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External sources (not reviewed)

The Security Council remains gravely concerned about the threat posed by piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia, especially by the extended range of the

As a result, according to the data from the International Committee of the Red Cross, 200,000

The period under review also saw the WACKER

With respect to hate speech, article 4 of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX), annex) calls on States parties to the Convention to declare as an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred,

(a) Shall declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred,

(g) To ensure that adequate medical, legal and social services sensitive to

To strengthen inter-agency efforts, UN-Women will

The Director-General has been requested to prepare, in consultation with Member States, an intersectoral

(j) Urging all non-State armed groups to immediately stop the recruitment and use of children, the killing

Under Security Council resolution 1882 (2009), the Security Council expanded the gateway to the annexes of the annual report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict to include not only parties to conflict that recruit and use children, but also those parties that are responsible for the killing and maiming of children in

(a) The measures, including legislative ones,

By paragraph 13 (e), the Council extended the travel and financial measures to individuals operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and committing serious violations of international law involving the targeting of children or

The following priorities determine the structure of the National Plan of Action for Children: (1) poverty reduction, (2) quality education for all children, (3) better health for all children, (4) improvement of status and rights of children with disabilities, (5) protection of the rights of children without parental custody, (6) protection of

The statutes of the two International Tribunals created by the Security Council to address crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the statute of the Special

Expressing grave concern about the adverse impact of climate change and ocean acidification on the health and survival of coral reefs and related ecosystems around the world, including through sea-level rise, the increase in the severity and incidence of

During the 2010/11 period, the Mission worked with the Government of Haiti, State institutions, NGOs and the United Nations country team to: (a) promote the capacity of civil society groups to advocate social and economic rights through participation in the reconstruction process; (b) assist the Government to report, prevent and respond to human rights violations, with particular regard to the rights of children and women; (c) ensure that humanitarian assistance to vulnerable persons affected by the earthquake incorporated the principles and standards on protection and was provided in close coordination with local authorities; and (d) provide temporary logistical and technical

During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the

Specific areas of research and dissemination of findings related to crime prevention include: planning for a national programme of technical assistance; the most effective use of closed-circuit television; evaluations of court diversion programmes; the prevention of cybercrime and identity crime; the risks of crime displacement and criminogenic effects of crime prevention initiatives; the prevention of financial crime; fraud and money-laundering; the prevention of terrorist activities and the financing of terrorism; law enforcement responses

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s