A United Nations General Assembly resolution is a decision or declaration voted on by all member states of the United Nations in the General Assembly.
General Assembly resolutions usually require a simple majority (more yes votes than no votes) to pass.[1] However, if the General Assembly determines that the issue is an "important question" by a simple majority vote, then a two-thirds majority (twice as many yes votes as no votes) is required; "important questions" are those that deal significantly with the maintenance of international peace and security, admission of new members to the United Nations, suspension of the rights and privileges of membership, the expulsion of members, operation of the trusteeship system, or budgetary questions.
Although General Assembly resolutions are generally non-binding towards member states, internal resolutions may be binding on the operation of the General Assembly itself, for example with regard to budgetary and procedural matters.
Established the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) "to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy" and tasked to "make specific proposals... for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction", among other issues regarding nuclear technology.
Relations of Members of the United Nations with Francoist Spain.
Voting procedure in the Security Council.
Establishment of the Trusteeship Council.
Affirmation of the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal
The crime of Genocide.
Headquarters of the United Nations.
International Law Commission was directed to "formulate the principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the judgment of the Tribunal". This resulted in the creation of the Nuremberg Principles.
The 1947 UNGA 'Partition resolution' regarding the British Mandate of Palestine.
Recommends the "Right of return" for Palestinian refugees.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Admits the State of Israel to membership in the United Nations.
On the Question of the disposal of the former Italian colonies: recommending that Libya should be independent not later than 1 January 1952[2]
On the Question of an international regime for the Jerusalem area and the protection of the Holy Places: restated the United Nation's stance on corpus separatum for Jerusalem.
The "Uniting for Peace" Resolution
Admission of Indonesia to membership in the United Nations.
calling on the People's Republic of China to cease all hostilities on the Korean peninsula... its armed forces continue their invasion of Korea and their large-scale attacks upon United Nations forces there...has itself engaged in aggression in Korea[3] [4] [5]
Recommend general trade embargo against People's Republic of China and North Korea for their aggression in Korea[5]
Threats to the political independence and territorial integrity of China (Republic of China) and to the peace of the Far East, resulting from Soviet violations of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 14 August 1945 and from Soviet violations of the Charter of the United Nations
Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.
United Nations definition of what a colony is, and what self-determination is. Principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73 e of the Charter.
Admission of Mauritania to membership in the United Nations.
Recommended sanctions against South Africa in response to the governments policy of apartheid.
One of the earliest resolutions governing Outer space.
Amended the UN Charter, enlarging the Security Council to fifteen members.
Expelled the collective representatives of Chiang Kai-shek and replaced it with the representatives of People's Republic of China. It also recognized the PRC as the sole legal authority of China. (See China and the United Nations)
Adopted to make the year 1975 International Women's Year.
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid adopted and opened for signature, and ratification by Resolution 3068, 30 November 1973, and entered into force on 18 July 1976.
Adopted 1975, International Women's Year, as a period of intensified action with regards to equal rights and recognition of women.
Defined aggression.
Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination; revoked by Resolution 46/86.
Adopted the World Plan of Action and related resolutions from the International Women's Year Conference.
Adopted the 1977 Environmental Modification Convention
Adopted the period from 1976 to 1985 as the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace.
Urges the Security Council, especially its permanent members, to take all necessary measures for ensuring UN decisions on the maintenance of international peace and security. United States and Israel were the only no vote.
Deplored Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and urged to terminate it.
Admission of Belize to membership in the United Nations.[7]
The UN Mercenary Convention
revoked Resolution 3379.
condemned ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian Serbs as genocide, (fourteen years later the International Court of Justice ruled in the Bosnian Genocide Case of 2007, that ethnic cleansing was not enough in itself to be genocide, but that there must also be intent to kill a substantial part of the targeted group by the perpetrators).
Emergency international assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Azerbaijan.
Introduced a process to certify the origin of rough diamonds from sources that are conflict-free
The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
Condemned without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust[14]
Called for a universal moratorium on capital punishment with a view to total abolition, and in the meantime, respect for the rights of those on death row. Calls on states which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it.
Expressed serious concern about human rights in North Korea.[15]
Criminal Accountability of UN Officials and Experts on Mission.
The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Recognizing the State of Palestine as a non-member observer state.
Territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Status of Jerusalem
"Situation of Human Rights in the Syrian Arab Republic"
Palestine is granted enhanced privileges in General Assembly work and sessions when it assumes 2019 Group of 77 chair.[19]
"Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory" and "Protection of the Palestinian civilian population"
Humanitarian consequences of the aggression against Ukraine
Suspension of the rights of membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council
Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council[20]
Territorial integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations
Furtherance of remedy and reparation for aggression against Ukraine
Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine
Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations
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