April 2012
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Conference on Security Council Resolution 1540
The First Industry Conference of International, Regional and Sub-Regional Industry Associations on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) was held from 23 to 25 April, in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by the Government of Germany, the conference is co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), with financial support from the Governments of Norway, the...
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Progress for Children new UNICEF report
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) just published Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents. The report has been released in conjunction with a four-part series on adolescent health by the British medical journal The Lancet.
The UNICEF report shows that although adolescents have made progress since 1990 – with increasing primary education enrolment and decreasing child...
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Freshwater Under Threat - Pacific Islands UNEP...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released Freshwater Under Threat: Pacific Islands.
According to the report climate change will exacerbate water stress in Pacific Islands, particularly small islands that rely on seasonal rain for their freshwater needs.
Key recommendations:
Long-term strategies to address sustainable management capacity in the region;
Delivery of...
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Security Council Meeting on Situation in Côte...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Security Council met at its 6761st meeting on the situation in Côte d’Ivoire to discuss the letter dated 11 April 2012 from the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2012/196)
The President drew attention to the text of a draft...
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United Nations International Strategy for Disaster...
Safari’s encounter with coastal and marine hazards
This booklet targets primary school children to sensitize them to the causes, impacts and mitigation of coastal and marine hazards, such as cyclone, tsunami, storm surge and flood, as well as other natural hazards such as drought, oil spill, ‘red tide’ and ‘brown tide’, and city fire.
Drought Contingency Plans and Planning in the...
Special Court convicts Taylor
The Special Court for Sierra Leone issued its judgement on the case The Prosecutor vs. Charles Taylor this morning. Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone. The judgement summary has been released. Follow the Special Court on Twitter: @SpecialCourt.
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Trade and Development Report 1981-2011 : Three...
An abiding theme across 30 years of the TDR has been its advocating of the need to strike the appropriate balance between multilateral rules and actions and national policy autonomy for addressing specific local needs and challenges. It has argued that many of the changes to multilateral governance since the collapse of the bretton Woods systems, in trade as well as finance, have failed to...
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Arab Development Challenges Report 2011
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released Arab Development Challenges Report 2011.
This second Development Challenges Report, coming at a time when the region is passing through a critical historical juncture, attempts to go beyond the numbers to uncover processes that have underpinned mutually reinforcing drivers of social, economic and political exclusion. This report argues that...
UNFPA: Free E- Learning Course on Gender Based...
UNFPA has released a new publication titled Managing Gender-based Violence Programmes in Emergencies.
UNFPA has also launched a companion guide to its Free E-Learning Course for professionals who are working to address Gender Based Violence in humanitarian contexts.
The e-learning course uses problems that practitioners currently face and case scenarios from real-life humanitarian contexts to...
UN-Habitat: New Reports
UN-Habitat has released the following publications:
Handling Land: Innovative Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure.This book shows how the Global Land Tool Network is addressing these problems by setting an international agenda on land. It features the land tools that the Network has developed.
Planificación de Ciudades Sostenibles: Orientaciones para Políticas (Planning Sustainable...
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International Mother Earth Day - 22 April
The proclamation of 22 April as International Mother Earth Day is an acknowledgement that the Earth and its ecosystems provide its inhabitants with life and sustenance. Commonly known as Earth Day, It also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for in the 1992 Rio Declaration, to promote harmony with nature and the Earth to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and...
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World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision
Africa and Asia together will account for 86 per cent of all growth in the world’s urban population over the next four decades, adding that this unprecedented increase will pose new challenges in terms of jobs, housing and infrastructure. Africa’s urban population will increase from 414 million to over 1.2 billion by 2050 while that of Asia will soar from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion, according to...
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Latest publications by UNODC
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently issued the following publications which can be downloaded in full from its website:
International Framework for Action to Implement the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol
Monitoring the impact of economic crisis on crime
Guidelines for the Forensic Analysis of Drugs Facilitating Sexual Assault and Other Criminal
Other Information resources:
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UNEP New Report
The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), has released a new report titled Releasing the Pressure Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services.This document discusses the need to balance short-term water productivity gains, in particular in agriculture with the long-term role that water flows provide for maintaining sustainable landscape ESS, and serving multiple benefits...
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International Day of Human Space Flights - 12...
The International Day of Human Space Flight was declared by the General Assembly in 2011 “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind” and to reaffirm “the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of States and peoples.” (A/RES/65/271)
12 April 1961 was the...
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ECA: Economic Report on Africa 2012
The Economic Commission on Africa(ECA) has released the Economic Report on Africa 2012. The current report presents a more cautious and nuanced analysis of the continent’s growth trajectory.
The report situates the story of a rising Africa in a broader context, by pointing out the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead as governments push forward a series of policies to achieve structural...
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UNFPA:Contraceptive Commodities for Women's Health
UNFPA has released a report titled Contraceptive Commodities for Women’s Health:Key data and findings.This report, prepared for the United Nations Commission on Commodities for Women and Children’s Health, provides a review of three contraceptive commodities that are considered to be overlooked or underutilized: the female condom, hormonal implants and emergency contraception.
Related...
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Secretary-General's Google+ Hangout with Young...
Ban Ki-moon believes young people deserve to get information, connect and ask questions and now he’ll chat with them online on Tuesday at 3:30 pm EST. Find out about this special opportunity in this new video. http://j.mp/IiIPxi
This week Ban Ki-moon will “hang out” on the UN’s Google Plus page and take questions from young people from Africa, Asia, Europe, the...
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According to a UN report, Africa and Asia will...
Africa’s urban population will increase from 414 million to over 1.2 billion by 2050 while that of Asia will soar from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion, according to the 2011 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, produced by the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
Urban sprawl - a view of old Lijian city in China. Photo: UN-HABITAT
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UN envoy confident that the use of child soldiers...
The Security Council process of naming and shaming groups that recruit and use child soldiers has been effective in combating the scourge, the United Nations envoy working on the issue says, adding that, like slavery, this horrible practice can be eradicated with concerted action.
UN Resources:
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
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UN senior officials urge countries to boost their...
At a special General Assembly meeting today, top United Nations officials urged Member States to increase their collaborative efforts to prevent human trafficking and protect its victims.
Photo: IRIN/Mohamed Amin Jibril
UN Resources:
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling
Human Rights Committee press release on human trafficking
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UN senior officials urge countries to boost their...
At a special General Assembly meeting today, top United Nations officials urged Member States to increase their collaborative efforts to prevent human trafficking and protect its victims. A human trafficking awareness billboard. Photo: IRIN/Mohamed Amin Jibril
UN Resources:
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling
Human Rights Committee...
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UNDP and Progress on the Ground – Lend Your Leg...
The UN estimates that more than one million people have been killed or injured by landmines in the past 30 years. Worldwide, the productivity costs associated with landmine and small arms violence have been estimated as high as US$163 billion a year. Although landmine injuries have declined dramatically, by as much as 75 percent from 1996 to 2010, it is thought that 110 million active landmines...
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“Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic...
Convened by the Government of Bhutan, today’s meeting – “Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm” – brought together hundreds of representatives from governments, religious organizations, academia and civil society to discuss the issue.
UN Resources:
Interview with Lyonchoen Jigmi Yoezer Thinley, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan
Webcast of the meeting
