Unsurprisingly, when the UN general assembly issued a declaration on decriminalising homosexuality in 2008, only six African countries could be persuaded to sign.
General Musharraf issued a declaration saying that, unlike women, "we are not wearing bangles".
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.
Greece won't officially be in default until the IMF issues a declaration to that effect.
The U.S. later lost its voting rights to the UNESCO general assembly as a result.
It is only the fourth time the general assembly has held a high-level meeting for a health issue.
On Friday, a group of retired generals calling themselves the Institutional Military Front issued a declaration condemning "grave irregularities" and warning of the possibility of unrest afterward.
Anyone can show up at a general assembly and claim a piece of the movement.
In December 2012 the UN general assembly approved a resolution calling for the elimination of FGM.
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.
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.
