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Jeddah conference closes with adoption of global pledges to tackle antimicrobial resistance

·November 17, 2024·5 min read

Immediately following the adoption of the commitments in the Saudi coastal city, the host country’s Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel said the conference outcome provides “critical building blocks” for member states and international bodies to significantly act against antimicrobial resistance, and that it builds on the Political Declaration on AMR...

Justice served: Lebanon’s Special Tribunal closes

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·December 31, 2023·1 min read

Established by Security Council resolution 1757 in 2007, the Special Tribunal’s jurisdiction also extended to other attacks that were judicially determined to be connected to the Beirut attack on 14 February 2005. The assassination of Mr. Hariri involved explosives equivalent to 2,500 to 3,000 kilograms of dynamite, detonated as his...

New agenda sets sail with bold action as UN Water Conference closes

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·March 26, 2023·4 min read

The Agenda sets out a series of action-oriented game changing commitments, from making smarter food choices to re-evaluating water as a powerful economic driver, and part of the Earth’s cultural heritage. Water-secure future for all The conference, and its 2,000 participants, forged an “ambitious vision”, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres...

Flagship UN gender event closes with ‘blueprint’ for greater role of women in tech

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·March 18, 2023·3 min read

The priority theme for this year’s CSW, an annual, two-week long event which has been advancing rights for women since 1946, was the ongoing discrimination, abuse, and misogyny women face in the virtual world. The aim was to advance progress towards levelling the digital playing field, and to address persistent...

COP27 closes with deal on loss and damage: ‘A step towards justice’, says UN chief |

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·November 20, 2022·9 min read

“This COP has taken an important step towards justice. I welcome the decision to establish a loss and damage fund and to operationalize it in the coming period,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message issued from the conference venue in Egypt, underscoring that the voices of those...

Key UN forum closes with ‘enthusiasm, passion and high-energy’ to reach the SDGs |

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·July 16, 2022·3 min read

“We have advanced the substantive programme of the [Economic and Social] Council (ECOSOC) and initiated concrete foundational action to implement the decisions of the General Assembly” in resolutions on strengthening the HLPF and ECOSOC, said the body’s president, Collen Kelapile. Urgency and ambition Although the COVID pandemic continues, “we are...