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UN CHRONICLE E-ALERT HA-11-8-05
A Review of the Sixth Committee (Legal)
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Hearing AID Act of 2005
Every year, Member States'
representatives in the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the United Nations General
Assembly discuss and vote on resolutions dealing with issues in international
law, such as cloning, terrorism and commercial disputes, as well as the
International Criminal Court.
Below are links to the UN
Chronicle's coverage of the Sixth Committee proceedings during the current
and previous sessions of the General Assembly, as well as useful links to
other relevant websites.
This issue of the UN Chronicle
E-Alert is a continuation of a series on the work and proceedings of the
General Assembly. It is intended to give an insight to the reader on how
global issues have been approached over the years by the main deliberative
organ of the United Nations.
Previous E-Alerts in this series:
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Review
of the General Debate
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2004/e_alert/122804_GeneralDebate.asp
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Review
of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/e_alert/022805_FirstCommittee.asp
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Review of the Second Committee (Economic
and Financial)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/e_alert/052405_SecondCommittee.html
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Review of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian
and Cultural)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/e_alert/060905_ThirdCommittee.html
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Review of the Fourth Committee (Special Political
and Decolonization)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/e_alert/063005_FourthCommittee.html
THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Review of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and
Budgetary)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/e_alert/072505_FifthCommittee.html
THE 59TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Searching for Consensus in International Law
(Issue 1, 2005)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue1/0105p28.html
THE 58TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Consensus, Not Confrontation, Sought Over
Controversial Issues in International Law (Issue 1, 2004)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2004/issue1/0104p30.asp
THE 57TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Cloning Concerns; The Criminal Court (Issue 1,
2003)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue1/0103p21.html
THE 56TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY: A Comprehensive Action Against Terrorism (Issue 1,
2002)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p64.html
THE 55TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY - MILLENNIUM SUMMIT: Saying No to Terrorism (Issue 4,
2000)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue4/0400p50.htm
LINKS TO RELATED RESOURCES AT THE
UNITED NATIONS
59th Session of the General
Assembly
http://www.un.org/ga/59/index.html
Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly
http://www.un.org/ga/59/sixth/index.html
UN Action Against Terrorism
http://www.un.org/terrorism
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism.html
International Criminal Court ( ICC)
http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en
Oceans and the Law of the Sea
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm
These stories and more can be found on the UN Chronicle Online at http://www.un.org/chronicle
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