The declaration, passed by a UN general assembly resolution in 2000, contains a comprehensive vision of development underpinned by human rights, and is the source document of the MDGs.
Delegates are due to sign up to the Moscow Declaration calling for the UN general assembly to declare 2011-20 the "decade of action for road safety", with the goal of reducing the forecast level of global road deaths and injuries.
Thirty years after the first documented case of HIV, and 10 years after the UN general assembly made its declaration of commitment to combat the virus in 2001, what progress has there been in increasing prevention, tackling stigma and developing treatments?
Sonny Singh, 31, a Sikh musician from Brooklyn who joined Occupy Wall Street early on, recounted the scene in Zuccotti Park the day the general assembly drafted its "Declaration of the Occupation of New York City" — the closest thing to a political manifesto the protesters have put out thus far.
Such commitments include the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (pdf), adopted by the UN general assembly in 1993, and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995, which called on governments to take measures to eliminate and prevent violence.
The declaration of the UN general assembly special session (UNgass) on drugs agreed this week is long on rhetoric and short on substance.
The UN general assembly is expected to formally adopt a declaration agreed on 2 August, reaffirming the rights of refugees and migrants and pledging support to the countries most affected by large movements of people.
This study will be performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki (64th WMA general assembly; October 2013) and the International Conference on Harmonisation — Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP).
