United Nations

This volume contains a review of the main developments in the area of accounting and reporting and also the proceedings of the 27th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD's) Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR), held in Geneva. The main agenda item of the 27th session of ISAR was a capacity to building framework for high-quality corporate reporting. The study was conducted by examining the corporate governance disclosure requirements of relevant laws and stock exchange listing rules, and comparing these with the ISAR benchmark of good practices identified in the 2006 UNCTAD publication Guidance on Good Practices in Corporate Governance Disclosure.

Official Records of the Report of the Commissioner to General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Official Records of the Report of the Board of Auditors for the Year Ended 31 December 2010 on the Capital Master Plan.

Official records of the Report of the Commission on Population and Development on the Forty-fourth Session (16 April 2010 and 11 to 15 April 2011).

Publié pour la première fois en 1990, le Rapport sur le développement humain commençait par l'énoncé d'un postulat très simple, qui a servi de fil conducteur à toutes les versions ultérieures du Rapport, à savoir que: «Les individus sont la vraie richesse d'une nation». Cette édition to phare qui marque le 20e anniversaire du Rapport, nous livre en guise d'introduction les réflexions d'Amartya Sen, prix Nobel d'économique, qui a œuvré en étroite collaboration avec Mahbub ul Haq, créateur et architecte de cette série de publications, à la conception du premier Rapport. Au to delà de l'horizon de 2011, le présent Rapport examine certains aspects critiques du développement humain qui dépassent la portée des indices certains. Il s'agit notamment de libertés d'ordre politique, et d'autonomisation, en passant par la soutenabilité et la sécurité humaine. A partir de la, le Rapport présente les grandes lignes d'un programme d'actions plus élargi en matière de recherche et de politiques dans le but de relever ces défis.

Official records of the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions for the biennium 2012 to 2013.

Official Records of the Report of the Conference on Disarmament: 2011 Session.

Official Record of the Report of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration on the Tenth Session (4 to 8 April 2011)

The United Nations Global Compact, as a multi-stakeholder leadership initiative, seeks to align business operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption and to catalyse actions in support of broader UN goals. This report provides illustrative examples of how companies from a variety of sectors are positively contributing to peace and development in conflict-prone or post-conflict operating environments.

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.

Official records of the Report of the Security Council (1 August 2010 to 31 July 2011).

Official Records of the Report of the Human Rights Council: Sixteenth Session (28 February, 25 March 2011) Seventeenth Session (30 May, 17 June 2011) Fourteenth Special Session (23 December 2010) Fifteenth Special Session (25 February 2011) Sixteenth Special Session (29 April 2011) Seventeenth Special Session (22 and 23 August 2011)

Official Records of the Report of the Executive Committee of the programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Official Records of the Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

Official records of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund: Report on the First and Second Regular Sessions and Annual Session of 2011.

Direct cooperation between the private sector and the United Nations (UN) emerged as a significant phenomenon in the late 1990s in response to the complexity of global problems, the scarcity of resources and the failure of multilateral mechanisms to address these issues. While many initially regarded cooperation with the private sector sceptically, the launch of the United Nations Global Compact in 2000 signaled the beginning of a new phase in UN engagement with the private sector – one in which the private sector’s role and responsibility in helping achieve UN development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, has become politically accepted and operationally scalable. This report charts the evolution of UN to business engagement since 2000.

Les recommandations de l'ONU relatives à des prescriptions techniques harmonisées à l’échelle européenne applicables aux bateaux de navigation intérieure établissent un régime paneuropéen de prescriptions techniques applicables aux bateaux de navigation intérieure engagés dans le transport international de marchandises et de passagers. Elles représentent l’aboutissement des efforts communs entrepris par les gouvernements membres de la Commission économique pour l'Europe de l'ONU pour unifier les règlements. Les règles unifiées établies par lesdites Recommandations ont été alignées avec la législation pertinente de l’Union européenne. Elles visent à faciliter la reconnaissance réciproque des certificats de bateau pour éviter une double inspection. Les Recommandations fixent notamment des règles strictes en matière de pollution. Elles prescrivent des normes relatives à l’équipage minimal des bateaux ainsi qu’au temps de travail et de repos des equipages.

Official records of the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

This report reviews different approaches to the implementation of international Women, Peace and Security frameworks, focusing particularly on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts. It focuses on how the resolution can be incorporated into concrete policy guidelines and programmatic initiatives, and highlights good practices and lessons learnt over the last decades. It is expected that the information and examples contained in the review will support and advance the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of more and stronger Women, Peace and Security action plans that will turn Resolution 1325 into a living reality to improve the situation of women affected by conflict.

Official records of the Resolutions and Decisions of the Economic and Social Council.