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Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. [1] It is a product of the Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that ...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) [1] and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, [2] recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, [3] and approving any changes to the UN Charter. [4]
United Nations Security Council Resolution 21 was adopted unanimously on April 2, 1947. The Council placed the former German Pacific Islands, which were formerly mandated to Japan by the League of Nations, under the Trusteeship System. The United States was declared as the administering authority and was given permission to militarize the ...
United Nations Security Council resolutions are United Nations resolutions adopted by the fifteen members of the Security Council (UNSC); the United Nations (UN) body charged with "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security". [1]
A special session of the United Nations General Assembly, or UNGASS, occurs when the United Nations General Assembly meets in order to discuss an important wide-ranging topic. Under Chapter IV, article 20 of the United Nations Charter , "Special sessions shall be convoked by the Secretary-General at the request of the Security Council or of a ...
United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/21 was introduced by Jordan on behalf of a group of Arab states following four failed attempts at resolutions on humanitarian pauses and ceasefires in the U.N. Security Council. [4] 21 other Arab countries worked on the resolution draft.
The Security Council saw what many critics of peacekeeping have suggested, and some recent failures had made obvious: peacekeeping alone, as then practiced, was not enough to ensure lasting peace. Boutros-Ghali submitted his response some months later, in the form of An Agenda for Peace. In it, he outlined a number of additional processes of ...
The creation United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) 2178: 24 September 2014 15–0–0 Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts 2179: 14 October 2014 15–0–0 Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan: 2180: 14 October 2014 15–0–0 Haiti: 2181: 21 October 2014 15–0–0