At the start of the transformation process, the challenge facing South Africa was widely regarded as immense (and the risk of political instability was considered to be high )

This report makes the case for urgent action to halt and turn back the growing threat of chronic diseases; it presents a state-of-the-art guide to effective and feasible interventions; and provides practical suggestions for how countries can implement these interventions to respond successfully to the growing epidemics

This book aims to serve as a user-friendly tool for human rights education and a multi-coloured umdrella covering a number of basic human rights areas.

The goal was to make known the constant preoccupation of this Pope for the promotion of human rights and to do it in the context of the United Nations, a privileged place if there is one to do it

This guide aims to be a practical tool to assist implementation, explaning and ullustrating the implications of each of the standarts and measures outlined in the Guidelines and their interconnecttions

Between 1910 and 1945 Korea was subjected to Japanese colonial rule. Monuments, Memory, and Identity investigates ways how postcolonial South Korea commemorated this difficult past in light of changing political and social conditions, and against the background of the divided nation. By analyzing museums, memorial halls, parks and monuments, the author deciphers and maps the South Korean commemorative landscape

This report, the first comprehensive summary of the problem on a global scale, shows not only the human toll of violence - over 1,6 million lives lost each year and coundess more damaded in ways that are not always apparent but express the many faces of interpersonal, collective and self-directed violence, as well as the settings in which violence occurs

The Report of the World Health 2004 describes in chronological order the spread of HIV / AIDS in the world over the past quarter century. It also reflected the work of support groups, civil society organizations, community health workers, who have dedicated themselves to the fight against this disease and its attendant numerous side effects, including stigma and discrimination

Peter Studer's magnificent photographs portray the city's many moods, capturing the expected and the unexpected and Berne's easy-going charm. There's a lot more to Berne than its clock towers, shopping arcades, bear pits and houses of parliament. Discover why Berne is a whole way of life

This material provides information about studies on identifying reproductive health problems in third world countries. Evidence-based decisions on the use of new knowledge, guidelines and tools for developing countries, developed and researched by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research