preventive diplomacy, a concept promoted more than fifty years ago by dag hammarskjöld, former un secretary general, is now being institutionalized through united nations regional center for preventive diplomacy for central asia (unrcca), which is established for the purpose of peaceful settlements of disputes, and prevention of conflicts by using preventive and early warning mechanisms. the ce...

The United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (UN SCN) declares that hunger poses the gravest single threat to the world’s public health . It is estimated that every five seconds, a child under 10 dies from hunger and malnutrition-related diseases” 2 . The number of people suffering from hunger has increased every year since 1996: according to Jean Ziegler, former United Nations (UN) Speci...

the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide was adopted by the un general assembly in december 1948. in former yugoslavia and rwanda occurred many heinous crimes and majority ruling powers tried to destroy molem and totsi minority groups. the un security council established the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia (icty) and rwanda (ictr). the u...

"Innovative approaches such as 'weapons for development' and 'weapons for food' programmes are yielding concrete results as practical disarmament measures at the community level." (UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan)

This report gives a brief history of the UN General Assembly's activities preparatory to the Fourth World Conference on Women, a review of the General Assembly's debate on the Beijing Platform Agenda Item 165, and a description of the resolution passed by the Third Committee of the General Assembly on implementation of the Beijing Action Plan. Other resolutions related to the status of women a...

1 Jomo was an Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations system responsible for economic research during 2005-2015.; Chowdhury (Chief, Multi-Stakeholder Engagement & Outreach, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); Sharma (Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); Platz (Economic Affairs Officer, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA); correspo...