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Category: United Nations

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    • in Agriculture · Business · Cambodian · Government · International · Laotian · United Nations
    • — 31 Jul, 2019

    UN chief supports smallholder farm investing ahead of visit to Lao PDR and Cambodia

    Rome (July 18, 2019) — The President of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Gilbert F. Houngbo, will meet the Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic[…]

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    Commend UNESCO for inscribing Nalanda University on World Heritage List 0
    • in Editorial · Hindu · Indian · International · United Nations
    • — 19 Jul, 2016

    Commend UNESCO for inscribing Nalanda University on World Heritage List

    RENO, Nev. (July 18, 2016) — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee is to be commended for inscribing Nalanda Mahavihara (Nalanda University) Archaeological Site in[…]

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    • in Chinese · Government · International · United Nations
    • — 17 Jul, 2016

    Ban Ki-moon keynotes Committee of 100 Global Chinese Philanthropy Symposium

    NEW YORK (July 17, 2016) — The Committee of 100 on July 8 hosted a high level Global Chinese Philanthropy Symposium in Beijing convening one hundred leading Chinese philanthropists from[…]

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    • in Government · Immigration · International · United Nations
    • — 25 Mar, 2015

    Increasingly strained global humanitarian protection system

    First Report Examines Increasing Mismatch between Frameworks that Define the Existing Protection Regime and Contemporary Patterns of Displacement WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 25, 2015) — There is a growing consensus that[…]

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  • Steps to cut poverty and inequality in Pacific Island Countries 0
    • in United Nations
    • — 21 Sep, 2014

    Steps to cut poverty and inequality in Pacific Island Countries

    NEW YORK (Aug. 28, 2014) — A new United Nations report offers concrete recommendations to reverse a rising trend of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion in Pacific Island countries. The report,[…]

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    • in Cambodian · Courts · Government · International · United Nations
    • — 11 Aug, 2014

    UN-backed tribunal sentences Khmer Rouge leaders to life in prison

    PHNOM PENH (Aug. 7, 2014) — A United Nations-backed court has found the two most senior surviving leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime guilty of crimes against humanity and[…]

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  • UN Asia-Pacific forum calls for inclusive job growth to bridge region’s income gap 0
    • in Community · International · United Nations
    • — 11 Aug, 2014

    UN Asia-Pacific forum calls for inclusive job growth to bridge region’s income gap

    United Nations News Service BANGKOK (Aug. 7, 2014) — With 743 million people in Asia and the Pacific still desperately poor, it is essential that growth be sustainable, inclusive and[…]

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    UN urges reforms with Cambodia political agreement 0
    • in Cambodian · United Nations
    • — 28 Jul, 2014

    UN urges reforms with Cambodia political agreement

    NEW YORK (July 22, 2014) — The United Nations expert on the situation of human rights in Cambodia today welcomed the agreement reached between the two main political parties in[…]

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  • UN report: Human rights essential to reconciliation in wake of Thailand political crisis 0
    • in Government · Human Rights · International · Thailand · United Nations
    • — 21 Jun, 2014

    UN report: Human rights essential to reconciliation in wake of Thailand political crisis

    NEW YORK (June 13, 2014) — Stability and reconciliation can hardly be achieved in Thailand if human rights guarantees are neglected, a group of United Nations independent experts declared June[…]

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    UN concerned with lack of judiciary consultation on key Cambodian rights laws 0
    • in Cambodian · Government · Human Rights · International · United Nations
    • — 8 Jun, 2014

    UN concerned with lack of judiciary consultation on key Cambodian rights laws

    NEW YORK (May 27, 2014) — The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations Special[…]

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