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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 Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) expressed itself on human rights situations in Myanmar and Syria, as well as on human trafficking and inclusive development for persons with disabilities, approving 13 draft resolutions on those a...
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November 17, 2018 Web Desk
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Speakers overwhelmingly called on the United States to end its economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba as the General Assembly began its annual debate on the issue amid demands for the cessation of unilateral coercive measures.Throughou...
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October 31, 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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The Secretary-General is now back in New York. He arrived over the weekend after his trip to Indonesia.On Saturday, he attended the World Bank-IMF annual meetings in Bali, and he took part in the Development Committee, the Climate Finance Minist...
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October 16, 2018 Web Desk
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