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Law and Sustainable Development since Rio
Legal Trends in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
The ten years following the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) have been years of intense activity in the reform of national and international laws. This publication...
The ten years following the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) have been years of intense activity in the reform of national and international laws. This publication...
Right to Adequate Food in Emergencies, The
When natural disasters hit and violent conflicts arise, the right to food is often endangered. In most cases, food is used as an instrument to exert pressure on populations and countries. This study...
When natural disasters hit and violent conflicts arise, the right to food is often endangered. In most cases, food is used as an instrument to exert pressure on populations and countries. This study...
Perspectives and Guidelines on Food Legislation, with a New Model Food Law
The present text draws on FAO's experience in providing technical assistance to governments developing new food laws and regulations, setting out and examining the many elements of the national...
The present text draws on FAO's experience in providing technical assistance to governments developing new food laws and regulations, setting out and examining the many elements of the national...
Legal Framework for the Management of Animal Genetic Resources, The
Based on information gathered through national surveys and other sources, this study provides an overview of the main legal instruments at both international and national levels, including the...
Based on information gathered through national surveys and other sources, this study provides an overview of the main legal instruments at both international and national levels, including the...
Technical Problems in the Verification of a Ban on Space Weapons
This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...
This publication discusses the potential uses of space-based weapons against air and ground targets; military and civilian activities; verification means available; the establishment and verification...
Index to the Chemical Weapons Convention
This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...
This index serves as a quick means to find paragraphs in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an elaborate and complex multilateral disarmament treaty. Scholars, diplomats, scientists, politicians...
Migration and Population Change in Europe
Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...
Europe is experiencing a dramatic population change. This publication explains the demographic trends and structures causing this phenomenon. It identifies who are migrating, to where they are...
Crisis in the Balkans
Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...
Analyzes the instability and insecurity throughout Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia after the demise of the communist rule. It discusses the history and origins of ethnic friction as well as...
Regional Security and Confidence-building Processes
The Case of Southern Africa
This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...
This study looks back into the legacy of colonialism in the ten geographically contiguous countries generally known as Southern Africa, the post-colonial factors of apartheid and destabilization and...
Legal Approach to Verification in Disarmament or Arms Limitation
Legal policy and the diverse, complex and ambiguous verification processes are identified.
Legal policy and the diverse, complex and ambiguous verification processes are identified.
Verification Problems of the Washington Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-range Missiles
This research paper analyzes the highly ambiguous consequences of the Washington Treaty for security, common or individual, for strategic systems, for disarmament and for arms control, whether in...
This research paper analyzes the highly ambiguous consequences of the Washington Treaty for security, common or individual, for strategic systems, for disarmament and for arms control, whether in...
Third Review of the Biological Weapons Convention, The
Issues and Proposals
This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...
This research paper deals with the Third Convention as well as the First and Second on issues such as scope of obligations, verification and complaints procedures, confidence-building measures and...
Disarmament, Environment, and Development and Their Relevance to the Least Developed Countries
This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...
This is a compilation of papers by experts in the fields of disarmament, environment and development. The papers presented include: a comprehensive framework for action; a biospheric perspective...
Implications of IAEA Inspections Under Security Council Resolutions 687, The
This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...
This publication evaluates the first six inspections under resolution 687 and the possible consequences for the safeguards system of the IAEA in Iraq and for the control system of the Treaty on the...
Security Council Resolution 687 of 3 April 1991 in the Gulf Affair
Problems of Restoring and Safeguarding Peace
Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...
Resolution 687 adopted on 3 April 1991 by the Security Council, is a veritable legal monument. Its purpose was to put an end to the international conflict stemming from the occupation and annexation...
Non-proliferation Treaty, The
How to Remove the Residual Threats
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in force in 1970 suffers from several weaknesses. This paper discusses the weaknesses that must be overcome to remove the residual threats...
Ukraine's Non-nuclear Option
On 14 January 1992, Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's President reiterated that Ukraine has no need for nuclear capable men-of-war. The Ukraine with the third largest nuclear capability in the world...
On 14 January 1992, Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's President reiterated that Ukraine has no need for nuclear capable men-of-war. The Ukraine with the third largest nuclear capability in the world...
Access to Outer Space Technologies
Implications for International Security
Technological conquests in outer space and the potential implication for international security has demanded a forum for the discussion of priorities, confidence-building measures in outer space...
Technological conquests in outer space and the potential implication for international security has demanded a forum for the discussion of priorities, confidence-building measures in outer space...
Confidence-building Measures within the CSCE Process
Paragraph-by-paragraph Analysis of the Helsinki and Stockholm Regimes
The first systematic commentary on all the provisions of both the Helsinki and Stockholm 'confidence-building measures' regime. Formal and informal proposals and statements made during the different...
The first systematic commentary on all the provisions of both the Helsinki and Stockholm 'confidence-building measures' regime. Formal and informal proposals and statements made during the different...
Future Chemical Weapons Convention and its Organization, The
The Executive Council
This research paper presents the background of the negotiations on a Chemical Weapons Convention which will define rules and procedures that regularize behaviour and control its effects. It also...
This research paper presents the background of the negotiations on a Chemical Weapons Convention which will define rules and procedures that regularize behaviour and control its effects. It also...