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The EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, provides grants and loans to member states for reforms and investments supporting green and digital transitions, economic resilience, and social cohesion, with disbursements linked to milestone achievement.
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Answer: True
The RRF, with €723.8 billion in current prices, is the largest stimulus package in EU history. National Recovery and Resilience Plans must allocate at least 37% to climate and 20% to digital objectives. This conditionality drives structural reforms and accelerates the EU's strategic autonomy and sustainability goals.
The SCO's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) maintains a database of designated terrorist organizations and individuals, facilitating information sharing and coordinated actions among member states to prevent terrorist activities and disrupt extremist networks.
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Answer: True
RATS' database supports joint risk assessments, border controls, and financial sanctions. By standardizing listing criteria and procedures, it enhances interoperability among members' security agencies while respecting national sovereignty and international human rights obligations in counter-terrorism efforts.
The ICJ may request the intervention of a third state in a contentious case if that state has an interest of a legal nature that may be affected by the Court's decision, ensuring that the judgment does not prejudice the rights of non-parties.
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Answer: True
Article 62 of the ICJ Statute allows intervention to protect third-state interests. If permitted, the intervening state becomes a party to the proceedings regarding its interest. This mechanism promotes comprehensive dispute resolution and respects the rights of all states potentially affected by a judgment.
UNESCO's Creative Cities Network recognizes cities that leverage culture and creativity as strategic drivers for sustainable urban development, fostering innovation, social inclusion, and economic growth through sectors like crafts, design, film, gastronomy, and music.
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Answer: True
With over 300 member cities in seven creative fields, the Network facilitates knowledge exchange, joint projects, and capacity building. By integrating culture into urban planning, cities enhance livability, attract talent and investment, and preserve local heritage while embracing innovation.
The World Bank's Development Policy Financing (DPF) provides budget support to governments implementing policy and institutional reforms aimed at promoting sustainable growth, poverty reduction, and improved service delivery, with disbursements linked to agreed reform milestones.
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Answer: True
DPF supports reforms in areas like public financial management, social protection, business regulation, and climate policy. By aligning financing with policy actions, it incentivizes institutional strengthening, enhances aid effectiveness, and helps countries achieve development outcomes more efficiently.
IFAD's Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Programme for Smallholder Agriculture (CAMP-SHA) supports smallholder farmers in adopting climate-smart practices like drought-resistant crops, water harvesting, agroforestry, and renewable energy to enhance resilience and reduce emissions.
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Answer: True
CAMP-SHA integrates adaptation and mitigation: practices like conservation agriculture sequester carbon while improving soil health; solar pumps reduce diesel use while ensuring irrigation. By addressing both climate challenges, it helps smallholders sustain livelihoods and contribute to global climate goals.
WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center provides alternative dispute resolution services for intellectual property and technology disputes, offering faster, confidential, and cost-effective alternatives to litigation for cross-border commercial conflicts.
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Answer: True
The Center administers proceedings under WIPO rules and other institutional rules. Its expertise in IP law, neutral panelists, and flexible procedures make it attractive for disputes involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and technology transfers, preserving business relationships while resolving conflicts.
IOM's Migration Resource Allocation Committee (MIRAC) ensures transparent, strategic allocation of voluntary contributions to programs that align with IOM's mandate, donor priorities, and the needs of migrants and communities worldwide.
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Answer: True
MIRAC reviews project proposals against criteria like impact, innovation, and sustainability. This governance mechanism enhances accountability, avoids duplication, and maximizes the development and humanitarian impact of donor funding, supporting IOM's mission of humane and orderly migration management.
IOSCO's principles for collective investment schemes (CIS) emphasize investor protection through requirements for independent custody of assets, transparent disclosure of fees and risks, and robust governance to prevent conflicts of interest.
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Answer: True
These principles address risks in mutual funds, ETFs, and other pooled investments. Independent custody prevents asset misappropriation; clear disclosure enables informed decisions; strong governance ensures managers act in investors' best interests. This framework supports market integrity and confidence in collective investment vehicles.
IHO's Hydrographic Services and Standards Committee (HSSC) develops the S-100 series of standards, which enable interoperable digital hydrographic products and support IMO's e-Navigation strategy for safer, more efficient maritime operations.
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Answer: True
S-100 is a modular framework based on ISO geographic information standards. It allows dynamic, layered hydrographic data (e.g., real-time tides, marine protected areas) to be integrated into navigation systems, enhancing situational awareness, route optimization, and environmental protection for ships.
The OIC's Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) promotes human rights in member states through advocacy, capacity building, and thematic reports, while respecting Islamic values and the principles of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.
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Answer: True
IPHRC, established in 2011, complements universal human rights mechanisms with an Islamic perspective. It addresses issues like women's rights, children's protection, and minority rights, fostering dialogue on reconciling Islamic principles with international human rights standards.
FATF's 'call for action' identifies jurisdictions with significant strategic deficiencies in AML/CFT regimes that pose risks to the international financial system, recommending counter-measures such as enhanced due diligence or restrictions on financial transactions.
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Answer: True
The 'call for action' (often called the 'blacklist') is FATF's strongest tool to address non-cooperative jurisdictions. Counter-measures may include prohibiting correspondent banking relationships or requiring enhanced scrutiny of transactions, incentivizing reforms to meet international AML/CFT standards.
The G20's Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) implements the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan, focusing on digital financial services, MSME finance, financial literacy, and consumer protection to expand access to formal financial services for underserved populations.
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Answer: True
GPFI coordinates multi-stakeholder efforts to remove barriers to inclusion: regulatory reforms for mobile money, credit infrastructure for SMEs, and education programs for vulnerable groups. Inclusive finance enhances resilience, entrepreneurship, and equitable growth, contributing to poverty reduction and SDG achievement.
The EU's European Climate Law, adopted in 2021, legally binds the Union to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, with an independent scientific advisory board to monitor progress.
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Answer: True
The Climate Law enshrines the European Green Deal targets in binding legislation. It requires regular progress reviews, mandates climate mainstreaming across policies, and establishes a trajectory for post-2030 targets, providing legal certainty for investors and accountability for policymakers in the climate transition.
The SCO's Convention on Countering Extremism, signed in 2017, establishes a legal framework for preventing radicalization, disrupting extremist networks, and promoting moderate religious discourse while respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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Answer: True
The Convention balances security measures with rights protections: it requires counter-extremism actions to comply with international law, avoid discrimination, and address root causes like poverty and marginalization. This holistic approach aims to prevent violence while preserving social cohesion and pluralism.
ICJ judgments in contentious cases are final and without appeal, and parties are obligated to comply with them; however, the Court has no direct enforcement mechanism, relying on the UN Security Council to take measures if a state fails to comply.
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Answer: True
Article 94 of the UN Charter provides that if a party fails to perform obligations under an ICJ judgment, the other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which may make recommendations or decide measures to give effect to the judgment. This political enforcement mechanism reflects the consensual nature of international adjudication.
UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme safeguards documentary heritage of universal significance, including manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, and digital records, ensuring their preservation and accessibility for future generations.
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Answer: True
The Programme maintains an International Register of significant documentary heritage. By promoting preservation standards, digitization, and public access, it protects humanity's collective memory, supports research, and fosters intercultural dialogue through shared historical records.
The World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), effective from 2018, strengthens protections for people and the environment in development projects, emphasizing borrower responsibility, stakeholder engagement, and grievance mechanisms.
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Answer: True
The ESF comprises 10 standards covering labor conditions, community health, biodiversity, indigenous peoples, and more. It promotes sustainable development by ensuring projects manage environmental and social risks while enhancing development effectiveness and inclusivity.
ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) requires airlines to offset emissions growth above 2020 levels through eligible carbon credits, contributing to global climate mitigation efforts.
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Answer: True
CORSIA is the first global market-based measure for an industrial sector. It complements technological improvements, operational efficiencies, and sustainable aviation fuels in ICAO's four-pillar strategy to achieve carbon-neutral growth and long-term emission reductions in international aviation.
UNDRR's Sendai Framework Monitor tracks progress on the seven global targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, including reducing disaster mortality, affected people, and economic losses.
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Answer: True
The Monitor provides a standardized reporting mechanism for countries to submit data on Sendai indicators. This enables evidence-based policy-making, peer learning, and accountability in reducing disaster risks and building resilience to natural and human-induced hazards.