IFLA Takes Lyon Declaration to the UN

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Seventy - Five Years of IFLA

Strangely enough, IFLA was itself born during the celebrations of another professional anniversary; that of the (British) Library Association. It was at the 50th anniversary conference, held in Edinburgh, of the second oldest library association in the world, that a resolution was passed which led to the establishment of what we now know and love as IFLA. So it is very appropriate that we retur...

IFLA Jerusalem Conference , August 2000

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

Promotion of access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases: practical implications of the UN political declaration.

Access to medicines and vaccines to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is unacceptably low worldwide. In the 2011 UN political declaration on the prevention and control of NCDs, heads of government made several commitments related to access to essential medicines, technologies, and vaccines for such diseases. 30 years of experience with policies for essential medicines and 10 ye...

It takes the time that it takes.

It was five days before my first Christmas in Perth, Australia, and our family had begun to arrive the night before. As the rest of household slept, I quickly threw on a skirt and tank top and left to attend the memorial service for one of my study participants, a 57-year old Anglican minister who had died from motor neurone disease (MND). Though I feared I would be late, I could see people mil...