For over 25 years, The Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (ARUNA) has been the print source for researchers needing a comprehensive document collection that highlights the work of the United Nations' six principal organs each year. Recognized as the only print and bound collection for these documents, ARUNA is an essential reference for academic researchers and policy-makers. Coverage spans important resolutions and decisions, focusing on the significant documents and collaborative work of the United Nations. Selected ...
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For over 25 years, The Annual Review of United Nations Affairs (ARUNA) has been the print source for researchers needing a comprehensive document collection that highlights the work of the United Nations' six principal organs each year. Recognized as the only print and bound collection for these documents, ARUNA is an essential reference for academic researchers and policy-makers. Coverage spans important resolutions and decisions, focusing on the significant documents and collaborative work of the United Nations. Selected reports of intergovernmental bodies and expert groups are also included and documents are grouped together by subject matter for easy reference. Each year, a new guest author provides an introduction to the set, analyzing the major themes covered throughout that year. ARUNA provides an in-depth view to an organization that today has more the 63,000 employees located in nearly 175 countries and is responsible for implementing the decisions of the governing bodies. This particular edition (2006-07): The past year has been one of the most tumultuous and challenging in the U.N.'s history and, indeed, in the modern history of the entire globe. This year's edition of ARUNA presents the story of that tumult as well as the story of the U.N.'s efforts to resolve both global conflicts and internal controversy. Specifically, this year's set of volumes includes documents related to the U.N.-based World Food Programme, whose management provoked an international scandal last year. However, most the 2006-07 edition of ARUNA focuses on the more critical issues affecting millions of lives around the world in the past year: the Darfur genocide, climate change, the Palestinian refugee crisis, West Africa's political and social instability. By providing the full text of both the resolutions addressing these topics and the U.N. reports concerning them, ARUNA 06/07 delivers a unique resource for students, scholars, and practitioners. The series' topic-based organization of the materials and subject index lend invaluable guidance to all researchers. This year, Dr. Edward Luck, the Director of the Center on International Organization of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, is contributing an introductory essay that will illuminate this year's varied and troubling world events. This particular volume (Vol. 2): This volume consists solely of G.A. resolutions from the second half of the G.A.'s 61st session (January to September of 2007). This collection of recent resolutions focus primarily on the following topics: DTHuman Rights abuses by the governments of Myanmar, Israel, and Iran. DTThe use of torture by officers and agents of a government. DTAfrica: development, infectious diseases, U.N. intervention in regional conflicts, the U.N.'s Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa, U.N. funding of the Sierra Leone and Rwanda tribunals, and cooperation between the U.N. and the African Union. DTCombatting poverty worldwide. DTCombatting the defamation of Islam by media sources. DTCombatting denials of the Holocaust. DTThe imperative that governments observe human rights principles while conducting the global war against terrorism. DTThe imperative that U.N. peacekeepers refrain from sexual exploitation. DTClimate change and natural disasters. DTGlobalization, development in the poorest countries, fair trade practices, and the fight aganst poverty generally. DTThe U.N.'s internal management of its own financial practices.
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2008. Oceana. Hard Cover. Book-VG+, integral colour boards. 10x7. 578pp. This is the second of five volumes reviewing the affairs of the United Nations during 2006 and 2007. It looks at the dealings of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly together with decisions taken by the Security Council.
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Very Good+ No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Navy hardcover with bright gilt lettering and trim on front cover and spine, corners and spine ends a little bumped, cover shows slight rubbing. Ink stamping on page bottoms, stray marks on page tops, pages edges a little soiled. Binding tight, pages white and very clean, no markings. 578 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.
