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Articles in Winter 1998 issue of UN Chronicle

• 'The gleaming wings of science.' - scientists' role in human rights protection
  by John Charles Polanyi
• The world ages, gracefully - includes related article on care of older persons
• It comes down to saving lives - refugees
  by Otto Lambsdorff
• Internal oversight: helping further the respect - UN Office of Internal Oversight Services
  by Esther Braun
• 'The despotic power of husbands.' - protection of women's rights
  by M.F. Perutz
• World population nears 6 billion
• Law and war: a doctrine of deterrence
  by Anthony D'Amato
• Update: the Secretary-General's report on Africa - includes related article - Kofi Annan
• An available instrument of subversion - Universal Declaration of Human Rights as source of inspiration for South Africans
  by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop
• Will the circle be unbroken? - includes related article on population assistance to developing countries - child survival programs and fertility decline
• Iraq - Peacewatch - US and UK air strikes
• Thinking aloud: can the United Nations catalyze development?
  by Marjatta Rasi
• First person - human rights violations in Romania during Pres. Nicolae Ceausescu's reign
  by Dumitru Mazilu
• Itself far from public eye, UNFPA looks towards the future - UN Population Funds
  by Nafis Sadik
• Former Yugoslavia - Peacewatch - cooperation with verification missions of North Atlantic Treaty Organizations and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
• African pastoralism in the new millennium
  by Charles Lane
• Not by bread alone … but not without bread either - economic and social rights
  by Thomas Hammarberg
• Where battery begins at home - includes related article on UN campaign activities - domestic violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Aparna Mehrotra
• Afghanistan - Peacewatch - formation of civil affairs unit in UN Special Mission to Afghanistan
• In doing so, should the UN try to be popular? - Opinion
  by Thomas B. Kirkbride
• And what about international civil servants? - UN Administrative Tribunal
  by C.F. Amerasinghe
• Working within - women's rights
  by Patricia Flor
• Middle East - Peacewatch - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appeal to Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization
• Lighting up the small places - UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  by Linda Longmire
• Healing the wounds of past conflicts: Mozambique opts for a culture of peace
  by H.E. Joaquim Chissano
• Honoured in the breach? Development assistance and human rights
  by Marilyn Waring
• Freedom of faith … freedom of the mind - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  by Emily Maher
• Libya - Peacewatch - UN Security Council's request to surrender suspects on bombing Pan Am Flight 103
• Personal notes on an important anniversary - presentation to the UN General Assembly of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec 10, 1948 - Transcript
  by Margaret K. Bruce
• Through the General Assembly's window member state view the world … and the human being at its centre
  by Yvonne Acosta
• 1998 United Nations Human Rights Prizes
• Monitoring compliance - UN member states' compliance with international treaties on human rights
• Angola - Peacewatch - safety of personnel of UN Observer Mission in Angola
• Ending economic and social discrimination - role of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in global economic/social progress
  by Surin Pitsuwan
• The Chronicle interview - interview with Uruguay Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Opertti Badan - Interview
• Massacre of the innocents - child victims of war
  by Francesco Fulci
• Judicial redress: can the European Court of Human Rights set an example?
  by Hans Corell
• Central African Republic - Peacewatch - legislative elections
• Art … at home in the United Nations
  by Ed Marks
• Living through that 'last resort.' - protection of human rights
  by Nadine Gordimer
• Life expectations - includes related article - challenges posed by ageing
• Deliberating decolonization - seminar conducted from June 16-18, 1998
  by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla
• Central America and Haiti - Peacewatch - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's report on peace and development in the region