DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

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Human Development
UNDP Human Development Reports online:
Human Development Report 2003

Human Development Report 2002

Human Development Report 2001

Human Development Report 2000

UNDP National Human Development Reports (Europe and the CIS) years 1998, 1999 and 2000 online:

Albania Lithuania
Armenia FYR Macedonia
Azerbaijan Moldova
Belarus Poland
Bosnia and Herzegovina Romania
Bulgaria Russian Federation
Estonia Tajikistan
Georgia Turkey
Hungary Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan Ukraine
Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan
Latvia  

Development Gateway
Development Forum


Children & Youth
UN High Commisioner for Human Rights
Human Rights Watch
CRIN - Child Rights Information Network
Save the Children
Children Living in a World with AIDS
The State of the World's Children 2000  
Convention on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF - Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series
Education for All: Status and Trends  
National Centre for the Rights of the Child

Culture
UNESCO
World Heritage Centre
Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
Main Cultural Policy Postulates of Latvia
Culture in Latvia

Democratization
Transparency International
NGO Centre, Latvia
Public Policy Discussions, Latvia
Comparative Democratization Project, Stanford University 
Latvia. Human Development Report
IDEA - Institute for Democracy and Electorial Assistance  

Drugs
UNDCP - United Nations International Drug Control Programme
International Narcotics Control Board
Conventions on Narcotic Drugs
INCB - International Narcotics Control Board
EMCDA - European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA
ECAD - European Cities Against Drugs
EURAD - Europe Against Drugs
EDUCARI - the learning organisation
Drug Education Site
CDEP -  Community Drug Education Project
Riga Drug Abuse Prevention Centre (web pages in Latvian and Russian only)
Narcology Centre, Riga

Environment
United Nations Environment Programme
UNEP's online bookstore
World Meteorological Organization
Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) 
Environmental Institute
ENRIN - Environment and Natural Resource Information Networks
in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
OECD Environment
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe
Environment Watch Europe
The Earth Times
Environmental and Human Settlements Division, UN/ECE -Economic Commission for Europe
Environment Daily
European Environment Agency
Environmental Film Festivals

Gender Equality
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNDP - Gender in Development
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Annotated bibliography of Internet Resources on Gender Equality
Annotated bibliography of books on Gender equality at the UN Public Information Centre, Riga

Health
World Health Report 2002
World Health Organization headquarters
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
World Health Report 2000
American International Health Alliance
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
European Association for Health Information and Libraries
European Environment and Health Committee
Health on the Net Foundation
The Institute for Health, Liverpool, UK 
Department of Medicine and Public Health, University of Verona
IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer
Nordic School of Public Health
Institute of International Law and International Relations - KONTERM, University of Vienna 
WHO Tobacco Free Initiative
Health Promotion Centre of Latvia

HIV/AIDS
Books on HIV/AIDS
at the UN Public Information Centre, Latvia
UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (June 25-27 2001)
UNAIDS - Joined United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Report of a Joint UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO Mission to Latvia, 26-30 April 1999 (Acrobat Reader document)

Human Rights
UN Charter
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance  (31 August-7 September 2001)
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
International Court of Justice
European Court of Human Rights
Council of Europe - Human Rights Web
Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights
The Hague Conventions on Private International Law
Global Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development
Institute on Human Rights, University of Latvia
National Human Rights Office - Latvia
ELVIL - The European Legislative Virtual Library
Eastern and Central European Internet Directory for Human Rights
Institute of International Law and International Relations - KONTERM, University of Vienna
Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota

Social Integration
UN Research for Social Development
The Integration of Society in Latvia
UN - NGO Section of the Department of Public Information
UN Commission for Social Development
Social Policy and Integration of Disadvantaged Groups Section, UN Social Development Division
SIGMA- supports Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
European Union
Council of Europe
Inclusion Europe
Social Policy Virtual Library
Conventions of Council of Europe translations in Latvian

Migration
International Organization for Migration
IOM - Migration Web
 
ERCOMER - European Research Centre on Migration & Ethnic Relations
CEMES
CEIFO - Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Stockholm
Transnational Communities Programme
Migration Dialogue
Citizenship and Migration Issues Board
Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
POPIN - Latvia, Centre of Demography, University of Latvia

Poverty
Overcoming Human Poverty: UNDP Poverty Report 2000
Poverty Profiles in Latvia, UNDP Latvia publications
Poverty During the Transition, The World Bank Group
Strategy of Poverty Reduction in Latvia, Ministry of Welfare/ Nabadzības novēršanas stratēģija (in Latvian)
Social Report 2000, 1999, 1998, Ministry of Welfare 
First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
Poverty Net
EAPN - European Anti Poverty Network
Council of Europe Global Solidarity Campaign
Rural Poverty Knowledgebase

Refugees
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Asyl Nord (Newsletter on Baltic-Nordic refugee and asylum issues)
UNHCR-50 Foundation
World Refugee
The BBC World Service
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
European Council on Refugees and Exiles
Institute of International Law and International Relations- KONTERM, University of Vienna
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

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