A comprehensive assessment of the world's cities and a reference tool for academics, researchers, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The 2003 report addresses the growing problems presented by slums in an increasingly globalized world. Using extensive case studies, it analyses the factors behind the creation of slums and reviews the policies taken towards them. It demonstrates that to meet the UN's Millennium Goals of significantly improving the lives of over 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, policies must go beyond traditional infrastrucutral...

In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere, and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain.

Die Vereinten Nationen sind wie keine andere Organisation durch die weltpolitischen Umbruche und die Bedrohung des Friedens herausgefordert. Wie sie die Umbruche bewaltigen und wie sie die Zukunft der Weltpolitik gestalten werden, dokumentiert dieser Band anhand der Reden des Generalsekretars Kofi Annan.

A candid, courageous, and unsparing memoir (The New York Review of Books) of post Cold War politics and global statecraft
Written with eloquence and unprecedented candor, Interventions is the story of Kofi Annan s remarkable time at the center of the world stage. After forty years of service at the United Nations, Annan who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 shares his unique experiences during the terrorist attacks of September 11; the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan; the war between Israel, Hizbollah, and Lebanon; the brutal conflicts of Somalia,...