Official records of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund: Report on the First and Second Regular Sessions and Annual Session of 2013

In accordance with General Regulation VI.3 and pursuant to Executive Board decision 2000/EB.A/2, the Executive Board of the World Food Programme presents to the Economic and Social Council and the Food and Agriculture Organization Council this report on its activities in 2014 for consideration.

Part I of this report assesses trends and developments in regional trade and investment flows and policies in an attempt to provide the insights and information necessary to separate the cyclical from the structural aspects. Part II analyses the participation of Asia-Pacific economies in global and regional value chains. By observing how economies at different levels of development have integrated into supply chains at different speeds and to varying extents, we can cast light on those policies that influence and shape value chain participation, and hence influence future patterns of trade and investment. The particular features of participation in value chains also have an impact on the ability of countries to access foreign technology and build innovative capacity, which in turn influences structural change and future development options.

It is no secret that the US variously pulls away from the United Nations and embraces it as a significant venue for policy initiatives. But what explains this dramatic inconsistency? What is the logic of US multilateralism? Alynna Lyon explores the puzzling waxing and waning of US support for the UN, tracing events, actions, and decisions from the end of World War I to the present. Lyon weaves together a consideration of international context, UN institutional dynamics, and US domestic politics to conceptualize and explain the trials and tribulations of the US-UN relationship. In the process, she tells the story of the progression of the US from a country committed to internationalism to one full of dysfunctional partisanship, ideological underpinnings, and domestic power struggles that undermine its capacities to cooperate on a global scale.

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances on the Fifth session (4-15 November 2013) and the Sixth session (17-28 March 2014)

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on the Nineteenth session (9-13 September 2013) and the Twentieth session (31-11 April 2014)

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.

This is the official record of the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

This is the official report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on its eighteenth session during the period of 4-8 May 2015.

This is the official record of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-ninth session for the period of 21 March 2014 and 9-20 March 2015.

This is the official record of the report of the Commission for Social Development on its fifty-second third for the period of 21 February 2013 and 4-13 February 2014.

Little known outside a small community of insiders, the United Nations Association-USA has had an impact on both the UN and the US-UN relationship far greater than its size would suggest. James Wurst explores that impact as he traces the sometimes tortuous history of the UNA-USA from its earliest days to the present. Beginning with efforts in support of the creation of the United Nations-and covering the decades-long campaign to promote the UN to the US public, the role of Eleanor Roosevelt, the decline of popular support, Track II diplomacy with Iran and the Soviet Union, and much more-Wurst draws on a wealth of archival material and personal interviews to tell an honest, and long overdue, story of the UNA-USA's persistence, problems, and achievements.

How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the United Nations. Martin Barber, for many years a senior UN official and with decades of humanitarian experience, here argues that the explanation for UN 'failures' or only partial successes lies not with any lack of idealism or good intentions but with the constraints placed on aid workers by ill-considered policies and poor practical application - officials are 'blinded by humanity'.Barber presents an inside story based on personal/hands-on/practical experience in Laos, Thailand, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and, finally, in Abu Dhabi where he advised the UAE government on its aid programme. He tells of internal struggles at head office and the challenges of working in the field. All the major UN activities - and headaches - are here, including refugee work, coordinating humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, the huge problem of 'de-mining', and the complex internal workings of the UN Secretariat.A personal narrative and lessons drawn from direct experience provide the frame for an examination of major questions concerning the future of humanitarian response - how effectively have international institutions discharged their responsibilities towards people affected by conflict? Specifically, how did the UN perform? And how might the UN better help such people in the 21st century? Barber analyses recent policy developments intended to improve the quality and effectiveness of the UN's work in humanitarian fields, and assesses the extent to which recent reforms are likely to make the UN a more effective partner for countries emerging from conflict. In the final chapter he highlights seven 'blind spots' whose significance has been consistently ignored or overlooked, and in each case suggests a radical new approach.

Official report on the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Sessions of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (30 April - 18 May 2012 and 12-30 November 2012)

This publication is the official record of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on the Report on the Twenty-first Session

Official records of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund: Report on the First and Second Regular Sessions and Annual Session of 2012.

Official records of the Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the Fifty-fifth Session for the period of 13 December 2011 and 12-16 March 2012.

Report on the Fourth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management.

The document presents the Report on the Seventh Session (24-28 October 2011) of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters Issues.

Official Record of the Report of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration on the thirteenth session (7-11 April 2014)

Official records of the Report of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on the Thirteenth Session

The Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council is a bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the Economic and Social Council. This issue covers the 2013 session of the Council including the organizational and substantive session. The Index is divided in two parts comprising the Subject Index and Index to Speeches. The Index is prepared by the Dag Hammarskjoeld Library, Department of Public Information, as one of the products of the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS).

Official records of the Report of the Committee for Development Policy on the Sixteenth Session

Official Records of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development: Report on the Seventeenth Session.

In accordance with General Regulation VI.3 and pursuant to Executive Board decision 2000/EB.A/2, the Executive Board of the World Food programme presents to the Economic and Social Council and the Food and Agriculture organisation Council this report on its activities in 2012 for consideration.