The Human Rights Fact Sheet series is published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest.
The Human Rights Fact Sheet series is published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest.
The Human Rights Fact Sheet series is published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest.
The emergence of the knowledge-based economy has raised concerns over several areas: the management of intellectual resources, valuation of intellectual capital; commercialisation of inventions; intellectual property valuation; efficiency of the utilisation of intellectual assets; promotion of innovation. Intellectual assets have great potential , yet investment will only flow where there are c…
A valuable resource for those involved in international business and economic development, the Trade and Development Report (TDR) 1999, issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), examines current performance and prospects in the world economy. It offers further reflections on the Asian financial crisis and discusses the euro and the international financial system…
The Human Rights Fact Sheet series is published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest.
The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols. Human rights had already found expression in the Covenant of the League of Nations, which led, inter alia, to the creation of the Internationa…
The Human Rights Fact Sheet series is published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest.
The Lao PDR is a small landlocked country bordered by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and China. Two-thirds of the country is made up of rugged mountains and plateaus ranging from 200 to 2800 meters, thus making land communications between provinces and betwen town in the same province difficult.
The possibility of recourse to international arbitration has long been seen as an optimal way to provide for protection of foreign investment in international investment agreements (IIAs) and to resolve disputes between foreign investors and States. However, the increasing number of investor-State disputes, with some touching upon important public interest concerns, such as social, health or en…