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Colombia + 15 others
Update on UNHCR’s operations in the Americas

Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme

Sixty-third session

Geneva, 1-5 October 2012

A. Situational analysis including new developments

In the Americas region, the implementation of pledges made during the Ministerial Intergovernmental Event1, held in December 2011, have been consolidated in the following areas:

Statelessness

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Côte d'Ivoire + 14 others
Report on the activities of the Court (ICC-ASP/10/39)

Assembly of States Parties

Tenth session

New York, 12-21 December 2011

I. Introduction

  1. The present report provides an overview of the activities of the International Criminal Court (the “Court”) during the period 11 October 2010 to 3 October 2011.

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Colombia + 20 others
Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (A/HRC/16/48)

Human Rights Council

Sixteenth session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

I. Introduction 1. In 2010, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances commemorated its 30th anniversary. During its thirty years of existence, the Working Group has fulfilled its humanitarian mandate to assist families to ascertain the fate and whereabouts of their disappeared family members. Nevertheless, it deplores the fact

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Honduras + 2 others
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Raquel Rolnik (A/HRC/16/42)

Rights routinely ignored in post-conflict and disaster reconstruction action - UN expert on housing

GENEVA (8 March 2011) - UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik warned Tuesday that human rights standards and particularly the right to adequate housing are not being translated into concrete policies in post-conflicts and post-disaster reconstruction processes.

"This has disastrous consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable," Ms. Rolnik said in her annual report* to the Human Rights Council, "and is particularly alarming

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Honduras + 2 others
Rapport de la Rapporteuse spéciale sur le logement convenable en tant qu'élément du droit à un niveau de vie suffisant ainsi que sur le droit à la non-discrimination dans ce domaine, Raquel Rolnik (A/HRC/16/42)

Conseil des droits de l'homme

Seizième session

Point 3 de l'ordre du jour

Promotion et protection de tous les droits de l'homme, civils, politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels, y compris le droit au développement

Résumé

Le présent rapport, soumis en application de la résolution 6/27 du Conseil des droits de l'homme, met en exergue l'importance de prendre en compte les normes relatives aux droits de l'homme, et en particulier le droit à un logement convenable, dans les processus de reconstruction après les catastrophes et après les conflits. Tout en

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Timor-Leste + 2 others
Informe de la Relatora Especial sobre una vivienda adecuada como elemento integrante del derecho a un nivel de vida adecuado y sobre el derecho de no discriminación a este respecto, Sra. Raquel Rolnik (A/HRC/16/42)

Consejo de Derechos Humanos

16=BA período de sesiones

Tema 3 de la agenda

Promoción y protección de todos los derechos humanos, civiles, políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales, incluido el derecho al desarrollo

Resumen

El presente informe, presentado de conformidad con la resolución 6/27 del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, subraya la importancia de integrar las normas de derechos humanos y en particular el derecho a una vivienda adecuada en los procesos de reconstrucción posteriores a desastres y conflictos. Aunque se tienen en cuenta las diferencias existentes entre

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Myanmar + 53 others
International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development - Report of the UN SG (A/64/331)

Sixty-fourth session
Item 72 (a) of the provisional agenda
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and
disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including
special economic assistance: strengthening of the coordination
of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

Summary

The present report has been prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/141 of 10 March 2009, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to continue to improve the international response to natural disasters and to report thereon to the

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Afghanistan + 59 others
Central Emergency Response Fund - Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/327)

General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Item 72 (a) of the provisional agenda
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and
disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including
special economic assistance: strengthening of the coordination
of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

Summary

The present report on the Central Emergency Response Fund is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/139 of 11 December 2008 and covers activities from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.

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Burkina Faso + 9 others
Agriculture development and food security - Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/221)

Sixty-fourth session
Item 62 of the provisional agenda
Agriculture development and food security

Summary

The impacts of the 2008 food crisis have been complex and far-reaching, increasing the number of hungry and undernourished people in the world and jeopardizing the progress made in achieving internationally agreed development goals. Climate change, energy needs, diminishing natural resources and ailing or outdated market systems all are factors that affect the ability to respond to the food security challenge in a strategic and

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Report of the Representative of the UN SG on the human rights of IDPs, Walter Kälin, Addendum - Protection of IDP in situations of natural disasters (A/HRC/10/13/Add.1)

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Tenth session
Agenda item 3

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Summary

This addendum is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 6/32 requesting the Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (the Representative) to "continue, through continuous dialogue with Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned,

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Report of the Representative of the UN SG on the human rights of IDPs, Walter Kälin (A/HRC/10/13)

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Tenth session
Agenda item 3

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Summary

This report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 6/32 and covers the period May to December 2008. It first addresses three thematic issues: the status of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (Guiding Principles) 10 years after their submission to the Commission on Human Rights; the protection

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Honduras: Decreto Ejecutivo 029-2008

El Presidente Constitucional de la Rep=FAblica en Consejo de Ministros:

Considerando: Que una de las funciones esenciales del Estado es garantizar a los habitantes del país, la protección de sus vidas y de sus bienes y el ejercicio de del derecho a la protección de la salud y la seguridad por medio de las dependencias y organismos del Estado constituidos de conformidad a la ley.

Considerando: Que tanto, la Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO), como el Fondo Vial han presentado al Consejo de Ministros, el alto nivel de daños producido por el fenómeno

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Afghanistan + 23 others
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations - Report of the Secretary-General (A/63/81-E/2008/71)

General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Item 68 (a) of the preliminary list*
Strengthening of the coordination of
humanitarian and disaster relief assistance
of the United Nations, including special
economic assistance: strengthening of the
coordination of emergency humanitarian
assistance of the United Nations

Economic and Social Council
Substantive session of 2008
New York, 30 June-25 July 2008
Item 5 of the provisional agenda**
Special economic, humanitarian and disaster
relief assistance

Summary

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General Assembly adopts 14 resolutions on strengthening coordination of humanitarian, disaster relief assistance

GA/10000
Plenary 87th Meeting (PM)
The General Assembly this afternoon adopted 14 resolutions on strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance. It adopted those texts without a vote.

By a resolution on assistance to the Palestinian people, introduced by the representative of Belgium (speaking on behalf of the European Union and associated States), the Assembly urged Member States, international financial institutions, intergovernmental

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Afghanistan + 40 others
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations: Report of the Secretary-General (A/55/82 - S/2000/61)

A/55/82 - S/2000/61
I. Introduction

1. The present report has been prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report annually to it and to the Economic and Social Council on the coordination of humanitarian assistance, Council resolution 1995/56 of 28 July 1995, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on humanitarian assistance, and subsequent resolutions.

2. The present report is also submitted