Crianças órfãs e vulneráveis pelo HIV no Brasil: onde estamos e para onde vamos? Orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in Brazil: where do we stand and where are we... by Ivan França-Junior, Marlene Doring, Isete Maria Stella

“…O objetivo do artigo foi identificar a magnitude e a situação de alguns direitos humanos, conforme expressos na United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, de crianças e adolescentes portadores de HIV/Aids, afetados não-órfãos e órfãos por Aids, com base em pesquisa sobre o tema na literatura científica nacional e internacional. …”
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Leaders or Loners? How Do the BRICS Countries and their Regions Vote in the UN General Assembly by Renan Holanda Montenegro, Rafael Mesquita

“…This article sets out to answer these questions by analysing the behaviour of the BRICS and their regional partners in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The research design replicates the data from Voeten (2013) in order to compare the average affinity between each of the BRICS countries and their regions in the votes of the UNGA from 1992 to 2014. …”
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From Alternative Development to Sustainable Development: The Role of Development Within the Global Drug Control Regime by Daniel Brombacher, Jan Westerbarkei

“…<p class="p1">The concept of alternative development (AD) in international drug control has evolved over the past four decades, with several major milestones between the two United Nations General Assembly Special Sessions on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) 1998 and 2016. …”
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About priorities of the European Union at the United Nations by Igor Shcherbak

“…The author analyzed the priorities of the European Union at the United Nations in the context of the current session of the United Nations General Assembly. Special attention has been devoted to the key priorities of the EU in the sphere of international security and crisis prevention and also to the engagement of the EU with the UN on global challenges. …”
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Effect of public health expenditure on health outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana by Ayomide Oluwaseyi Oladosu, Timothy Chanimbe, Uchechi Shirley Anaduaka

“…Using the health expenditure commitment at the 1999 United Nations General Assembly and the Abuja Declaration of 2000, we also assessed public policy’s role in this relationship via linear regression analysis. …”
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Feasibility Study of the Re-Attribution of Crime of Apartheid to Israel by Mostafa Fazaeli, Emad Oboudiyat

“…Due to certain similarities in legal systems and roots of establishment, Israel and the Apartheid Regime of South Africa have been considered to be analogous in various international documents sponsored by the United Nations until 1991.This study aims to analyze the historical rationale behind this recognition and the reversal of course by the United Nations General Assembly, which was initiated with the revocation of A/RES/3379 resolution (the equation of Zionism with racism). …”
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The Meaningful Participation of ‘Stakeholders’ in Global Drug Policy Debates—A Policy Comment by Ann Fordham

“…The commentary concludes that the increased involvement over the past decade of civil society as well as other United Nations entities around the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) has markedly influenced the global drug policy debate by shifting more attention towards health, human rights and development concerns.…”
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Delivering Tourism Sustainability and Competitiveness in Seaside and Marine Resorts with GIS by Egidijus Jurkus, Julius Taminskas, Ramūnas Povilanskas, Vytė Kontautienė, Eglė Baltranaitė, Remigijus Dailidė, Arvydas Urbis

“…In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by the year 2030. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Brazil's Foreign Policy Drivers Towards the USA: Comment on Amorim Neto (2011) by Fernando Mourón, Francisco Urdinez

“…Ultimately, we seek to determine whether the variable has behaved in the same way for other South American countries, searching for independent variables that could help us explain a visible pattern in the region: the increasing distancing from the United States (USA) at the United Nations General Assembly. We want to contribute to the debate initiated by Amorim Neto (2011) and Schenoni (2012) for future research in the recent field of quantitative analysis of Brazilian Foreign Policy. …”
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Ultra Vires Doctrine in the Legal Framework of the United Nations Organization by Kiana Daryabeigi, Sima Moradi nasab

“…By considering this legal status, fears of transgression of authority and competence by the principal organs of the United Nations (General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice and Secretariat) will exacerbate in a way that is quite incomparable with any other international organization.The purpose of this essay is to carry out an in-depth analysis about the application of this doctrine in the legal realm of the United Nations, which involves library research process of collecting information and legal dogmatic approach in way of analyzing the issue. …”
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Response of Muslims in Indonesia, particularly the Council of Indonesian Ulama (Majelis Ulama Indonesia) as well as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, to the social discrimination a... by Anne Mardiah

“…The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was prepared by representatives of countries with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 in Paris, France. …”
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European Union and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by Adviye Damla Ünlü

“…United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on July 7, 2017. …”
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INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW GEODETIC DATUMS AND MAP PROJECTIONS IN THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Slobodanka Ključanin, Ervin Redžepagić

“…In accordance with the needs for defining a general geodetic reference frame, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution "Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development (GGRF)" in 2015. …”
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HUMAN RIGHTS OF MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS by Christos Iliadis, Dr., Aikaterini Frantzana, Dr., Aikaterini Kourkouta, Petros Ouzounakis, Dr.

“…An important legal effort to protect the rights of the mentally ill is Resolution 46/119 of the United Nations General Assembly on the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and Improving Mental Health Care, adopted on 17 December 1991. …”
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Consultative Process on Sustainable Development Goals: in Quest of Global Priorities by Gehetcik Ashotovna Avalian, Alina Igorevna Butova, Denis Andreevich Degterev, Anastasia Alexandrovna Zabella, Evgenia Yurievna Katkova, Glenn Christopher Markez

“…On 25 September 2015, on the 70th anniversary session of the United Nations General Assembly, 193 countries adopted a comprehensive and ambitious set of development goals aimed at the eradication of poverty in all its forms. …”
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Does Sustainability Require Transparency? The UN Divide Over Freedom of Information & Media in the Post-2015 Development Agenda by Bill Orme

“…In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly will adopt a new set of global development objectives to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of the year. …”
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM SUPRANATIONAL POLICIES AND THE WELLBEING — GAPS AND CHALLENGES FROM THE HOSTS’ AND THE GUESTS’ PERSPECTIVE by Anna DLUZEWSKA, Jolanta RODZOS

“…The year 2017 was declared by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. …”
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THE IDENTITY OF THE TERRORIST IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD by Mariana-Ana Bulmez

“…In 1947 Yasser Arrafat, Chairman of The Palestine Liberation Organization, declared for the United Nations General Assembly: “The difference between a revolutionary and a terrorist resides in the motives for which each of them fights. …”
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Prevention ‒ a cost-effective way to fight the non-communicable disease epidemic by N Probst-Hensch, M Tanner, C Burri

“… The United Nations General Assembly has convened a Summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), an historic moment in the global combat of these disorders. …”
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The Power of Advocacy: Advancing Vision for Everyone to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals by Eva Lazuka-Nicoulaud, Kovin Naidoo, Kristan Gross, Judith Marcano Williams, Andrea Kirsten-Coleman

“…Global advocacy efforts over the past decades enabled recognition of vision as a major public health, human rights, and development issue. The United Nations General Assembly adopted its first-ever Resolution on vision: “Vision for Everyone—Accelerating Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” on 23 July 2021. …”
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