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Costs of Disarmament

Rethinking the Price Tag - A Methodological Inquiry into the Costs and Benefits of Arms Control

( Print: November 2002 )

This study investigates the methodological challenges of analyzing the costs and benefits associated with arms control. The need for such a study has arisen because the cumulative increases in the...

Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016

Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights

Series: Progress of the World’s Women

( Print: July 2015, PDF: December 2015 )

This UN Women’s flagship report shows that, all too often, women’s economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a ‘man’s world’. But, it is possible to move beyond the...

The Security Council at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

To What Extent Is It Willing and Able to Maintain International Peace and Security?

( Print: March 2004, PDF: October 2006 )

This study looks at the United Nations Security Council through the prism of major international security issues since the end of the Cold War. Special emphasis is placed on explaining how the...

Conseil de Sécurité à L'aube du XXIème Siècle, Le

Quelle Volonté et Quelle Capacité a-t-il de Maintenir la Paix et la Sécurité Internationales?

( Print: January 2003, PDF: October 2006 )

Le développement de l'activité du Conseil de sécurité depuis la fin de la guerre froide s'est accompagné d'une mutation de ses principaux instruments d'intervention à la mesure des changements des...

Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Time for Control

( Print: January 2003, PDF: October 2006 )

Following the New York terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the issue of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, in particular fissile materials, has been raised on numerous occasions. The...

World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2014

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development

Series: World Survey of the Role of Women in Development

( Print: April 2015, PDF: December 2014 )

Ensuring women’s economic empowerment and access to and control over resources requires an integrated approach to growth and development, focused on gender-responsive employment promotion and informed...

Paix de Tombouctou, La

Gestion Démocratique, Développement et Construction Africaine de la Paix

( Print: September 1999 )

Tactical Nuclear Weapons

A Perspective from Ukraine

( Print: February 2001 )

This study is concerned with the present and future role of tactical nuclear weapons in the new European security system. Ukraine, a country that once had the world's third largest nuclear arsenal...

Illicit Traffic in Firearms

Prevention and Combat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - A National, Regional and Global Issue

( Print: January 2002 )

The problem of illicit trafficking in firearms, ammunition and explosives, is a local, regional and international concern. Effective measures against it must involve a concerted effort by the relevant...

Partners in Change

Working with Men to End Gender-based Violence

( Print: April 2003 )

This compilation of working papers put out by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), provides a glimpse of the scope of work that is...

Represión del Tráfico Ilícito de Armas Pequeñas y Tecnologías Sensibles

Una Agenda Orientada hacia la Acción

( Print: September 1998 )

Existen buenas razones para opinar que las cuestiones del tráfico de armas pequeñas y tecnologías sensibles pueden tratarse como un solo problema, aunque, a primera vista, abarcan gran variedad de...

Ageing in a Gendered World

Women's Issues and Identities

( Print: April 2000 )

In every region, populations are getting older. Moreover, ageing is a gendered phenomenon: women live longer, have fewer resources and they are expected to care for elderly relatives as well as young...

Project Coast

Apartheid's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme

( Print: February 2003 )

This publication explains how the apartheid government in South Africa put together a determined chemical and biological weapons programme aimed at poisoning people within and outside South Africa....