UN conferences: Media events or genuine diplomacy?

Global Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 361-375

  Fomerand, Jacques ^a  

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EID: 0030305424     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-002-03-90000005     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Joint Inspection Unit, "Organization of the Secretariat and Procedures Utilized for the Preparation of Special United Nations Conferences," note by the secretary-general, Document A/31/12 (23 March 1982), par. 1.
2. This is the opinion expressed, for example, by Shahid Qadir, "UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries: Neither Breakthrough nor Breakdown," Third World Quarterly 4, no. 1 (January 1982): 125-149.
3. Charles F. Westoff, "International Population Policy," Society 32, no. 4 (May-June 1995): 15.
4. Cited by Laurie S. Wiseberg in "The Vienna World Conference on Human Rights," in Eric Fawcett and Hanna Newcombe, eds., United Nations Reform: Looking Ahead After Fifty Years (Toronto: Dunburn, 1995), p. 177.
5. Wolfgang Sachs, ed., Global Ecology: A New Era of Political Conflict (London: Zed Books, 1993), p. xv.
6. Joint Inspection Unit, "Organization of the Secretariat and Procedures Utilized for the Preparation of Special United Nations Conferences," pars. 13-24.
7. The Dublin conference, which focused on water and development, was a notable exception.
8. Joint Inspection Unit, "Organization of the Secretariat and Procedures Utilized for the Preparation of Special United Nations Conferences," par. 1.
9. Washington Post, 3-9 July 1995 (National Weekly Edition).
10. See, for example, the report of the secretary-general on the International Conference on Population and Development, "Synthesis of National Reports on Population and Development," UN Document A/49/489 (6 October 1994).
11. United Nations, The World Aging Situation: Strategies and Policies (New York: UN, 1995) and Economic and Social Implications of the Aging Populations (New York: UN, 1988).
12. United Nations, The World Aging Situation: Strategies and Policies (New York: UN, 1995) and Economic and Social Implications of the Aging Populations (New York: UN, 1988).
13. Cited by Arvonne S. Fraser, The UN Decade for Women: Documents and Dialogue (Boulder: Westview, 1987), p. 71.
14. Léon Tabah, "La Signification de la Conférence de Bucarest sur la Population," International Social Science Journal 27, no. 2 (1975): 375-376.