This year, the UN general assembly approved the creation of an 'Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women' – a new UN agency - UN Women.
The UN general assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012, but the European Union and most EU countries, including Britain, have yet to give official recognition.
The UN general assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012 but the European Union and most EU countries have yet to give official recognition.
Last April, the UN general assembly approved Morales' initiative of launching the International Mother Earth Day every 22 April to protect the rights of the Andean divinity, Pachamama (Mother Earth), and of "all living beings".
In 1881 the general assembly approved the creation of a five-member panel of commissioners to assist the justices in administrative tasks.
At the start of April, the UN general assembly overwhelmingly approved a new arms trade treaty.
The seeds of disaffection were sown when Britain chose not to officially recognise Palestinian statehood in November 2012, after the UN general assembly had approved recognition de facto.
1961 U.N. Blasts Apartheid The U.N. General Assembly today approved by a vote of 97 to 2 a blistering denunciation of South Africa's white-supremacy policies.
The United Nations general assembly has approved a set of principles to resolve disputes between bankrupt countries and their creditors that the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said would have "avoided the pitfalls of the Greek crisis".
More austerity has also been coupled with a lower-profile managerial approach that contrasts with Laporta's ebullient and imperial manner, to the point that Rosell surprisingly decided to cast a blank vote last month when the general assembly narrowly approved beginning legal proceedings against Laporta.
