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Volume XXXVIII
Number 2 2001

About This Issue: Death, and Health, in Africa

        
In This Issue ... Death, and Health, in Africa
A Second Term and Some Priorities Ahead (4)
Appointed for a second five-year term as Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan's priorities since taking office on 1 January 1997 have been to: revitalize the Organization through a programme of reform

Democracy: An International Issue (25)
Secretary-General Kofi Annan



The Chronicle Interview
The Peaceful Resolution of Crises (58)
Han Seung-Soo, President of the next General Assembly, talks to the Chronicle about the agenda of the fifty-sixth session, the upcoming special session on children, lessons of the Asian financial crisis, peace and security on the Korean Peninsula
and more.

Plus
Then and Now: United Nations Population Fund (18)
Nafis Sadik

Around the World with the Wind (21)
Bertrand Piccard

General Assembly Renews Commitment to Principles of Habitat Agenda (60)

Legislative Challenges for Sustainable Urban Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (62)
K. H. Wekwete and S. M. Sesay

Zambia's First Decade as LDC (65)
Nadja Schmeil

Departments

UNreported (57)

The Chronicle Library Shelf (64)

PeaceWatch (71)

Moorings: No Star Burns Brighter than Family (78)
Lawri Lala Moore

NGOWatch: Rule of Law Has a New Forum (78)
Slavi Pachovski

Thinking Aloud: The United Nations: Redefinition or Renewal? (68)
Two views on the burning issues facing the United Nations, and on how the Organization should approach them.
Dirk Jan van den Berg and Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Health Challenges

The Ebola Virus … and the Challenges to Health Research in Africa (6)
Daniel Bausch

Leprosy: Global Target Attained (13)

Has Beans. Is Well. A Story on Kisanfu Health Centre (14)
Hilary Bower

Special Session on HIV/AIDS:
The Price of Success - The Cost of Failure (15)


Beyond Tolerance

In this special section of the Chronicle, we look at an aspect of life for many today that is, quite simply, beyond tolerance - the persistence of beliefs in the inequality of some human beings, at birth, in life and in death, in dignity and the assurance of rights.

A Vast, Afflicted Landscape (27)
Michael E. Sherifis

Limiting Power of Governments over People (28)
Joya Rajadhyasha

Ethnocentrism in Africa (30)
Theresa Okafor

Reconciling Non-intervention and Human Rights (32)
Douglas T. Stuart

What the United Nations Should Do about People Smuggling (34)
Philip Ruddock

Diversity, Human Rights and Peace (36)
Anita Inder Singh

The Seeds of the Syringa Tree (38)
Pamela Gien

Centrespread: Tolerance and Diversity (40)

Our Children: The Divide between Promise and Progress (42)

Towards Real Mutual Tolerance (45)
Koïchiro Matsuura

Education and the Freedom from Exclusion (47)
Colette Mazzucelli

Tourism: The Enhancement of Respect (51)
Francesco Frangialli

Listening. Inclusiveness. Tolerance. Reciprocity. (54)
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

Durban: Admission Unreserved (56)
Jonny Sinaga

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