In August 2013, the UN general assembly adopted a resolution establishing 6 April as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
A8 The Security Council passed a resolution establishing a 10,000- member peacekeeping force for Sudan to reinforce a peace agreement in the south of the country and to lend assistance in the conflicted Darfur region in the west.
Del. Kelly Fowler (D-Virginia Beach) ran in part because she was angry when her then-representative voted for a resolution establishing a "Day of Tears" on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion.
As Mr. Friedman notes later in his column, the United Nations passed a resolution establishing both Jewish and Arab states in Palestine in 1947, a resolution the Arab nations refused to recognize.
Finally, and moving away from the courts, on 26 March, the UN Human Rights Council issued a resolution establishing a special rapporteur on privacy – the latest step in the Germany and Brazil-led coalition, initiated after the Snowden revelations, to bring privacy in the digital age to the United Nations.
Israelis are worried that Obama — absent serious Netanyahu cooperation with the 2011 deadline — will say to the prime minister: "In that case, Mr. Prime Minister, I have no choice but to agree with Medvedev and Sarkozy and Cameron and Hu that we will go to the Security Council and seek a resolution establishing a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, and suggest that every state recognize it".
Last week, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution establishing similar rules.
The movement started in the 60s, when the United Nations passed a resolution establishing a Special Committee against apartheid calling for economic boycotts and other sanctions.
Lawmakers voted 242-184 on a resolution establishing the committee, which will function as an Energy and Commerce subcommittee and will have the power to subpoena documents and testimony.
The 15-member Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution establishing the so-called intervention brigade within the existing 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo, known as MONUSCO.
In 1900, the United States Congress passed a resolution establishing the U.S. Senate Park Commission (also known as the "McMillan Commission" because it was chaired by Michigan's republican Senator James McMillan).
