This report seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes and sets out actions to create to create a world free of poverty in all its dimensions. The report both builds on past thinking and strategy and substantially broadens and deepens what is judged to be necessary to meet the challenge of reducing poverty. It argues that major…

At a recent Paris meeting of science ministers and their counterparts from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, the conferees examined social issues related to the sciences, such as natural resources management and a greater public awareness of science. (Author/MLH)

Describes the meetings, surveys and organizational strategies used by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to establish an international program in environmental education. Goals, procedures, and future plans are explained. (WB)

This report was issued by Education and World Affairs (EWA), an organization created to study and assist in strengthening the international teaching, research and service dimensions of US colleges and universities. The report consists mainly of papers presented at conferences that EWA co-sponsored with universities in 1967-68. They are: 1)…

Reviews ideas, programs, and initiatives which presently characterize national and international environmental education. Discusses the international program which was developed as a result of United Nations meetings in Stockholm and Tbilisi, Soviet Union. (KC)

The economic crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa threatens to condemn an entire continent to human misery unless stronger action is taken to control population growth, reverse ecological devastation, eliminate distortions in domestic economic policies, and increase external development finance. Substantial increases in financial assistance to Africa are…

This booklet discusses how the United Nations University, established in 1973, can bring youth together on a world scale and create an international system through which youth can join in the work of building a world community. The first chapter, A University for the World: The United Nations Plan, describes student protests in Thailand in 1973.…

This document contains materials from a Unesco European regional meeting held in Venice (November 7-11, 1977) to discuss the problem of youth unemployment. The final report of the meeting is composed of (1) a summary of the discussions on background and nature of the problem, remedies, action, education and training, creating jobs, quality of…

These two annotated listings cite organizations, groups, and programs that provide information on international social affairs. The entries were selected from the data base of the National Referral Center of the Library of Congress. Listings are organized under the following headings: volunteer agencies; food; law; health; population; rural…