Contributions by the commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council in line with General Assembly Resolution 68/1

2017 ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
General Assembly ◽  
Social Council ◽  
General Assembly Resolution

Relations with other international and regional organizations

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (S1) ◽  
pp. 94-95
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
High Point ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Social Council ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

The high point of 1990 came when the ICRC was granted observer status with the United Nations General Assembly (resolution 45/6 adopted by consensus on 16 October). Until then, the ICRC had had consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council; this did not reflect the institution's specific character nor its growing cooperation with UN bodies in New York.

The Role of UNAFRI in the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders:An Overview

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard P. Shaidi
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Council ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
Prevention Of Crime ◽  
First Time

The Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (the Ninth Congress), was held in Cairo, Egypt from 29 April to 8 May, 1995. It followed the sequence of United Nations quinquennial congresses on the prevention of crime and die treatment of offenders which began in 1955 as a direct continuation of die international penitentiary congresses that had been organized by the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission (IPPC) since the 19tii century. The congresses are convened by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on die basis of General Assembly Resolution 415(V) of 1950. The Nindi Congress was attended by delegates from 138 states, several United Nations offices and organs, including specialized agencies, various inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations and over 190 individual experts. This was die first time the Congress was held on the African continent.

United Nations: General Assembly Resolution Adopting the Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, With Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1102
Keyword(s):  
General Assembly ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Child Abduction ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Social Council ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
Sole Criterion ◽  
Article 5 ◽  
Foster Placement

In 1985, the U.N. Economic and Social Council determined that a group of experts with experience in family and child welfare should prepare a draft declaration and guidelines for governments on the foster placement and adoption of children. A draft had been considered by the General Assembly since 1979 and had been on the agenda of the Sixth Committee (Legal) since 1982. In 1985, the Assembly decided that the Sixth Committee should hold informal consultations to achieve agreement on the remaining issues, in particular the question of “the sole criterion” in Article 5 and the principle relating to the problem of child abduction for illicit placement. This was done, and the Declaration was adopted at the General Assembly's forty-first session.

What constitutes the sovereign state?

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ross Fowler ◽  
Julie Marie Bunck
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

One might try to determine just what constitutes a sovereign state empirically, by examining the characteristics of states whose sovereignty is indisputable. All sovereign states, it might be observed, have territory, people, and a government. Curiously, however, cogent standards do not seem to exist either in law or in practice for the dimensions, number of people, or form of government that might be required of a sovereign state. Indeed, a United Nations General Assembly Resolution declared that neither small size, nor remote geographical location, nor limited resources constitutes a valid objection to sovereign statehood.

Trusteeship Council

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-550
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
New Item

The fourteenth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at United Nations headquarters from June 2 to July 16, 1954. At the opening meeting Miguel R. Urquía (El Salvador) was elected president and Léon Pignon (France) vicepresident. The Council accepted an Indian proposal to include a new item in the agenda of the fourteenth session: “General Assembly resolution 751 (VIII): revision of the Questionnaire relating to Trust Territories: interim report of the Sub-Committee on the Questionnaire”, and subsequently adopted an agenda of 18 items. The greater part of the session was devoted to the examination of annual reports on the administration of the trust territories of Somaliland, the Pacific Islands, Western Samoa, New Guinea, and Nauru; a number of questions referred to it by the General Assembly were also dealt with by the Council, which in its closing meeting decided to defer until the Council's fifteenth session a decision on a French proposal that at least one of the Council's annual sessions should be held at Geneva.

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