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Articles in Summer, 1997 issue of UN Chronicle

• The Spirit of Rio - increased governmental, individual and international movements' focus on environmental concerns
• Land degradation - threats of desertification
• Ministers call for stronger, revitalized UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
• Democratic Republic of the Congo - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• Global warming
• What's being done - desertification remedies
• The Chronicle interview - Nurul Islam, UN Committee for Development Planning chairman
• Rwanda - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• The IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• High seas fishing - international problems created by the Law of the Sea
• Employment, age and disabilities form focus of discussions
• Burundi - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• The planet's players - major players in international discussions on climatic change
• What the agreement does … - implementation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea provisions
• 'Agreed conclusions on employment.' - agreement adopted during the UN Commission for Social Development's 35th session
• Middle East - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• 1996: warmest year since 1860
• … And what it does not - unresolved issues during the Law of the Sea conference
• Tighter controls on synthetic stimulants urged - 40th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
• Western Sahara - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• Biological diversity - the need to protect a variety of animal and plant species - includes related articles
• CSD - steps in sun and shade - UN Commission on Sustainable Development
• Amphetamines likely to be major problem of next century
• Afghanistan - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• CBD: what the convention says - Convention on Biological Diversity
• Development and environment: from Stockholm to Rio - excerpt from "Global Change and Sustainable Development - Critical Trends"
• 'Gender perspectives' emphasized - human rights
• Former Yugoslavia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• From the Secretary-General - excerpts from Kofi Annan's Sorensen Distinguished Lecture
• Within grasp? - biological diversity protection
• The global environment outlook: regional perspectives
• World Conference on Racism recommended - includes related articles
• Georgia - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• The earth in balance - global economic and environmental concerns
  by Nitin Desai
• Water: is there hope? - water pollution and shortages cause harm to the population and the environment
• Five years after Rio: some personal reflections
  by Tommy Koh
• Reconstruction in Rwanda
  by Xi Pei
• Iraq - Peacewatch: Spot Stories
• Rionewal: taking stock - progress report on the 1972 Conference on Human Environment
• What the UN system is doing - studies on national and regional hydrological agencies and services
• A process of negotiation - creation of a Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Environment and Development
  by Tommy Thong-Bee Koh
• UN Peacekeeping: some questions and answers
• 300 million will have impaired vision in 2020