Subject index Gaza, crisis in 434–439 International Committee of the Red Cross *440, *444, *452 International Court of Justice *447, 448, *458 Occupied Palestinian Territory *434–458 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs *444, *447 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights *444, *447, *451 Palestinian Authority *435, *437–443, *447, *453–455, *460, *462–465 Special Committee on Israeli Practices 488 Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights *447–452 United Nations Disengagement Observer Force 433 United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon 433 migrant workers Convention on migrant workers *641–642 migrants human rights, protection *668–672 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 669 see also refugees and displaced persons MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs) 34 children 1176, 1183–1184 children, youth and ageing persons 1160 economic and technical cooperation among developing countries *874 energy and natural resources *999 Haiti *327 health, food and nutrition 1217, *1229 human rights 703 international economic relations 813 operational activities for development 856–858, 868 peaceful uses of outer space 603–604 persons with disabilities *1068 population 1049, 1055 regional cooperation 968 regional economic and social activities 973–974, 988 statistics 1262, 1264 women 1115, *1120, *1125 youth 1184 mines see anti-personnel mines minorities human rights, discrimination against *672–673 MINURCAT see United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad MINURSO see United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara MINUSTAH see United Nations Stabilization Force in Haiti monitoring institutional, administrative and budgetary questions *1380–1383 MONTSERRAT *597 MONUC see United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo multilateral trading system HIV/AIDS *920 LDCs *918–921 World Intellectual Property Organization *920–921 World Trade Organization *918
1563 multilateralism disarmament *523–527 munitions see disarmament; weapons MYANMAR HIV/AIDS *776 human rights *771–776 International Committee of the Red Cross *776 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 773
N NATO see North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATURAL RESOURCES economic and social questions *998–1000 NEPAD see New Partnership for Africa’s Development NEPAL human rights 777 United Nations Children’s Fund 393 United Nations Development Programme 393 United Nations Mission in Nepal 66, 388–393 United Nations Population Fund 393 World Food Programme 393 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) coordination, monitoring and cooperation 1381 development policy and public administration *831 humanitarian and special economic assistance *899 promotion of peace in Africa 103, *112 regional economic and social activities 969, 973 social policy and cultural issues *1058, *1063, 1064 special economic assistance *900–901, *903 UN Environment Programme 1007 NGO see non-governmental organization NIGERIA Cameroon–Nigeria Mixed Commission 226–228 non-communicable diseases *1222 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Asia and the Pacific, regional economic and social activities 980 Chad and Central African Republic 158, 160 children 1175, 1179 cooperation, UN and other organizations *1386, 1387 disarmament *564 health, food and nutrition *1226 human rights *647, *666, *724, 731 humanitarian assistance *888, 889 legal questions 1274 population 1045 refugees and displaced persons *1196, 1213 resource mobilization, humanitarian assistance 889 Somalia 283 Sudan 238, 254, 259 Western Sahara *308 women *1116 non-proliferation issues *518–540 International Atomic Energy Agency 521, *522, *527–532 multilateralism in disarmament and non-proliferation *523–527 nuclear-weapon-free zones *533–540 radioactive waste *532–533 treaty *518–520 weapons of mass destruction *520–525, *527