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| United Nations websites | |
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| List of acronyms | |
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| Foreword | |
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| The United Nations Organization | |
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| United Nations Charter | |
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| Purposes and principles | |
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| Membership | |
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| Official languages | |
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| Structure of the Organization | |
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| General Assembly | |
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| Security Council | |
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| Economic and Social Council | |
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| Trusteeship Council | |
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| International Court of Justice | |
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| Secretariat | |
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| Secretary-General | |
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| Budget of the United Nations | |
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| The United Nations family of organizations | |
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| United Nations Secretariat | |
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| Regional commissions | |
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| International tribunals | |
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| United Nations programmes and other bodies | |
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| Specialized agencies and other organizations | |
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| International Peace and Security | |
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| The Security Council | |
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| The General Assembly | |
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| Conflict prevention | |
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| Peacemaking | |
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| Peacekeeping | |
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| Enforcement | |
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| Sanctions | |
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| Authorizing military action | |
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| Peacebuilding | |
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| Electoral assistance | |
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| Building peace through development | |
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| United Nations action for peace | |
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| Africa | |
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| Southern Africa | |
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| Great Lakes region of Africa | |
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| West Africa | |
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| East Africa | |
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| The Americas | |
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| Asia and the Pacific | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Afghanistan | |
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| Iraq | |
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| India-Pakistan | |
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| Tajikistan | |
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| Cambodia | |
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| Myanmar | |
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| Nepal | |
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| Bougainville / Papua New Guinea | |
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| Timor-Leste | |
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| Europe | |
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| Cyprus | |
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| Georgia | |
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| The Balkans | |
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| Disarmament | |
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| Disarmament machinery | |
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| Weapons of mass destruction | |
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| Conventional weapons, confidence-building and transparency | |
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| Peaceful uses of outer space | |
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| Latest developments | |
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| Economic and Social Development | |
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| Coordinating development activities | |
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| Economic development | |
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| Official development assistance | |
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| Promoting development worldwide | |
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| Lending for development | |
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| Lending for stability | |
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| Investment and development | |
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| Trade and development | |
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| Agricultural development | |
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| Industrial development | |
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| Labour | |
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| International aviation | |
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| International shipping | |
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| Telecommunications | |
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| International postal service | |
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| Intellectual property | |
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| Global statistics | |
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| Public administration | |
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| Science and technology for development | |
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| Social development | |
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| Progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals | |
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| Reducing poverty | |
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| Fighting hunger | |
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| Health | |
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| Human settlements | |
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| Education | |
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| Research and training | |
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| Population and development | |
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| Gender equality and empowerment of women | |
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| Promoting the rights of the child | |
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| Social integration | |
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| Families | |
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| Youth | |
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| Older persons | |
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| Indigenous issues | |
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| Persons with disabilities | |
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| Uncivil society: crime, illicit drugs and terrorism | |
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| Science, culture and communication | |
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| Sustainable development | |
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| Agenda 21 | |
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| World Summit on Sustainable Development | |
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| Financing sustainable development | |
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| Action for the environment | |
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| Climate change and global warming | |
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| Small islands | |
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| Sustainable forest management | |
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| Desertification | |
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| Biodiversity, pollution and overfishing | |
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| Protecting the marine environment | |
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| Weather, climate and water | |
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| Natural resources and energy | |
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| Nuclear safety | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Human rights instruments | |
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| International Bill of Human Rights | |
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| Economic, social and cultural rights | |
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| Civil and political rights | |
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| Other conventions | |
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| Other standards | |
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| Human rights machinery | |
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| Human Rights Council | |
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| UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
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| Promoting and protecting human rights | |
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| The right to development | |
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| The right to food | |
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| The rights of labour | |
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| The struggle against discrimination | |
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| Apartheid | |
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| Racism | |
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| The rights of women | |
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| The rights of children | |
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| The rights of minorities | |
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| Indigenous peoples | |
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| Persons with disabilities | |
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| Migrant workers | |
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| Administration of justice | |
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| Future priorities | |
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| Humanitarian Action | |
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| Coordinating humanitarian action | |
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| Providing assistance and protection | |
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| International protection and assistance to refugees | |
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| Palestine refugees | |
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| International Law | |
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| Judicial settlement of disputes | |
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| Development and codification of international law | |
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| International trade law | |
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| Environmental law | |
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| Law of the sea | |
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| International humanitarian law | |
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| International tribunals | |
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| International terrorism | |
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| Other legal questions | |
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| Decolonization | |
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| International trusteeship system | |
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| Non-Self-Governing Territories | |
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| Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples | |
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| Namibia | |
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| Timor-Leste | |
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| Western Sahara | |
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| Appendices | |
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| United Nations member states | |
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| Growth in United Nations membership, 1945-2006 | |
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| Peacekeeping operations, past and present | |
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| Decolonization | |
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| Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories independent since 1960 | |
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| Dependent Territories that have become integrated or associated with independent states since 1960 | |
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| Trust Territories that have achieved self-determination | |
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| Budget of the United Nations | |
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| United Nations special observances | |
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| United Nations information centres, services and offices | |
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| For further reading | |
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| Index | |
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| Boxe | |
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| Amendments to the United Nations Charter | |
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| Previous Secretaries-General | |
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| 2005 World Summit Outcome | |
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| The United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| A World of Support for the United Nations | |
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| Reform and revitalization: peacekeeping and disarmament | |
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| The new peacebuilding architecture | |
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| The responsibility to protect | |
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| Who commands peacekeeping operations | |
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| United Nations peacekeeping operations | |
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| United Nations Political and peacebuilding missions | |
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| An interim administrator | |
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| Africa: a United Nations priority (peace and security) | |
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| UNAMID: the UN's first hybrid peacekeeping mission | |
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| Oil for food: fact and fiction | |
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| Multilateral disarmament and arms regulation agreements | |
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| Bilateral agreements | |
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| The fight against landmines | |
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| UNISPACE conferences | |
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| Making globalization work for all | |
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| The United Nations competitive advantage | |
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| International Conference on Financing for Development | |
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| Africa: a United Nations priority (economic and social) | |
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| Foreign direct investment and development | |
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| Promoting equitable trade | |
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| Major world conferences since 1990 | |
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| World Summit for Social Development | |
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| Millennium Declaration targets | |
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| On the verge of a polio-free world | |
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| Malaria and tuberculosis | |
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| The UN combats HIV/AIDS | |
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| World conferences on women | |
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| A World Fit for Children | |
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| An Alliance of Civilizations | |
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| Sustainable development summits | |
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| Changing human behaviour | |
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| Synthesis report on climate change | |
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| Defining universal rights | |
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| The United Nations Democracy Fund | |
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| Special rapporteurs and working groups | |
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| World Conference on Human Rights | |
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| Technical cooperation programme | |
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| The Indian Ocean Earthquake-Tsunami of December 2004 | |
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| Coordinating emergency relief | |
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| Protecting children in war | |
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| Protecting UN staff and humanitarian workers | |
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| Refugees in their own country | |
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| People in flight | |
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| The International Criminal Court | |
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| Territories to which the Declaration on decolonization continues to apply | |
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| Charts and maps | |
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| Principal Offices of the United Nations | |
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| The United Nations system | |
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| United Nations peacekeeping operations | |
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| Political and peacebuilding missions | |
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| Foreign investment inflows to developing countries, 1990-2006 | |
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| Total primary energy supply by source, 2002 | |
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| Women's participation in national parliaments across regions | |
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| Pulling together for tsunami aid and recovery | |