A Human Rights Lens on Full Employment and Decent Work in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by Diane F. Frey, Gillian MacNaughton

“…On September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a global partnership for peace, development, and human rights for the period 2016 to 2030. …”
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La cuestión de las Malvinas (Falklands) en el Cuarto Decenio Internacional para la Eliminación del Colonialismo by Facundo D. Rodríguez

“…In 2020, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 75/123 declaring the period 2021-2030 as the “Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism” and called on States to step up their efforts to eliminate this terrible scourge that has affected humanity since immemorial times. …”
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Book review Sustainable Diets - Linking nutrition and food systems by Cecil J. W. Meulenberg

“…Throughout 29 expert contributions, the current policy making process regarding the sustainable development goals of the United Nations General Assembly supported by the World Health Organisation and their implementation are explained in length. …”
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Socially sustainable public procurement: the cooperative model as an alternative by Vega María Arnáez Arce

“… In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. …”
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The educational and awareness purposes of the <i>Paideia</i> approach for heritage management by C. Costa, F. Carbone, L. Oosterbeek

“…The need to raise awareness among the communities about the challenge of resource use – and, more generally, about the principles of sustainability – is the reason why the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed, in December 2002, the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2005–2014 (DESD). …”
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TIMELINE OF THE DECADE OF OCEAN SCIENCE: 2021 by Shchyptsov O.A.

“…Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2017, the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021—2030) (hereinafter — the Decade) aims to stimulate the develop- ment of ocean science and generate knowledge to stem the trend of deterioration of the ocean ecosys- tem and stimulate the use of new opportunities for its sustainable development in accordance with the paradigm of the Decade: «The science we need for the ocean we want». …”

Human Rights and Consership in the Portuguese Press by Isabel Salema Morgado

“…Many years after that, in 1948, other important event – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights approved by the United Nations General Assembly, did not receive the attention of Portuguese Press. …”
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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being by European Union Countries in 2017 by Iwona Konarzewska

“…In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …”
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The role of Malaysia in the United Nations Security Council by Wah, Yee Jing, Abdul Wahab Jumrah

“…During the 69th session of United Nations General Assembly, Malaysia has once again been elected as non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (hereinafter refer as “UNSC”) for two-year mandate commencing on 1st of January 2015.1 This article discusses the role and nature of Malaysia’s foreign policy in serving the non-permanent seat of the UNSC. …”
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Lithuanian Statistics in the Context of Celebrating the World Statistics Day by Jonas Markelevičius, Vilija Lapėnienė

“… On the 3rd of July, the United Nations General Assembly, taking into consideration the decision of the Statistical Commission, has adopted a Resolution wherein it was decided to designate 20 October 2010 as the World Statistics Day. …”
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The Right to Self-Determination and Natural Resources: The Case of Western Sahara by Hans Morten Haugen

“…The article analyses the ‘resource dimension’ of the right to self-determination, as recognised in human rights treaties and in Resolution III of the UN Conference on the Law of the Seas, as well as several resolutions from the United Nations General Assembly. If the resources are exploited in a manner which does not benefit the peoples seeking to enjoy the right to self-determination, such exploitation is illegal. …”
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Source Criticism and the History of Brazilian Foreign Policy by Eduardo Uziel, Norma Breda dos Santos

“…Studies related to Brazilian foreign policy towards the Middle East will be used, especially the case of Brazil’s controversial favourable vote on Resolution 3379 (XXX) of the United Nations General Assembly, in 1975, which equated Zionism with racism.…”
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The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable ocean by Nathan J. Bennett, Elisa Morgera, David Boyd

“…Abstract The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2022 that formally recognizes that there is a universal human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. …”
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The Arms Trade Treaty Opens New Possibilities at the UN by John Scales Avery

“…On 2 April, 2013, the Arms Trade Treaty, which had been blocked for ten years in the consensus-bound Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, was put directly before the United Nations General Assembly, and was passed by a massive majority. …”
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France, Russia and USA in Foreign Policy of Armenia: Quantitative Analysis of Voting in the UN General Assembly by D A Khachaturyan

“…To clarify the structure of relations between the countries the author resorts to the method of applied analysis: the study of voting in the United Nations General Assembly. The author analyzes the voting of Armenia in the UN General Assembly, and the Armenian position is compared with the voting of France, USA and Russia on various foreign policy issues. …”
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What is the right to food? by George Kent

“… On October 28, 2022 Michael Fakhri, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food presented a report to the United Nations General Assembly, the highest level of governance in the world (Fakhri, Michael 2022).  …”
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The Singapore Convention on Mediated Settlement Agreements: A New String to the Bow of International Mediation? by Elisabetta Silvestri

“…This multilateral treaty was drafted by UNCITRAL after a labourious discussion that spanned several years and was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 December 2018. In order to mirror the provisions of the Singapore Convention, the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation of 2002 was amended and renamed as UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Mediation and International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation.2 The purpose of this essay is to present an overview of the major contents of the Singapore Convention, a treaty aimed at providing uniform enforcement mechanisms for the mediated settlement agreements by which international commercial disputes are resolved. …”
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“Her place among the nations of the earth”: Irish votes at the UN General Assembly, 1955-2005 by Christophe Gillissen

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The Sustainable Development Goals and the Financial Services Industry by Peter Jones, David Hillier, Daphne Comfort

“…The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, embrace an ambitious and wide-ranging set of global environmental, social and economic targets. …”
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American Regionalism and Brazilian Diplomatic Discourse (1946-2019) by Felipe Ferreira de Oliveira Rocha, Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros

“…Abstract In this article, we analyse the content of the speeches delivered by Brazilian Presidents, Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors at annual Ordinary Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in the period between 1946 and 2019. …”
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