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Ce rapport appelle à la création d'une nouvelle architecture internationale du développement (NAID) en faveur des pays les moins avancés (PMA). Cette architecture viserait: a) à inverser la marginalisation des PMA dans l’économie mondiale et contribuer à leurs efforts de rattrapage, (b) à soutenir un mode de croissance économique accélérée ainsi que la diversitifaction de leurs économies afin d’améliorer le bien to être général, et (c) à aider les PMA à sortir de cette catégorie. La nouvelle architecture suppose une réforme des régimes économiques mondiaux dans les domaines ayant des incidences directes sur le développement et la réduction de la pauvreté dans les PMA. Elle encourage l’élaboration d’une nouvelle génération de mécanismes internationaux spéciaux de soutien aux PMA pour résoudre leurs faiblesses structurelles intrinsèques. Elle préconise aussi de renforcer la coopération Sud-Sud pour le développement, tant entre les PMA eux to mêmes qu’entre PMA et pays en développement à croissance rapide.

Le Règlement type traite de la classification des marchandises dangereuses, de l'utilisation, construction, épreuve et agrément des emballages et citernes, et des procédures d'expédition (étiquetage, placardage et documentation). Il vise à assurer un niveau de sécurité élevé en cours de transport, en évitant les accidents et les dommages à l'environnement, tout en offrant un cadre réglementaire uniforme applicable au niveau mondial pour la réglementation des transports nationaux ou internationaux quel que soit le mode. Cette dix-septième édition contient de nouvelles dispositions concernant les produits chimiques sous pression, les condensateurs électriques à double couche, le mercure contenu dans des objets, les marchandises dangereuses utilisées comme réfrigérant, les conteneurs pour vrac souples, les récipients à pression de secours, les piles au lithium, les marchandises dangereuses en quantités limitées et en quantités minimes et les instructions d’emballage.

The African Statistical Yearbook aims to break with past practices, whereby each regional/subregional organisation published their own statistical data on African countries. It is expected that the joint collection and sharing of data between regional institutions will promote a wider use of country data, reduce costs and significantly improve the quality of the data, leading to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent. The data in this issue of the Yearbook cover the period from 2001 to 2009, or up until the last year for which data are available. There are two parts to this volume: a set of summary tables followed by a set of country profiles.

This publication, in relation to legislation on ""harmful practices"" against women, supplements the DAW/DESA Handbook for legislation on violence against women, and it should be read in conjunction with the Handbook. The purpose of the Handbook and the supplement is to provide detailed guidance for all stakeholders to support the adoption and effective implementation of legislation which prevents violence against women, punishes perpetrators and ensures the rights of victims/survivors. The adoption and enforcement of national laws to address and punish all forms of violence against women and girls, in line with international human rights standards, is one of the five key outcomes which the Secretary-General's campaign ""UNITE to End Violence against Women"" aims to achieve in all countries by 2015.

Official Report of the Economic and Social Council.

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registration, also provides details about their subsequent history (i.e., participation in a treaty, reservations, amendments, termination, etc.). Comprehensive Indices covering 50 to volume-lots are published separately. A Standing Order service is available for the Series and out to of to print volumes are available on microfiche.

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registration, also provides details about their subsequent history (i.e., participation in a treaty, reservations, amendments, termination, etc.). Comprehensive Indices covering 50 to volume-lots are published separately. A Standing Order service is available for the Series and out to of to print volumes are available on microfiche.

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registration, also provides details about their subsequent history (i.e., participation in a treaty, reservations, amendments, termination, etc.). Comprehensive Indices covering 50 to volume-lots are published separately. A Standing Order service is available for the Series and out to of to print volumes are available on microfiche.

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registration, also provides details about their subsequent history (i.e., participation in a treaty, reservations, amendments, termination, etc.). Comprehensive Indices covering 50 to volume-lots are published separately. A Standing Order service is available for the Series and out to of to print volumes are available on microfiche.

The publication presents the Report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund on its Work during 2010.

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registration, also provides details about their subsequent history (i.e., participation in a treaty, reservations, amendments, termination, etc.). Comprehensive Indices covering 50 to volume-lots are published separately. A Standing Order service is available for the Series and out to of to print volumes are available on microfiche.

In an effort to make international law and United Nations legal activities more accessible, this publication condenses chronologically in a single and handy volume the case-law of the International Court of Justice for the period 2003 to 2007. Lawyers, journalists, diplomats and specialists in international law will greatly profit from these summaries based closely on the texts prepared by the Registry of the Court.

This publication presents a collection of contributions by experts involved in the UNECE work on innovation and competitiveness policies carried out under the UNECE Committee on Economic Cooperation and Integration (CECI). It addresses a wide range of issues related to the promotion of innovation in the services sectors, as well as policy lessons learned in this area drawing on the experiences of different countries. Countries are at different stages in the conceptualization and implementation of relevant strategies. Overall, there is a need to further develop the understanding of innovation in services and increase policy awareness of the importance of innovation in the services sector. This creates significant scope for policy learning and the exchange of experiences through international multilateral initiatives.

El Sistema globalmente armonizado de clasificación y etiquetado de productos químicos (SGA) proporciona los criterios para su clasificación y etiquetado por tipos de peligro y constituye la base para la armonización mundial de los requisitos y reglamentaciones aplicables con ese fin en distintos sectores (transporte, agricultura, seguridad ocupacional, protección al consumidor y medioambiental). Su objetivo es mejorar la protección de la salud humana y del medio ambiente durante la manipulación, transporte y utilización de dichos productos, garantizando la disponibilidad de la información sobre sus peligros físicos y su toxicidad. La cuarta edición revisada incluye nuevas categorías de peligro para gases químicamente inestables y aerosoles no inflamables, y varias enmiendas para clarificar criterios y obtener una mayor racionalización de los consejos de prudencia.

This volume contains the report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-fifth session (5 May, 6 June and 7 June – 8 August 2003). The issues discussed at that session included: reservations to treaties, diplomatic protection, unilateral acts of states, state responsibility, and international liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law, and responsibilities of international organisations.

In 2010 the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposed a comprehensive development strategy entitled ""Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails"". This edition of Social Panorama looks at the links in the chain of inequalities identified in that strategy that concern the education and skills development stage of the life cycle. A substantial portion of this edition, then, deals with the youth and child population and considers how differences created and consolidated during this stage of life entrench the intergenerational reproduction of poverty and inequality. The focus is on the life cycle and on the reproduction of unequal opportunities for sustainable social mobility over an individual's lifetime. From this viewpoint, the document examines the situation of the population aged 0 to 29 and its internal dynamics, future prospects and ties to other age groups.

The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) assesses the levels and effects of exposure-ionizing radiation. It consolidates and summarizes, in simple terms, the Committee’s detailed understanding on the epidemiological and mechanistic studies for assessing radiation to induced cancer, heritable effects of radiation exposure, and radiation to associated non-cancer diseases as presented in previous reports to the General Assembly.

The publication contains an explanation of Most Favored Nation (MFN) treatment and some of the key issues that arise in its negotiation, particularly the scope and application of MFN treatment to the liberalisation and protection of foreign investors in recent treaty practice. The paper provides policy options as regards the traditional application of MFN treatment and identifies reactions by States to the unexpected broad use of MFN treatment, and provides several drafting options, such as specifying or narrowing down the scope of application of MFN treatment to certain types of activities, clarifying the nature of ""treatment"" under the IIA, clarifying the comparison that an arbitral tribunal needs to undertake as well as a qualification of the comparison ""in like circumstances"" or excluding its use in investor to State cases.

More than half of Europe's forests, not including Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, are privately owned. Private owners play a key role in sustaining forest ecosystems, enhancing rural development and supplying resources to markets. This study paper presents the main findings from the national country reports and draws conclusions on the state of private forestry in Europe in terms of ownership distribution, holding structure, socioeconomic findings and trends, with regard to restitution/privatization, changes of ownership patterns and association of private forest owners.