United Nations & UN agencies books

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, passed in 1989, was the first universal treaty dedicated solely to...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive collation and analysis of the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee,...  Read More >>

In 1950, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the resolve...  Read More >>

The full texts of the International Law Commission's final draft Articles and Commentaries, and other final reports,...  Read More >>

The year 2000 edition of ""The State of the World's Refugees"" analyses the international community's efforts to...  Read More >>

This text focuses attention on the need for effective implementation of the human rights treaties. The contributors...  Read More >>

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Covers the Middle East from Algeria to Yemen Presents and interprets events of the previous year.  Read More >>

These are the results of a workshop entitled Beyond Transition: Ten Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall . This...  Read More >>

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This annual publication provides readers with information on the work of the United Nations. Each edition offers...  Read More >>

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In the last decade of the the 20th century, the United Nations devised a new instrument - preventive deployment...  Read More >>

Analyses a number of pressing international challenges relating to security and governance in a policy oriented,...  Read More >>

This report on the Kosovo conflict, by a group of 12 social scientists, international lawyers, journalists, and...  Read More >>

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This study offers a critique of existing UN change processes and then shifts focus to considerations of institutional...  Read More >>

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This is the United Nations annual review of the chemical industry, one of the world's most competitive and successful...  Read More >>

This book is about the ways in which conflict resolution theory has become relevant to the challenges faced by UN...  Read More >>

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This yearbook focuses on developments and negotiations carried out by the UN disarmament machinery during the year...  Read More >>

Circumventing democratic channels, the UN and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have appropriated quasi-legislative...  Read More >>