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Disability Advocates Remind Governments to ?Keep the Promise? on International Day of Persons with Disabilities ? 3 December

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• 1 de dezembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  1 December (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) ? Seizing the momentum created by the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in September, the international disability community and advocates around the world will stand together with Governments, global leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders, to call for inclusion of persons with disabilities and […]

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Press Conference by Head of Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate

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• 1 de dezembro de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

Prosecutors from some 20 countries affected by terrorism were meeting at Headquarters from 1 to 3 December to exchange information and best practices on how to bring terrorists to justice, the head of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) told correspondents today at Headquarters. Mike Smith, Executive Director of CTED, said that the prosecution of terrorists raised […]

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Press Conference on Preview of World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 Report

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• 1 de dezembro de 2010
• 4 min. de leitura

The recovery of the world economy had started to lose momentum since the middle of 2010, and all indicators pointed to weaker global economic growth, according to a new United Nations report, ?World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011?, part of which was released today at a Headquarters press conference. During the pre-launch of the first […]

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Second Committee Approves Text Recommending That General Assembly Stress Importance of Responsible Borrowing, Lending

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• 30 de novembro de 2010
• 10 min. de leitura

  Members Pass Seven Draft Resolutions by Consensus, Defers Action on Three Others The General Assembly would stress the importance of responsible borrowing and lending, while urging all lenders and borrowers to integrate debt sustainability analyses into their decisions in order to help maintain sustainable debt levels through a coordinated and cooperative approach, according to […]

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United Nations Regional Centre for Disarmament in Latin America and the Caribbean Training Course Wins Award for Regional Best Practice on Firearms Control

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• 30 de novembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  NEW YORK, 30 November (Office for Disarmament Affairs) ? The Inter Institutional Training Course on Combating Illicit Firearms Trafficking (IITC) of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-LiREC) has won recognition for ?Best Practice? in the category of Regional Arms Control Initiatives. The IITC […]

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Secretary-General, Receiving Appeal from Women of Central Asia, Says They Should Have Peacebuilding Role as Decision Makers, Not Observers or Victims

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• 30 de novembro de 2010
• 5 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on receiving the appeal of Women of Central Asia on Women, Peace and Security, in Astana today, 30 November: I am thankful for this appeal.  I pledge to treat it with the seriousness it deserves. Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) was a landmark in […]

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Press Conference by Director of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Near East Operations in Gaza

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• 30 de novembro de 2010
• 6 min. de leitura

Despite positive developments in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli blockade adjustment in the wake of the 31 May attack on the relief flotilla, 80 per cent of the population was still aid dependent, the top United Nations official there said today at a Headquarters press conference. Updating correspondents on the situation, John Ging, Gaza Director for […]

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General Assembly Concludes Two-Day Debate, Adopting Six Resolutions on Question of Palestine, Situation in Middle East

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• 30 de novembro de 2010
• 1 horas de leitura

  All Texts Adopted by Recorded Vote; Speakers Say Israel?s Intransigence Harms Peace Effort, United States? Delegation ?Disheartened? by One-Sided Focus Convinced that a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement to the question of Palestine ? the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict ? was imperative for lasting Middle East peace, the General Assembly today stressed the […]

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Israel Appears Unable, Unwilling to Shake Occupier Mentality, Palestinian Observer Tells General Assembly, Calling for Serious Commitment to Two-State Solution

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• 29 de novembro de 2010
• 44 min. de leitura

?Peace is Two-Way Street? Israel?s Delegate Says, Urging Compromise, Direct Talks; Assembly?s ?Destructive Rhetoric? Does Little to Bring Parties Together Sixty-three years after the General Assembly?s historic adoption in 1947 of resolution 181 (II), partitioning Palestine into two States ? one Arab and one Jewish – the independence of the Palestinian Arab State continued to […]

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Mine-Ban Convention is ‘Indispensable Element of Humanitarian Disarmament Frameworks’, Secretary-General Tells Tenth Meeting of States Parties

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• 29 de novembro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Tenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, today 29 November: I am pleased to […]