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By Shamshad Ahmad, HiPakistan.com, July 21 2003. 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.' (The more things change, the more they remain the same). This French aphorism perhaps best describes the uncertainties surrounding international efforts for a change in the socio-economic condition of the world's poor. Despite heightened focus on the global development agenda brought by the UN's major conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields since the 1990s, the overall outlook on the global horizon offers very little hope for a real and rapid change in terms of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The close of the last millennium, unfortunately, did not close the ugly chapters of poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy, which continue to be the most daunting challenges for the international community.
http://www.dawn.com/2003/07/21/op.htm#3
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- UN Global Environment Outlook Report
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The fourth Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4) assessment is a comprehensive and authoritative UN report on environment, development and human well-being, and calls for drastic changes to environmental policy.
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media/index.asp
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- UN Reform for the Rest of Us: An Agenda for Grassroots Accountability
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This month, the United Nations fundamentally restructured the way it supervises and promotes human rights around the world. There has been lots of discussion about how to achieve two essential components of UN reform. First, improving basic day-to-day management to prevent corruption and improve efficiency. Second, restructuring key institutions like the Human Rights Commission. But the next struggle must be to make the UN more responsive to people--such as refugees--who are supposed to be the direct beneficiaries of UN programs. (Michael Kagan, Foreign Policy in Focus, 14 April 2006)
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3208
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- UN Remains Impotent as Captive of US
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As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon begins his second year in office, this article claims that the UN has been ineffective, and U.S. domination remains the single greatest obstacle to the U.N.'s realisation of its potential as an instrument of international cooperation. (1/11/2008, Thalif Deen)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/11/6325/
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- UN Security Council rebukes Burma
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Article by the BBC about the recent UN Security Council statement deploring Burma's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. It is the first time the 15-nation body has taken any formal action over Burma. (BBC, 11 October 2007)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7040371.stm
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- UN World Summits and Civil Society Engagement
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While the United Nations (UN) remains an intergovernmental organization, an increase in the number of influential civil society actors has placed new pressures on the organization to accommodate popular voices and further enhance collaboration. The link with civil society actors has been growing since the early 1990s in particular, in the context of UN summits and conferences, and related processes. UN summits and the resulting action plans offer opportunities for CSOs to lobby delegates and the media in support of their ideas and projects, and to adapt a summit theme as an integral part of their own work. There is also scope for civil society actors to advance proposals, and to help implement and monitor summit agendas. But what do such opportunities for civil society engagement really mean? UN summits and related processes can have highly positive-but not always sustainable-impacts on civil society structure, networking and advocacy in countries that have hosted such events, according to UNRISD research. (UNRISD, January 2007)
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- UN's peace chief: Blue helmets in East Timor for long haul
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The United Nations will keep its peacekeeping mission in East Timor until the country has "a credible security sector that has the trust of the people," which will take years, UN peacekeeping chief Jean Marie Guehenno said. Bloomberg (12/14)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aDryJCixo03I&refer=australia
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- UNAIDS
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As the leading advocate for worldwide action against HIV/AIDS, the global mission of UNAIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an expanded response to the epidemic that will: prevent the spread of HIV; provide care and support for those infected and affected by the disease; reduce the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS; alleviate the socioeconomic and human impact of the epidemic.
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- UNAIDS - 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update
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The 2007 AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic. The 2007 edition provides the most recent estimates of the AIDS epidemic and explores new findings and trends in the epidemic's evolution (UNAIDS, December 2007).
http://data.unaids.org/pub/EPISlides/2007/2007_epiupdate_en.pdf
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- Under the Influence: Exposing undue coporate influence at the World Trade Organisation [PDF]
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Multinational companies have an undue influence over the making of global trade rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Big business lobbyists have privileged access to government policymakers and use it to push trade agreements that undermine the fight against poverty. This report highlights many examples of privileged corporate access to, and excessive influence over, the WTO policy-making process. It argues that governments must take urgent action to curb corporate influence in the WTO and put the rights of poor people before the profits of multinationals in the current round of global trade talks. (Dominic Eagleton, Action Aid, January 2006)
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/174_6_under_the_influence_final.pdf
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- UNDP seeks full audit of its DPR Korea work; Ban Ki-moon orders system wide inquiry
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today said that it would stop paying hard currency for its operations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) amid press reports on the agency's activities there and announced plans to seek an independent, external audit, while Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an urgent, system wide investigation of UN activities in the field. (UN, 19 January 2007)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21282&Cr=dprk&Cr1=
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- UNIFEM
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UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.
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- United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)
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The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) has been for more than twenty-five years the only United Nations (UN) organization committed to regional (subnational) development in developing countries.
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- United Nations Development Assistance Framework for the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam 2001-2005
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In PDF format.
http://www.un.org.vn/undocs/undaf00/index.htm
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- United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
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The Economic and Social Council is responsible for promoting higher standards of living, full employment, and economic and social progress; identifying solutions to international economic, social and health problems; facilitating international cultural and educational cooperation; and encouraging universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. ECOSOC's purview extends to over 70 per cent of the human and financial resources of the entire UN system.
http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc/
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- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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ECA is the regional arm of the United Nations, mandated to support the economic and social development of its 53 member States, foster regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's development.
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.
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- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advocates for environmental concerns within the international system. In particular in partnership with other UN bodies. Implementing and integrating an environmental agenda with the goals of economic development and social well-being.
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- United Nations foundation
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The UN Foundation and its activities support the goals and objectives of the UN, recognizing the vital role the UN will continue to play in addressing global issues. Financed by Ted Turner.
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- United Nations guide for indigenous peoples
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This information set is designed to provide indigenous peoples with practical information on the operations and procedures of the United Nations (UN) and its various agencies related to human rights and development. While indigenous peoples have endured centuries of oppression and continue to face many difficulties, the rights of indigenous peoples have increasingly been recognised at the international level. Geneva : United Nations, 2001
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/00-indigenousguide.html
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- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
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UNRISD is an autonomous United Nations agency that carries out research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.
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- United Nations University
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UNU's mission is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States. UNU has four key roles: An international community of scholars; A bridge between the United Nations and the international academic community; A think-tank for the United Nations system; A builder of capacities, particularly in developing countries.
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- United Nations University Update
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The Newsletter of United Nations University and its international network of research and training centres and programmes.
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- United_Nations_Children_Fund
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UNICEF programmes seek to ensure that children have the best possible care from birth and develop to their full potential, enter school healthy and ready to learn and navigate adolescence safely and surely.
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- UNOPS Tokyo Office
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UNOPS Tokyo was established in October 1995 as a liaison office to facilitate communication between the Government of Japan and UNOPS on implementation of the Japan-funded Procurement Programme.
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