The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, referred to as the Plant Treaty, was approved on 3 November 2001 by Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), headquartered in Rome, Italy. The FAO is an agency of the United Nations, headquartered in New York City, New York. The Plant Treaty established international standards for the conservation and e...

China was the unwilling host of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women. China held up the entry visas of thousands of women who wanted to attend the conference, the Huairou Forum site was completely unsuitable for a world conference, and journalists were treated like nuisances by the Chinese government. Despite these obstacles, the conference was a success which should produce permanent re...

This article addresses an area that has been largely underserved by the development community, and one in which there is a particularly good opportunity for the private sector to take a lead in making a difference to employees, customers and local communities: chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It highlights the extent of the epidemic of NCDs in developing countries, sets out the 'busin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the capacity of health facilities in Southern Province, Zambia, to perform routine obstetric care and emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC). METHODS Surveys were completed at 90 health centers and 10 hospitals between September 1, 2011, and February 28, 2012. An expanded set of signal functions for routine care and EmONC was used to assess the facilities' capacit...

(Summary of a paper entitled " Radioactive Nuclides and their Radiations as an Important Tool for the Benefit of Less Developed Areas" prepared by H. Sel igman, J . Cameron, M.Cohen, E.Eriksson, B.R. Payne, R. Olson and H. Vetter, all members of the IAEA Secretariat, and presented at the recent UN Conference in Geneva on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Deve...

BACKGROUND Southern African scholars and activists working in disability studies have argued that ubuntu or unhu is a part of their world view. OBJECTIVES Thinking seriously about ubuntu, as a shared collective humanness or social ethics, means to examine how Africans have framed a struggle for this shared humanity in terms of decolonisation and activism. METHOD Three examples of applicatio...

Expressing t h e v i e w s of Turkey, four Statesmen last weekend took the floor at the 13th Annual Model United Nations Security Council at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Representing Albany State as delegates to the Council were Ross Dunn, Jan Dyckman, Roy Knapp. and Robert Rittner. Each of the delegates took Turkey's seat for the discussion of two resolutions concerned with pre...

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In 1990, the United Nations held a World Summit in New York, in which goals for the upcoming decade were established. One of these goals was a one-third reduction in the prevalence of anemia among women at childbearing age. Despite this modest percentage, epidemiological indicators point to the opposite direction, indicating an increasing occurrence of anemia in different regions of the world, ...