DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 1999
International Relations and Conferences
Last updated on December 1,
1999
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Organization (Preparatory Commission)
- Summary of treaty and searchable text (pdf)
- List of governments which have ratified the treaty
- Map of testing facilities and procedures for verification
- Related organizations with information about the treaty
Foreign Media
Reaction (State Department)
- Summary of foreign media comments on potential Senate defeat of
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- Articles dated October 13, 1999
Nuclear Security
(Policy Com)
- Excerpts from U.S. officials, the United Nations, and think tanks on
the CNBT and other nuclear security issues
- Some excerpts date back to 1968
Text of Treaty (ACDA)
- Full text of treaty and annexes in text format
- History of U.S. involvement
- Prepared by U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Senate Debate
President's Statement of Oct. 13, 1999
Background
- G8 Summit will meet to discuss economic issues in Cologne, Germany,
June 18-20, 1999
- Participants include: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russian
Federation, United Kingdom, United States, and European Union Commission
G8 Official Web Site
- History of the summits and biographies of the participants
- Outline of the issues
- Final communique from the 1998 summit
- Includes May 6, 1999 statement on Kosovo
G8 College Class
- College course offered through the University of Toronto beginning
June 7, 1999
- Features audio, video, text and discussion groups
- Registration required
G8 Information Centre
(UToronto)
- Full text of scholarly articles and background papers
- Links to other international agencies
Background
- The entire European Commission, administrative arm of the European
Union, resigned on March 16, 1999
- Response to allegations of corruption
BBC
News Coverage
- Reasons each of the individual commissioners resigned
- Links to the Committee of Independent Experts report and Jacques
Santer's rebuttal
Codes of
Conduct
- Protocols violated by the European Commissioners
Committee of
Independent Experts Report
- Report entitled First Report on Allegations regarding
Fraud, Mismanagement and Nepotism in the European Commission
- HTML and PDF formats
Access America for Seniors
- Federal government web site with annotated links to services
- Subjects include health care, medicare calculations, taxes, volunteer
opportunities, travel, education
United Nations Web
Site
- The UN has declared 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons
- Web site delineates conceptual and implementation principles
- Planned activities of international inter-governmental and
non-governmental organizations
- Suggestions for national activities
- Brief statistics on the world's older population
Did
NATO Win the Cold War? (Vojtech Mastny)
- Twenty-three declassified documents on the history of the Cold war
from U.S. and NATO archives
- Supplements article in the May-June 1999 issue of Foreign
Affairs
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
- Historic documents, NATO Handbook, NATO Review
- Current press releases and fact sheets
Truman Library
- Digitized letters of President Truman regarding the establishment of NATO
- Chronology of the organization
- Related material at the Presidential Library
Washington
Summits (USIA)
- History of NATO, photographic album and chronology
- Conference and press information for summit, April 23-25, 1999
Background
- Eight tourists were killed while searching for gorillas in Uganda on
March 1, 1999
- Four were Britons, two were New Zealanders, and two were Americans
- The group was captured by Rwandan Hutu rebels
- Accounts differ on whether they were hacked by the rebels or caught
in the crossfire of the rescue mission
BBC News Coverage
- History of the Rwandan rebels
- Accounts of survivors
- Links to the British Foreign Office
CNN News
Coverage
- Story on March 2, 1999 discusses differing accounts of the massacre
State Department
Travel Advisory
- Warns U.S. travellers to avoid Uganda
- Issued March 1, 1999
Issues
- World
Trade Organization - Third Ministerial Conference
- Conference held in Seattle, November 30 - December 3, 1999
- Web site has basic preparatory information
- Documentation includes subject papers submitted by various countries
- Download to your computer's tmp directory and open in a word
processing program
- Works with Word '97 and perhaps others
- World Trade
Organization
- WTO regulations on goods, services, environment, development,
regionalism,
intellectual property, and dispute resolution
- Text of the Uruguay Round
treaty which
created it
- Press releases
Protests
- News Coverage
- Labor Issues
- Foreign Labor
Trends
- Description
- Choose country and then Foreign Labor Trends
- Analysis of labor issues, types of employment, women in the workforce
- Statistics on employment by industry, weekly earnings, and
unionization
- Tradeport
Country Library
- Selected older issues
- Choose country and then Foreign Labor Trends
- International
Labor Organization
- Organizational information and Director General speeches
- Press releases on such subjects as child labor, salaries, and
occupational safety; some statistics included
- Catalog of ILO publications
- University of Texas Inequality
Project
- Charts and graphs on the inequality of industrial wages (rich and
poor) around the world
- Some spreadsheet data since 1963
- Maps on inquality changes since 1972
- Working papers and links
- Workers in
an Integrated World (World Bank)
- Executive summary of the 1995 World Development Report
- Statistics integrated into text; the statistical tables appearing at
the back of the printed publication are not included
- Environment
- Agenda
21
- English text of key document from the United Conference on
Environment and Development held in Rio, 1992
- Includes recommendations on atmostpheric protection and
reforestration
- Global Environment
Outlook-1 (UNEP)
- Extensive report on population growth and the status of forestry,
fisheries, land, agriculture, air pollution, water supplies, and urban waste
- Complete report provides text, graphs, and data
- Historical data and projections usually available by continent with
some information also by country
- State of
the World's Forests (FAO)
- Global forest ground cover, 1995-97
- Loss of forests, 1980+, and demand for forest products
- Short executive summary in HTML format; most files must be downloaded
in Adobe Acrobat format and require considerable disk space
- Trade and
Environment (UNEP)
- Reports from 1992-96 on the effect of trade on the environment
- United Nations Convention on Climate
Change/Official Kyoto Web Site
- Information for participants and press
- List of participants and daily schedules
- Audio and video of current conference but NOT
transcripts of the sessions
- Meeting to establish a greenhouse gas emissions protocol to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes
- Includes final text of Kyoto Protocol in Adobe Acrobat format
- United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes
- Text of United Nations treaty and list of ratifications
- Text of documents from previous and forthcoming conventions
- Text of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions
- Reports on the implementation of various agreements
- Urban Environmental
Management
- Numerous worldwide reports on managing the urban environment
(population, air pollution, disease, pests)
- Brief statistics on megacity population projections, current world
population, ecological capacity of nations
- World
Conservation Monitoring Centre
- Statistics on threatened plant and animal species worldwide
- Country data on forests, marine life, protected areas
- World
Resources, 1998/99 (World Resources Institute)
- Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country
data
- Population: projections to 2025, birth, death, health,
education
- Economic: gross national and domestic product,
prices, development assistance
- Environment: forestry, fisheries, water,
weather
- World Wildlife Federation
- Charts and maps on endangered species, forests, freshwater, and
marine life
- Details on threatened species, such as the Asian elephant
- Press releases and descriptions of projects
China's Position on
Membership
Country Economic
Statistics
- Country Commercial Guides (State Dept)
- Economic and political factors for U.S. citizens exporting to various
countries
- Includes laws, contacts, key imports and exports
- Country
Report on Economic and Trade Policy (State
Department)
- Main economic indicators, Chinese trade policy, exchange rates, and
debt management
- Extension section on export/import barriers, worker's rights and
intellectual property violations
- International Monetary
Fund Country Reports
- Extensive analysis of economic and social developments in individual
countries
- Appendices include detailed statistical tables
- Reports in Adobe Acrobat format and may be over 1.4 MB
- National
Trade Performances
- Data for 174 countries
- Shows 40 leading exports, world market share, market stability and three
leading importers
- Example: India's primary export is precious stones; United States,
Hong Kong, and Belgium are leading importers
- Tradeport
Country
Library
- General political and economic information for individual countries
- Searchable data base of Market Research Reports, which analyze
country sales opportunities
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