UN conference on least developed countries opens in Brussels

Resolution 1308 recognized the epidemic’s potential effects on stability and peacekeeping. Developing countries and health advocates emphasized that the crisis required affordable medicines,...

Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched a voluntary initiative asking companies to align with principles on labor, human rights, environment and anti-corruption. Its model of corporate partnership...

Leaders met to discuss peace, development, human rights and UN reform. Many developing countries treated poverty, debt and unequal participation as structural global issues, while summit commitments...

The declaration committed states to development, peace, human rights and a stronger multilateral system. Its goals were ambitious, but the declaration did not resolve disputes over debt, trade rules...

Resolution 1325 called for women’s participation in conflict prevention, peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction. It followed years of organizing by women’s movements and set a global...

The programme set commitments for 2001-2010 on poverty reduction, trade, aid and productive capacity. Its results depended on delivery by both LDC governments and international partners, a recurring...

The session sought a global response to the epidemic, which disproportionately affected poorer countries with limited access to treatment and public-health resources. Delegates debated prevention,...

The declaration established targets for prevention, treatment and financing. It recognized shared responsibilities but did not itself overcome patent barriers, unequal medicine access or shortages...

More than 91 percent of eligible voters participated in elections for an assembly tasked with drafting a constitution and preparing the transition to independence. The vote advanced self-government...

The UN conference assembled governments and civil society to address slavery, colonialism, racism and contemporary discrimination. NAM states pressed historical responsibility and structural...