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Global survey on internet privacy and freedom of expression
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyThis publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The report maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint of freedom of expression. It provides an overview of legal protection, self-regulatory guidelines,...
El Estado de las Ciudades de América Latina y el Caribe: Urbanización, Desarrollo Humano y Democracia
Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Other UN AgencyEl mundo se urbaniza a ritmos sin precedentes. En 1900, la población urbana era el 13% (220 millones). Para 1950, el 29,1% (732 millones). En el 2005, el 49% de la población vivía en asentamientos urbanos (3.171 millones) (tabla 1). ONU-HABITAT, estima que la población en las zonas urbanas aumenta a razón de 70 millones de personas cada año, lo que equivale aproximadamente a una nueva ciudad...
The State of the World’s Children Special Edition: Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyIn commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November 2009, UNICEF is dedicating a special edition of its flagship publication The State of the World’s Children to child rights. The report broadly assesses the Convention’s impact on children’s well-being and human development during the past two decades,...
Gender Responsive Budgeting and Aid Effectiveness - Knowledge Briefs
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Governance and Gender, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyThis series of briefs provides highlights of findings from research reviews conducted under the European Commission (EC)/ UNIFEM Integrating Gender Responsive Budgeting into the Aid Effectiveness Agenda. The three-year programme consists of research and programmatic technical assistance. The programme seeks to demonstrate how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) tools and strategies can help ensure...
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyFirst UN publication on the state of the world’s indigenous peoples reveals alarming statistics on poverty, health, education, employment, human rights, the environment and more. In the United States, a Native American is 600 times more likely to contract tuberculosis and 62 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population. In Australia, an indigenous...
Millennium Development Goals: advances in Environmentally Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyWhen they adopted the Millennium Declaration, the 189 States Members of the United Nations made a commitment to take on the world’s principal development challenges and to combat extreme poverty. This led to the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals, of which the seventh aims to “ensure environmental sustainability”. This consists of the...
Cuan Democratica es la Democracia en Chile: Informe de Actividades y Base de Datos
Democracy, GAP, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP Produced, Other UN Agency, Civil SocietyUNDEF/IDEA Evaluación de la Calidad de la Democracia en Chile . ¿Qué tan democrática es la democracia chilena? Activities report of the International IDEA and UNDP-supported Chile Democracy Project at the end of March 2010 and basic set of indicators (in Spanish)