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Civilian Protection Measures Not Comprehensive Unless Systematically Include ‘Efforts to End Sexual Violence before It Has Begun’, Security Council Told

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Civilian Protection Measures Not Comprehensive Unless Systematically Include ‘Efforts to End Sexual Violence before It Has Begun’, Security Council Told

Civilian protection initiatives, such as in Libya, would not be comprehensive unless they systematically included “efforts to end sexual violence before it has begun”, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict told the Security Council today. “Even in the ‘tyranny of the emergency’, before hard evidence emerges, and though it may not be obvious what gender has to do with ‘arms embargoes’ or ‘no-fly zones’, we must remember women,” Margot Wallström said.

Speakers Link Higher Education among Girls to Declining Fertility Rates as Commission on Population and Development Continues Session

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Speakers Link Higher Education among Girls to Declining Fertility Rates as Commission on Population and Development Continues Session

Higher levels of education, particularly among girls, had a strong correlation to declining fertility and better development outcomes, delegates and experts said today as the Commission on Population and Development continued its forty-fourth session.

In World of Unpredictable Threats, Expanded Concept of Security Needed to Encompass Broad Range of Conditions Endangering Survival, Dignity, General Assembly Told

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In World of Unpredictable Threats, Expanded Concept of Security Needed to Encompass Broad Range of Conditions Endangering Survival, Dignity, General Assembly Told

In a world where threats could be as sudden and unpredictable as a tsunami or as protracted and unyielding as an oppressive dictatorship, an expanded paradigm of security was needed to encompass the broad range of conditions threatening people’s survival, livelihoods and dignity, United Nations Deputy-Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today, as she opened the General Assembly’s informal thematic debate on human security.

Chairman of Ad Hoc Committee Negotiating Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Convention Describes ‘Good Progress’ Made in Past Few Years, as Current Session Concludes

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Chairman of Ad Hoc Committee Negotiating Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Convention Describes ‘Good Progress’ Made in Past Few Years, as Current Session Concludes

While acknowledging the sense of disappointment that the last outstanding issues surrounding a proposed global anti-terrorism convention had yet to be resolved, the Chairman of the General Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee charged with elaborating that treaty today stressed that “good progress has been made over the past few years”, and various recommendations were beginning to coalesce into solid proposals for reaching a conclusion.

Holistic Anti-piracy Efforts Must Be Woven into Overall Solution for Somalia, Secretary-General Tells Conference on Regional Responses to Global Threats

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Holistic Anti-piracy Efforts Must Be Woven into Overall Solution for Somalia, Secretary-General Tells Conference on Regional Responses to Global Threats

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Patricia O’Brien, United Nations Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, to the Conference on “Global Threat, Regional Responses: Forging a Common Approach to Maritime Piracy”, in Dubai today, 18 April:

Activities of Secretary-General in Qatar, 13 April

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Activities of Secretary-General in Qatar, 13 April

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew overnight from New York to Doha to take part in the first meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya, on Wednesday, 13 April. He told the officials gathered at the meeting that the international community had acted swiftly and decisively in the past seven weeks. But he said that even the most optimistic observers foresee a protracted period of instability before sustainable peace can be restored.

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