general assembly

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State Sen. Lisa Grafstein, a longtime civil rights lawyer, said the state bar is worried: “If you push back against the General Assembly, what’s the next thing that’s going to happen to you?”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

On Thursday, a United Nations committee concluded that Mexico’s disappearance crisis constituted “crimes against humanity” and took what it called the “exceptional step” of forwarding the matter to the General Assembly.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

In 2025, the UN Human Rights Office's regular budget -- set by the UN General Assembly of member states -- was $246 million, but it ultimately received only $191.5 million of that money.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

“I’ve never had the General Assembly aligned with me, and yet we put forward this ambitious agenda.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

He’d been elected to the General Assembly in Hartford, but he’d been pushed out of it by the Patriots for being a Tory.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier