UNRIC Library Newsletter – January 2006

UN in General

Documents historiques du Conseil de sécurité http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/dhlf/landmark_sc/index.html

Documentos históricos del Consejo de Seguridad http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/spanish/landmark_sc/index.html 

Global Compact: Launch of new web site
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/

International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust [observed 27 January]
Fact Sheet, Public Inquiries Unit, December 2005: http://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/factsheets/factsheets.htm
UN CyberSchoolBus: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/holocaust/index.asp

Jalons historiques de l’ONU (Nouvelle version du site)
http://www.un.org/french/aboutun/milestones/

The Nobel Peace Prize and the United Nations (Fact Sheet, Public Inquiries Unit, December 2005)
http://www.un.org/geninfo/faq/factsheets/nobelpeaceprize.pdf

La ONU trabaja por las pequeñas naciones insulares
Historias de personas comunes y corrientes, que viven en islas pequeñas y tienen grandes proyectos, y que han logrado cambios extraordinarios en sus respectivas comunidades
http://www.un.org/spanish/works/smallislands/index.html

L'ONU travaille pour tous (Nouvelle version du site)
http://www.un.org/french/works/

Peace & Security

Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (New York, 9-20 January 2006)
http://www.un.org/events/smallarms2006/index.html

Second Report of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005) and 1636 (2005)
English, French and Spanish: http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2005/775

United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
English: http://www.un.org/peace/peacebuilding/
French: http://www.un.org/french/peace/peacebuilding/
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/peace/peacebuilding/

Economic & Social Development

7th Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
16 January - 3 February 2006
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahc7.htm

34th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UNHQ New York, 16 January-3 February 2006)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/34sess.htm

Blue Book "Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development" (UN DESA and UNCDF report)
http://www.uncdf.org/english/microfinance/bluebook/pub/index.php?get_page=contents

China Human Development Report 2005 (UNDP)
http://www.undp.org.cn/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&topic=40&sid=228

Economic Report on Africa 2005: Meeting the Challenges of Unemployement and Poverty in Africa (UNECA report)
http://www.uneca.org/era2005/

The Songhua River Spill, China, December 2005 (UNEP Field Mission Report )
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=467&ArticleID=5076&l=en

UN Chronicle Online Edition
The Inequality Predicament
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/e_alert/121605_Inequality.html

WHO Handbook for Journalists: Influenza Pandemic
http://www.who.int/csr/don/Handbook_influenza_pandemic_dec05.pdf

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2006 http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp.html

The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/wwpub.htm

Humanitarian Affairs

Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
http://ochaonline.un.org/

Children and the Tsunami, A Year On: A Draft UNICEF Summary of What Worked
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_30540.html

International Law

United Nations Convention against Corruption entered into force
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_convention_corruption.html