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  2. Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth - Wikipedia

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    The Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth serves as a global advocate for addressing the needs and rights of young people for bringing the United Nations closer to them. The Envoy's Office is part of the United Nations Secretariat and supports multi-stakeholder partnerships related to the United Nations system-wide action plan on youth to volunteer initiatives.

  3. UNOSAT - Wikipedia

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    UNOSAT is the United Nations Satellite Centre. It is hosted at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), with the mission to promote evidence-based decision making for peace, security and resilience using geo-spatial information technologies. UNOSAT provides the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies ...

  4. List of treaties by number of parties - Wikipedia

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    The Holy See (Vatican City) is also widely recognised as being able to legitimately ratify treaties, and has been granted non-member observer state status by the UN General Assembly. [3] [b] Following the UNGA passing a resolution granting non-member observer state status to the State of Palestine , the UNSG has begun to recognize its right to ...

  5. Steve Jobs - Wikipedia

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    Steve Jobs Paul Jobs worked in several jobs that included a try as a machinist, several other jobs, and then "back to work as a machinist". Paul and Clara adopted Jobs's sister Patricia in 1957, and by 1959 the family had moved to the Monta Loma neighborhood in Mountain View, California. Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son in order to "pass along his love of mechanics". Jobs ...

  6. Iceland–European Union relations - Wikipedia

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    Bilateral relations Euro-Icelandic relations European Union Iceland Iceland is heavily integrated into the European Union via the Agreement on the European Economic Area and the Schengen Agreement, despite its status as a non- EU member state. Iceland applied for membership in 2009. The Minister for Foreign Affairs sent a letter in 2015 that ended the application process. Comparison European ...

  7. OutRight Action International - Wikipedia

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    OutRight International, formerly known as International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), [5] was founded by Julie Dorf [6] in 1990, and incorporated as a non-profit organization on November 7, 1990. Though initially focused on LGBT human rights abuses in Russia, the organization is now active in many parts of the world ...

  8. Permanent employment - Wikipedia

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    Permanent employment. Permanent employment is work for an employer for which the employee receives payment directly from that employer. Permanent employees do not have a predetermined end date to employment. In addition to their wages, they often receive benefits like subsidized health care, paid vacations, holidays, sick time, or contributions.

  9. At-will employment - Wikipedia

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    In United States labor law, at-will employment is an employer's ability to dismiss an employee for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination ), and without warning, [1] as long as the reason is not illegal (e.g. firing because of the employee's gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability status).