U.N. adopts landmark treaty on rights of disabled
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The U.N. General Assembly adopted by consensus on Wednesday a landmark treaty to promote and protect the rights of the world's 650 million disabled people.
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Description: The world&#39;s first public health treaty is set to become international law, but the United States has yet to ratify it.
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The World Health Organization said Wednesday it approved the first international standard for a human genetic test to help laboratories improve the accuracy and quality of their results.
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on October 8 calling on states to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism, including extraditing and prosecuting anyone who supports, finances and participates in terrorist
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Top officials from dozens of countries supported a U.N. initiative to create a new global forum on migration on Friday, but the U.S. said the international community should rely on the arrangements already in place to deal with the problem.
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4: Although UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan received unqualified support from most of the 191 member states of the United Nations, UN officials and diplomats fear that
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The new UN Human Rights Council reaches a deal on how it will scrutinise member states' rights records.
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The United Nations said it has finished registering soldiers and arms from Nepal's former Maoist rebels, a key part of a peace deal with the government to end a decade of civil war.
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PARIS, Feb. 6 -- Representatives from 57 countries on Tuesday signed a long-negotiated treaty prohibiting governments from holding people in secret detention. The United States declined to endorse the document, saying its text did not meet U.S. expectations.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, executive secretary of the  Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is persuaded that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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Members of the U.N.'s new human rights watchdog agreed in principle Tuesday to a compromise on how to launch investigations into some of the world's worst rights offenders, sparing the body from the potentially embarrassing prospect of failing to set its own rules.
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Managed care provider inks first international agreement.
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The UN General Assembly is set to adopt a treaty giving greater rights to the world's 650m disabled people
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Key points of the resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council on Friday to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah:
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Multi-function phones, webcams and other new technological innovations have transformed the lives of the hard of hearing, delegates at an international congress of the deaf said Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (IPS) - The European Union and India have signed an  unprecedented âstrategic partnershipâ deal amidst concerns over  India's human rights record.
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The United Nations officially began a new peace-keeping effort in a ceremony that transferred power from the African Union.