With an estimated one million persons dying every month as a result of water scarcity or water-borne disease, the latest issue of the UN Chronicle focuses on freshwater and the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan—the major gathering of the International Year of Freshwater 2003.

It also includes coverage of the fifty-seventh General Assembly, which was marked by consideration of political, economic and environmental concerns that affect everyone. Other articles deal with international migration, AIDS/HIV and other diseases, the Global Compact, terrorism, as well as international peace and security.

These stories and more can all be found in Volume XL, Number 1, 2003:

Issue 1, 2003

• “Guest Column — International Year of Freshwater:
  A Viewpoint from Central Asia”
  by Emomali Rakhmonov, President of the Republic of Tajikistan.
  Also see: 2nd UN World Water Development Report
  
  

• “Networks: Creating Collaborative Hubs Within, and Among, the United Nations”
  by Sarah Wolfe, doctoral student at the University of Guelph, Canada (Geography), and part of the Guelph Water Management Group researching network innovation, organizations and water management decisions.
  

• “The Chronicle Interview:
  'A whole new, or very old, revival of natural resources' ”
  Ashok Khosla, winner of the Sasakawa Environment Prize, talks about water systems and sustainable livelihoods.
  

• “Reflections: World Summit on Nobel Peace Laureates”
  by Douglas Roche O. C., Canada Senator, who attended the Nobel Summit as the representative of the International Peace Bureau (Nobel laureate of 1910).
  

• “Hardship at Home, Hardship Abroad:
  The Migration 'System' Doesn't Work”
  by Russell Taylor, for the Chronicle.
  

• “First Person: It Is Not As If Somebody Said There Would Be No Miracle”
  The author of this article, written for the Chronicle, has chosen to remain anonymous. She candidly talks about her life's experience and everyday struggle with AIDS.
  

• “Of Conflict, and Post-conflict, Situations:
  Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization)”
  by Vikram Sura, for the Chronicle.
  

• “SystemWatch—NEPAD: Making Individual Bests a Continental Norm”
  by K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa.
  

• PeaceWatch
  

These stories and more can be found at UN Chronicle Online at www.un.org/chronicle.

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