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The State of World Population 1999
6 Billion - A Time for Choices
Women are having fewer children than ever before, and population growth has slowed from 2.0 to 1.3 percent in 30 years; but large families in the recent past mean that there are many more women of...
Women are having fewer children than ever before, and population growth has slowed from 2.0 to 1.3 percent in 30 years; but large families in the recent past mean that there are many more women of...
State of World Population 2002
People, Poverty and Possibilities
Attacking poverty directly has become an urgent global priority if we want to accelerate development and reduce inequality within and among nations. World leaders have agreed to launch a variety of...
Attacking poverty directly has become an urgent global priority if we want to accelerate development and reduce inequality within and among nations. World leaders have agreed to launch a variety of...
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Sixty-ninth Session
The present report, submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Assembly resolution 48/141, highlights some of the main achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
The present report, submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Assembly resolution 48/141, highlights some of the main achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Sessions (30 April - 18 May 2012 and 12-30 November 2012)
This is the official report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its forty-eighth and forty-ninth sessions during the period of 30 April to 18 May 2012 and 12 to 30 November...
This is the official report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its forty-eighth and forty-ninth sessions during the period of 30 April to 18 May 2012 and 12 to 30 November...
Human Rights
A Compilation of International Instruments - Universal Instruments
This two part volume replaces volume one of A Compilation of International Instruments, published by the United Nations in 1993. It is an extensive collection of existing human rights instruments...
This two part volume replaces volume one of A Compilation of International Instruments, published by the United Nations in 1993. It is an extensive collection of existing human rights instruments...
Human Rights in the Administration of Justice
A Manual for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers
Independent legal professionals play a fundamental role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need to have access to information on the...
Independent legal professionals play a fundamental role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need to have access to information on the...
Human Rights and Disability
The Current Use and Future Potential of United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the Context of...
This study looks at the current use and future potential of the United Nations’ human rights instruments in the field of disability. The world’s perspective shifted over the past two decades. People...
This study looks at the current use and future potential of the United Nations’ human rights instruments in the field of disability. The world’s perspective shifted over the past two decades. People...
Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
This report is produced in line with the Human Rights Committee’s decision to have it’s work disseminated to a larger audience. It includes 16 opinions expressed in seven Human Rights Committee...
This report is produced in line with the Human Rights Committee’s decision to have it’s work disseminated to a larger audience. It includes 16 opinions expressed in seven Human Rights Committee...
The State of World Population 1998
The New Generations
The population explosion is not over. Its reverberations are still being heard around the world. The world population has doubled since 1960, and, while women are having half the number of children...
The population explosion is not over. Its reverberations are still being heard around the world. The world population has doubled since 1960, and, while women are having half the number of children...
Selected Decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol, Vol 9
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The Human Rights Committee started its work under the Optional Protocol at its second session in 1977. From then until its eighty-fourth session in 2005, 1414 communications relating to alleged...
The Human Rights Committee started its work under the Optional Protocol at its second session in 1977. From then until its eighty-fourth session in 2005, 1414 communications relating to alleged...
Selected Decisions of the Committee Against Torture, Vol.1
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The worldwide eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges of the United Nations only a few years after it was created. To ensure adequate protection for all persons against...
The worldwide eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges of the United Nations only a few years after it was created. To ensure adequate protection for all persons against...
The State of World Population 2014
The Power of 1.8 Billion - Adolescents, Youth and the Transformation of the Future
Our world is home to 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24, and the youth population is growing fastest in the poorest nations. Within this generation are 600 million adolescent girls...
Our world is home to 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24, and the youth population is growing fastest in the poorest nations. Within this generation are 600 million adolescent girls...
Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Its Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth...
Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on Its Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Sessions (29 April-17 May 2002, 11-29 November 2002)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Sessions (5-23 May 2003, 10-28 November 2003)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Sessions (26 April-14 May 2004, 8-26 November 2004)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Sessions (1-19 May 2006, 6-24 November 2006)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Sessions (30 April-16 May, 5-23 November 2007)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Forty-second and Forty-third Sessions (4-22 May 2009, 2-20 November 2009)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Report on the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Sessions (2-20 May 2011, 14 November-2 December 2011)