The Secretary-General expressed his intention last year to institute a Steering Group as a successor to the high-level Task Force that was established as a follow-up to the International Conference on Disarmament and Development, held at United Nations Headquarters in September 1987. In line with his intention, the Steering Group held its inaugural meeting in May and agreed on a programme to hi...

With stunting rates for children under five at 58 percent in Burundi, maternal mortality rate at 488 per 100,000 live births in Kenya, child mortality rate at 76 per 1,000 live births in Rwanda, 27 percent unmet need for contraceptives in Tanzania, and skilled attendants at only 59 percent of births in Uganda, the East African Community Partner States have an opportunity and are committed to im...

Online auction is an essence of many modern markets, particularly networked markets, in which information about goods, agents, and outcomes is revealed over a period of time, and the agents must make irrevocable decisions without knowing future information. Optimal stopping theory, especially the classic secretary problem, is a powerful tool for analyzing such online scenarios which generally r...

Abstract It is a commonplace in the R2P discourse to describe accountability measures as key means implement responsibility protect. In particular, International Criminal Court regularly highlighted central actor, both literature, annual reports issued by UN Secretary-General, and subsequent debates General Assembly. Conspicuously absent from this conversation principal judicial organ of United...

1. In the morning, Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, and Mr. Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, addressed the Working Party. Mr. Ricupero focused his remarks mainly on the forthcoming Third UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries to be held in Brussels in May. He invited the ILO to take an active role in the preparations and proceedings of LDC II...

With stunting rates for children under five at 58 percent in Burundi, maternal mortality rate at 488 per 100,000 live births in Kenya, child mortality rate at 76 per 1,000 live births in Rwanda, 27 percent unmet need for contraceptives in Tanzania, and skilled attendants at only 59 percent of births in Uganda, the East African Community Partner States have an opportunity and are committed to im...

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Dans la perspective du traitement automatique des langues africaines, nous avons décrit quelques caractéristiques du fonctionnement lexical du haoussa. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux règles de formation de mots à partir des racines où une racine est un mot auquel on ajoute quelqu...

This article draws attention to the United Nations' sustained development interventions at Buddha’s birthplace of Lumbini, in rural Terai region Nepal. Following a self-described “pilgrimage” Lumbini April 1967, former Nations secretary-general U Thant championed call restore site its rightful glory as global pilgrimage destination and center “world peace.” Despite fifty years formal sponsorshi...