UN Chronicle: Issue 4, 2000: Contents

Volume XXXVII
Number 4 2000

About This Issue:
Managing Disasters

From the Secretary-General (4)
The Secretary-General observes "the main cause of rising losses is human activity".
Kofi Annan

Essay: Disasters: What the UN and Its World Can Do (6)
Lessons learned in the decade dedicated to reducing loss from natural disasters suggest the need for an international treaty to commit Governments to measures that would help prevent such tragic losses.
Ben Wisner

When Disaster Strikes (10)
How the United Nations responds to calamity.

In Emergency Call: (41 22) 917-2010 (12)

The Risk of Competing Risks (13)
The upcoming annual World Vulnerability Report will focus on what nations have done on natural disasters risk reduction.

HealthWatch (14)
A 2000 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation highlights the most serious accident involving radiation exposure.
Lars-Erik Holm

Plus a report on radiation fallout in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

DevelopmentWatch (16)
A new device to measure soil, rock strength.
Husaini Omar

Chronicle Interview

Wendy Fitzwilliam (71)
Miss Universe 1998 Wendy Fitzwilliam, Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS and spokesperson for the Face to Face campaign, talks to the Chronicle about promoting AIDS awareness among women and young people around the world.

The Millennium Assembly

Plenary:
Hitting High Notes (29)

First Committee:
Closer to a nuclear-weapon-free world (32)

Second Committee:
United and flying high (34)

Third Committee:
An eye on crime (38)

Fourth Committee:
Peacekeeping reform (46)

Fifth Committee:
Revising the scale of assessment (48)

Sixth Committee:
Saying no to terrorism (50)

Pull out:
The Principal Organs of the United Nations (40)

A Century in Retrospect

Projects for Accelerating Human Development (21)
The twenty-first century will be shaped by the development choices we make today.
Ruth Kagia

SystemWatch

Challenging Agenda: The Role of Geneva in the Years to Come (75)
Vladimir Petrovsky

Credibility is Issue at May LDC Meeting (28)
Nadja Schmeil

Revitalizing Habitat (54)
A conversation with Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka

UNRWA Pioneers Microfinance Programme (56)

A Millennium of Minds

A Global Financial Architecture? (18)
It's time to adapt the interrelationships between world financial instruments and the United Nations.
Jim Morgan, R.A.
Managing the Globalization Process (19)
The United Nations needs to be more flexible, efficient and proactive.
Carlos Lopes
Civil Society and a Global Norm (26)
Greater openness for civic involvement in global regimes challenges both civic groups and Governments.
Michael Edwards

PeaceWatch

The Year 2000 in Review (60)
Renewed violence in the Middle East and developments in Africa were among the major issues before the United Nations.
Building Peace in Haiti (69)
Charles Arthur

On Our Library Shelf

The Future of Development Assistance (23)
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development (25)
Ragini Malhotra
International Relations and Postmodernism (27)
Alison Leslie
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the United Nations (28)
Adelaide Kernochan
The International Law Commission (58)
Dejan Sahovic
Reflecting on Preventive Diplomacy in Burundi (59)
Jerome Hule

Departments

UNreported (53)
Moorings: Everybody's Born an Artist (78)
Lawri Lala Moore

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