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Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Denies Status to International Lesbian and Gay Association, ?Closing Doors? on Applicant after 10 Years

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• 24 de maio de 2011
• 33 min. de leitura

  Recommends 8 Entities for Consultative Status, Postpones Consideration Of 25 More, Including United States-based Group on Strengthening Democracies The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today voted to deny the granting of consultative status for the International Lesbian and Gay Association, thus closing its application after 10 years of repeated deferral. Continuing its resumed session, which began […]

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Empowering Youth Essential for Sustainable Economic Growth, Management of Earth?s Resources, Secretary-General Says in Africa Day Message

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• 24 de maio de 2011
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message for Africa Day, to be observed on 25 May: On Africa Day, we recognize the people and promise of Africa.  The continent has just experienced a decade of rapid economic growth ? a stark contrast to the stagnation and reversals of previous years.  Many of the world?s fastest-growing economies […]

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Secretary-General, in Message, Urges Push to Cut Tobacco-related Deaths, Enliven Battle against Other Non-communicable Diseases, Create Healthier World for All

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• 24 de maio de 2011
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  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World No Tobacco Day, 31 May: This year’s observance of World No Tobacco Day falls in the midst of preparations for September’s United Nations high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases.  By controlling tobacco, we can go a long way towards addressing many of these chronic ailments, including […]

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‘Let Us Save Our Children; Let Us Resolve Ourselves, Here in Nigeria, to Do All We Can’ to Stamp Out Malaria Death, Says Secretary-General

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• 24 de maio de 2011
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  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Dutse Makaranta primary health care centre, in Abuja, Nigeria, 23 May: How una dey? [How are you?]  Yesterday, I recorded Maitama General Hospital and I am very pleased to visit the Dutse Makaranta health centre. As you know, I was born in a very small […]

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Press Conference on Plight of Indigenous Bedouin Palestinians

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• 24 de maio de 2011
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  Bedouin Palestinian refugees living in the West Bank were in dire need of access to their traditional natural resources ? rangeland and water ? as well as basic health and education services, denied to them since their forcible displacement from the Negev Desert in 1948, community representative Mohamed Al Korshan said at a Headquarters […]

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Press Conference on Implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in Bangladesh

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• 24 de maio de 2011
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  At a Headquarters press conference today, human rights activists urged the United Nations to play a greater role in pushing for implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in Bangladesh, which was intended to protect the rights of the area?s indigenous peoples. ?The peace accord is a quite good one, but the problem […]

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Security Council Extends Mandate of United Nations Operation in Côte d?Ivoire until 31 July 2011

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• 13 de maio de 2011
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Resolution 1981 (2011) Also Grants Longer Asset Redeployment from Liberia Mission The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d?Ivoire (UNOCI) until 31 July 2011, also authorizing the Secretary-General to extend until 30 June 2011 the temporary redeployment of equipment from the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to UNOCI. […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in Turkey, 7-10 May

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• 13 de maio de 2011
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  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, at noon on Saturday, 7 May. That afternoon, he spoke at an award presentation and closing ceremony of the 2011 Global Summit of Women.  (See Press Release SG/SM/13549) He earlier visited the Dolmabahçe Palace and later the Headquarters of the Alliance of Civilizations, before attending […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in Switzerland, 10-11 May

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• 13 de maio de 2011
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  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva from Istanbul on the morning of Tuesday, 10 May. At noon, he attended a round table discussion on strengthening preparedness for nuclear accidents.  (See Press Release SG/SM/13557) Following a luncheon hosted by Kassym Jomart Tokayev, Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, the Secretary-General […]

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Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to Review Progress, at Headquarters 16-27 May; Implementation of Recommendations on Development, Environment, Consent to Be Focus

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• 13 de maio de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

More than 1,300 delegates are expected to attend the tenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at Headquarters in New York from 16 to 27 May.  This year?s Permanent Forum will be especially significant, since it is a review year, which will focus on the implementation of Forum recommendations on economic and social development, […]