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Hunger's global hotspots 01 Jun 2007

Hungry people across the globe in desperate situations are reliant on WFP food. Here are some hot spots in June 2007.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-73XNT8?OpenDocument

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Implememnting the UN Learning Strategy on HIV/AIDS: Sixteen Case Studies

Using sixteen countries as case studies, this report looks at the Learning Strategy approved and implemented by the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to help UN system staff develop competence on HIV and AIDS (UNAID,March 2007).

http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2007/jc1311-un-learning-strat07_en.pdf

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International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

New Zealand's report has been given to the committee for consideration. This is the Advance Unedited Version whereby the UN committee commends NZ on certain policy initiatives but also sites recommendations of ways in which NZ can improve their report and race relations in NZ.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/CERD71-Obs.pdf

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Kyoto Protocol

Website for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol.

http://unfccc.int/cop4/kp/kp.html

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Learning - To Integrate Human Rights

Learning-To Integrate Human Rights is the result of a two-year consultation process by the International Human Rights Network. It elaborates why such learning is needed and how it can be achieved. The process givig rise to the report drew on the experience of past and on-going human rights operations, efforts at 'lessons learning' by UN actors such as the Departments of Peacekeeping Operations, of Political Affairs as well as the High Commissioner for Refugees and Unicef. The process also looked to other sources such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and beyond - where highly relevant experience regarding organisational development was found in the commercial and military fields. Individual and system-wide recommendations are addressed to the international organisations concerned with mandating, fielding or funding field human rights work. As focal point for the full integration of human rights in the UN system, specific recommendations are made to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. That Office should commit resources to act as human rights learning hub for the UN family, committed as it is by the UN Charter, to fully integrate human rights in all its work. (Karen Kenny, International Human Rights Network, 1999)

http://www.ihrnetwork.org/un-system.htm

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MDGs Progress Unknown for Lack of Data

Article from IPS news about how officials from a regional United Nations body and the Asia Development Bank (AsDB) have admitted that measurement of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been hampered by out-of-date information.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/MDGs%20progress.doc

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OHCHR Rule of Law Tools for Post Conflict States: Mapping the Justice Sector [pdf]

This publication specifically addresses the issue of mapping the justice sector and some key related institutions and is intended to assist United Nations field staff in understanding how the justice sector actually worked in the State prior to and during the conflict, and how it should function if the rule of law is to take root. It provides an overview of the key institutions, related entities or mechanisms, and identifies priorities such as the linkages between core institutions and the utility of oversight bodies. (OHCHR, 2005)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/ruleoflaw-Mapping_en.pdf

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OHCHR Rule of Law Tools for Post Conflict States: Prosecution initiatives

This publication specifically sets out basic considerations on prosecution initiatives, and is intended to assist United Nations field staff when advising on approaches to addressing the challenges of prosecuting perpetrators of crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The focus of this guidance is mainly on the strategic and technical challenges that these prosecutions face domestically, and sets out the principal considerations that should be applied to all prosecutorial initiatives: the need for a clear political commitment to accountability; the need for a clear strategy; the need to ensure that initiatives are endowed with the necessary capacity and technical ability to investigate and prosecute the crimes in question; the need to pay particular attention to victims; and the need to have a clear understanding of the relevant law and an appreciation of trial management skills, as well as a strong commitment to due process. (OHCHR, 2006)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/ruleoflaw-Prosecutions_en.pdf

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OHCHR Rule of Law Tools for Post Conflict States: Truth Commissions [pdf]

It is increasingly common for countries emerging from civil war or authoritarian rule to create a truth commission to operate during the immediate post-transition period. These commissions- officially sanctioned, temporary, non-judicial investigative bodies-are granted a relatively short period for statement-taking, investigations, research and public hearings, before completing their work with a final public report. While truth commissions do not replace the need for prosecutions, they do offer some form of accounting for the past, and have thus been of particular interest in situations where prosecutions for massive crimes are impossible or unlikely- owing to either a lack of capacity of the judicial system or a de facto or de jure amnesty. The experiences of over 30 truth commissions in the past two to three decades give rise to a number of best practice guidelines. This publication is intended to summarize these lessons of over thirty truth commissions over the last three decades, with the intention of guiding those setting up, advising or supporting a truth commission, as well as providing guidance to truth commissions themselves. (OHCHR, 2005)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/ruleoflaw-TruthCommissions_en.pdf

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OHCHR Rule of Law Tools for Post Conflict States: Vetting - an operational framework

This publication sets out an operational framework for vetting and institutional reform and is intended to assist United Nations field staff in advising on approaches to addressing the challenges of institutional and personnel reform in post-conflict States through the creation of vetting processes that exclude from public institutions persons who lack integrity. The tool is divided into three majors sections: the concept of vetting in the context of institutional reform and transitional justice; the political conditions of post-conflict or post-authoritarian reform, identifying the sources of a personnel reform mandate, recommending priorities in transitional personnel reform, and proposing the development of a public consultation and information strategy; and the operational guidelines themselves. (OHCHR, 2006)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/ruleoflaw-Vetting_en.pdf

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OHCHR Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Monitoring Legal Systems

This tool is intended to reflect a comprehensive overview of the principles, techniques and approaches involved in legal systems monitoring, principles which have been primarily garnered from previous experience and lessons learned from United Nations, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and NGO legal systems monitoring programmes. The objective of this tool is to provide a framework for developing a monitoring programme to analyse institutions and the justice system as a whole from which good practices can be reinforced and bad practices or deficiencies addressed. (OHCHR, 2005)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/ruleoflaw-Monitoring_en.pdf

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One UN Pilots

The UN has launched a new pilot programme called 'One UN' aimed at testing how the different UN agencies can work in a more coordinated way. The pilot programme will take place in 8 countries.

http://www.undg.org/?P=7

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Practical Guidelines for Intensifying HIV Prevention: Towards Universal Access

To strengthen national efforts countries are being encouraged to 'know your epidemic' by identifying the behaviours and social conditions that are most associated with HIV transmission, that undermine the ability of those most vulnerable to HIV infection to access and use HIV information and services. 'Knowing your epidemic' provides the basis for countries to 'know your response', by recognizing the organizations and communities that are, or could be, contributing to the response, and by critically assessing the extent to which the existing response is meeting the needs of those most vulnerable to HIV infection.

http://tinyurl.com/2afuw3

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Reinventing UNCTAD (pdf)

This report traces UNCTAD's mandate and the achievements of its early years, through to its decline in power and disenfranchisement. It argues for the continued validity of UNCTAD, as no other UN body which has either the mandate or the locus standi to discharge these mandates and carry out these functions, which are essential to the interests of the developing world and thus the international community. There is widespread resentment among developing countries against the discontents of globalization and the utter ruin brought to the economies of several of these countries by the indiscriminate imposition of the policies of liberalization. These countries are looking up to the UN system to provide fresh thinking. Arguing that the time is now, the report makes suggestions for UNCTAD's revitalisation. (Boutros Boutros-Ghali, South Centre, 20 February 2006)

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/unctad/2006/0220revitalizing.pdf

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Say 'Yes' to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Over five hundred million people, nearly 10 percent of the world's population, have a disability. The United Nations (UN) is currently negotiating a treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to ensure that human rights standards are extended to people with disabilities. In order to help promote the adoption of the Convention, which is being considered by member states for the next seven months, the Centre for International Rehabilitation (CIR) has launched the ConventionYES! Website. The website has a petition to sign and other ways to take action on the rights of people with disabilities.

http://www.conventionyes.org/

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Sixty Ways the United Nations Makes a Difference (pdf)

The United Nations is much more than a peacekeeper and forum for conflict resolution. Often without attracting attention, the United Nations and its family of agencies are engaged in a vast array of work that seeks to improve people's lives around the world. Child survival and development. Environmental protection. Human rights. Health and medical research. Alleviation of poverty and economic development. Agricultural development and fisheries. Education. The advancement of women. Emergency and disaster relief. Air and sea travel. Peaceful uses of atomic energy. Labour and workers' rights. The list goes on. Here, in brief, is a sampling of what the United Nations and its component bodies have accomplished since 1945, when the world organization was founded. (United Nations, May 2006)

http://www.unfoundation.org/features/2005_world_summit/pdf/summit60ways.pdf

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State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth

In 2008, for the first time, more than half of the world's population will be living in urban areas. By 2030, towns and cities will be home to almost 5 billion people. The urban population of Africa and Asia will double in less than a generation. This unprecedented shift could enhance development and promote sustainability-or it could deepen poverty and accelerate environmental degradation. The 2007 State of World Population report outlines the challenges and opportunities presented by the coming, inevitable urban growth. It also dispels many misconceptions about urbanization and calls on policymakers to take concerted, proactive steps to harness the potential of cities to improve the lives of all (UNFPA, 2007).

http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/695_filename_sowp2007_eng.pdf

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Strengthening compliance with UN arms embargoes -key challenges for monitoring and verification

UN arms embargoes are systematically violated and must be urgently strengthened if they are to stop weapons fuelling human rights abuses, according to a new report presented to the UN Security Council. According to the Control Arms Campaign, every one of the 13 UN arms embargoes imposed in the last decade has been repeatedly violated. And despite hundreds of embargo breakers being named in UN reports, only a handful have been successfully prosecuted. It is hoped that the report's list of recommendations will assist discussion in the United Nations to improve the verification of violations of its arms embargoes, and compliance with such embargoes. (Brian Wodd, Amnesty International, 16 March 2006)

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engior400052006

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The decline of Kofi

This article looks at Kofi Annan's ten years as United Nations secretary-general, arguing that the has left the organisation in worse shape, politically and adminstratively, than it has ever been. (Alexander Casella, Propect, October 2006)

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7834

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The Global Women's Rights Movement: Power Politics around the United Nations and the World Social Forum

This paper examines the discourse, inputs and reorganization of strategies that emanated from the lobbying of women's rights movements vis-à-vis global agencies like the United Nations (UN), as well as the World Social Forum. Harcourt sets out some key strategic questions for consideration: How much have women's movements achieved by working in collaboration with the UN? Is there a recognizable global women's rights movement as it is perceived on the UN stage? Is there such an entity as a global women's movement, or is it just a skilfully played mirage? (Wendy Harcourt, UNRISD, 1 August 2006)

http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BF3C2/setLanguageCookie?OpenAgent&langcode=en&url=/80256B3C005BCCF9/search/59E3AF8FB95F929FC1257230002F43C1?OpenDocument

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The United Nation Assistant Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

UNAMA was established in an effort to integrate all UN activities in Afghanistan. There are some 16 UN agencies in the country working together with their Afghan government counterparts and with national and international NGO partners. All UN programmes lend support to the Afghan transition process and recognize the lead role played by the Afghan Administration. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan (SRSG), who leads UNAMA, has overall responsibility for all UN activities in the country. UNAMA's mandate includes promoting national reconciliation; fulfilling the tasks and responsibilities entrusted to the United Nations in the Bonn Agreement, including those related to human rights, the rule of law and gender issues; and managing all UN humanitarian, relief, recovery and reconstruction activities in Afghanistan in coordination with the Afghan Administration.

http://www.unama-afg.org/

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The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked D

The OHRLLS aims are: to assist the Secretary-General in ensuring the full mobilization and coordination of all parts of the United Nations system, with a view to facilitating the coordinated implementation of and coherence in the follow-up and monitoring of the Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries at country, regional and global levels; - to provide coordinated support to the Economic and Social Council as well as the General Assembly in assessing progress and in conducting the annual review of the implementation of the Programme of Action; - to support, as appropriate, the coordinated follow-up of the implementation of the Global Framework for Transit Transport Cooperation between Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and the donor community and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; - to undertake appropriate advocacy work in favour of least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, in partnership with the relevant bodies of the United Nations as well as with civil society, the media, academia and foundations; - to assist in mobilizing international support and resources for the implementation of the Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries, and for other programmes and initiatives in former landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.

http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ohrlls/default.htm

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The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

UNRISD carries out research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Through its research, UNRISD stimulates dialogue and contributes to policy debates within and outside the United Nations system.

http://www.unrisd.org/index.htm

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The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development: UNRISD ON-LINE

Would you like to be informed of monthly updates to UNRISD ON-LINE? Enter your e-mail address and receive a brief message informing you of new items on the UNRISD Web site.

http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005C2802/getProfile?OpenForm

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Trade and Development Report 2007: Regional cooperation for development

Trade and Development Reports produced by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)analyses current economic trends and major policy issues of international concern, and makes suggestions for addressing these issues at various levels. TDR 2007 looks at current issues in the world economy, including global imbalances and destabilizing speculation; globalization, regionalization and the development challenge; the "new regionalism" and North-South trade agreements; regional cooperation and trade integration among developing countries; and regional financial and monetary cooperation; and finally, regional cooperation in trade logistics, energy and industrial policy (UNCTAD, 2007).

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/WebFlyer.asp?intItemID=4330&lang=1

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