Welcome to the website for Peace and Conflict 2012, CIDCM's biennial publication providing key data and documenting trends in national and international conflicts.
Audiovisual documents include films, radio and televisions programs,
and audio and video recordings contain the principal records of the 20th
and 21st century that go beyond language and culture. They are lasting
supplements to the traditional written record. The United Nations
through its Department of Public Information has had its audiovisual
archives which date back to the early 1920’s. The UNESCO says these
audiovisual records have to be transformed to digital within the next 15
years.
Knowledge in world history, literature, and daily news is important
to scholars worldwide, which makes the content of information stored in
audiovisual archives important. Public consciousness of the importance
of the preservation of these documents and recordings has given the
momentum to conservation professionals to manage a range of technical,
political, social, financial, and other factors to ensure the
safeguarding of this audiovisual heritage.
Small and medium enterprise or small and medium-sized enterprise are companies whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits. Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders
In 1972 the UN General Assembly instituted World Development
Information Day in an effort to draw attention of world public opinion
to development problems and the need to strengthen international
cooperation to solve them.
The Assembly decided that the date for the Day should be in alignment
with the United Nations Day held on the 24th of October, which was also
the date of the adoption of the International Development Strategy for
the Second United Nations Development Decade in 1970.
The Assembly felt that improving the dissemination of information and
the mobilization of public opinion, particularly among young people,
would lead to greater awareness of the problems of development, thus,
promoting efforts in the sphere of international cooperation for
development of appropriate and viable solutions to these development
issues.
Learn more about this observance at www.un.org/en/events/devinfoday/.
We are living through a period of profound turmoil, transition and transformation. Insecurity, inequality and intolerance are spreading. Global and national institutions are being put to the test. With so much at stake, the United Nations must keep pace across the spectrum of its activities — peace, development, human rights, the rule of law, the empowerment of the world's women and youth.
There has been important progress on many fronts. Extreme poverty has been cut in half since the year 2000. Democratic transitions are under way in many countries. There are encouraging signs of economic growth across the developing world.
Now is the time to raise our collective ambitions. With the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals fast approaching, we must intensify our efforts to reach all of these lifesaving targets. We must prepare a bold and practical post-2015 development agenda. And we must continue to combat intolerance, save people caught in conflicts and establish lasting peace.
The United Nations is not just a meeting place for diplomats. The United Nations is a peacekeeper disarming fighters, a health worker distributing medicine, a relief team aiding refugees, a human rights expert helping deliver justice.
In carrying out this global mission we rely on countless friends and supporters. Non-governmental organizations, scientists, scholars, philanthropists, religious leaders, business executives and concerned citizens are critical to our success. No single leader, country or institution can do everything. But each of us, in our own way, can do something.
On this UN Day, let us reaffirm our individual commitment and our collective resolve to live up to the ideals of the United Nations Charter and build a better world for all.
Ban Ki-moon
Commemorate World Statistics Day under the
theme ‘’Working Together to Improve Statistics in the Twenty First
Century and Beyond’’. - http://www.un.org/en/events/statisticsday/
The World Statistics Pocketbook 2011 is the thirty-first in a series of
annual compilations of key statistical indicators prepared by the United
Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social
Affairs.
The World Statistics Pocketbook 2011
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
In Message on International Day to Eradicate Poverty, Secretary-General Says
Investing in Poor best Way to Build Stronger, More Prosperous Societies
Following is UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for
the Eradication of Poverty, commemorated on 17 October:
Poverty is easy to
denounce but difficult to combat. Those suffering from hunger, want and
indignity need more than sympathetic words; they need concrete support.
We mark this year’s
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at a time of economic
austerity in many countries. As Governments struggle to balance
budgets, funding for anti-poverty measures is under threat. But this is
precisely the time to provide the poor with access to social services,
income security, decent work and social protection. Only then can we
build stronger and more prosperous societies — not by balancing budgets
at the expense of the poor.
The Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) have galvanized global action that generated great
progress. We have cut extreme poverty by half and corrected the gender
imbalance in early education, with as many girls now attending primary
school as boys. Many more communities have access to clean drinking
water. Millions of lives have been saved thanks to investments in
health.
These gains represent a
major advance toward a more equitable, prosperous and sustainable
world. But more than a billion people still live in poverty, denied
their rights to food, education and health care. We have to empower
them to help us find sustainable solutions. We should spare no effort
to ensure that all countries reach the MDGs by 2015.
At the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, held in June of this year,
leaders from around the world declared that poverty eradication is “the
greatest global challenge facing the world today”.
We are now developing the
UN development framework for the period after 2015, building on the MDGs
while confronting persistent inequalities and new challenges facing
people and the planet. Our aim is to produce a bold and ambitious
framework that can foster transformational change benefiting people now
and for generations to come.
Rampant poverty, which has
festered for far too long, is linked to social unrest and threats to
peace and security. On this International Day, let us make an
investment in our common future by helping to lift people out of poverty
so that they, in turn, can help to transform our world.
Download an electronic copy of the executive summary for Peace and Conflict 2012 (Adobe PDF format, 29 MB).
