29 June 2010 – Overcoming the serious weaknesses exposed by the global economic crisis will not be easy and will require a major overhaul of the machinery for international finance, aid and trade, according to a new United Nations report released today.
The World Economic and Social Survey 2010 notes that getting ‘back on track’ will require significant reforms in global economic governance and new thinking to put the world on a more sustainable path of development.
“This year’s report looks at the prospects for post-crisis global development and concludes that a major rebalancing of the global economy is needed to make it sustainable,” said Rob Vos, the Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
“Intra-Regional Labour Mobility in the Arab World” report
The report launched on 19 April 2010, part of a joint project between the IOM and the ALO to assist countries in the Arab region to effectively manage human and labour mobility, finds that 5.8 out of 13 million Arab migrants worldwide reside in the region.
Millions of Egyptian children live deprived of their rights and face the risk of passing this deprivation on to their children. Around five million are deprived of appropriate housing conditions including shelter, water and sanitation and 1.6 million under five years old suffer health and food deprivation according to an unprecedented study launched today in Cairo.
Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
The 575-page report by the four-person mission has found evidence that both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants committed serious war crimes and breaches of humanitarian law, which may amount to crimes against humanity. “The mission concluded that actions amounting to war crimes and possibly, in some respects, crimes against humanity, were committed by the Israel Defense Force (IDF).”
4 October 2009 – Migration benefits the people who move, their host communities and those that stay behind, the United Nations' latest Human Development Report says, calling today for wide-ranging reforms to maximize those gains and to protect the rights of migrants – now estimated to be one out of every seven humans.
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29 June 2010 – Overcoming the serious weaknesses exposed by the global economic crisis will not be easy and will require a major overhaul of the machinery for international finance, aid and trade, according to a new United Nations report released today.
4 October 2009 – Migration benefits the people who move, their host communities and those that stay behind, the United Nations' latest Human Development Report says, calling today for wide-ranging reforms to maximize those gains and to protect the rights of migrants – now estimated to be one out of every seven humans.