Vol. 31 No. 2, June 1994
Index
- 'Unprecedented expansion' not matched by financial support.
- 1994 session cites 'increased need for disarmament.' (UN Conference on Disarmament meeting, Jan 25-Mar 31, 1994) (includes news of other UN actions on disarmament and chemical weapons)
- A time to reflect, a time to look forward.
- Assembly, council support steps to promote first non-racial, democratic elections.
- Capturing sun-rays, reaping the wind.
- Chemical warfare agents destroyed, Special Commission reports.
- Civilian human rights observers return; UN mission faces obstacles.
- Commission confronts 'new realities'; 109 texts adopted at six-week session.
- Commission gives high priority to monitoring global trends.
- Completion of inspections urged.
- Desertification convention nears completion.
- Deteriorating security situation continues: UNAMIR mandate extended.
- Draft for 1995 summit prepared.
- Equal pay, urban women problems discussed by Commission.
- Fate of world's fisheries debated.
- From the 'A-train' to fighting AIDS.
- High Commissioner for Human Rights: the 'moral voice of humanity.' (UN appoints Jose Ayala Lasso) (Interview)
- Identification Commission to proceed with voter registration.
- International cartels expand influence, INCB reports.
- Investigating the acts of desperate men.
- Lack of agreement reported on confidence-building package.
- Life, Death and Aid: The Medecins Sans Frontieres Report on World Crisis Intervention.
- Mandate for UNOSOM II revised; 'coercive methods' not to be used.
- National Transitional Government installed as disarmament begins.
- Natural resources committee calls for global water plan.
- Peaceful, historic elections 'acceptable' but second round required; 1.5 million voters at poll.
- Progress towards national reconciliation reported; mandate of UNAVEM II extended.
- Regions prepare for 1995 congress.
- Renewable energy sources discussed.
- Return to 'normal life' in Sarajevo urged; new agreement, cease-fires reached, but situation 'far from stable.' (includes related article on book 'I Dream of Peace: Images of War by Children of Former Yugoslavia')
- Security Council condemns 'appalling' Hebron massacre.
- Small island nations face big issues at Barbados conference.
- Students discuss UN issues in ambassadors' chairs.
- Task of nation-building 'monumental.' (UN Sec Gen Boutros Boutros Ghali's concerns for Cambodia)
- The 38th floor: a time for realism; following are excerpts from statements by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made between 1 January and 31 March 1994.
- Timetable for withdrawal of ONUMOZ asked.
- Two major accords signed.
- Ethnic conflicts, turmoil persist; observer status granted to CIS.
- Confronting a calamity: to combat the world's most menacing epidemic, the UN mounts a new joint programme.
- Acting now to make a difference.
- Women and children: increasingly targeted by HIV.
- Rescue Mission Planet Earth: A Children's Edition of Agenda 21.
- The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 1993, vol. 18.
- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis.