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On the 19 December 2011 the 66th United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 66/130 regarding women and political participation. The resolution encourages all states to achieve: "equal representation of women and men, if necessary through positive action, in all governmental and public administration positions" In 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 of The …
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According to the Committee to Protect Journalists there were 22 journalists murdered in 2020 out of a total of 31 killed. Despite calls and plans by the United Nations to end impunity to journalists, 2020 saw more than double the murders of previous years and added to the over 1400 journalists killed since 1993.
It has been five years since the United Nations adopted three landmark agreements. 1. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2. The Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 3. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the International Science Council (ISC) recently published the Sendai Hazard …
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