Product Description: Boutros Boutros-Ghali's term as United Nations Secretary-General was unique. His election in December 1991 brought him into office during the tumultuous post-Cold War years when the US-Soviet confrontation that had largely sidelined the United Nations had come to an end...read more

Kamla Momen, a Pakistani student attending an English school, who knows what it is to experience prejudice, decides, with a friend's encouragement, to make a protest that no one can ignore.

Product Description: What we have come to call the Arab-Israeli peace process began in 1977, when Egypt's president, Anwar Sadat, decided, with no warning and against fierce resistance, to break with his Arab neighbors, defy the central tenet of their formidable alliance, and travel to Jerusalem with his minister of state for foreign affairs...read more

The former secretary-general of the United Nations offers a firsthand study of the stormy relationship between the U.N. and the United States and discusses the role of the U.N.; its past, present, and future; and the potential for resolving its conflict with the U.S. 15,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: For years the United States has treated the United Nations as an extension of its own foreign policy, while other member states--especially smaller, less influential countries--have looked to the United Nations to represent their collective interests...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The former Secretary General of the United Nations offers an insider's account from an Arab perspective of the historic peace talks with Israel in the late 1970s and the pioneering agreement that paved the way to peace in the Middle East. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This report depicts the United Nations in the midst of a dramatic transformation. The Organization continues to adapt peace-keeping to new circumstances, bringing greater coherence to development efforts and move definitively toward creating an institution devoted to enhanced performance, full accountability and increased cost-effectiveness...read more

Product Description: Throughout its first half century, the United Nations has served as a catalyst for the global advancement of women. Working to promote the principles of gender equality and non-discrimination enshrined in the Organization's Charter, the United Nations has been instrumental in promoting recognition of women's fundamental human rights, in codifying those rights in legally binding international agreements and in fostering greater understanding of the central role played by women in peace-building and in economic and social development...read more

Product Description: The response of the United Nations and its Member States to the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, highlighted the extraordinary strengths of the Organization and its capacity to act decisively, when consensus exists, as a force for international peace and security...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There are few causes with which the United Nations is more closely identified than the promotion and protection of human rights. This is an account of their work, featuring more than 100 key documents illustrating the organization's multi-faceted role. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout its first half century, the United Nations has served as a catalyst for the global advancement of women. This "Blue Book" includes more than one hundred United Nations documents relating to women's rights, and chronicles the evolution of a campaign in which the initial focus on political and family life has moved on to urgent issues such as poverty, violence against women and equal access to education, employment and health care...read more

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