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External sources (not reviewed)

Despite such challenges, there were many important accomplishments, including: (a) responding to the majority of the claims brought to the Office, including the provision of summary advice (206 instances), to clients in more than 80 countries; (b) closure or resolution of 54 per cent of the 938 cases filed with the Office of Staff Legal Assistance during the year; (c) a high success rate before the Dispute Tribunal; (d) undertaking outreach to staff in the field; and (e) the development

IDPs who have achieved a durable solution may still face needs or human rights concerns that are not displacement-specific, e.g. when IDPs return or relocate to an area that was neglected and

As for LRA, I welcome the initiatives of the African Union

In particular, LDCs should pursue an environmentally sustainable and equitable growth strategy that is labour intensive,

The New York City Police Department reports that their officers departed the vicinity of the Mission at 11.26 a.m., doing so only after the police

The Subcommittee noted with satisfaction the ongoing activities of Member States that were contributing to increasing the availability and use of space-based solutions in support of disaster management, and also supporting the UN-SPIDER programme, including the following: the Sentinel Asia project and its coordination of emergency observation requests through the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre (ADRC) and the Charter on Cooperation to Achieve the Coordinated Use of Space Facilities in the Event of Natural or Technological Disasters (also called the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters), as well as related efforts in the

One representative spoke of the crises currently facing the human family, including poverty, forced migration and sea-level rise, and urged environmental treaties and instruments, including the Montreal Protocol, to employ creative thinking to ensure that human rights issues were given full cognizance

The presence of large quantities of weapons left over from previous conflicts, the

As 2015, the critical year for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals approaches, the Global Initiative is expected to give greater impetus to the worldwide movement for education and to: (a)

(k) To promote, through the education system and other means, mutual understanding, tolerance, non-discrimination and respect in all matters relating to freedom of

Its basic functions are to focus and mobilize women’s broad participation in economic production and social development;

that empowerment of and investment in girls, which are critical for economic growth, the achievement of all Millennium Development Goals, including the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the meaningful participation of girls in decisions that affect them, are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights, and further recognizing that empowering girls requires their active participation in decision making processes, active support and

In order to do a better job for the public interests and assume its social responsibility, CNNIC, together with experts of the industry in and out of China, prepared and published for the first time Research Report of the Development of IP Address and Domain name Technology of the Internet based on the latest technological development of the fundamental resources of Internet such as IP address and domain name, especially the latest technological development of the IPv6 and nextgeneration Internet, IDN and multilingual e-mail address, DNSSEC and domain name security as well as the application of these new technologies in the emerging fields of Internet of things, cloud computing and big data, and will make the reporting regular and systematic so as to reflect the latest progress, analyze the characteristics and predict the