BACKGROUND On November 15-17, 2006 the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe organised a ministerial conference on counteracting obesity in the European region. Delegations from 48 countries met in Istanbul, Turkey. Observed by relevant nongovernmental organisations and expert temporary advisors, the European ministers adopted a charter on counteracting obesity. This charter stat...

The UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage, adopted in October 2003, is important for affirming the role of (national) heritage institutions and extending existing systems for preservation of documentary heritage to cover digital materials. This approach has distinct advantages, but has also been criticized for taking too narrow a view of the dynamic diversity of the digital env...

Transnational multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development Acknowledgements From April to November 2014 the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) conducts an extensive discussion process to develop a " Zukunftscharta " (Charter of the Future – the Charter) that will guide its strategies for sustainable development. The International Civil Society Centre (IC...

A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to nonchoosing households, but few have examined the possibility that choosers sort themselves out based upon school preferences that are correlated with race and ethnicity. This report addresses this issue by analyzing the responses of 1,...

A mong other disruptions that Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans in 2005 was an upheaval of the city’s public schools. The system, which had already been struggling with poor student performance and financial mismanagement, suffered approximately $800 million in property damage, and 64,000 students were displaced. In the storm’s wake, New Orleans drastically reformed its public education ...

at the aim of explaining the rights of health care recipients and upgrading ethical observance in the field of treatment-the most important field of health care-, the patient's rights charter was declared by ministry of health and medical education to all medical universities in september 2009. this paper provides a report of strategic planning for implementation of patient's rights charter and...