This draft resolution of the UN Security Council –based on a text supporting Arab League’s Proposed Peace Plan- was vetoed by China and Russia as two of the Council’s five permanent members. It is the second draft resolution on Syria vetoed by the same countries since 2011.
DI - 30/1/2012
The Green Economy Report –‘Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication’- is compiled by the Green Economy Initiative of the UN Environment Programme in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. It shows that greening economies is a new engine of growth, a net generator of decent jobs and a vital strategy for the elimination of persistent poverty.
DI - 26/12/2011
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), migration is a topic that often has negative and polarizing connotations. This year’s edition of the World Migration Report (WMR) argues for a fundamental shift in the way we communicate about migration and includes a review of migration trends and major policy issues in 2010/2011.
DI - 19/12/2011
‘Women at the frontline of climate change - Gender risks and hopes’ is a new report of the United Nations Environment Programme, which focuses on women, gender issues and climate change.
DI - 12/12/2011
According to the 2011 edition of Social Panorama – issued on 29 November by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – ‘the poverty level will drop to 30.4% in 2011, while the indigence rate will increase slightly to 12.8% because the rise in food prices would counteract the predicted rise in household incomes’.
DI - 12/12/2011
The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Durban (South Africa) ended with an agreement to start negotiations on a new accord that would put the 194 countries under the same legal regime enforcing commitments to control greenhouse gases.
DI - 30/11/2011
The 2011 edition of the International Labour Organization’s World of Work Report highlights that it will not be possible to recover successfully from the Great Recession unless social inequalities are addressed through well-designed policies.
DI - 28/11/2011
The UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet outlines a comprehensive policy agenda of 16 concrete steps to end violence against women globally focusing on three critical pillars: prevention, protection and provision of services.
DI - 16/11/2011
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released this safeguards report on Iran’s nuclear programme and allegations of weaponization efforts on 8 November.
DI - 11/11/2011
‘ICTs as an Enabler for Private Sector Development (PSD)’ is the sixth edition in a series of annual reports published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development. It shows that the potential of leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) to develop the private sector is far from fully exploited, and makes policy recommendations on how to remedy this situation.
DI - 10/11/2011
The 2011 edition of the State of the World Population –published by the UN Population Fund (UNPFA) and entitled ‘People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion’- explains the trends that are defining our world of 7 billion people and documents actions that people in different countries and circumstances are taking in their own communities.
DI - 8/11/2011
Published on 12 October, the 2011 edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific provides a snapshot of the region to decision makers, researchers and general public. It includes comparable, cross-sectoral statistical data and analyses on population, the environment, the state of the economy and connectivity for the region.
DI - 4/11/2011
Urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together, according to the HDR 2011 – subtitled ‘Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All’. The 2011 Report also includes Human Development Index (HDI) and updated editions of the complementary indices introduced in the 2010 Report (the Inequality-Adjusted HDI, the Gender Inequality Index, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index).
DI - 24/10/2011
The resolution adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council –at its 6634th meeting on 21 October- calls for the end of violence in Yemen and condemns human rights violations and the excessive use of force by the country’s authorities against peaceful protesters as well as violence by other groups.
DI - 21/10/2011
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) issued this report on treatment of conflict related detainees by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) or Afghan National Police (ANP) forces. The research found compelling evidence that torture is practiced systematically in a number of NDS detention facilities throughout Afghanistan.
DI - 14/10/2011
The UN Economic Commission on Africa (ECA) presents the assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in the region.
DI - 11/10/2011
This year’s edition of the State of the Food Insecurity in the World –subtitled ‘How does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?’- highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the small and import-dependent countries being most affected and specially vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity. It was produced by the three Rome-based agencies the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
DI - 10/10/2011
The first Global Study on Homicide is a comprehensive cross-national and time series homicide data from 207 countries and territories. It provides an overview of crime as a phenomenon marked by large disparities in distribution, demographics, typologies and mechanisms.
DI - 7/10/2011
This draft resolution of the UN Security Council -which had strongly condemned Syrian authorities for their violent crackdown against protesters this year and called for an immediate end to human rights abuses- was vetoed by China and Russia as two of the Council's five permanent members.
DI - 5/10/2011
This report examines the opportunities and the challenges the United Nations and its partners currently face in conducting preventive diplomacy in a changing political and security landscape.
DI - 29/9/2011
According to this ECLAC's publication, the value of goods exported from Latin America and the Caribbean will grow by 27% in 2011 and the value of imports would increase by 23%, with the region accumulating a trade surplus of slightly more than 80 billion dollars by the end of 2011.
DI - 29/9/2011
The update of the ADB launched in April 2011expects developing Asia to sustain its growth over the next two years despite the moderate outlook for the US, Japan and the euro zone.
DI - 26/9/2011
In his address to the Assembly’s annual general debate on 23 September, Mahmoud Abbas refers to the Palestinian application for full membership of the United Nations on the basis of the so-called 4 June 1967 borders.
DI - 4/8/2011
Statement by the President of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Syria. The statement condemns the widespread violation of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the country’s security forces, and calls for an end to violence.
DI - 28/7/2011
The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office –which comprises the Human Rights Division of MONUSCO and the OHCHR, and was established in February 2008- has published a report on the mass rapes and other human rights violations committed in the Villages of Bushani and Kalambhiro in Massisi Territory (North Kivu, DRC) on 31 December 2010 and 1 January 2011.
DI - 26/7/2011
This year’s edition of the World Trade Report examines the growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTA’s) and describes its historical development and the current landscape of agreements.
DI – 18/7/2011
This year’s edition of the ADO highlights the problem of tackling the rising consumer price pressure as an important challenge that developing Asia must resolve to sustain the inclusive growth needed to eliminate poverty in the region.
DI - 12/7/2011
The Organization of American States (OAS) has issued the First Report of the Continuous Reporting System on International Migration in the Americas (SICREMI). Prepared in cooperation with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the SICREMI report 2011 collects data from various sources to process and disseminate information on the magnitude, trends and characteristics of international migration in the region.
DI - 11/7/2011
The WESS 2011, subtitled The Great Green Technological Transformation, calls for a complete transformation of technology on which human economic activity is based, to meet both the objectives of conquering poverty and protecting the environment.
DI - 8/7/2011
This year’s edition of the Progress on World’s Women: In pursuit of Justice Report –published by UN Women, the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women- is focused on women’s access to justice. The report recognises the progress worldwide but calls on governments to take action to end the injustices that keep women poorer and less powerful than men.
DI - 7/7/2011
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDG’s. According to the report ‘significant strides have been made towards the Millennium Development Goals, yet reaching all the goals by the 2015 deadline remains challenging, as the world’s poorest are being left behind’.
DI - 30/6/2010
This year’s edition of the WDR shows that same patterns of 2010 continue in 2011. The production and abuse of prescription opioid drugs and new synthetic drugs rose while the global markets for cocaine, heroin and cannabis declined.
DI - 21/6/2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a historic set of international standards aimed at improving the working and living conditions of domestic workers who care for families and households. The standards approved at the 100th annual conference state that the domestic workers must have the same basic labour rights as those available to other worker. See also: Text of the Recommendation Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers.
DI - 30/5/2011
This year edition of the Economic Report on Africa (‘Governing development in Africa - the role of the state in economic transformation’) –jointly published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union Commission- shows that the continent posted an economic growth rate of 4.7 per cent for 2010 and was expected to reach 5 per cent this year.
DI - 19/5/2011
The latest edition of the International Labour Organization (ILO) –entitled Equality at work: The continuing challenge- notes that new forms of discrimination at work arise while the old challenges remain at best only partially answered.
DI - 16/5/2011
According to the latest edition of this series issued by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on FDI, ‘Latin American and Caribbean region showed great resilience to the international financial crisis and became the world region with the fastest-growing flows of both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI)’.
DI - 10/05/2011
The latest edition of the GIT report highlights –subtitled Transformations 2.0- collects the insights of practitioners, academics and industry experts and explores the new wave of transformations caused by ICT developments.
DI - 4/5/2011
This document contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the translations of speeches delivered in the other languages at the special session on Syria of the United Nations Security Council held on 27 April. No resolution was adopted.
DI - 3/5/2011
The 2010 revision of World Population Prospects, the official United Nations population projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, states that the current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next 90 years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle of this century.
DI - 28/4/2011
According to the latest edition of the World Bank China Quarterly Update, ‘China’s economic growth has remained resilient as the macro stance moved towards normalization’.
DI 28/4/2011
The resolution adopted by the Security Council –at its 6523rd meeting on 27 April- extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until 30 April 2012.
DI - 14/4/2011
Published in March 2011, this report of the Inter-American Development Bank highlights the definition of two different regional clusters in terms of opportunities and challenges ahead by the key structural characteristics of Latin America and the Caribbean countries in this new global economic environment.
DI - 13/4/2011
Published by the World Bank, the WDR 2011: Conflict, Security and Development aims to provide insights on the political, security and economic dimensions of conflict resolution. It draws on the analysis of researchers and the experience of policy-makers in the development community, the UN system and the regional institutions.
DI - 6/4/2011
Published by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the ITS 2010 offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in world trade, covering the details of merchandise trade by product and trade in commercial services by category.
DI - 5/4/2011
It is a free, online, interactive tool of the World Bank, which maps and graphs more than 175 indicators from its development database. It also covered critical issues such as poverty, food production, population growth, climate change, international trade and foreign direct investment.
DI - 4/4/2011
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has released a statistical overview of asylum claims submitted in Europe and selected non-European countries during 2010. It covers the 38 European and six non-European States that currently provide monthly asylum statistics to UNHCR and contains data based on information available as of 9 March 2011 unless otherwise indicated.
Released in March 2011, the SOFA 2010-2011 highlights the significant contributions of women to the rural economy in all developing country regions. According to this, ‘increasing women’s access to land, livestock, education, financial services, extension, technology and rural employment would boost their productivity and generate gains in terms of agricultural production, food security, economic growth and social welfare’. Also available: executive summary.
DI - 18/3/2011
The resolution adopted by the Security Council -at its 6498th meeting on 17 March- imposes a ban on all flights in Libya’s airspace - a no-fly zone - and tightened sanctions on the Qadhafi regime and its supporters.
DI - 14/3/2011
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) has issued its latest report on remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean. According to these, remittances to the region ‘are likely to rise this year after stabilizing during 2010, although a weaker dollar and higher inflation are reducing their purchasing power in many countries’.
DI - 11/3/2011
The 8th edition -in a series of annual reports published by IFC and the World Bank- provides this year’s data and economy rankings for all 183 economies covered. It highlights that more than half the regulatory changes recorded in the past year eased business start-up, trade and the payment of taxes. New technologies are involved in many of this improvements.
DI - 1/3/2011
The World Economic Situation and Prospects report (WESP) provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy. According to this year’s edition, ‘weaker global growth is expected in 2011 and 2012 as multiple risks to the recovery remain’.
DI - 28/2/2011
The resolution adopted by the Security Council –at its 6491st meeting on 26 February- imposes tough measures on the Libyan regime in the wake of the crackdown on protesters. It also refers the situation to the International Criminal Court while imposing an arms embargo on the country and a travel ban and assets freeze on the family of Muammar Al-Qadhafi and certain Government officials.
DI - 24/2/2011
The 8th edition of the UNEP report examines global emerging issues and provides the latest environmental science. It also highlights major environmental events and developments over the past year, and presents the most recent data and key indicator trends.
DI - 18/2/2011
The latest report issued by the Secretary-General on developments in Guinea-Bissau and on the activities of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in that country covers major developments since the previous report (25 october 2010).
DI - 14/2/2011
This UNO-MERIT paper discusses the effectiveness of Chinese aid for financing development in Sudan. Its preliminary findings show that Chinese aid and loans to Sudan caused mixed positive-negative impacts.
DI - 1/2/2011
According to the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2010, ‘rising opium prices may encourage farmers in Afghanistan to plant more opium poppy’. After a steady decline from 2005 to 2009, prices are raising again based on speculation that there will be shortages because opium reduced production in 2010 and because of ongoing military operations, which are creating uncertainty among opium poppy farmers regarding future cultivation.
DI - 27/1/2011
The 21st annual HRW World Report documents ongoing human rights practices in the world and summarises key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. According to the report, many governments are ‘replacing pressure to respect human rights with softer approaches such as private «dialogue» and «cooperation»’.
DI - 24/1/2011
This year’s edition of the UNESCO Science Report shows that emerging economies are clearly gaining strength in science and technology while investment in R&D is growing globally. China, India and the Republic of Korea are leading the Asia’s share of gross domestic expenditure on R&D.
DI - 20/1/2011
This publication of the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to provide sufficient information for policy-makers and planners to develop data-driven and evidence-based programmes for preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women.
DI - 19/1/2011
The 2010 edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean is similar in structure to the 2009 edition and has no significant changes in terms of content or design. Published on 16 January, the yearbook is one of the main sources of statistical information in the region and covers demographic, social and economic issues. It also provides data on natural resources and the environment.
DI - 18/1/2011
The latest Report of the United Nations in Haiti 2010 Situation, Challenges and Outlook summarises the efforts undertaken by the UN system and its partners to support the Haitian people and their government, to respond to the multiple humanitarian crises, to accompany the electoral calendar and to advance on the road to recovery.
DI - 18/1/2011
The International Labour Organization (ILO) published the second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments. Subtitled Wage policies in times of crisis, this year’s edition reviews the global and regional wage trends during the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.
17/1/2011
‘Led by developing countries, the world economy is moving on from a post-crisis bounce-back phase of recovery to slower but still solid growth this year and next’, according to the recent Global Economic Prospects issued by the World Bank on 12 January 2011.
DI - 10/1/2011
According to the recent OECD Economic Survey on Spain, ‘the global crisis has been compounded by an unsustainable domestic demand domestic demand boom driven by residential and business investment, resulting in rising private sector debt’.
DI - 7/1/2011
The UN Secretary General has issued his latest report on the Sudan to the Security Council. It provides an assessment of the overall situation in the country since the previous report on 14 October 2010.
DI - 27/12/2010
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued its World Migration Report (WMR) 2010 on 18 December 2010 during the commemoration of the International Migrants Day. The report identifies key migration dynamics and trends.
DI - 21/12/2010
Published on 15 December, this report presents an updated perspective of the United Nations on the new development paradigm that links the economy and culture. It recognises creativity, knowledge and access to information as powerful engines driving economic growth and promoting development in a globalising world.
DI - 17/12/2010
At a two-day meeting in Libya that ended on 30 November, African and EU leaders adopted a joint plan that sets out actions to be carried out over the next three years to boost investment, economic growth and job creation.
DI - 13/12/2010
The Cancun agreements are the decisions and resolutions adopted by the COP 16 and CMP 6 at the UN Climate Change Conference held in Cancun (Mexico), from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
DI 10/12/2010
The joint publication by UNCTAD and the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) aims to investigate the new economic realities in international trade after the 2008 financial crisis, and to highlight the issues that are key to the future of a pro-trade and pro-development international trading system.
DI - 2/12/2010
Issued in November 2010 by the UNEP and subtitled Are the Copenhagen Accord Pledges Sufficient to Limit Global Warming to 2°C or 1.5°C?, the report says that climate change represents one of the greatest challenges but also an outstanding opportunity to catalyse a transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient Green Economy. It also informs governments and the wider community how far a response to climate change has progressed over the past 12 months, and thus how far the world is on track to meet wider goals.
DI - 1/12/2010
The 2010 Report on the global AIDS epidemic includes new country by country scorecards on key issues facing the AIDS response. The report also provides comprehensive analysis on the AIDS epidemic and response based on the latest data from 182 countries, including trend data on incidence from more than 60 countries.
DI - 30/11/2010
Prepared by the African Union (AU), the UN Office of the Special Advisor on Africa (UN-OSAA) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the study points out that global financial and economic crises exposed the African economies' dependence on too few export commodities and only one or two sectors.
DI - 29/11/2010
The 2010 edition of the 'Least-Developed Countries Report 2010' –subtitled Towards a New International Development Architecture for LDCs- calls for the creation of a new international development architecture that would be based on five pillars: finance, trade, commodities, technology and climate change.
DI - 19/11/2010
According to the 2010 CPI, Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore are tied at the top of the list, followed closely by Finland and Sweden. Somalia, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq continue to have the highest levels of perceived corruption.
DI - 17/11/2010
Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Germany and the UK are among the European countries dominating the top 20. Luxembourg and Greece made the biggest improvements in closing their gender gaps, climbing 37 and 27 spots respectively, owing to gains in political and economic participation. Released in October 2010, the GGG Report’s index assesses 134 countries on how well they divide resources and opportunities amongst male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources. See also the Global Gender Gap Index 2010 rankings.
DI - 15/11/2010
According to the latest edition of the World Bank China Quarterly Update, ‘China will continue to face (local and global) environmental sustainability challenges to meet the energy needs arising from rapid economic development’. The report provides updates on recent economic and social developments and policies in this country.
DI - 14/11/2010
This year’s edition of the Europe Regional Economic Outlook – subtitled Builging confidence- shows that the recovery in Europe continues, supported by strong policy action to contain sovereign debt problems in the euro area. It also sheds light on the governance issues revealed by the crisis, arguing that better policy frameworks, in particular at the euro area level, promise a stronger Europe.
DI - 5/11/2010
The 20th anniversary edition of the HDR examines decades of Human Development data trends, refines the original Human Development Index with new databases and methodologies, and introduces new measures adjusting the index to reflect gender disparities and other internal national inequalities. It also features the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) with UNDP support.
DI - 26/10/2010
The 2010 edition of the State of the World Population –published by the UN Population Fund (UNPFA) and entitled From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal: Generations of Change- links Peace, Security and Development to Women’s Rights and Empowerment. According to this report, ‘discrimination against women not only exposes them to the worst effects of disaster and war, including rape, but also deprives their countries of a prime engine for recovery’.
DI - 22/10/2010
The fifth issue of The World’s Women highlights that the progress towards gender equality has been made in some areas, such as school enrolment, health and economic participation but much more needs to be done to close the gender gap in critical areas such as power and decision-making and violence against women.
DI - 8/10/2010
According to the World Economic Outlook (WEO) – released in October 2010-, the ‘global recovery remains fragile, because strong policies to foster internal rebalancing of demand from public to private sources and external rebalancing from deficit to surplus economies are not yet in place’.
DI - 6/10/2010
The Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003 was released on 1st October. The document lists 617 of these crimes over the 10-year period by both State and non-State actors, and is the product of a mapping exercise that took more than two years.
DI 5/10/2010
The 2010 edition of the UNESCO’s World Social Science Report focuses on the Knowledge Divide. Though the social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, the field is also expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil.
DI - 4/10/2010
The summary findings of the Afghanistan Opium Survey shows that opium poppy cultivation remained at 2009 levels but the opium production has reduced to a half in 2010. However, ‘the market may again become lucrative for poppy-crop growers so we have to monitor the situation closely’ according to the UNODC.
DI - 13/9/2010
The UN Secretary General transmitted to the General Assembly the advisory opinion given by the International Court of Justice on 22 July 2010 in the case entitled Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo (A/64/881). Also, the General Assembly acknowledged the advisory opinion by a consensus resolution on 9 September 2010.
DI - 10/9/2010
According to the staff statement of the Spain Article IV Executive Board Consultation -concluded on 14 July 2010- ‘after 15 years of strong growth led by a housing boom, the Spanish economy has entered a sharp downturn in the wake of the global financial crisis since mid-2007’.
DI - 9/9/2010
The 41st edition of the annual statistical data of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) presents a special chapter on the Rise of Asia’s Middle Class. It looks at the growth and impacts of the region’s rapidly expanding middle class, and resulting economic and policy implications.
DI 8/9/2010
Following the Sudanese national elections in April 2010, the improved relations between this country and Chad after the signing of an agreement to normalise their bilateral relations and the concern over the negative affect of the ongoing violence in Darfur, the UN Security Council –at its 6366th meeting on 30 July 2010- decided to extend the mandate of UNAMID for a further year to 31 July 2011.
DI - 2/9/2010
This year’s edition of the World Trade Report examines the characteristics of trade in natural resources, the policy choices available to governments and the role of international cooperation, particularly of the WTO, in the proper management of trade in this sector.
DI - 31/8/2010
The UN General Assembly resolution 64/293 adopting the UN Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and establishing the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons (especially women and children) was issued on 12 August 2010.
DI - 5/8/2010
The sixty-second edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean highlights that the region grow 5.2% in 2010 and is expected to expand only 3.8% in 2011 due to the uncertain outlook of the world economy, particularly in Europe.
DI - 3/8/2010
Released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the report explores the challenges and constraints of the 21st century posed by the livestock sector cannot be solved by a single string of actions or by individual actors alone. The livestock sector requires appropriate institutions, research, development interventions and governance that reflect the diversity within the sector and the multiple demands placed upon it.
DI - 29/7/2010
Released by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the report focuses on two key elements of the strategy: implementation of the UN Trust Fund Strategy and the UN Trust Fund contributions to advancing the agenda on ending violence against women at country levels.
DI - 22/7/2010
Published on 23 June 2010, the report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The world continues to make advances towards the MDGs, despite the global economic downturn, but the rate of improvement remains too slow and countries must step up their efforts if the MDGs are to be achieved by their target date of 2015.
DI - 20/7/2010
According to this report of the World Bank, the EU’s newest member countries return to growth in 2010 but the rebound is fragile. Published three times a year The EU10 Regular Economic Report monitors macroeconomic and reform developments in the EU10 countries, and provides in-depth analyses of key policy issues.
DI - 27/7/2010
The 20th WIR –subtitled Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy- analyses the ways the participation of transnational corporations (TNCs) and the strategic use of foreign investment (FDI) can help developing and transition economies jump-start ‘low-carbon’ economic development. flows reacted to the current financial and economic crisis and the TNC’s and traditional investors affect agriculture in many developing countries.
DI - 15/7/2010
A joint publication by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and the UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, the report highlights best practices and emerging elements for a more effective response by peacekeepers to women’s security concerns.
DI - 7/7/2010
A joint UNRWA, UNICEF and WFP household survey, this study summarises the first statistics available on food security and nutrition conditions among herder communities in Area C.
