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The un Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a Great Gift to Business

open access: yes, 2018
Environmental degradation and social tensions have put societies under severe pressures the past couple of decades to such a degree that a historic global political agreement was made in September 2015, when 193 countries signed the United Nations ...
C. S. Pedersen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating the Conflict-Reducing Effect of UN Peacekeeping Operations

open access: yesJournal of Politics, 2019
Several studies show a beneficial effect of peacekeeping operations (PKOs). However, by looking at individual effect pathways (intensity, duration, recurrence, diffusion) in isolation, they underestimate the peacekeeping impact of PKOs.
H. Hegre, L. Hultman, H. Nygård
semanticscholar   +1 more source

WORLD URBANIZATION PROSPECTS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE UN MODEL OF PROJECTION COMPATIBLE WITH URBAN TRANSITION THEORY 1

open access: yes, 2005
This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current trends based on national data and the method of projection are evaluated.
P. Bocquier
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Slow, stealthy and steady – capacity development to address land tenure issues in development programmes: experiences of the IFAD/GLTN TSLI-ESA Project

open access: yesAfrican Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2019
Land and natural resource tenure security is a central yet often neglected area for economic development and poverty reduction in the developing world. Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people.
Agatha Achieng Wanyonyi   +3 more
doaj  

Hostage-taking as torture: Alice Edwards’ report to the UN Human Rights Council

open access: yesTorture
The report A/HRC/58/55 entitled Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: hostage-taking as torture, prepared by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, was submitted to the Human Rights Council ...
Berta Soley, Pau Pérez-Sales
doaj   +1 more source

Visión de ciencia y de lo escolar en un grupo de docentes de ciencias

open access: yesRevista de Enseñanza de la Física, 2011
 
Ana María de la Fuente   +6 more
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The Nigerian-Commonwealth and UN relations: Nigeria, from Pariah state to exporter of democracy since 1999

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2019
The objective of this paper is to offer a theoretical and methodological investigation into the character of Nigerian foreign policy within the Commonwealth and the United Nations and how it has been able to use its military to advance democracy, peace ...
Olukayode Bakare
doaj   +1 more source

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTOR ESTIMATION IN GUJARATI ASIAN INDIAN POPULATION USING FRAMINGHAM RISK EQUATION

open access: yesNational Journal of Medical Research, 2014
 Introduction: Framingham 10 years risk estimation tools are potentially a cost-effective strategy for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in developing countries.
Sibasis Sahoo   +4 more
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The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing

open access: yesPublic Health Nutrition, 2017
C. Monteiro   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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