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MARRAKECH, 10 December - World leaders adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration today, laying out the first-ever global cooperation framework for sharing responsibility to protect the world’s 258 million people on t...
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December 10, 2018 Web Desk
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World leaders today challenged models of development shaped by wealthy States as the General Assembly held a high-level meeting on gaps and impediments faced by middle-income countries in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Devel...
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December 5, 2018 Web Desk
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The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today approved eight draft texts, including ones calling for the universalization of the Arms Trade Treaty and the implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.The Committee approved...
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November 6, 2018 Web Desk
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A shift in States’ legal obligations when countering terrorism, the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures and the right to development were among the many topics experts covered in briefings to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian...
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October 18, 2018 Web Desk
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Marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty today, delegates noted the persistent scourge of extreme global poverty and called for increased aid and development to tackle it as the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) took up the ...
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October 17, 2018 Web Desk
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Child Dies Every 5 Minutes from Abuse, Special Representative SaysChildren on the move must be better protected from detention, family separation and violence, United Nations experts told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural) today ...
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October 10, 2018 Web Desk
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3 October 2018, Rome - The European Union (EU) and FAO today reaffirmed their commitment to tackle common global concerns such as rising hunger, bring about prosperity and peace, and build a more sustainable future for all. Over the next two years, EU...
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October 4, 2018 Web Desk
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