Most Recent Articles from UN Chronicle

• Women's rights as human rights: the promotion of human rights as a counter-culture 

  Human rights are rights claimed against the State and society by virtue of being a human being. However, the human rights of most people have been...

  06/01/08 by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat · More from publication

• 2015 Ad 

  The world is experiencing a dramatic rise in food prices. It began gradually in 2006 and has now escalated into a massive surge. It has caused...

  06/01/08 by Jacques Diouf · More from publication

• Are human rights universal? 

  On 10 December 2008, the United Nations led worldwide celebrations to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human...

  06/01/08 by Navanethem Pillay · More from publication

• Losing 25,000 to hunger every day 

  During the past two decades, population growth, improvement in incomes and diversification of diets have steadily increased the demand for food....

  06/01/08 by John Holmes · More from publication

• Feeding the hungry in Africa: not all is lost 

  Africa. This one word is sufficient to evoke images of a doomed people. Africa's population is largely ill-insured against external shocks brought...

  06/01/08 by Ruth K. Oniang'o · More from publication

• The spectre of the Khmer Rouge over Cambodia 

  After 27 years of international amnesia over bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice, and following six years of intense negotiations between the...

  06/01/08 by Benny Widyono · More from publication

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