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March 2015
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: ‘Russia fails in bid to stop U.N. staff benefits for all gay couples’, Reuters, 24 March 2015; and ‘India joins Russia in anti-gay rights stand at United Nations’, DNA, 25 March 2015. DISARMAMENT: ‘Secretary-General's message on the 40th Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the Biological Weapons Convention’, New York: United Nations, 26 March 2015; and ‘Happy birthday to the bioweapons convention’, The Guardian, 26 March 2015 . DEVELOPMENT: ‘Deputy UN chief calls for ‘hydro-diplomacy’ as world faces crippling water shortages’, UN News Centre, 30 March 2015. HUMAN & WOMEN’S RIGHTS: ‘U.N. reveals ‘alarmingly high’ levels of violence against women’, New York Times, 9 March 2015 SYRIA: ‘United Nations’ reputation slips as four-year war in Syria drags on’, New York Times, 12 March 2015. SECURITY COUNCIL: ‘UN Security Council sets up South Sudan sanctions regime’, Reuters, 4 March 2015 Also see ‘For the US and China, a Test of Diplomacy on South Sudan’, New York Times, 3 March 2015. ODUMUN NEWS: ‘ODU Hosts Statewide Model United Nations Conference’, ODU Mace & Crown, 26 February 2015