United Nations
Guide to Model UNFor the first time the United Nations is publishing the United Nations Guide to Model UN. Hundreds of thousands of students around the world participate every year in Model UN conferences at all education levels in schools and universities. This book is for them, as well as their teachers, librarians and organizers.
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State of the World's Children
Children, Food and Nutrition - Growing Well in a Changing WorldFor the first time in 20 years, UNICEF's The State of the World's Children examines nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. Despite progress in the past two decades, around 200 million under-5s suffer from undernutrition. Adding to this toll is rising obesity, which affects 38 million children.
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Human Development Report 2019
Beyond Income, Beyond Averages, Beyond Today - Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st CenturyInequalities in human development are a roadblock to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They are not just about disparities in income and wealth. They cannot be accounted for simply by using summary measures of inequality that focus on a single dimension.
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Yearbook of the United Nations 2014
Volume 68This volume covers the United Nations response to conflicts and violence in Libya, Syria, South Sudan and elsewhere in 2014. Along with details on the United Nations first-ever emergency health mission to meet the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa, the 2014 edition also portrays the mobilization of political momentum to address the global impacts of climate change and international migration as well as strengthen international legal instruments.
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World Migration Report 2020Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports. The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world.
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Gender Equality: Women's Rights in Review 2020
25 years after BeijingThis report takes an integrated approach to reporting on progress, gaps and challenges related to the advancement of gender equality and women's rights across six dimensions that link the Platform's critical areas of concern and the Sustainable Development Goals. It finds that there have been important gains since the adoption of the Beijing Platform in 1995, but that progress towards gender equality has stalled and even reversed in some areas in recent years.
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The Least Developed Countries Report 2019
The Present and Future of External Development Finance - Old Dependence, New ChallengesThis report provides a comprehensive source of socio-economic analysis and data on the world's most impoverished countries. It calls for least developed countries (LDCs) to ensure that external finance from all sources is directed to national development priorities, and urges the international community to scale up its support toward this goal.
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Industrial Development Report 2020
Industrializing in the Digital AgeThe emergence and diffusion of advanced digital production (ADP) technologies clustered around the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is radically altering the nature of manufacturing production, increasingly blurring the boundaries between physical and digital production systems. The significant requirements of ADP technologies are opening questions on whether industrialization is still a feasible or even a desirable strategy to achieve economic development.
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