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Human Development, if not engendered, is endangered. That is the simple but far-reaching message of Human Development Report 1995.The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlighting the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding capabilities and limited opportunities. It introduces two new measures for ranking countries on a global…

Attached is the final text of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, following completion of the verification processes as requested by the INCD upon adoption of the Convention at its fifth session, on 17 June 1994.

By its resolution 47/188 of 22 December 1992, the General Assembly established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa,with a view to finalizing such a convention by June 1994.2. In resolution 48/191 of 21 December 1993,…

The experience gained from IDRC-supported projects has been both diverse and project-specific while also providing enough common themes and trends from which to distil broad "lessons learned". There is little doubt that IDRC now supports research which is conducted differently than in the past, looks at issues in a more holistic manner and handles the research results in a much more conscious and…

The relationship between environmental degradation and migration is important, complex, yet little understood. Further research and investigation of desertification as both a cause and a consequence of displacement and cross-border migrations should thus be pursued through programmes facilitating the exchange of technical and scientific data and the constant monitoring of the process.

Desertification, the conversion of fertile land on the fringe of the arid zones of the tropics to sterile, useless waste, is one of the great issues of global environmental concern. Blamed on global warming, poor agricultural practice, population pressure or soil erosion, it has generated a large scientific literature, great global concern, massive research funding and a host of policy and…