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Last updated on October 12,
2001
Background
- The United Nations Security Council held a special meeting on
AIDS in Africa on January 10, 2000
- Unusual hearing for Security Council based on UN Millennial Summit
- Vice President Al Gore testified
United Nations Security
Council
- Press
Release
- January 10th Security Council press release summarizes comments
- Webcasts
UNAIDS
- Extensive epidemiological fact sheets on AIDS for individual countries
- Includes prevalence among type of population, sexual habits, and death
- Assessment of attitudes, health care system, and possible solutions
- Bibliography of further resources
- Report on children orphaned by AIDS
- Ameliorative campaigns
Boston
Globe
- Four-part series with personal stories on AIDS in Africa
- Includes statistical charts
Village Voice
- Extensive, eight-part series on AIDS in Africa
- Articles cover the virus, orphans, cultural consequences, and ending
the epidemic
Vice
President Gore's Press Release
- Press release after UN speech summarizes his comments
- Announces AIDS initiative
Fact
Sheet on Biosafety Protocol (State Department)
- Describes the Cartagena Agreement on Biosafety, signed in Montreal on
January 29, 2000
- Agreement establishes clearing house to disseminate information on
the environmental impacts of importing bioengineered products (living
modified organisms)
- Fact sheet describes what protocol does and doesn't do
Global Issues: The
Biosafety Protocol (USIA)
- Comprehensive coverage of the protocol, including the full text of
the notification agreement
- Full text of the Convention
on Biodiversity, which the protocol amends
- Analysis of biodiversity issues
Background
- A worldwide conference on implementing the Kyoto Treaty (1997) was
held in The Hague, Belgium, in November 2000
- The conference failed because the U.S., Canada, and Australia wanted
to include forest absorption of carbon dioxide ("carbon sinks") as part of
their mandatory 5% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
News Reports
Dismay
at Climate Summit Failure (BBC)
- British analysis of the European Union/United States dispute
- Case studies on UK floods, Bolivian forests, wind in Holland, melting
in Alaska, and China's pollution
- Clickable guides to the greenhouse effect and global warming
Global
Warming Treaty Dispute Heats Up (Washington
Post)
- Articled dated November 11, 2000 discussion the absorption credit
dispute
Conference Documents
Background Policy Reports
Background
- Conference held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 15-16, 2000
- Organized by the Russian Library Association, U.S. Consultate, Goethe
Institute, CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, Kodeks Legal Information,
Russian Foundation for Legal Reforms, and the Northwestern Academy for
Public Administration
- Sponsors include numerous libraries in St. Petersburg, the British
Council, and Finnish Institute
Conference Web Sites
Federal Law on
Compulsory Copies of Documents
- Regulations of depository library law written in 1994
- Text in Russian
Russian
Libraries in Transition
- Focus on the change in Russian libraries since the fall of communism
- Numerous bibliographic and web references
- Written by Lindsay Johnston, University of Alberta
University of Michigan
Presentations
- United
States Depository Libraries
- Slides on the life of a depository library in a paper and internet
environment
- Covers collection development, bibliographic access, physical access,
reference, outreach, and professional support
- Bibliography
lists web sites in slides
- To accompany presentation
- United
States Government on the Internet
- Slide show with a sampling of federal government web sites on the
internet
- Includes basic legal information, business, consumer protection,
environment, grants, health, statistics, and search engines
- Accompanied by a Printed
Bibliography
- National
Governments on the Web
- Annotated guide to the best sites for locating national government
agencies
- Includes search engines, translations, and a sampling of
subject-based resources
Background
- Meeting held in New York, April 24-May 19, 2000
NPT Conference Web
Site
- Text of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, entered into force on March 5, 1970
- Preparatory committee reports
- The UN series symbol for this conference is NPT/CONF.2000
Nuclear
Control Institute
- Lobby group specializing in the controlling the use and disposal of
plutonium and uranium
- Numerous articles available on line cover its initiatives
Yahoo
News
- The five nuclear superpowers (U.S., U.K. France, Russia, and China)
promised to get rid of nuclear weapons eventually
- Promise made on May 1, 2000 and considered weak by many lobby groups
- Numerous links to related stories
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