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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...

Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international...

Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Current technologies and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and...

This is the official report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its fiftieth and fifty-first sessions during the period of 29 April to 17 May 2012 and 04 to 29 November 2013.

This is the official report on the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Sessions of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

This is the official report on the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Sessions of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s...

This book studies the processes which lead to the explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for...

Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. True for both developing and developed countries, this increasing economic insecurity is harmful...

This is the official report submitted to the Economic and Social Council by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth sessions (22...

This is the official report submitted to the Economic and Social Council by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its sixtieth, sixty-first, and sixty-second sessions (20-24...

This book spells out, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty...