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Asia and the Pacific is witnessing the fact that older persons are becoming a larger and more visible part of the economic, social and political landscape. In three parts, this publication focuses on...

The approach to several key issues related to social integration in the ESCAP region have undergone profound changes. Market-based solutions such as employment generation and skills training in the...

This paper elaborates on the current approaches in viewing the private sector as either a partner or a separate entity in delivering such basic social services as education, healthcare, water and...

This issue of the Social Policy Paper Series includes three papers. The first is an overview of regional implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration, primarily in the ESCAP Region. The second reviews...

This paper presents an overview of social services in Asia and the Pacific. It analyzes the access to social services by the poor and disadvantaged and examines important related issues. The following...

This publication provides an overview of national policies and programmes on ageing in Asia and the Pacific. It focuses on the analysis of major issues and examines lessons learned. The publication is...

MICT Bibliography on ICTR and ICTY is a new bibliography product combining reference materials on both tribunals. The aim of the product is to ensure that researchers around the world locate published...

The number of elderly in Asia will more than double by 2025: 705 million against 322 million in 2000. This publication addresses major policy implications of population ageing in Asia and the Pacific...

This fourth bibliography is compiled by the library in order to facilitate researcher’s access to the increasing volume of published documents on the work of the tribunal. The product is the unique...

Since the inception of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, ESCAP has been conducting reviews of the progress in achieving the goals of the Decade, in particular, the implementation of...

Several years following its breakout in mid-1997, the impact and devastating consequences of the regional economic crisis still linger on. In response to this crisis, the affected countries set up...

This publication is a further step following the issuance in November 1999 of the publication entitled “Establishing a Social Development Management Information System: Issues and Perspectives”, with...

This paper discusses the current approaches to international migration as an emerging social development issue that merits attention in the post-Copenhagen Declaration years. Special emphasis is...

The progressive steps that are being taken at the national, sub-regional and regional levels to fulfill the objectives of the first Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons are examined in this...

The product is compiled by IRMCT Libraries to ensure that researchers around the world locate volume of published documents on the work of the ICTR and ICTY during their lifetime. The IRMCT...

Drug abuse has emerged only recently in the Republic of Maldives and is not widespread. In 1997, the government established the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) and a drug rehabilitation center to...

The bibliography is compiled by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) Libraries Team from both branches (Arusha and The Hague). It is an invaluable tool for gaining quick...

This bibliography was compiled by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Legal Library and Reference Section. It contains most of the publications written on the work of the ICTR during...

This bibliography is the second edition to be published by the UNICTR legal Library and Reference. It continue to show how the ICTR inspired researchers. Only for this edition, 200 titles will be...

This third bibliography is compiled by the library in order to facilitate researcher’s access to the increasing volume of published documents on the work of the tribunal. The product is the unique...