United Nations International Agreements and Efforts

This book examines the international agreements and efforts of the United Nations. Some other topics discussed in this compilation include: U.N. efforts to address violence and discrimination against women; the U.N. convention on the rights of children; background and funding debate on the U.N. Population Fund; an overview and application of interrogation techniques under the U.N. convention against torture; living resources provisions under the Law of the Sea and the 2010 U.N. high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goal agreement.