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22nd October, 1996
NEW WAY NEEDED TO ASSIST CRIME VICTIMS WITH COMPENSATION, REHABILITATION, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD IN THIRD DAY OF CRIME DEBATE
The halls of the United Nations echoed with a "pervasive mantra" on crime prevention, criminal justice and the treatment of offenders, but there had been a "deafening silence" about the victims of crime, the representative of the Philippines said this afternoon. She was addressing the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)...
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22nd October, 1996
ECONOMIC COMMITTEE TOLD DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FALL SHORT ON COMMITMENTS FOR FINANCIAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENTALLY-SOUND TECHNOLOGIES
Call for Rio Conference Agreements To Be Reviewed At Special Assembly Session, but Speakers Warn against Renegotiation Developing countries were being subjected to restrictive trade and investment policies, while developed countries had not yet met their commitments to provide adequate financial resources and environmentally-sound...
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22nd October, 1996
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE IS TOLD GOALS OF CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD BE MORE FLEXIBLE
Concern Expressed That Developed Countries With Highest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fail to Meet Commitments Declaring that there were intrinsic limitations to the current greenhouse gas-reduction regime, the representative of the Republic of Korea told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning that more flexible and...
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22nd October, 1996
ASSEMBLY WOULD CALL FOR UNIVERSAL ADHERENCE TO BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, UNDER DRAFT RESOLUTION
Also, Papua New Guinea Says Nuclear Powers Should Undertake Reconstruction To Address Effects of Past Testing The General Assembly would call on all States which had not yet done so to ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their...
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22nd October, 1996
OFFICE FOR PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA SHOULD BE PART OF UNOMIG, SECURITY COUNCIL DECIDES
The Security Council this morning decided that an office established in Sukhumi, for the protection and promotion of human rights in Abkhazia, Georgia should form part of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG), under the authority of the Head of Mission. It took that action by adopting resolution 1077 (1996) by...
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22nd October, 1996
SECURITY COUNCIL DENOUNCES VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW IN AFGHANISTAN, CALLS ON PARTIES TO CEASE HOSTILITIES
Resolution 1076 (1996), Adopted Unanimously, Calls on States Not to Interfere in Afghanistan's Internal Affairs The Security Council this morning denounced the discrimination against girls and women and other violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Afghanistan, noting with deep concern possible repercussions...
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22nd October, 1996
INNOVATIVE STRATEGY NECESSARY TO COMBAT SOPHISTICATED CRIMINAL NETWORKS, SAY SPEAKERS IN THIRD COMMITTEE DEBATE ON CRIME CORRECTION
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22nd October, 1996
SECOND COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF TRAINING AND RESEARCH, MEDIUM-TERM PLAN AND OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT CORRECTION
In Press Release GA/EF/2725 of 17 October, the penultimate sentence in the second full paragraph on page 10 should read: "It had relied on a Trust Fund to which contributions had been made by the United Kingdom and France, among others." * *** *...
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21st October, 1996
POWER OF TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS CORRUPTS INSTITUTIONS, STATES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD IN CONTINUED DEBATE ON CRIME, DRUGS
Criminal enterprises were replacing legal commerce, corrupting democracy and undermining social institutions, the representative of the United States told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this morning, as it continued its general debate on crime, criminal justice, drug prevention and the elaboration of an international...
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21st October, 1996
UNITED NATIONS MEDIUM-TERM PLAN SHOULD FOCUS ON NUCLEAR, NOT CONVENTIONAL DISARMAMENT, FIRST COMMITTEE TOLD
Non-Aligned Countries Say First Committee Views Must Be Taken into Account in Organization's Policy Text The disarmament portion of the United Nations medium-term for the period 1998-2001 must give priority to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, the representative of Indonesia said this...
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