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?We are Wasting Our Natural Capital?, Secretary-General Says, Calling for ?New Vision? from Japan Summit to Forge Strategy to Halt Biodiversity Loss by 2020

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• 27 de outubro de 2010
• 1 min. de leitura

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s video message to the high-level segment of the Tenth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Nagoya, Japan, today, 27 October: Your Excellency Mr. Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan, Your Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss, President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency Mr. Ryu […]

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Press Conference by Special Rapporteur on Right to Highest Attainable Standard of Physical, Mental Health

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• 27 de outubro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

  Speaking at a Headquarters press conference today, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, promoting the right to physical and mental health, said that the so called “campaign for a drug free world” could actually result in violations of the right to health, as people who used drugs might not come forward to get the care […]

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Security Council Endorses Indicators to Measure Progress in Implementing Landmark Text on Women, Peace, Security as Organization Marks Tenth Anniversary

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
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  United Nations to ?Lead by Example?, Secretary-General Pledges As Member States Weigh Mixed Record on Making Resolution 1325 (2000) Work Marking the tenth anniversary of its landmark resolution on women and peace and security, the Security Council today endorsed a set of indicators to measure progress in filling urgent gaps in the protection and […]

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General Assembly to Ask Nuclear Powers to Meet Obligations to Forswear Nuclear Weapons, Reduce Significance in Security Concepts, by First Committee Text

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
• 47 min. de leitura

  Committee Approves 13 Drafts, Including on Test-Ban Treaty, Fissile Material, Missiles, Reducing Nuclear Danger, Risk of Nuclear Proliferation in Middle East Halting the production of bomb-making material, holding to non-proliferation promises and forging a united effort to eliminate nuclear weapons were among the core challenges put to nuclear-weapon States today in the provisions of […]

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?Cornerstone? Security Council Resolutions on Counter-Terrorism Should Be Replaced by Single Text Not Adopted Under Charter?s Chapter VII, Third Committee Told

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
• 54 min. de leitura

Rapporteur Says Neither of Existing Regimes Has Proper Legal Basis; Committee Also Hears Experts on Freedom of Opinion; Human Rights and Corporations Two cornerstones of United Nations action against terrorism have no proper legal basis in the organization?s Charter today, since international terrorism was not ?a permanent threat to peace? and did not justify the […]

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Calling on French Speaking Countries to Support United Nations Work on Climate Change, Development, Secretary-General Hails Cooperation with la Francophonie

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
• 2 min. de leitura

(Delayed in transmission.) Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Thirteenth Summit of the International Organization of la Francophonie, 22 to 24 October, delivered by Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations: It gives me great pleasure to greet all the participants in the thirteenth Summit of the International Organization of La Fancophonie.  I […]

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As Floods, Earthquakes Increase in Frequency, Intensity, Secretary-General Urges Long-term Engagement on Climate Change, Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
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  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Incheon, Republic of Korea, 26 October: Distinguished ministers, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Disaster risks are growing.  These risks are concentrated in developing and middle-income countries, and they are increasing, due to climate change. The recent floods […]

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Secretary-General Urges Security Council to Take Appropriate Steps to End Impunity, Prevent Brutality against Women and Girls in Conflict

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s video message to the Security Council?s open debate on women, peace and security, in New York, today, 26 October: I welcome the opportunity to address this commemorative open debate. I thank the President and the members of the Council for allowing me to participate by video. As you […]

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Press Conference by Special Rapporteur on Protecting Human Rights While Countering Terrorism

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
• 3 min. de leitura

  The counter-terrorism regime created by the Security Council was “outside the scope of its powers”, and while international terrorism remained a very serious threat and constituted an atrocious crime, it did not justify an exercise by the Security Council of supranational quasi-judicial sanctioning powers over individuals, said a United Nations human rights expert at […]

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Press Conference by Special Rapporteur on Torture

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• 26 de outubro de 2010
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  The United Nations should consider developing a convention on the rights of detainees, Manfred Nowak, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.  In most countries, conditions in prisons and police custody, as well as psychiatric institutions and remand centres, amounted […]