The trade and environment debate arose as result of pressure from environment groups in the industrialized economies to introduce environmental issues in the WTO. Along with the demand to include labor rights in the WTO and the insistence that NGOs have greater rights of participation in NGO processes, this marked a change in the pattern of deliberation in the WTO and its predecessor, the GATT ...

On June 24, 2000, the WHO released a report that assessed the world's health-care systems based on an overall index of performance.1 The report had an immediate and enormous impact and was discussed on the front page of almost every major newspaper in the western world and on the broadcast news. The WHO, the health agency of the United Nations (UN), had assessed health-care systems around the w...

background: evaluating the malaria status of the economic cooperation organization (eco) member countries relation to goal 6 of 3rd millennium development goals (mdgs) which includes have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria. methods: by 2009, we reviewed the mdgs reports, extracted the data from surveillance system, published, and unpublished data. the main stakeholders...

Deployments increase risk for adjustment problems in service members. To mitigate this increased risk, mental health training programs have been developed and implemented in several nations. As part of a coordinated effort, three nations adapted a U.S. mental health training program that had been validated by a series of group randomized trials demonstrating improvement in postdeployment adjust...

I feel privileged to have this opportunity to deliver a lecture in honour of Amilcar Herrera. Prof Herrera’s “Latin American World Model” shows how we can shape our future in such a manner that it leads to lasting human happiness and security. It has been an act of vision on the part of the United Nations University and the Government of the Netherlands to have established this Institute for Ne...

The primary goals of land-use planning are enunciated. A plea is made for consideration of the total biosphere and not just its separate components. The environmental impact statement process is reviewed and some suggestions made for its strengthening. Moves for international adoption of this process are noted, as well as the concept of eco-development currently under examination by UN agencies.