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Uzbekistan, Presenting Third Periodic Report, Highlights 2008 Death Penalty Ban, Says Wants to Work Closely with Human Rights Committee on All Areas of Concern

• por Notícias
• 11 de março de 2010
• 31 min. de leitura

Experts Acknowledge Difficulties Country Faces, but Say Civil Society Reports Show Progress towards Democracy, Rule of Law Halted, Even Reversed in Some Cases From the very beginning of its independence just 18 years ago, Uzbekistan had sought to protect and promote the civil and political rights of all its citizens and had moved swiftly to […]

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Secretary-General, in Women?s Commission, Calls for End to One of Most Brutal, Entrenched Forms of Gender Discrimination — Sexual Violence against Women

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• 11 de março de 2010
• 30 min. de leitura

Says New Special Envoy on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Margot Wallström, To Help Turn Promises into Action; She First Visits Democratic Republic of Congo United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today called on the international community to urgently join forces to end one of the most brutal and entrenched forms of gender discrimination ‑‑ violence against […]

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Multimedia Exhibition on Impact of Malaria Opens at United Nations Headquarters, 15 March

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• 11 de março de 2010
• 1 min. de leitura

A multimedia exhibition illustrating the impact of malaria will open to the public on Monday, 15 March, in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Entitled "Malaria:  Blood, Sweat and Tears", the exhibition features photographs from the travels of award-winning photographer Adam Nadel to malaria-endemic countries including Cambodia, […]

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Secretary-General Condemns Attacks in Pakistan

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• 11 de março de 2010
• Menos de um minuto

  The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the series of attacks in Pakistan which has occurred in recent days.  These include the suicide bombing today in Lahore which killed and injured scores of people as well as the attack on the office of the […]

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Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Adds Names of Two Individuals to Consolidated List

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• 11 de março de 2010
• 1 min. de leitura

  On 11 March 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII […]

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Press Conference on Emergency Relief Coordinator?s Recent Middle East Trip

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• 11 de março de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

There had been no change of policy since 2007 on Israel?s blockade of the Gaza Strip and as a consequence, reconstruction activities in the enclave had barely started, the top United Nations humanitarian official said at Headquarters today. At a press conference on his trip to the Middle East last week, John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for […]