this article examines the human rights abuses perpetrated by the united nationsmissions in places like kosovo, congo and haiti where the united nations powerhas been practically comparable to the state power. it will also investigate similarcases of abuses committed by highest-ranking un officials in new yorkheadquarter and geneva offices. the violations examined in this article include notjust...

This Report was put together by a working group consisting of: Simona Milio (Project Leader), London School of Economics and Political Science; Riccardo Lattanzi (Project Coordinator), New York University Langone Medical Center; Francesca Casadio, Art Institute of Chicago; Nicola Crosta, UN Capital Development Fund; Mario Raviglione, World Health Organization; Paul Ricci, École Polytechnique Fé...

The government of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ratified this UN Convention on the nationality of married women on May 16, 1989.

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...

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.