Adult Literacy Development

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
International Literacy ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Year 2000

The 1980s experienced a worldwide increase in interest in adult literacy, culminating in the designation of 1990 as International Literacy Year by the United Nations, and the setting of a variety of international and national goals for the reduction or eradication of adult illiteracy by the year 2000. While attention to adult illiteracy resembles a pendulum, a number of factors have contributed to the current heightened awareness of this problem as well as interest in working toward its solution.

scholarly journals 1990, International Literacy Year

1970 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Member States ◽  
International Literacy ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Year 2000

The moment the United Nations declared 1990 as International Literacy Year, the international literacy movement began to consider how the year could strenghten the movement in every corner of the world. The U.N. plan of action is to "help member states in all regions to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000".

scholarly journals Utilizing Zakat for Attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Rafiu Ibrahim Adebayo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Expiry Date ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Year 2000

At the United Nations Conference in Stockholm in the early 1970s, the idea of sustainable development was mooted. It became a global phenomenon in the year 2000 when the United Nations (UN) declared the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with over one hundred and eighty-nine member states and about twenty-three international organizations. With the expiry date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came in vogue. The SDGs as a global project could only be attained through joint efforts of all sectors of human life, religion being one. In human history, religion plays significant developmental roles, hence a strong factor in attaining developmental goals. Islam in particular could not be left out in any developmental project, as it is not only a religion and but also a way of life. Indeed, the maqasid ash-shari’ah are meant for all-round development and protection of human life – religion (Din), life (Hayat), procreation (Nasl), Property (Māl) and Intellect (cAql). This study is designed to specifically relate the institution of zakat in Islam to attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with particular reference to Nigeria as a country. Historical, descriptive and exegetical methods are adopted for this purpose. The paper therefore concludes that zakat can be a veritable tool for achieving the SDGs if properly harnessed, monitored and utilized for the purpose it is meant.

scholarly journals Tackling the Big Challenges of the Future

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Garcia Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Year 2000

AbstractThe end of 2015 was the deadline that 189 countries gave themselves to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a list of eight goals that were agreed upon and approved by the UN after the Millennium Summit in year 2000. Despite some legitimate criticism, the MDGs were revealed as an important tool towards building a more equitable and sustainable world. Yet our planet still faces many challenges. In September 2015, the UN approved a new set of 17 goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming to develop and implement strategies to create “The Future We Want”; strategies that 192 countries agreed upon to work together towards a more sustainable planet [

China, The United Nations, and Beyond

1962 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Halpern
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

The proposition needs no arguing that it would be desirable from everybody's point of view if some way could be found of bringing the 600 million people of mainland China back into effective, approximately normal relations with all the rest of the world. It is often argued that the early realisation of what the present Communist régime on the mainland claims as its legal and moral right—to represent China in the United Nations—would go very far towards accomplishing the purpose. I must confess to a considerable scepticism concerning the predictions often made about the changes in attitude and behaviour the Chinese Communists would display if they were admitted to the United Nations. Communist China's external relations depend on a number of factors besides her standing in the United Nations. There has been nothing in China's actions or declarations over the years to indicate that U.N. membership is so highly valued by the Chinese that they would of their own accord significantly modify any of their other major goals in order to achieve this one. The record indicates rather that the contrary is true.

scholarly journals The IAU in the 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
Robert Williams
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Year 2000

AbstractBeginning in year 2000 the IAU undertook a number of initiatives that changed the Union from being primarily an inward-focused organization whose emphasis was the world of professional astronomy, to being more outward looking in engaging with the public. These initiatives included proposing to the United Nations and then leading the International Year of Astronomy IYA 2009, and the formulation of a Strategic Plan that included creation of the Office of Astronomy for Development. Additional programs are being undertaken by the Union that continue to broaden IAU engagement with the public.

scholarly journals Refugees: Challenges to Protection

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
High Time ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Future ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Year 2000

By the end of the year 2000, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will have been in existence for 50 years –which is probably some sort of record for an organization originally set up with just a three-year mandate. There were many reasons for so limiting the successor agency to the International Refugee Organization, but it is doubtful whether anyone seriously thought that refugee problems would be resolved so quickly, or indeed that UNHCR would develop into the highly operational, visible and extensively funded entity that we see today. Fifty years of experience nevertheless suggests that it is high time for an audit, for an evaluation of strengths, weaknesses and achievements, and a little strategic thinking about the future.

scholarly journals Another Look at Achieving Peace by the Year 2000

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
John Huddleston
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Crime ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positive Leadership ◽  
World Government ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The One ◽  
Year 2000

Three key developments in global politics since the end of the Cold War that have bearing on the issue of world peace are identified, and three actions are suggested as a necessary response by humanity. The first development has been the continuing process of globalization in terms of intrenational trade, communications and culture, multinational corporations, migrations, environmental issues, and international crime. The second has been the experience of maintaining peace in a new environment of reduced immediate risk of a global holocaust, lower military expenditures, and fewer regional conflicts on the one hand, and major weaknesses in peacekeeping procedures and looming major risks in the longer term on the other. The third has been the failure of the world's leaders to seize the opportunity of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations to implement effective strategies for maintenance of peace in the coming century. The three responses proposed are: to strengthen the institutional framework for peace by restructuring the United Nations as a democratic federal world government; to urge the United States to provide positive leadership in achieving this goal; and to underpin the whole enterprise with systematic education of all humanity in the principle of "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."

International Development Perspectives for the 90s (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4I) ◽  
pp. 485-501
Author(s):  
Gamani Corea
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Development ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Nations Development

Chairman, Professor Naqvi, Professor Klein, Dr Kemal, Distinguished Participants, First let me express my deep gratitude to the Pakistan Society of Development Economists for having invited me to be present on this occasion to take part in this Seventh Annual General Meeting. I feel privileged indeed to be here. It is not the first occasion I ha~e had to visit Islamabad; but on this occasion, more than on previous ones, I have had the opportunity - thanks to this meeting - of making contact with so many economists and research workers in Pakistan. I have been given a subject which seems to be a little bit removed from the issues that have been discussed, and will be discussed, over the period of this session. I have been asked to talk about international development perspectives for the 90s. No doubt the reason which prompted Professor Naqvi to suggest this title, and to invite me in fact, was that I had the honour of being Chairman of the UN General Assembly's exercise on the preparation of a Strategy for the 90s, the socalled Fourth United Nations Development Decade. The General Assembly established, as was its practice on previous occasions, what is called a "Committee of the Whole" charged with the function of formulating and negotiating the text of what might be a Strategy for the 90s. This exercise was launched in the middle of 1989 and was concluded - I am happy to be able to say - on the 21st of December 1990, just a few weeks ago, when the Strategy was adopted by consensus by the Plenary of the General Assembly. The Strategy designates the Fourth Development Decade, the decade of the 90s, as starting on the 1st January of 1991 and ending on the 31st of December of the year 2000. So, today we are in the ninth day of the development decade of the United Nations.

scholarly journals Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Kepatuhan Wajib Pajak dalam Membayar PBB dengan Variabel Moderating Sikap Wajib Pajak atas Sanksi Denda (Studi Empiris Pada Wajib Pajak Orang Pribadi Dikota Tidore Kepulauan)

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasannudin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
National Development ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Taxation is a source of enormous revenue contribution in the financing needs of government spending and national development. UN entry of urban and rural areas in 2010 as a local tax, assessed will contribute significantly to the increase in revenue (PAD). Tidore Tidore island is one of the autonomous regions that have natural resources and a limited area, so that the UN considered to be very potent in increasing revenue Tidore islands, because it has an advantage in this regard, is the object of the UN, the land and buildings that are clear designation compared with other tax potential. Data obtained from DISPENDA Tidore islands associated with the acceptance of the United Nations rural and urban, showed that there is still a sizeable UN arrears of revenue realization of the United Nations, especially in 2012 that showed a significant difference between actual revenue in the amount of 77,878,186 principal. and arrears amounting to 568 826 671. it indicates that there are a number of factors that influence taxpayer compliance in paying UN Tidore islands in the city. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that influence taxpayer compliance in paying UN moderated attitude taxpayer on the implementation of financial penalties. The method used in this study was a multiple linear regression. Research results showed that awareness of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's motivation, and economic level of each taxpayer partially no effect on taxpayer compliance in paying the UN, and each of which is moderated by the attitude of the taxpayer on the implementation of financial penalties. Where the taxpayer stance on the implementation of financial penalties is not a moderating variable, melaikan independent variables. While the partial attitude of the taxpayer on the implementation of fines effect on taxpayer compliance in paying the UN. it shows that the revenue department Tidore islands has a poor performance and not optimal in managing urban and rural United Nations.

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