30 June 2025 — On the first day of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), Heads of State and Governments and global leaders gathered to launch the Sevilla Platform ...

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1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, and shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that persons with ...

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The UN’s 75th anniversary in 2020 arrived at a time of great upheaval and peril. If the world is to recover from COVID-19 and we are to deliver on our promises to future generations - to secure a ...