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Defamation of religion resolutions were the subject of debate by the UN from 1999 until 2010. In 2011, members of the UN Human Rights Council found compromise and replaced the "defamation of religions" resolution with Resolution 16/18, which sought to protect people rather than religions and called upon states to take concrete steps to protect religious freedom, prohibit discrimination and ...
Article 3: Discrimination on the basis of religion or belief is a disavowal of the Charter of the United Nations and a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 4: All States should take measures to combat religious intolerance in legislation and all aspects of life including civil, economic, political, social and cultural ...
Authorises the United Nations Organisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to organise and conduct local elections 1798: 30 January 2008 15–0–0 Extends mandate of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea: 1799: 15 February 2008 15–0–0 Renews sanctions against the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1800: 20 ...
Renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Nepal until 23 January 2010 1880: 30 July 2009 15–0–0 Renews mandate of United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire until 31 January 2010 1881: 30 July 2009 15–0–0 Extends the African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur until 31 July 2010 1882: 4 August 2009 15–0–0
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
Per Krohg, also known as Per Lasson Krohg, was born June 18, 1889, in Oslo Norway and died March 3, 1965, in Oslo aged 75. [7] As the son of painter Christian Krohg, Per Krohg studied under his father at the Academie Colarossie art school in Paris between 1903 and 1907. [7]
The United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus is a demilitarized zone, patrolled by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), that was established in 1964 and extended in 1974 after the ceasefire of 16 August 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the de facto partition of the island into the area controlled by the ...
In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians only (excluding Nontrinitarian faiths). Passed on September 21, 1649 by the assembly of the Maryland colony, it was the first law requiring religious tolerance in the British North ...