First of all, Macedonia has a relatively recent history since its independence and recognition as an autonomous nation-state in late 1991. It has been one of the former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was formally dissolved in 1992. Macedonia, on its part, has followed after the example of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina after holding a national referendum...

This paper was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Denmark as a background document for a conference hosted by the Danish government on 25 and 26 November 2010 on ‘Risk and Results Management in Development Cooperation: Towards a Common Approach’. It is based on a series of interviews with humanitarian actors, including donors, international NGOs and UN agencies...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of short-term exercise detraining on the functional fitness of older women after a 12-week water-based exercise (WE) program. METHODS Healthy older women (trained (TR) group) were submitted to 12 weeks WE (three 45 min sessions per week) followed by a 6-week detraining period. A group of aged-matched women without any exercise training (UN group) were evaluat...

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...