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The rare use of this mechanism, which allows the Civil society is a key source of solutions to strengthen Secretary-General to bring a matter to the Security Council’s international rules, and is looking for some matching moral attention, raised the alarm about the desperate seriousness of leadership from states, their heads and international institutions, the situation and helped bring pressure f. [...] In each of the landmark conventions of recent decades, including the Rome Statute that established the ICC, the Landmines Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, civil society took the lead, developing the ideas, building alliances and urging adoption and ratification. [...] One of the key processes states and the UN concluded in 2023 was the Oceans Treaty – the Agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea A nine-metre high monument themed 'turn off the plastics tap' by Canadian activist and on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological artist Benjamin von Wong, made with plastic waste, stands outside the UN Environment Biodiversity of Areas. [...] In the context of the onslaught in Gaza, several CSOs taking part in the discussions also urge that the convention’s text strongly reference international humanitarian law, emphasising the need Activists call for a climate tax on the rich ahead of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on 15 January 2023. [...] The envoy could explore ways of engaging people with If it followed the federal model, the UN would still digital and non-digital approaches and explore civil have a General Assembly representing the interests of society engagement with the UN and also the World nations.