote outreach programmes, such as traineeships and internships, and to introduce innovative methods to increase awareness of the programmes, including through partnerships with Member States, relevant international organizations and language institutions in all regions, in particular to close the wide gap in Africa and Latin America, and to report to the General Assembly thereon at its sixty-eighth session;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (1997), para. 031
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- 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session the item entitled "United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific".
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects (2007), para. 07
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- Noting the widespread interest in contributing to the work of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations expressed by Member States, in particular troop-contributing countries,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy Review (2018), para. 105
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- 66. Notes with appreciation the activities undertaken in the area of capacity- building, including in the areas of countering the financing of terrorism, border control, maritime and aviation security, and preventing the flow of foreign terrorist fighters, by United Nations entities, including the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre and the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (Global Counter- Terrorism Coordination Compact entities), inter alia, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and INTERPOL, in coordination with other relevant international, regional and subregional organizations, to assist Member States, upon their request, in implementing the Strategy, and encourages the Task Force to ensure the focused delivery of capacity-building assistance, including in the framework of the Integrated Assistance for Countering Terrorism Initiative;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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External debt sustainability and development (2010), para. 06
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- Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 4F 5
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- 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 (2019), para. 13
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- Recalling further the Quartet road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 9 and emphasizing specifically its call for a freeze on all settlement activity, including so-called natural growth, and the dismantlement of all settlement outposts erected since March 2001, and the need for Israel to uphold its obligations and commitments in this regard,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the report of the South Commission (1994), para. 3
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- Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on developments pertaining to the implementation of the recommendations of the report of the South Commission, 2/ in which he proposed a comprehensive approach to the questions of South-South cooperation,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Economic assistance to the Eastern European States affected by the developments in the Balkans (2002), para. 17
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- 8. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (1999), para. 020
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- (b) Organizing the Subregional Conference on Democratic Institutions and Peace in Central Africa, at Bata, Equatorial Guinea, from 18 to 21 May 1998;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- 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-first session (1999), para. 09
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- 2. Commends the Commission for the progress made in its work on receivables financing, electronic commerce, privately financed infrastructure projects and the legislative implementation of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, done at New York on 10 June 1958; 2
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2015), para. 06
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- Believing it necessary to contribute effectively in an efficient, coordinated manner to resolving the challenge of removing cluster munition remnants located throughout the world, and to ensure their destruction,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Covenants on Human Rights (2008), para. 29
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- 20. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Working Group on the Harmonization of Working Methods of Treaty Bodies, 15 14F and looks forward to further deliberations in this regard;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (2002), para. 07
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- Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the Force with the necessary financial resources to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (2013), para. 05
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- Recalling further the decisions and declarations adopted by the Assembly of the African Union at all its ordinary and extraordinary sessions,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues (2003), para. 01
- Original document
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- The General Assembly,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2006), para. 23
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- 14. Welcomes the efforts by development partners to strengthen cooperation with the New Partnership;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends (1995), para. 09
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- 4. Also encourages Governments to consider reviewing legal and administrative constraints on the activities of cooperatives with a view to eliminating those constraints that are not applied to other businesses and enterprises;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- 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 Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan (2000), para. 06
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- Expressing grave concern about the continuation by Israel of settlement activities, including the ongoing construction of the new settlement at Jebel Abu-Ghneim, in violation of international humanitarian law, relevant United Nations resolutions and the agreements reached between the parties,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (2010), para. 35
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- (k) To ensure that their laws criminalizing acts of terrorism are accessible, formulated with precision, non-discriminatory, non-retroactive and in accordance with international law, including human rights law;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (2018), para. 21
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- Noting also the discussions on the issue of improvised explosive devices by the informal group of experts under the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 (Amended Protocol II) 6 and on the technical annex to the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V) 7 to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, 8 and further noting that, for States parties thereto, anti-personnel mines of an improvised nature also fall within the scope of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 9
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2019), para. 03
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- Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and see king to address their unfinished business,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (2009), para. 12
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- 5. Stresses once again that Israel should strictly abide by resolutions 51/233, 52/237, 53/227, 54/267, 55/180 A, 55/180 B, 56/214 A, 56/214 B, 57/325, 58/307, 59/307, 60/278, 61/250 A, 61/250 B, 61/250 C and 62/265;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1996), para. 01
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- The General Assembly,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Review of duplication, complexity and bureaucracy in United Nations administrative processes and procedures (2004), para. 3
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- Having considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of duplication, complexity and bureaucracy in United Nations administrative processes and procedures, 1
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2004), para. 74
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- 45. Requests the Special Rapporteur to continue his exchange of views with Member States and relevant mechanisms and treaty bodies within the United Nations system in order to enhance further their effectiveness and mutual cooperation;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2014), para. 34
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- 16. Encourages the establishment of further nuclear-weapon-free zones, where appropriate, on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among States of the region concerned and in accordance with the 1999 guidelines of the Disarmament Commission, 7 recognizes that, by signing and ratifying relevant protocols that contain negative security assurances, nuclear-weapon States would undertake individual legally binding commitments with respect to the status of such zones and not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against States parties to such treaties, and welcomes in this regard the signature of the Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia by the five nuclear-weapon States on 6 May 2014;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the United NationsMission of Support in East Timor (2002), para. 36
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- 22. Emphasizes that no peacekeeping mission shall be financed by borrowing funds from other active peacekeeping missions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2005), para. 09
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- 2. Welcomes the contribution of the Commission for Social Development in the follow-up to and review of the further implementation of the commitments made at the World Summit for Social Development and the further initiatives agreed upon at the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly, 2 reaffirms that the Commission will continue to have the primary responsibility in this regard, and encourages Governments, the relevant specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system and civil society to enhance their support to its work;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2016), para. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Notes that the rapid economic growth of some developing countries has had a positive impact on the efforts of the African continent to sustain and expand growth, despite the fact that those developing countries continue to fa ce development challenges;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for sustainable development (2018), para. 25
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming also that Internet governance, including the process towards enhanced cooperation and the convening of the Internet Governance Forum, should continue to follow the provisions set forth in the outcomes of the summits held in Geneva and Tunis,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (2003), para. 16
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- 10. Authorizes the Secretary-General to fill the three general staff posts referred to in paragraph 22 of the report of the Advisory Committee 3 for a period not to exceed one year, and invites the Secretary-General to resubmit with full justification this request in connection with the budget request for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of all human rights (2002), para. 03
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 2
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Transparency in armaments (2002), para. 11
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- (a) Recalls its request to Member States to provide the Secretary-General with their views on the continuing operation of the Register and its further development and on transparency measures related to weapons of mass destruction;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories (2017), para. 12
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- 1. Reaffirms that the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 1 is applicable to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (2014), para. 01
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- Paragraph text
- The General Assembly,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2019), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Requests the Independent Expert to report regularly to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly in accordance with their respective programmes of work;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them (2004), para. 25
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- 9. Invites the Secretary-General and those States and organizations that are in a position to do so to provide assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Capital master plan (2011), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Recalls paragraph 7 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, and reiterates its request that the Secretary-General make every effort to finish the project in accordance with the schedule approved in its resolution 62/87;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2006), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- 24. Also emphasizes the fundamental and complementary role of national human rights institutions, regional bodies or centres and civil society, working jointly with States towards the achievement of the objectives of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2006), para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Financing of the appropriation
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Respect for the privileges and immunities of officials of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and related (1995), para. 6
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- 3. Welcomes the note by the Secretary-General on stress management 3/ and the proposals made in paragraph 10 thereof, and requests the Secretary-General to submit funding proposals, if necessary, in the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi (2010), para. 10
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- 8. Also decides that updated information on the financial position of the Operation shall be included in the report on the updated position of closed peacekeeping missions, to be considered by the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session under the item entitled “Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations”;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1997), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 50/156 of 21 December 1995,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2008), para. 18
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- 3. Also recognizes that domestic economies are now interwoven with the global economy and that globalization affects all countries in different ways, and that countries on the one hand have trade and investment opportunities to, inter alia, fight poverty, while on the other face constraints in the degree of flexibility they have in pursuing their national development strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outsourcing practices (2005), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolutions 54/256 of 7 April 2000, 55/232 of 23 December 2000 and 58/276 and 58/277 of 23 December 2003,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (1994), para. 09
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- 2. Considers that the maintenance of appropriate conditions for the normal work of the delegations and the missions accredited to the United Nations is in the interests of the United Nations and all Member States, and expresses the hope that the host country will continue to take all measures necessary to prevent any interference with the functioning of missions;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 01
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- The General Assembly,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (2005), para. 07
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- Paragraph text
- 2. Expresses its appreciation to those Member States that have made scholarships available to the inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015 (2014), para. 081
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- Paragraph text
- 16. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly on plans to reuse existing furniture and to reduce new furniture requirements, where possible, in the context of his next report on the strategic heritage plan;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Measures to eliminate international terrorism (2014), para. 39
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- 14. Recalls the adoption of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, 11 the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, 12 the Protocol of 2005 to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation 13 and the Protocol of 2005 to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, 14 and urges all States to consider, as a matter of priority, becoming parties to these instruments;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Open-ended Panel of the General Assembly on “Afghanistan: one year later” (2002), para. 09
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- 4. Decides that the Open-ended Panel will be chaired by the President of the General Assembly and will have, for each session, a maximum of four panellists, selected by the President in consultation with the Member States;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Triennial policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (2002), para. 039
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- 21. Notes the increase in non-core resources, including cost-sharing, trust funds and non-traditional sources of financing, as a mechanism to supplement the means of operational activities for development, contributing to an increase in total resources, while recognizing that non-core resources are not a substitute for core resources;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting to review progress made in addressing the priorities of small island developing States through the implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway (2019), para. 10
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- 7. We remain especially concerned about the devastating impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events, slow-onset events and the increasing frequency, scale and intensity of disasters, due to the particular vulnerabilities of small island developing States.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028 (2019), para. 20
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- 3. Reaffirms its decision, in accordance with its resolution 71/222 on the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028, to review the implementation of the Decade at its seventy-seventh session;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special assistance for the economic recovery and reconstruction of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004), para. 14
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 1
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Belarus (2017), para. 05
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus of 21 April 2017; 1
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2013), para. 43
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- 21. Invites all stakeholders, including Member States, relevant organizations of the United Nations system and civil society organizations, to share good practices relating to programmes and policies that address inequalities for the benefit of those living in extreme poverty and promote the active participation of those living in extreme poverty in the design and implementation of such programmes and policies, with the aim of accelerating progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and informing the discussions on the way forward after 2015, takes note in this regard of the outcomes of the Millennium Development Goals follow-up meeting, held in Tokyo on 2 and 3 June 2011, and requests the Secretary- General to include in his annual report on progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals a compilation of such good practices;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (2004), para. 12
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- 6. The Presidents of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council should meet together periodically with a view to ensuring increased cooperation, coordination and complementarity of the work programmes of the three organs in accordance with their respective responsibilities under the Charter. In this connection, the President of the Security Council may wish to discuss the plans of the Security Council for thematic debates with the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council. The President of the Assembly will inform Member States about the outcome of these meetings.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004, and public information activities in the field of human rights (2000), para. 31
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- Paragraph text
- 15. Encourages the human rights treaty bodies, when examining reports of States parties, to place emphasis on obligations of States parties in the area of human rights education and information and to reflect this emphasis in their concluding observations;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (2013), para. 01
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- The General Assembly,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2010), para. 03
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- Paragraph text
- Recalling also its resolution 63/234 of 22 December 2008 and all previous resolutions concerning the struggle against malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2018), para. 114
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- 17. Approves an appropriation in the amount of 5,700,300 dollars for the project for 2018, comprising 905,400 dollars under section 18, Economic and social development for Africa, 4,644,700 dollars under section 33, Construction, alteration, improvement and major maintenance, and 150,200 dollars under section 34, Safety and security, of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019, which would represent a charge against the contingency fund;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2004), para. 30
- Paragraph text
- 14. Strongly urges States parties to the Convention to take appropriate measures so that acceptance of the amendment to article 20, paragraph 1, of the Convention by a two-thirds majority of States parties can be reached as soon as possible so that the amendment may enter into force;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2014), para. 039
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- 29. Reiterates its request to the Committee on Conferences that it consult those bodies that have consistently utilized less than the applicable benchmark of their allocated resources for the past three years, with a view to making appropriate recommendations in order to achieve the optimum utilization of conference- servicing resources, and urges the secretariats and bureaux of bodies that underutilize their conference-servicing resources to work more closely with the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the Secretariat and to consider changes to their programmes of work, as appropriate, including adjustments based on previous patterns of recurring agenda items, with a view to making improvements in their utilization factors;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to manage and sustain peacekeeping operations (2007), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the role of the General Assembly and its relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies, within their respective mandates, in planning, programming, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2013), para. 018
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- Paragraph text
- A. Utilization of conference-servicing resources
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effects of atomic radiation (2003), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note with appreciation of the work of the Scientific Committee,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of the human rights of migrants: the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (2017), para. 50
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Encourages special procedure mandate holders and treaty bodies, in accordance with their respective mandates and in coordination with the United Nations system as a whole, to provide input and to support the State-led preparatory process for the global compact and the intergovernmental conference in accordance with General Assembly resolution 71/280;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities (2015), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Noting the consideration of that study by the Committee during its fifty-eighth session, in 2015, at which it found that the Committee had a fundamental role to play in enhancing transparency and confidence-building among States, as well as in ensuring that outer space was maintained for peaceful purposes, 5
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2019), para. 49
- Paragraph text
- 9. Reiterates its appreciation for the work of the commission of inquiry, recognizes the continuing importance of its report, and regrets that the commission received no cooperation from the authorities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including with regard to access to the country;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel (2015), para. 12
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- Expressing deep concern at the complex and dynamic security environment, marked by the diverse and multifaceted threats and significant security risks faced by humanitarian personnel and United Nations and associated personnel, and the increase in the number of direct attacks against such personnel at the field level, as they operate in increasingly high-risk environments,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2005), para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 8. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to make the fullest possible use of facilities and equipment at the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, in order to minimize the costs of procurement for the Mission;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Disarmament Commission (2018), para. 05
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- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing once again the important place of the Disarmament Commission within the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- 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 (1996), para. 03
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- Paragraph text
- Taking note in particular of the information contained in chapter VI of that report,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Kosovo (1999), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 27. Encourages the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Tribunal to continue investigations at all levels on serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Kosovo, and reaffirms that such crimes fall within its jurisdiction;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2001), para. 12
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- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing equally the importance of supply reduction as an integral part of a balanced drug control strategy under the principles enshrined in the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development, 6 reaffirming the need for alternative development programmes that are sustainable, welcoming the achievements of some States on their way to eradicating illicit drug crops, and inviting all other States to make similar efforts,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s (1999), para. 14
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- 12. Also requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the state of preparations for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (1995), para. 20
- Paragraph text
- 6. Takes note with satisfaction of the progress made by the group of governmental experts in reviewing the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) and in discussing other weapon categories at present not covered by the Convention;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Overview of United Nations activities relating to climate change (2007), para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Secretary-General, in this context, to submit, by 25 January 2008, a comprehensive report providing an overview of the activities of the United Nations system in relation to climate change.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the United Nations: an agenda for further change (2004), para. 32
- Paragraph text
- 17. Recalls paragraph 34 of General Assembly resolution 57/300, in which the Assembly invited the Committee for Programme and Coordination to continue to improve its working methods;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation ofInternational Law (2002), para. 22
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- 11. Notes with appreciation the contributions of The Hague Academy to the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of international law, and calls upon Member States and interested organizations to give favourable consideration to the appeal of the Academy for a continuation of support and a possible increase in their financial contributions, to enable the Academy to carry out its activities, particularly those relating to the summer courses, regional courses and programmes of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (2017), para. 80
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- Paragraph text
- 15. Reiterates its demand for the full implementation of Security Council resolution 1860 (2009) ;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intoleranceand the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2018), para. 41
- Paragraph text
- 16. Requests the group of independent eminent experts to convene its fifth session during 2018 and to submit a report to the General Assembly at its seventy - third session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008), para. 36
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- 26. Further decides that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraph 25 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the amount of 14,584,200 dollars, comprising the estimated staff assessment income of 11,999,600 dollars approved for the Mission, the prorated share of 2,305,600 dollars of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the support account and the prorated share of 279,000 dollars of the estimated staff assessment income approved for the United Nations Logistics Base;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (2004), para. 12
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General; 1
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (1999), para. 35
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- Paragraph text
- 12. Urges the Secretary-General, Member States, regional and international organizations, in particular those of the United Nations system, and non-governmental organizations to extend their support to the operations of the African Economic Community, its popularization and the strengthening of its institutional support;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2019), para. 37
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- Paragraph text
- 25. Reiterates the need to establish appropriate mechanisms to avoid conflicts of interest between the management of the Fund and the constituent groups of the Pension Board and to report thereon in the context of the next report of the Board;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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 (2002), para. 11
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- Paragraph text
- (a) Effective 1 January 2002, the euro should be used as the official currency for those emoluments which are currently set in the national currencies of the twelve euro- zone countries, and that the national currency amounts would be converted by applying the respective fixed conversion rates and then rounded up or down to the nearest euro;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1998-1999 (1998), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) Such sums as may be necessary to finance commitments that may be duly authorized under the provisions of the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, in particular resolution 52/223 of 22 December 1997 relating to unforeseen and extraordinary expenses; the Secretary-General shall make provision in the budget estimates for reimbursing the Working Capital Fund;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Towards global partnerships (2006), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Underlining the fact that cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners, including the private sector, shall serve the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations and can make concrete contributions to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and the other goals contained in the Millennium Declaration, as well as in the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits and their reviews, in particular in the area of development and the eradication of poverty, and shall be undertaken in a manner that maintains the integrity, impartiality and independence of the Organization,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- 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 (2017), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Expresses its satisfaction at the activities carried out over the past year by the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, and invites all States of the region to continue to support the activities of the Regional Centre, including by continuing to take part in them, where possible, and by proposing items for inclusion in the programme of activities of the Centre, in order to contribute to the implementation of measures for peace and disarmament;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- 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 forty-seventh session (2014), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the mandate of the Commission, as the core legal body within the United Nations system in the field of international trade law, to coordinate legal activities in this field, in particular to avoid duplication of efforts, including among organizations formulating rules of international trade, and to promote efficiency, consistency and coherence in the modernization and harmonization of international trade law, and to continue, through its secretariat, to maintain close cooperation with other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations, active in the field of international trade law,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- 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 (2015), para. 129
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 77. Requests the Secretary-General to take appropriate and timely measures to ensure secretariat services for the Commission and its subcommissions for the extended duration of time requested in the decision of the twenty-first Meeting of States Parties to the Convention; 14
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2010), para. 22
- Paragraph text
- 10. Urges all States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 5F 6 at the earliest opportunity with a view to its early entry into force and universalization, stresses the importance of maintaining existing moratoriums on nuclear-weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions pending the entry into force of the Treaty, and reaffirms the importance of the continued development of the Treaty verification regime, including the international monitoring system, which will be required to provide assurance of compliance with the Treaty;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (2010), para. 056
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 43. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, in future programme budget proposals, requests for consultants and experts are clearly and separately identified in the programme narratives;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (1999), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the mutual recognition between the Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, and the signing by the two parties of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, 2 as well as the subsequent implementation agreements, including the Israeli- Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington, D.C., on 28 September 1995, 3
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of New Caledonia (2003), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Requests the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples to continue to examine the question of the Non-Self- Governing Territory of New Caledonia and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of apartheid and establishment of a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa (1994), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Also commends the Organization of African Unity, the Commonwealth and the European Union for their important contributions, inter alia, through their observer missions, as well as the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, for their support to the process of peaceful change culminating in the elections;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) (2020), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system and its general guidelines and principles, as well as its resolution 72/279 of 31 May 2018 and Economic and Social Council resolution 2019/15 of 8 July 2019, and welcoming the efforts of the Secretary-General to better position the United Nations operational activities for development to support countries in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the context of the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1997), para. 10
- Paragraph text
- 2. Also welcomes the progress made by the Ad Hoc Group towards fulfilling the mandate established by the Special Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on 30 September 1994, and urges the Ad Hoc Group to intensify its work with a view to completing it as soon as possible before the commencement of the Fifth Review Conference and to submit its report, which shall be adopted by consensus, to the States parties to be considered at a special conference;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (1999), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure that documentation is available in accordance with the six-week rule for the distribution of documents simultaneously in the six official languages of the General Assembly;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Day of Charity (2013), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the goals and objectives of the Declaration 2 and Programme of Action 3 on a Culture of Peace,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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General and complete disarmament (2002), para. 139
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Requests the Conference on Disarmament to consider the formulation of principles that can serve as a framework for regional agreements on conventional arms control, and looks forward to a report of the Conference on this subject;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (2016), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Further requests the Secretary-General to take all action necessary to ensure that the Mission is administered with a maximum of efficiency and economy;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2015), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- 2. Invites the landlocked developing countries, transit countries, their development partners, the United Nations system and all other actors to implement the actions that have been agreed upon in the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024 10 in its six priority areas, namely, fundamental transit policy issues, infrastructure development and maintenance, international trade and trade facilitation, regional integration and cooperation, structural economic transformation and means of implementation at all levels, in a coordinated, coherent and expeditious manner;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (2000), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Requests the Special Committee to continue to discharge the functions entrusted to it under resolution 1970 (XVIII), in accordance with established procedures, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- 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 (2018), para. 025
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Highlighting the importance of its resolutions on measures to eliminate international terrorism and on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism adopted at its seventy-second session,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (2005), para. 22
- Paragraph text
- 15. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territoryof the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (2018), para. 4
- Paragraph text
- 1. Takes note of the second performance report of the Secretary-General on the budget of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the biennium 2016–2017; 1
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (2001), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the Force with the necessary financial resources to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Disarmament Commission (2018), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) Preparation of recommendations to promote the practical implementation of transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities with the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space, in accordance with the recommendations set out in the report of the Group of Governmental Experts o n Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Outer Space Activities; 4
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources management (1997), para. 121
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Requests the Secretary-General and the executive heads of the United Nations organizations and programmes to ensure selection of consultants on a more competitive basis and to keep the instances of recourse to sole candidates to a strict minimum, each such case being formally approved at an appropriate level of authority, on an exceptional basis, prior to engagement;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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 (2016), para. 326
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 263. Endorses the recommendations adopted by the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole at its sixth meeting; 5
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2016), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination (1995), para. 20
- Paragraph text
- 13/ Ibid., 1991, Supplement No. 2 (E/1991/22), chap. II, sect. A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Humanitarian assistance to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2003), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 1
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Conference on Disarmament (2017), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (2018), para. 14
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- Paragraph text
- Recalling the Brazzaville Declaration on Cooperation for Peace and Security in Central Africa, 3 the Bata Declaration for the Promotion of Lasting Democracy, Peace and Development in Central Africa 4 and the Yaoundé Declaration on Peace, Security and Stability in Central Africa, 5
- 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. 044
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern the projected timetable of the work of the Commission on the submissions already received by it and those yet to be received, and in this regard noting the decisions of the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention to request the Commission to consider, in coordination with the secretariat, within the existing resources made available to the Secretariat, that the Commission, and its subcommissions meeting simultaneously as far as possible, meet at United Nations Headquarters for up to 26 weeks but not less than an intended minimum o f 21 weeks a year, distributed in such a way that the Commission determines to be the most effective, and that no two sessions be sequential, 14
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (2006), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Welcomes the conclusions on the Middle East of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; 6
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of assets of illicit origin and returning such assets, inparticular to the countries of origin, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2008), para. 35
- Paragraph text
- 21. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-third session, under the item entitled “Globalization and interdependence”, the sub-item entitled “Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of assets of illicit origin and returning such assets, in particular to the countries of origin, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption”, bearing in mind the possibility of reviewing the future consideration of this sub-item.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat (2010), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Notes with appreciation the action taken by the Secretary-General in compliance with its resolution 63/27;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- 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. 11
- Paragraph text
- Also noting with satisfaction that the Government of Cuba subscribed to the Treaty of Tlatelolco on 25 March 1995, thus contributing to a greater integration among the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean for the attainment of the aims of the Treaty,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem (2018), para. 116
- Paragraph text
- 80. Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in close cooperation with Member States and pertinent United Nations entities, intergovernmental and regional organizations and, when appropriate, the scientific community and civil society, to continue to support Member States, upon request, in strengthening their capacity to develop their reporting mechanisms, including by identifying gaps in the current drug statistics and by exploring possibilities to strengthen existing data-collection and analysis tools at the national level;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Credentials of representatives to the fifty-third session of the General Assembly (1998), para. 2
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Having considered the first report of the Credentials Committee and the recommendation contained therein, 1
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the United Nations system (2015), para. 5
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the wide and significant consultations undertaken by the High-level Independent Panel with diverse groups and stakeholders,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (2010), para. 109
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 80. Recalls that the development of Africa is an established priority of the United Nations, and reaffirms its commitment to address the special needs of Africa;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament and non-proliferation agreements (2003), para. 18
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- Paragraph text
- 6. Notes the contribution that effective verification procedures for arms limitation and disarmament and non-proliferation agreements frequently can make in enhancing confidence in the compliance with those agreements;
- 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 (2005), para. 090
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 60. Encourages States, in accordance with the Convention and other relevant instruments, either bilaterally or regionally, to jointly develop and promote contingency plans for responding to pollution incidents, as well as other incidents that are likely to have significant adverse effects on the marine environment and biodiversity;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation (2010), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling resolution 8/7 of 18 June 2008, in which the Council established the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Respect for the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations to achieve international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms and in solving international problems of a humanitarian character (2005), para. 09
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming further the various Articles of the Charter setting out the respective powers and functions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council, as the paramount framework for the achievement of the purposes of the United Nations,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (2017), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular Sustainable Development Goal 16,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems (2013), para. 03
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also that the maintenance of nuclear weapons on high alert was a feature of cold war nuclear postures, and welcoming the increased confidence and transparency since the cessation of the cold war,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2016), para. 334
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 271. Also recognizes with appreciation the important role of the Bureau of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole, and thanks the members of the Bureau for their guidance during the intersessional periods;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mobility framework (2014), para. 08
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- Paragraph text
- 5. Recalls regulation 1.2 (c) of the United Nations Staff Regulations, and in this regard underlines that the calculation of post occupancy for staff members under the managed mobility framework shall include time served in their current posts;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperatives in social development (2004), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Draws the attention of Member States to the proposals contained in the report of the Secretary-General for further action to promote a supportive environment for the development of cooperatives;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and returning such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to countries of origin, in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2014), para. 05
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that fighting corruption at all levels is a priority and that corruption is a serious barrier to effective resource mobilization and allocation and diverts resources away from activities that are vital for poverty eradication and sustainable development,
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation (2019), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting that the Eighteenth Midterm Ministerial Meeting of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Baku from 3 to 6 April 2018, welcomed the adoption of resolution 72/48 on the promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation and underlined the fact that multilateralism and multilaterally agreed solutions, in accordance with the Charter, provide the only sustainable method of addressing disarmament and international security issues,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2013), para. 34
- Paragraph text
- 14. Encourages the establishment of further nuclear-weapon-free zones, where appropriate, on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among States of the region concerned and in accordance with the 1999 guidelines of the Disarmament Commission, 7 and recognizes that, by signing and ratifying relevant protocols that contain negative security assurances, nuclear-weapon States would undertake individual legally binding commitments with respect to the status of such zones and not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against States parties to such treaties;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (2018), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities (2009), para. 08
- Paragraph text
- Noting also the introduction by the Russian Federation and China at the Conference on Disarmament of the draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space and of the threat or use of force against outer space objects,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in (2002), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon as at 30 April 2002, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 112.8 million United States dollars, representing some 4 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only twenty-seven Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- 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 (2013), para. 40
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- 27. Requests the Independent Expert to continue to explore the interlinkages with trade and other issues, including HIV/AIDS, when examining the impact of structural adjustment and foreign debt, and also to contribute, as appropriate, to the process entrusted with the follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development with a view to bringing to its attention the issue of the effects of structural adjustment and foreign debt on the enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources management (2009), para. 153
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- 2. Invites the Sixth Committee to consider the legal aspects of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Implementation of the Regulations Governing the Status, Basic Rights and Duties of Officials other than Secretariat Officials and Experts on Mission” 8F 9 without prejudice to the role of the Fifth Committee as the Main Committee of the General Assembly responsible for administrative and budgetary matters;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2018), para. 275
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- 207. Recalls that, in “The future we want”, States noted with concern that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen-based compounds, from a number of marine and land-based sources, including shipping and land run-off, and that States committed to take action to reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, including through the effective implementation of relevant conventions adopted in the fr amework of the International Maritime Organization, and the follow-up of relevant initiatives such as the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, 88 as well as the adoption of coordinated strategies to this end, and that they further committed to take action, by 2025, based on collected scientific data, to achieve significant reductions in marine debris to prevent harm to the coastal and marine environment;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem to be held in 2016 (2015), para. 07
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- 6. Also decides that the special session on the world drug problem in 2016 shall have an inclusive preparatory process that includes extensive substantive consultations, allowing organs, entities and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, relevant international and regional organizations, civil society and other relevant stakeholders to fully contribute to the process, in accordance with the relevant rules of procedure and established practice;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2019), para. 47
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- 23. Encourages the development of viable market-oriented strategies that could result in further rapid reductions in the cost of new and renewable resources of energy and could further increase the competitiveness of those technologies, including through the adoption, as appropriate, of public policies for research, development and market deployment, including rationalizing inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Programme planning (2005), para. 47
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- 25. Welcomes the decision of the Committee for Programme and Coordination to revert to the agenda item entitled “Improving the working methods and procedures of the Committee for Programme and Coordination within the framework of its mandate”, as a matter of priority, at the beginning of its forty-fifth session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2013), para. 01
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- The Human Rights Council,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twelfth special session and the implementation of section IV.C, entitled“Environmental pillar in the context of sustainable development”, of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (2013), para. 15
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- 3. Also reiterates the importance of the Nairobi headquarters location of the United Nations Environment Programme, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of the Programme and the United Nations Office at Nairobi under review so as to permit the delivery, in an effective manner, of necessary services to the Programme and to the other United Nations organizations and entities in Nairobi;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2018), para. 027
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- Noting with great concern that millions of people are facing famine or the immediate risk of famine or are experiencing severe food insecurity in several regions of the world, and noting that armed conflicts, drought, poverty and the volat ility of commodity prices are among the factors causing or exacerbating famine and severe food insecurity and that additional efforts, including international support, are urgently needed to address this,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018), para. 15
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- 7. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that proposed peacekeeping budgets are based on the relevant legislative mandates;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa (1995), para. 10
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- 1. Endorses the new Global Malaria Control Strategy of the World Health Organization, 2/ endorsed in 1992 by the Ministerial Conference on Malaria, held at Amsterdam, which aims to prevent mortality and reduce morbidity as well as social and economic losses due to malaria;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (2016), para. 12
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- Expressing its concern about the exploitation by Israel, the occupying Power, of the natural resources of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights (1997), para. 08
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- Recalling that the World Conference on Human Rights reiterated the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where they do not already exist,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2008), para. 13
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- Taking note with great interest and appreciation of the holding at Geneva, from 5 to 7 June 2007, of the first session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 5F 6
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of Western Sahara (2002), para. 22
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- 7. Urges the two parties to implement faithfully and loyally the Secretary- General’s package of measures relating to the identification of voters and the appeals process;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction (2013), para. 9
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- 4. Decides that the Working Group shall be open to all Member States and that relevant observers to the General Assembly will be invited to participate in the work of the Working Group;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its sixth special session (2001), para. 13
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- 7. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the necessary resources from the regular budget of the United Nations to the United Nations Environment Programme for the biennium 2002-2003, in accordance with current budgetary practices, and to consider other ways to support the strengthening of the Programme in view of the ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (2008), para. 36
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- 21. Decides to appoint twenty-five Member States, six from Africa, five from Asia, three from Eastern Europe, five from Latin America and the Caribbean and six from Western European and other States, as members of the Advisory Committee on the Programme of Assistance for a period of four years beginning on 1 January 2008; 8
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2019), para. 42
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- 17. Recognizes the important role that African regional economic communities can play in the implementation of the mandate of the New Partnership and of Agenda 2063 and its first 10-year implementation plan in close cooperation with the African Union, and in this regard encourages African countries and the international community to give regional economic communities the support necessary to strengthen their capacity;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations: requests under Article 19 of the Charter (2012), para. 4
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- 1. Reaffirms its role in accordance with the provisions of Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations and the advisory role of the Committee on Contributions in accordance with rule 160 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind (2011), para. 07
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- Recalling the outcome of the thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and of the third session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 15 December 2007, 7F 8 and noting the outcomes of all previous sessions,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (1995), para. 04
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- Recalling also its decision 48/478 of 23 December 1993 on the financing of the Observer Mission and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 48/247 B of 29 July 1994,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Plenary meetings of the General Assembly on 9 and 10 December 2002 devoted to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” and to the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of theopening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (2002), para. 04
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- Recalling its resolution 56/12 of 28 November 2001, in which it decided to devote two days of plenary meetings at its fifty-seventh session, on 9 and 10 December 2002, to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” and the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Convention, and encouraged Member States and observers to be represented at the highest possible level,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on Biological Diversity (2002), para. 07
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- 2. Notes the outcome of the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, which addresses the appropriate access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of its utilization, hosted by the Government of Germany from 22 to 26 October 2001;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Commodities (2014), para. 35
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- 16. Strongly encourages international financial institutions and development banks to assist developing countries, in particular commodity-dependent developing countries, in managing the effects of excessive price volatility;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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 (1998), para. 69
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- Recalling its decision 51/465 of 3 April 1997, in which it requested the Commission to review, at the earliest opportunity, taking into account the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 9 and the Joint Inspection Unit, 10 the question of travel entitlements of staff of the common system,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Report of the International Criminal Court (2014), para. 42
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- 28. Invites the International Criminal Court to submit, if it deems it appropriate, in accordance with article 6 of the Relationship Agreement, a report on its activities for 2013/14, for consideration by the General Assembly at its sixty- ninth session.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Capital master plan (2009), para. 68
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- 40. Decides that the advisory board shall be established no later than 31 December 2009, as originally intended, within its current mandate and in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 26 of General Assembly resolution 62/87;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- 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 and settlement of conflicts (2018), para. 16
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- Recognizing that regular review and reform of the Kimberley Process will be necessary to keep pace with and aim to address the ongoing threat of instability, conflict and contemporary challenges in the diamond trade, as well as to seize contemporary opportunities,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind (2017), para. 24
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- 8. Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention; 22
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime (1998), para. 27
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- (iii) Provisions related to criminal offences, particularly in the areas of criminal associations, conspiracy and money laundering;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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An effective international legal instrument against corruption (2001), para. 14
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- 7. Decides to establish an ad hoc committee for the negotiation of such an instrument to start its work in Vienna as soon as the draft terms of reference for such negotiation are adopted;
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- 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 (2019), para. 241
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- 179. Encourages greater dialogue and cooperation among States and the relevant regional and global organizations through workshops and seminars on the protection and maintenance of fibre-optic submarine cables to promote the security of such critical communications infrastructure;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Towards a strengthened and stable international financial architecture responsive to the priorities of growth anddevelopment, especially in developing countries, and to the promotion of economic and social equity (2001), para. 43
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- 27. Requests the President of the General Assembly to present this resolution to the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank and the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, before their joint annual spring meeting, in order to bring it to their attention as an input to their discussions on the matters addressed herein.
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (1994), para. 17
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- 1. Reiterates its request that the Commission on Human Rights should continue its current work on overall analysis with a view to further promoting and strengthening human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of the programme and working methods of the Commission, and on the overall analysis of the alternative approaches and ways and means for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the provisions and ideas set forth in General Assembly resolution 32/130;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Establishment of an international criminal court (1995), para. 09
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- 4. Invites States to submit to the Secretary-General, before 15 March 1995, written comments on the draft statute for an international criminal court, and requests the Secretary-General to invite such comments from relevant international organs;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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