UN Chronicle

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Articles in Winter 1997 issue of UN Chronicle

• The United Nations information system and the world citizen - Breaking the Barriers: Are We That Difficult to Understand?
  by Inocencio F. Arias
• Poverty eradication in Tanzania sets itself 2010 target
  by J. Victor Angelo
• Former Yugoslavia - includes related article on UN Commission on Human Rights official's recommendations regarding former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Peacewatch
• Communicating effectively: The United Nations in the national media - includes related article on refugee camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - Breaking the Barriers: Are We That Difficult to Understand?
  by Hans Dahlgren
• Initiative: Great Lakes - health initiatives by WHO in five African Great Lakes region countries
  by E.M. Samba
• Growing from grassroots
  by Shomik Chaudhuri
• Unreported: news on the United Nations system at work
• Living in the shadows - children with HIV
• Clandestine chemicals, degraded drylands
• Saying what we mean. Meaning what we say. Together - human rights issues
• From village to shantytown - effect of massive rural-to-urban migration on children
  by Souren Teghrarian
• An international intern - trainees at the UN headquarters in New York, NY
  by Emil Z. Huseynov
• A culture of human rights - UN human rights program
  by Jose Ayala Lasso
• Brazil and UNICEF join to end child prostitution
  by Arabela Rota
• The 'problem' of voluntary funding
  by Iqbal Haji
• Reason's solstice - role of the UN in world peace
• A permanent International Criminal Court - includes related articles on need for/earlier attempts to create an international criminal court, how such a court would complement national jurisdictions and crimes against humanity
  by Karen Berg
• First Mayan Women's Congress - UN-initiated conference in Merida, Mexico
  by Sandra Teissedre
• 'They all just run for posters.' - visitors to United Nations-sponsored activities
  by Francesca Tempestini
• From the secretary general - excerpts of speech by UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan
• It took just two dollars for someone to amputate my life - landmine victim
  by Marianne Holtz
• But men control the resources - rural women - includes related article on UN Sec-Gen's report on women
• Tribute to philately - UN Postal Administration issues commemorative stamps
• Consensus built, 'in part through compromise.' - UN - includes related articles on reforms adopted by the General Assembly, General Assembly working groups and the background of the UN reform initiative
• Our planet must be undermined - current efforts by the UN and the international community regarding landmines - includes related article on UN trust fund for mine clearing operations
• Afghanistan - UN mediation attempts in nation's civil war situation - includes related article on UN survey of Afghanistan's opium poppy production - Peacewatch
• The Chronicle interview: George F. Saddler - UN Chronicle periodical; interview with Assn of Former International Civil Servants or AFICS Pres - includes related article on AFICS and on Saddler - Interview
• Growth and globalization - international economy - includes related articles on liberalization worldwide and global management of distribution, profits and integration
  by Rubens Ricupero
• Western Sahara - Peacewatch
• UNRWA: donors dally, finally rally - UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - includes related article on role of the UNRWA and its education program
• Sustainable development requires … heavily indebted poor countries - includes related article on heavily indebted poor countries
• Rwanda - includes related article on Rwanda's deteriorating human rights situation - Peacewatch