While responsible people work to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and to stave off humanity’s ecological suicide, young nerds in Silicon Valley write unimportant apps to do (as one genius Internet meme put it) “things their mothers used to do for them.” The Elon Musks of the world – those who prepare for the long game while financing it with innovative products for today’s market...

Senator Roméo Dallaire commanded the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda in 1994. He spoke to Ben Jones about helping combatants after conflict, child soldiers and why writing his books meant "going back to hell".

Reconciliation is a key objective in building sustainable peace and preventing a relapse into conflict. It is about (re) building relationships among people and groups in society and between the state and its citizens. The process is highly context sensitive, and each society has to tailor its approach to the nature of the conflict and the character of the transition. The reconciliation worksho...

The concepts of poverty, social exclusion and deprivation are widely employed but often problematic. This paper discusses some problems with prominent interpretations of these concepts and how Amartya Sen’s capability approach can provide a conceptual framework that can overcome these problems. It is argued that the capability approach can reflect the many ways that human lives are blighted and...

Representatives of the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems held a first consultation meeting with civil society actors on 5 March 2009 in London. Set up in September 2008, in response to the call by world leaders at the UN High Level Event in New York, for an additional US$30 billion to save 10 million lives – 3 million mothers and 7 million children – ...

726 www.thelancet.com Vol 381 March 2, 2013 Commenting on the UN General Assembly resolution of December, 2012, Jeanette Vega off ers a rationale for universal health coverage to become a unifying central health goal in the post-2015 Millennium Development Goal framework. We concur with her arguments provided universal health coverage becomes a central health goal rather than the central health...

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According to a UN Environment Programme survey, topsoil is eroding faster than it forms on about one third of the world’s cropland, causing an estimated 85 % of the world s land degradation from human activities. Erosion of soil, mainly by water, is also a problem in the Czech Republic where 54 % of arable land is endangered by water erosion. The topic of this article is to describe contemporar...

Isaacs and Lindemann first characterized UN in England in 1957; they coined the term to signify a protein elaborated by virally infected cells that functions to prevent their infection by a second virus (1). However, difficulties with chemical isolation and characterization led to great skepticism about the existence of the protein; indeed "... the scientific community dubbed his discovery 'ima...