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United Nations World Conference on Human Rights (UN). 1993. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. U.N. Doc. A/CONF 157/23. 

Secretary-General s Press Conferences, 7 VN Monthly Chronicle 36, Feb. 1970 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, UN Doc. A/CONF.157/24 (part I), para. 2 (1993), 20 6 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Art. 53... 

U.N. Items 8 and 9 of the Provisional Agenda E/Conference, United Nations World Food Conference, Rome, 1974. 

Major areas of harmonization work arose from the United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in 1992, and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Agenda 21, Chapter 19, the blueprint for the environmentally sound management of toxic chemicals under the principles of sustainable development, has guided most international and national chemical-related activities. Chapter 19 is the agreed upon, endorsed international program of... 

Global conferences involving world leaders have also played a part in outlining the environmental scenario. The first world environmental summit took place in Stockholm in 1972, and from this emerged the now famous Bruntland definition of sustainable development (section 5.4). This was followed some twenty years later by the United Nations Summit Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de... 

However, during the Second World War, apart from Japanese operations in China, chemical weapons were not used and, after the defeat of the Axis powers, the advent of the atomic bomb overshadowed chemical warfare-related issues. Chemical weapons essentially disappeared from the disarmament scene until the late 1960s when events in the Vietnam War prompted the United Nations to prioritise chemical disarmament. However, it should be noted that the United Nations is, of course, the servant of its member states, not master of them, and as such is really in no position to prioritise anything. Indeed, the reality was that in 1968 was that the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Conference decided to... 

Earth Summit, Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World. Agenda 21, Chapter 18, paragraphs 18.6 and 18.8, as endorsed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, June 1992. 

The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on April 7, 1948. WHO s objective, as set out in its constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO s constitution as a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (Preamble to the Constitution of the WHO as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, June 19-22, 1946 signed on July 22, 1946 by the representatives of 61 states [Official Records of the World Health Organization, No. 2, p. 100] and entered into force on April 7, 1948). 

Under Article XIV (Entry into force), the Treaty will enter into force 180 days after the 44 States listed in annex 2 to the Treaty have deposited their instruments of ratification with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, but in no case earlier than two years after its opening for signature . This list comprises the States that formally participated in the 1996 session of the conference on Disarmament, and that appear in Table 1 of the December 1995 edition of Nuclear Research Reactors in the World and Table 1 of the April 1996 edition of Nuclear Power Reactors in the World , both compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency. 

The fourth International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU IV) is very timely. Governments from around the world will meet in Kyoto in December 1997 to agree on a new Protocol or Another Legal Instrument o the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The conference provides a very valuable opportunity to take stock of activities in a potentially important area of climate change responses - CO utilization. 

In one form or another, the language of precaution has now been adopted in many international treaties and conventions, such as the North Sea Declaration (1987), The Ozone Layer Protocol (1987), the Ministerial Declaration of the Second World Climate Conference (1990), the Maastricht Treaty that created the European Union (1994), the United Nations Fisheries Convention (1995), The London Convention Protocol on ocean dumping (1996) and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (2000), among others. 

The International Labour Organization is the United Nations (UN) specialized agency that seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights. It was founded in 1919 at the end of the First World War, during the Peace Conference convened first in Paris and then at Versailles. Two industrialists, Robert Owen of Wales and Daniel Legrand of France, had advocated the need for such an organization in the nineteenth... 

World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa. World governments, concerned citizens, UN agencies, multilateral financial institutions, and other major groups participate and assess global change since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992. 

The Agency s Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 by the Conference on the Statute of the IAEA held at United Nations Headquarters, New York it entered into force on 29 July 1957. The Headquarters of the Agency are situated in Vienna. Its principal objective is "to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world . 

UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program). 1992. Rio Declaration, World Conference on Envirorunent and Development, United Nations Environmental Program, Brazil... 

The objective of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). held in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992, was to agree on a sustainable future course of development that would reconcile the growing development requirements of the world s population with the environmental resources on which they are based [7]. 

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