Arms Technology and Disarmament

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Dr.Kamaljit Singh
Keyword(s):  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
Conventional Weapons ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

In 19th and 20th century many scientific and technological developments have occurred in many fields. The positive developments have proved very beneficial for humankind. But the advent of science and technology in the field of armaments have resulted in the invention of weapons of mass destruction. The nuclear weapons, the chemical weapons, the biological weapons, the missiles and conventional weapons development and improvement have created many problems of destructive nature. The new emerging technologies have made the situation worst for mankind. The United Nations General Assembly has made many attempts to protect the world and convert the destructive measures to peaceful measures so that humanity can benefit from it. The need of the time is to develop new scientific and technological devices to destroy the existing weapons of mass destruction and save the mankind, and these technologies should be developed for peaceful purposes.

Arms Technology and Disarmament

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Dr.Kamaljit Singh
Keyword(s):  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
Conventional Weapons ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

In 19th and 20th century many scientific and technological developments have occurred in many fields. The positive developments have proved very beneficial for humankind. But the advent of science and technology in the field of armaments have resulted in the invention of weapons of mass destruction. The nuclear weapons, the chemical weapons, the biological weapons, the missiles and conventional weapons development and improvement have created many problems of destructive nature. The new emerging technologies have made the situation worst for mankind. The United Nations General Assembly has made many attempts to protect the world and convert the destructive measures to peaceful measures so that humanity can benefit from it. The need of the time is to develop new scientific and technological devices to destroy the existing weapons of mass destruction and save the mankind, and these technologies should be developed for peaceful purposes.

The weapons issue: Statement of the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly, 51st session, 1996 — Statement of 18 October 1996 before the First Committee

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (315) ◽  
pp. 631-636
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Conventional Weapons ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

A great deal has occurred this year in relation to the regulation of both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. Actually, there is no such dual categorization of arms in international humanitarian law, which regulates all weapons in accordance with certain generally applicable rules in order to prevent excessive suffering and destruction. All of the work and comments of the International Committee of the Red Cross with regard to weapons, whatever their nature from a strategic standpoint, are aimed at assuring the faithful and impartial application of these rules of international humanitarian law.

scholarly journals Canada in the United Nations General Assembly from Trudeau to Trudeau

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srdjan Vucetic ◽  
Bojan Ramadanovic
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Western European ◽  
The Government

All Canadian governments say that Canada must look to its “friends and allies” and “like-minded partners” to achieve greater cooperation on global issues. But who are these countries exactly? To gain a better understanding of where Ottawa stands in the world, with whom, and under what conditions, we analyze Canada’s voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly from 1980 to 2017. We find that Canada’s overall record tends towards that of Western European states. We find no evidence of greater affinity with US positions either when the Democrats are in power in Washington or when the conservative parties reign in power in Ottawa. We identify a sharp pro-US turn in the Harper years, and also confirm that the government of Justin Trudeau started off by maintaining rather than reversing this trend.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child – 30th Anniversary

2020 ◽  
Vol 595 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Anna Górka-Strzałkowska
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
30Th Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

The issue of children’s rights is extensive and multi-threaded. Studies on this subject show different perspectives and views, referring to various areas of children’s functioning and development. The article presents the perspective of children’s rights in the activities of organizations, local governments, educational and culture institutions on the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was created, adopted on November 20, 1959 by the United Nations General Assembly, which developed the scope of children’s rights. However, it still had no legal value. It was only the Convention on the Rights of the Child, established on the initiative of Poland on November 20, 1989, that became a global constitution protecting children all over the world. The events related to the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention became the culmination of the contemporary activities undertaken to mobilize the entire society to fight for children’s rights. These initiatives enabled the presentation of positions and views on the issue of the child. In a broad sense, they allowed the possibility of implementing program changes to improve the situation of children not only in Poland, but also in the world.

scholarly journals Urgent health challenges for the next decade 2030: World Health Organization

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
Aslam Pathan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
Health Organization

As a new year and a new decade kickoff, WHO has released a list of urgent, global health challenges in January 2020. This list, developed with input from WHO experts around the world, reflects a deep concern that leaders are failing to invest enough resources in core health priorities and systems. This puts lives, livelihoods, and economies in jeopardy. None of these issues are simple to address, but they are within reach. Public health is ultimately a political choice. All the challenges in this list demand a response from more than just the health sector. With the deadline for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals quickly approaching, the United Nations General Assembly has underscored that the next 10 years must be the "decade of action".

scholarly journals Poverty and Reforms in Bangladesh

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (4II) ◽  
pp. 1071-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
Market Economics

In a memorable speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Nikita Krushehev predicted that communism would bury capitalism. In less emotive and more economistic terms, he was saying in effect that centrally planned economies would outperform market economies in terms of both output growth and social justice. History has not been kind to Krushehev. Not only central planning but even milder forms of state interventionism now stand discredited, and developing countries round the world are desperately trying to install functioning market economics. This sea-change in development philosophy generally owes something to donor conditionalities associated with structural adjustment credits, to the extent that “reforms” and “structural adjustment” have become virtually synonymous. Shortterm internal or external balance crises, and longer-term stagnation, also signalled to policy-makers the bankruptcy of over-interventionist policies—a lesson driven home by the phenomenal growth performance of the NIC’s, apparently the fruit of marketfriendly policies.

UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Jelsma
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Treaty Reform

AbstractThis paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 1998), and tracks subsequent policy events and trends. It discusses the wide array of increasing tensions and cracks in the “Vienna consensus,” as well as systemic challenges and recent treaty breaches. Various options for treaty reform are explored and the following questions are considered: Given policy developments around the world this past decade, what outcomes can the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016) have in terms of a new political compromise? How can UNGASS 2016 contribute to more system-wide coherence where previous attempts failed? Can UNGASS 2016 realistically initiate a process of modernizing the global drug control system and breathe oxygen into a system risking asphyxiation? Finally, is there a chance that treaty reform options will be discussed at all, or do today’s political realities still block possible future regime changes?

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