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Contents
Acronyms
Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Resolution, including the original text of the agreement - 58/232
ITAG Updates
CEB/2002/HLCM/10
CEB/2005/HLCM/26
Other accounting and financial reporting questions
Audit and inspection
Session Reports
One United Nations (Ch 4, paras 124 - 125)
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124. The UN system’s capacity-building work on human rights, democracy and good governance highlighted in the previous chapter is equally relevant to the system’s conflict prevention and peace-building effort. This is the case in many of the activities designed to: strengthen national capacities to protect human rights and to ensure that domestic institutions and processes respond effectively to civil, cultural, economic, political and social grievances and abuses that could lead to tensions and armed conflict; establish processes of consensus-building; facilitate transitional justice and reconciliation processes; strengthen the rule of law; promote accountability; ensure the delivery of essential services for the most vulnerable elements in society; and ensure the participation of women, youth and minorities in key national processes. From the same perspective, UN organizations are working to build support for diversity and tolerance in media, popular culture and education. Similarly, the system’s activities for the settlement and reintegration of conflict affected peoples, including returned refugees, internally displaced persons and excombatants are increasingly being approached from a longer-term perspective, which seeks to advance peace-building and durable development.
125. The system’s support to Member States in combatting transnational crime should be seen in the same way—and as key to advancing most, if not all, of the Millennium Declaration’s objectives. Recognizing the need for comprehensive and coordinated action to help Member States fight organized crime, CEB in April 2004 adopted a strategy designed to help forge a system-wide response to the challenges posed by transnational crime. All of the immediate inter-agency measures identified by CEB in this area have been initiated, with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Programmes (UNODC) in the lead. The aim is to put in place a comprehensive and coordinated system-wide response to transnational organized crime capable of countering effectively its disruptive impact on economic and social progress and the effort to build peaceful, equitable societies.
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