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Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (2006), para. 16
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- 10. Reaffirms its resolution 59/296, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of its relevant provisions;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2019), para. 11
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- 5. Encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of the implementation of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (2007), para. 12
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- 4. Further requests the Committee to continue to extend its cooperation and support to Palestinian and other civil society organizations in order to mobilize international solidarity and support for the Palestinian people, particularly during this critical period of humanitarian hardship and financial crisis, with the overall aim of promoting the achievement by the Palestinian people of its inalienable rights and for a peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, and to continue to involve additional civil society organizations in its work;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 38
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- 10. Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe, sufficient, nutritious and culturally accepted food are inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2007), para. 38
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- Paragraph text
- Management evaluation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum (2019), para. 07
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- Recognizing the important role and contribution of the United Nations system in the region of the Pacific Islands Forum members,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 21
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- (m) Persistent failure to uphold due process of law, and violations of the rights of detainees, including the widespread and systematic use of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, the lack of access of detainees to legal representation of their choice, the refusal to consider granting bail to detainees, the poor conditions of prisons and the denial of access to adequate medical treatment, as well as reports of detainees dying in custody, being subjected to torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, harsh interrogation techniques and the use of pressure exerted upon their relatives and dependants, including through arrest, to obtain false confessions that are then used at trials;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum (2013), para. 10
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- 4. Welcomes the progress towards enhancing cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum and its associated institutions, and reaffirms the value of further efforts to enhance this cooperation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation in the fight againsttransnational organized crime: assistance to States inimplementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (2004), para. 14
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- 9. Also requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the present resolution in his report on the work of the Centre to be submitted 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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System-wide coherence (2010), para. 133
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- 84. Decides that the process of consolidation of the institutional and operational arrangements, partnerships and brands of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women shall start from the date of adoption of the present resolution and continue under the leadership and authority of the Under-Secretary-General/head of the Entity, once appointed;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan (2018), para. 24
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- Deeply concerned that the wall’s route has been traced in such a way to include the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cross-cutting issues (2010), para. 28
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- 1. Reaffirms section VII of its resolution 61/276, and its resolution 63/250 of 24 December 2008;
- 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 Protection Force, the United Nations ConfidenceRestoration Operation in Croatia, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force and the United Nations Peace Forces headquarters (1996), para. 03
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- Having considered also the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of the management structure in the civilian staff component of the United Nations Peace Forces, 3
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Measures for prevention of the smuggling of aliens (1997), para. 04
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- Concerned at the increasing activities of criminals and criminal organizations that profit illicitly by smuggling human beings, preying on the dignity and lives of migrants and adding to the complexity of the phenomenon of increasing international migration,
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control (2004), para. 09
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- 3. Welcomes the information provided by Member States on the implementation of the measures they have adopted to promote the objectives envisaged in the present resolution; 1
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities (1998), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolutions 2252 (ES-V) of 4 July 1967 and 2341 B (XXII) of 19 December 1967 and all subsequent related resolutions,
- 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 (2007), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolutions 44/198 of 21 December 1989, 51/216 of 18 December 1996, 52/216 of 22 December 1997, 53/209 of 18 December 1998, 55/223 of 23 December 2000, 56/244 of 24 December 2001, 57/285 of 20 December 2002, 58/251 of 23 December 2003, 59/268 of 23 December 2004 and 60/248 of 23 December 2005,
- Topic(s)
- 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 by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations (2014), 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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Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (2001), para. 13
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- 8. Further welcomes the decision on the illicit proliferation, circulation and trafficking of small arms and light weapons taken by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its thirty-fifth ordinary session, held in Algiers in July 1999, 7 as well as the decisions on the prevention and combating of illicit trafficking in small arms and related crimes taken by the Council of the Southern African Development Community at its nineteenth Summit of Heads of State or Government, held in Maputo in August 1999, 8 and the initiatives taken by States members of the Economic Community of West African States to conclude their agreement on a moratorium on the importing, exporting and manufacture of light weapons;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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High-level intersessional discussion celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela (2018), para. 10
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- 1. Decides to convene a high-level intersessional discussion celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela, on his life and legacy, in the context of promoting and protecting human rights through social justice, reconciliation and democratic ideals, on 27 April 2018, the day that, in 1994, Mandela and millions of South Africans cast their votes for the first time in a fully representative democratic election;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on Biological Diversity (2000), para. 26
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- 12. Recognizes the importance of national action to conserve biological diversity in many habitats, including forests, wetlands and coastal areas, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, in particular article 8, and the need to mobilize national and international support for such national actions;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway (2014), para. 009
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- 4. We reaffirm that we continue to be guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, with full respect for international law and its principles.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 1863 (2009) (2014), 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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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2004), para. 30
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- 13. Suggests the convening in 2004 of a United Nations-sponsored seminar on assistance to the Palestinian people;
- 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 African Union (2009), para. 46
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- 21. Calls upon the Secretary-General and the international community to fulfil the commitments they undertook during the high-level event on the Millennium Development Goals, held in New York on 25 September 2008;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context (2003), para. 03
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- Recalling its resolution 57/337 of 3 July 2003 entitled “Prevention of armed conflict”, in which it calls upon Member States to settle their disputes by peaceful means, as set out in Chapter VI of the Charter, inter alia, by any procedures adopted by the parties, including the most effective use of the International Court of Justice,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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 (2013), para. 24
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- 3. Recognizes that the implementation of the Copenhagen commitments and the attainment of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, are mutually reinforcing and that the Copenhagen commitments are crucial to a coherent people-centred approach to development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 090
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- 81. We acknowledge that lack of access to trade finance can limit a country’s trading potential and result in missed opportunities to use trade as an engine for development. We welcome the work carried out by the WTO Expert Group on Trade Financing, and commit to exploring ways to use market-oriented incentives to expand WTO-compatible trade finance and the availability of trade credit, guarantees, insurance, factoring, letters of credit and innovative financial instruments, including for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. We call upon the development banks to provide and increase market- oriented trade finance and to examine ways to address market failures associated with trade finance.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2020), para. 49
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- 29. Emphasizes the need to take appropriate measures necessary to counter the practices described above, and calls upon States and all other stakeholders to take more effective measures in accordance with international human rights law to prevent, counter and combat those phenomena and extremist movements of a racist or xenophobic character, which pose a real threat to democratic values, and to increase their vigilance and be proactive in strengthening their efforts to recognize and effectively address those challenges;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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 (2020), para. 44
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- 13. Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of human rights and all violations of international humanitarian law, including the killing and persecution of individuals and members of communities on the basis of their religion or belief, by armed extremist groups, as well as any human rights abuses or violations of international humanitarian law by non-State armed groups, including Hizbullah and those designated as terrorist groups by the Security Council;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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