Questions For 2015 LCE English Editors - ONU
Questions For 2015 LCE English Editors - ONU
Questions For 2015 LCE English Editors - ONU
The scale and reach of the current financial crisis has left the
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first years of this Millennium. The gains achieved in the past decade
with a down turn in the global economy, are likely to unravel and
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World Bank, Crisis Hitting Poor Hard in Developing World, Press Release
No. 2009/220/EXC, Washington, D.C., 12 February 2009.
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Aid, trade and debt relief are vital for developing countries that
In recent years, total aid for health from official and private
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Evaluation in the United Nations Entity for Gender equality and the
Bringing together the normative and operational work of the United Nations
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An evaluation strategy has been developed that outlines the vision of United
Nations Women in line with its functions. Based on the principles of accountability,
credibility, use, independence, innovation, participation and coordination, UNWomen will evaluate both the normative and operational dimensions of its work. The
three elements of the evaluation strategy are to:
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office and specialized staff in the field. The independant Office of Evaluation reports
directly to the ED/USG of UN Women, and she serves as the custodian of the
evaluation function. The Office comprises nine staff members, including eight
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professionals and two support staff members. To strengthen the Office and insure
that it is adequately staffed, the UN-Women biennial institutional budget for 20122014 provides for five of the existing ten positions.
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which promotes accountability. Recognizing the existing needs and the phased
approach required to build internal evaluation capacity the Office in the short-term,
provided training, guidance materiel and continuous support to the decentralized
evaluation function.
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2011, with the active participation of over 190 UN-Women staff and partners (see
table 1). The trainings were conducted in the following regions: Latin America and
the Caribbean; South-East Asia; and South Africa.
Table 1
UN-Women staff and partners trained in evaluation in 2010, by region
Persons
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Southern
Africa
Latin
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SouthEast Asia
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A qualitative analysis of this support shows that there is slow progress in the
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evaluation planning with its strategic plan. This entailed the development of a
Corporate planning system and a sample of country work plans and the introduction
A. Corporate evaluations
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2. Decentralized evaluations
headquarters and in the field and are usually conducted by external evaluation teams.
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The greatest coverage was in Africa (seven), followed by the Asia and Pacific region
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(3); the Arab States (2), Europe and Central Asia (2) and Latin America and the
Caribbean (1) (see figure below).
Asia and
Pacific region
Latin America
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Caribbean
Thirty-seven evaluations were planned for 2011, 40 per cent of which were
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Europe and
Central Asia
completed. While the completion rate was low, the number of evaluations represented
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Table II
Budget for decentralized evaluations by geographic area
Total Budget
Africa
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evaluations
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Arabic States
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4. Recognize also the role of the international community and cooperation in assisting
Member States, particularly developing countries, in complementing international efforts
to generate an effective response to non-communicable diseases;
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5. Reaffirm the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest standard of physical
health;
6. Recognize the urgent need for greater efforts at the global, regional and national levels
to prevent and control non-communicable diseases in order to contribute to the full
realization of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health;
7. Recognize that the conditions in which people live and their lifestyles inluence their
health and that poverty, uneven distribution of wealth, lack of education, rapid
urbanization, population ageing and the economic social, gender, behavioural and
environmental determinants of health are among the contributing factors to the rising
incidence and prevalence of noncommunicable diseases;
8. Note with concern the vicious cycle whereby non-communicable diseases and their
risk factors worsen poverty, while poverty contributes to rising rates of non-communicable
diseases, posing a threat to economic and social development;
9. Note with concern that the rapidly growing magnitude of non-communicable diseases
affects people of all ages, race and income levels, and further that poor populations and
those living in vulnerable situations, in particular in developing countries, bear a
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disproportionate burden and that non-communicable diseases can affect women and men
differently.
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We, Heads of State and Government and representatives of States, gathered at United
Nations in New York on 21 September 2011, on the occasion of the meeting of the General
Assembly to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action,
1. Reaffirm that the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted in 2001,1
and the outcome document of the Durban Review Conference, adopted in 2009, provide a United
Nations framework for combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance;
2. Recall that the aim of this commemoration is to mobilize political will at the national
and international levels, and reaffirm our commitment to the full and effective acceptance of the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the outcome document of the Durban Review
Conference, and their follow-up processes, at all these levels;
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3. Welcome the progress made in many parts of the world in the fight against racism,
racial discrimination and related intolerance since 2001;
4. Acknowledge that, in spite of efforts by the international community in the past twenty
years, building on efforts of the past decades, the scourge of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, including their new forms and manifestations, still persists in
all parts of the world and that human beings continue to the present day to be victims of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;
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1. We, heads of State and heads of delegations participating in the highlevel plenary meeting of the Assembly General held 16 September 2002,
considered how to support the New Partnership for Africas Development,
which is a programme of the African Union. This meeting forms part of the
review and appraisal of the United Nations New Agenda for the
Development of Africa in the 1990s at this, the fifty-sixth session of the
Assembly.
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United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s to
consider how the United Nations will structure its financing for the New
Partnership for Africa and take decisions to this effect.
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Nosotros, los representantes de los Estados y Gobiernos reunidos en la Sede de
las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York los das 3 y 4 de octubre de 2013 con ocasin del
Dilogo de Alto Nivel sobre la Migracin Internacional y el Desarrollo,
1. Reconocemos que la migracin internacional es una realidad
pluridimensional que incide sobremanera en el desarrollo de los pases de origen, trnsito y
destino y, en ese contexto, reconocemos que la migracin internacional es una cuestin
intersectorial que debe abordarse de forma coherente, amplia y equilibrada, integrando el
desarrollo con la debida consideracin a las dimensiones social, econmica y ambiental y
respetando los derechos humanos;
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9. Reconocemos que las mujeres y las nias representan casi la mitad de los
migrantes internacionales en todo el mundo y que es necesario abordar la situacin
especial y la vulnerabilidad de las mujeres y las nias migrantes mediante, entre otras
cosas, la incorporacin de una perspectiva de gnero en las polticas y el fortalecimiento de
las leyes, las instituciones y los programas nacionales para combatir la violencia basada en
el gnero, incluidas la trata de personas y la discriminacin contra las mujeres y las nias.
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of the length of the original text. The summary should begin with the words It was stated
in the report and continue using reported speech.
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The past year clearly demonstrated the complexity of contemporary conflict and the
challenges involved in mounting coherent, effective international responses. Multiple sources
of instability interact in countries such as Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Mali and the countries of the Sahel, Somalia, the
Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. They include sectarianism; criminality; extremism;
exclusion; corruption; pressures related to resources, demographics and the environment;
weak State capacity and legitimacy; rampant human rights violations; unstable neighbours;
the use of explosive weapons against civilians; and porous borders permitting illicit flows of
weapons, narcotics and people. These factors, combined with technological innovation, have
strengthened the hand of armed groups and criminal and extremist elements, providing them
with enhanced means to do significant harm, including through asymmetric tactics. Such
groups tend to be well equipped and well resourced, with unprecedented transnational reach,
and are sometimes ideologically driven. Some of these environments pose substantially more
complex challenges than has been the case in the past.
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Civilians have paid an unacceptably heavy price in the past year, particularly in cases where
the international community is divided and lacks the collective political will to act, such as
that of the Syrian Arab Republic. The normative framework to protect civilians, including
the concept of responsibility to protect and discussions about responsibility while
protecting, has continued to be the subject of debate, not always matched by action. I have
engaged the Organization in a reflection on strengthening our own capacity to respond to
crisis situations and protect human rights through follow-up to the Internal Review Panel on
United Nations action in Sri Lanka. We have agreed to reaffirm the vision of our collective
responsibilities, reinvigorate our engagement with Member States, develop more effective
headquarters response mechanisms, and strengthen our country presence, human rights
capacity and information management. I call on Member States to be ready to do their vital
part, to muster the will to act in a united manner to end egregious violations of international
humanitarian and human rights law. We cannot allow ourselves to become so accustomed to
civilians bearing the brunt of violence that we lose our sense of outrage and our will to act.
The range of actors seeking to play a part in the response to these challenges continues to
expand and diversify. It has become common for the United Nations to operate alongside or
in formal partnership with other international and regional players. These arrangements have
worked well where the actors involved have common goals, clear comparative advantages
and complementary political leverage, and coordinate effectively. But more remains to be
done to ensure that international, regional and subregional actors work together and apply
lessons about effective burden-sharing in complex environments.
Throughout the past year, the United Nations acted through a variety of mechanisms,
including 15 peacekeeping operations, 14 field-based special political missions, 10 special
envoys and advisers, and many United Nations country teams around the world. The United
Nations stepped up its efforts to improve the effectiveness of its activities in the area of peace
and security, including through implementation of the civilian capacities initiative, the
designation of a global focal point for police, justice and corrections in post-conflict and
other crisis situations and the implementation of internal policies on peacekeeping transitions
and on human rights due diligence in the provision of assistance to national security forces.
The United Nations was at the forefront of a variety of prevention and mediation endeavours
during the past year, thanks in part to improvements in our mediation support capacity, new
and stronger partnerships with the League of Arab States, the African Union, the European
Union, the Organization of American States and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, as
well as strong political backing from Member States. The Organization was well positioned
to respond rapidly to rising tensions through its regional offices in West Africa, Central
Africa and Central Asia and through its standby team of mediation experts. In recognition of
the continuing and regrettable underrepresentation of women in peace processes, the
Organization also stepped up its efforts to build the capacity of womens groups to engage in
these processes, where possible.
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In Africa, I appointed a Special Envoy the first woman United Nations mediator to
support implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region. I visited the region with the President of
the World Bank to draw attention to the related challenges of peace, stability and
development. Recognizing the interconnected security, governance, humanitarian and
development challenges facing countries in the Sahel, the United Nations developed an
integrated strategy for the region. The Organization also worked closely with the
African Union and other partners towards the goal of restoring constitutional order in the
Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau and Mali following the unconstitutional changes of
government and consequent instability in those countries.
Extensive mediation support was provided in Yemen to assist in implementing the negotiated,
peaceful transfer of power and in launching the national dialogue. In Lebanon, the United
Nations continued to support the efforts of the authorities to preserve security, stability and
national unity. Facilitating progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process remained a top
priority and I hope that the recent resumption of direct talks will lead to a peaceful settlement
and a two-State solution. The Organizations joint efforts with the League of Arab States to
bring about an end to the violence in the Syrian Arab Republic and to launch a process
leading to a political solution yielded little in the face of the continuing political impasse on
the ground, in the region and in the Security Council, as well as tragic military escalation.
Efforts to mitigate the regional consequences of the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic,
including the burden on neighbouring countries of the outpouring of refugees, were similarly
insufficient given the magnitude of the crisis.
In Europe, I continued to offer my good offices to the parties in Cyprus to find a
comprehensive settlement and also actively supported the Geneva international discussions
on Georgia and the South Caucasus, altogether with the European Union and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. We also stepped up efforts to find a
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mutually acceptable solution to the name issue between Greece and the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia. In Central Asia, working in close partnership with the World Bank,
the Organization fostered increasingly close cooperation on water management. In South
America, where peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia were launched in August 2012, the United Nations supported the
contribution of civil society through dialogue mechanisms.