THE YOUTH ISSUE: YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAKING THEIR MIND
Vol. XLVII, No. 4, 2010 (25.01.2011)
What do 1.2 billion young people think about a world whose leadership they are about to inherit? To find out, the UN Chronicle invited young persons between twelve and twenty-four years old from around the globe to take over its pages for this special Youth Issue. Read their opinions, concerns and suggestions on nuclear disarmament, on protecting child soldiers, on social media and the digital divide, adolescent marriage and sexuality, rights of indigenous communities, and more. The Youth Issue also features exclusive essays written by the UN Chronicle's Facebook audience on the Millennium Development Goals.
- Our Body, Our Earth
- Commit to Love and Respect Our Planet
- Saving Water, Saving Lives
- The Gross Divide Between the Rich and the Poor
- Water, Our Life
- An Integrated Approach to Development
- Has Communication Become as Complex as Devices Themselves?
- Are "Twittering" Youth Agents of Positive Change?
- What About People Whose Concern Is their Next Meal not Internet Connectivity?
- Achieve a Balanced Life, with Sports
- The Conference on Disarmament: Injecting Political Will
- My Child Shall Be Protected
- Youth Leaders Must Be Accountable
- Adolescent Marriage: Crossroad or Status Quo?
- Adolescent Sexuality
- We Have Become the Change Agents in Our Communities
- The Meaning of Tolerance: Reflections of a Palestinian Girl and Israeli Boy
- Let Countries Customize the MDGs
- A Problem of Priority, Not Scarcity
- Commitment is the Key
- Settle the Social Debt Owed to People
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WHAT IS THE UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT?
Vol. XLVII, No. 3, 2010 (16.11.2010)
UN Chronicle, Issue No. 3, 2010 on “What is the UN Academic Impact?” coincided with the launch of the initiative by that name by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 18 November in New York.
The edition focuses on the importance of education, especially higher education, in strengthening a culture of intellectual social responsibility, and on how higher education can help in eradicating poverty, empowering girls and women, strengthening democracies and contributing to sustainable development. UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova, in her contribution, underscores the current unequal access to education for girls, the marginalized, and indigenous peoples. She spotlights the challenges in achieving quality education and stresses the imperative role of proper financing in unlocking the crises. The edition also looks at successful non-governmental models that employ will, vision, and technology to find low cost ways of bringing education to marginalized rural communities.
- The United Nations Academic Impact
- Education for All: Rising to the Challenge
- Preparing the Next Generation to Join the Conference Table
- Unlearning Intolerence through Education
- Can Education Be Made Mobile?
- National Identity and Minority Languages
- Education as a Means to Promote Sustainability
- Academic Impact and Education for Sustainable Development: The Contribution of Black Sea Region Universities
- Reducing Poverty Through Education - and How
- SimplyHelp Cambodia: A Vocational Education Mode of Success
- Civic Education and Inclusion: A Market or a Public Interest Perspective?
- Who Speaks for the Poor, And Why Does it Matter?
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ACHIEVING GLOBAL HEALTH
Vol. XLVII, No. 2, 2010 (28.07.2010)
Issue 2 of 2010 spotlights health priorities for the twenty-first century. Expert contributors assess that the Millennium Development Goals will not be met in many low-income countries by 2015. They also draw attention to the impact of the global economic downturn and climate change in redrawing health priorities, and the challenge posed by the twin crises in optimizing resources between communicable diseases and emerging non-communicable illnesses.
The print and the online editions also feature a visually stunning story on the perils of malaria by award-winning artists Adam Nadel and Kako, and an exclusive photo spread by Wayne Quilliam, Australia’s National Indigenous Artist of 2009.
- Primary Health Care: Now More Than Ever
- Global Health: Priority Agenda for the 21st Century
- Global Health: Then and Now
- HIV/AIDS: Will We Win and When?
- Climate Change and Malaria - A Complex Relationship
- Malaria: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
- LIFESTYLE DISEASES: An Economic Burden on the Health Services
- LIFESTYLE DISEASES: Access to Chronic Disease Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Why No one Talks about Non-communicable Diseases
- Policy Trends in Advancing Safe Motherhood
- Developing Global Public Health Links
- Indigenous Children - Their Human Rights, Mortality, and the Millennium Development Goals
- Australia's First People - Their Social and Emotional Well-being
- Photo Essay: Documenting my Culture in its Truest Form
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EMPOWERING WOMEN "Progress or not?"
Vol. XLVII, No 1, 2010 (26.02.2010)
This issue is devoted to examining the unique challenges facing women and girls across the world. Top academics, non-governmental workers, activists and United Nations officials write of how to address these challenges, whether they are effectively being addressed at all and, if so, what worked and why, and what did not and why not? Among the prominent contributions, including articles by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, Thoraya Obaid, Rachel Mayanja, UN Messenger of Peace Charlize Theron and UN Citizen Ambassador Emily Troutman, are essays and first-person accounts of war and sexual violence, safety of refugee women and girls and the UN system's coordinated response to protecting the rights of women and girls everywhere.
- Time for Solidarity with Women of Haiti
- In Haiti... The World From Her Mother's Side
- At What Point Does One Lose One's Humanity?
- United Nations Agencies Forward Together in the Response to Violence Against Women
- Confronting Violence Against Women - What Has Worked Well and Why
- Armed Conflict and Women - 10 Years of Security Council Resolution 1325
- Sexual Violence as a War Tactic - Security Council Resolution 1888: Next Steps
- Social Protection for Women
- Invisible in the Media
- An Invisible Life
- Women in Politics - The Fight to End Violence Against Women
- Educate Girls, Eradicate Poverty - A Mutually Reinforcing Goal
- A Story of Violence
- When Things Fall Apart
- Navigating Refugee Life
- Prevention, Prosection and Protection - Human Trafficking
- A Brief Survey of Women's Rights
- Freedom of Expression, a Fundamental Human Right
- Help and Support Migrant Families Around the World
- Hungry to Learn
- Much Cause for Satisfaction
- The Deadline Has Arrived
- Toward a New Future for Haiti