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WHO/P.Virot
| The 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, will be the major gathering of the International Year of Freshwater 2003. There, the World Water Assessment Programme—a collaboration between 23 UN agencies-will present its World Water Development Report. This is the first of a series of reports on the state of water stress in the world, to be published every three years. (Section coordinated by Alexandre Slavashevich.)
International Year of Freshwater:
A Viewpoint from Central Asia
President Emomali Rakhmonov of the Republic of Tajikistan
Creating Collaborative Hubs Within, and Among, the United Nations
Sarah Wolfe
'More Crop per Drop'
Tushaar Shah
Halve the Proportion of People Without Safe Drinking Water
Vivek Rai
Untreated Sewage Threatens Seas, Coastal Population
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Global Water Withdrawal and Consumption
'A New Management Tool for Decision-making'
'Nothing Is Closer Than Tomorrow'
Kassymzhomart K. Tokaev
What Can the United Nations Do to Preserve and Promote Freshwater Resources?
Bernard Barraqué
No One Can Say We Were Not Warned
David B. Brooks
'A whole new, or very old, revival of natural resources'
Ashok Khosla, founding Director of Development Alternatives, talks about water systems and sustainable livelihoods
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Photo Horst Rutsch
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UNESCO/D.Roger
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'Only a Collective, Multilateral Approach Can Make the World a Safer Place'
Challenging Stereotypes
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
The Migration 'System' Doesn't Work
Russell Taylor
Georg Kell and David Levin
Peter Utting
Inventing the Future in International Telecommunications
Yoshio Utsumi
World Summit on Nobel Peace Laureates
Douglas Roche
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| Health |
HIV in the CIS
Sanjay Sethi
It Is Not As If Somebody Said There Would Be No Miracle
Anonymous
'Science in the Service of Human Rights'
A Review by George Kent
Roma Rana
A Veterinarian's Fight Against Leishmaniasis
Inayatullah H. Kathio
Tackling Leishmaniasis-and Narcotics
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| The Fifty-seventh General Assembly |
Even as developments within the Security Council often overshadowed results from other areas of the United Nations, the agenda of the fifty-seventh General Assembly showed a marked turn towards political, economic and environmental concerns, as well as human rights issues.
(The General Assembly section was coordinated and written by Vikram Sura with Jonas Hagen.)
First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)
Second Committee (Economic and Financial)
Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)
Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization)
Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary)
Sixth Committee (Legal)
Negotiating for Africa's Development
Vikram Sura
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NEPAD: Making Individual Bests a Continental Norm
K. Y. Amoako
The Road to Iraq's Disarmament
Liz Willmott
UNMIBH; Other Peacekeeping-related Actions
Soft Power Approach
Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard talks about the International Ethical, Political and Scientific Collegium
Who Should Lead Our Anti-terrorism Efforts?
Edward McMahon and Kaveh Afrasiabi
Wiping Out the Harsh Statistics
Lawri Lala Moore
'Women Go Global'—New CD-ROM Makes Its Debut
Nuchhi Currier
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