UN Chronicle back issues from March 2005:
'In Larger Freedom': Towards Development, Security and Human Rights For All.
Mar 01, 2005 ... The full report and supplemental information can be accessed at www.un.org/largerfreedom. The following is the Report's Executive Summary. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 21 March 2005 released his report--"In Larger Freedom": Towards Development, Security and Human ...
Reviewing the Millennium Declaration, revitalizing the organization.(59th General Assembly)
Mar 01, 2005; ... From the opening of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly, delegations stressed the need for an international review of the Millennium Declaration and for revitalizing the United Nations as the centrepiece of its sixtieth anniversary, commemorated this year. Speakers from the ...
Finding common ground; First Committee: Disarmament and International Security.(59th General Assembly)
Mar 01, 2005 ... As the world stands in the midst of dangers brought on by the nuclear proliferation of ballistic missiles capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, arising environmental concerns (see box on page 13) and thriving illicit small-arms businesses plaguing all corners of the ...
Helping to achieve the MDGs; Second Committee: Economic and Financial.(59th General Assembly)(Millennium Development Goals)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Natural disasters devastate many parts of the world, whether they were high-intensity hurricanes battering the Pacific islands or gigantic ocean waves killing thousands in its wake. From strengthening coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance, including special economic ...
Putting people first in development; Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural.(59th General Assembly)(UN General Assembly about human rights)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The Third Committee deals with myriad topics related to social development, advancement of women, international drug control and human rights issues. Delegates meet, discuss and debate these issues and work to forge resolutions that enjoy unanimous support, or if this is not possible can ...
Autonomy eludes two million people; Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonization.(59th General Assembly)
Mar 01, 2005 ... More than 2 million people continue to live in some 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories, even as the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2001-2010) reached its halfway point. For that reason, the issue of decolonization, along with mine-action assistance, ...
Towards a unified security system; Fifth Committee: Administrative and Budgetary.(59th General Assembly)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The Fifth Committee confines its scope not just to "budgetary and administration" issues. It also monitors United Nations activities as diverse as reviewing human resources management policies and establishing strengthened security management systems to protect UN staff members worldwide ....
Searching for consensus in international law; Sixth Committee: Legal.(59th General Assembly)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The essence in the functioning of the Sixth Committee lies on total consensus among United Nations Member States on resolutions dealing with wide-ranging international legal matters. "For the Legal Committee it is not advisable to have any decision adopted by a majority, as we need ...
Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance: seeking consensus amid differences.(Unlearning Intolerance)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In a break from tradition, the General Assembly passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Christianophobia as part of a broader text against religious intolerance. The adoption of resolution 59/199, "Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance", marks ...
'Terror in the soul': remembering Auschwitz.(Looking Back)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Sixty years ago, in January 1945, Auschwitz was "liberated". Some of the people commemorating this event are surviving witnesses, whose numbers are rapidly diminishing and will soon reach complete extinction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To some, Auschwitz is already an ...
Meanwhile.(Appreciation)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Whenever I think of Auschwitz--or Birkenau or Mauthausen or Theresienstadt, the names that in this season of Holocaust remembrance are coming back to haunt us from sixty years ago--I think of a retired Australian United Nations official called Tom Luke. Tom wasn't born ...
Children's rights world congress.(RightsWatch)(child trafficking )
Mar 01, 2005; ... As I write this article, the world is trying to come to terms with the trauma of one of its worst natural disasters: the Asian tsunami that left an estimated death toll of over 200,000, with thousands still missing, almost certainly dead (see page 38). There are also fears that another ...
Tsunami highlights needs of small island States.(From the Secretary-General)(Excerpt)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Following are excerpts from Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the high-level segment of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held in Port Louis, Mauritius, from 10 to 14 ...
The Mauritius Strategy.(small island developing States)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The vulnerabilities of small islands were at the centre of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held at Port Louis, Mauritius, from 10 to 14 January 2005. The Meeting concluded ...
Smart infrastructure.
Mar 01, 2005; ... On 26 December 2004, a tsunami struck southern Asia, causing one of the worst disasters the world had ever seen. With each passing day, the horror became more unfathomable as the death toll eventually reached over 200,000. However, the nightmare had just begun. The tsunami destroyed ...
Dedicating 2005 to sport and physical education: promoting health, peace and development.
Mar 01, 2005; ... The "International Year of Sport and Physical Education", proclaimed for 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2003, offers a unique opportunity to show the positive values of sport and its vital role in society. These fundamental values, such as respect for rules, ...
The Atlas of heart disease and stroke.(HealthWatch)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Cardiovascular disease now ranks as the leading cause of death, resulting in one third of all deaths globally. The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in conjunction with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was ...
Defining quality and inequality in education.
Mar 01, 2005; ... Since positive messages do not often make headlines, we should welcome a few indications of progress towards education for all. There are more children going to school than ever before, even though the current pace of progress is too slow to reach universal enrolment by 2015. ...
Girls' Education Campaign in Turkey.(EducationWatch)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Feyat, a day labourer in Turkey who moved to Aydin from Agri ten years ago, is struggling to feed his wife and seven children. His eldest daughter, fourteen-year-old Feray, is the only one of the girls attending school, but she will have nowhere to go at the end of the term since it is the ...
Vital Voices: advocacy and service work of NGOs in the fight against human trafficking.(NGOWatch)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Human trafficking is one of today's most egregious human rights violations. Traffickers prey on the most vulnerable members of society: people burdened with poverty, disabilities and discrimination. Trafficking in persons refers to the illegal trade or "sale" of human beings for sexual ...
Combating trafficking in persons through gender-focused strategy.
Mar 01, 2005; ... On 20 December 2004, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus resolution 59/166, Trafficking in women and girls. Since 1995, when the Philippines first led the tabling and negotiations on a draft text on trafficking, it had enjoyed the broadest support from UN Member ...
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.(WomenWatch)
Mar 01, 2005; ... On 25 November 2004, residents of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, walked the city's streets distributing white ribbons, leaflets and postcards during a public march organized by Gender and Development for Cambodia to raise awareness of violence against women. In India that evening, members of the ...
Wide-ranging resolutions on status of women.(UN)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The Commission on the Status of Women, at its session from 28 February to 11 March 2005 at UN Headquarters in New York, adopted ten resolutions on improving women's status, including six new texts on gender mainstreaming in national policies and programmes; the possible appointment of a ...
Partnership with the poorest.(Poverty)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Exactly ten years ago in Copenhagen, Denmark, the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in its Programme of Action called for "enabling [people who live in poverty] to become genuine partners in development". In February 2005, the UN Commission for Social Development met in New York to ...
The Global Research Alliance: a Knowledge Pool for Global Good.
Mar 01, 2005; ... No single player has the funding, research and delivery capabilities required to solve problems on a global scale. With increasing globalization and the many problems being faced by all, particularly developing countries, it is clear that alliances and the pooling of knowledge play a ...
The chronicle interview.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2005 ... AMBASSADOR DUMITRU-DORIN PRUNARIU is President of the Romanian Space Agency and Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Sub-Committee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). In 1981, he became the first Romanian in space when he flew aboard spacecraft "Soyuz 40" ...
The rise of food democracy.(ESSAY)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The National Touring Association, one of the largest lobbying groups in Norway, representing walkers, hikers and campers, recently joined forces with the nation's one and only celebrity chef to develop a line of foods made from indigenous ingredients to stock the country's network of ...
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket Brian Halweil.
Mar 01, 2005 ... The world's agricultural biodiversity--the ultimate insurance policy against climate variations, pest outbreaks and other unforeseen threats to food security--depends largely on the millions of small farmers who use this diversity in their local growing environments. But the ...
Diversifying sustainable farming systems: behaviour change is key.
Mar 01, 2005; ... Save the Children US is part of the International Save the Children Alliance that works in over 100 countries worldwide. The goal of its Food Security Program is to reduce the number of children who suffer from hunger and malnutrition. It has 13 long-term programmes in: Sub-Saharan ...
Atlas for tsunami-affected areas in southern Asia.(The Chronicle Library Shelf)
Mar 01, 2005 ... An atlas on areas affected by the 26 December 2004 tsunami in southern Asia (see page 39), published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has proven to be very useful to relief teams working in the devastated zones. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...