Published April, 2021
By United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
Publisher: United Nations
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Assesses the levels and effects of exposure to ionizing radiation. The scientific annexes provide the supporting scientific rationale for UNSCEAR's 2019 report. Annex A focuses on evaluation of selected health effects and inference of risk. Annex B focuses on the evaluation of lung cancer from exposure to radon.

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Published February, 2021
By United Nations Office on Drugs and Labor
Publisher: United Nations
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Aims to improve the understanding of the world's drug problem and to contribute towards fostering greater international cooperation for countering its impact on health, governance and security. The report includes an updated overview of recent trends on production, trafficking and consumption for non-medical purposes of key controlled substances.

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Published January, 2021
By United Nations: International Narcotics Control Board
Publisher: United Nations
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Provides up-to-date comprehensive statistics as well as assessments of annual medical and scientific requirements concerning psychotropic substances; the various levels of consumption of groups of the substances, and also the prohibitions and restrictions relative to their export and import.

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Published January, 2021
By United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher: United Nations
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Contains information about the licit movement of the internationally controlled narcotic drugs included in the Schedules of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This includes information on cultivation of opiate raw materials; and on the manufacture of consumption, utilization and stocks of opiates and opioids.

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Published October, 2020
By United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Committee for Development Policy
Publisher: United Nations
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Presents analysis on different angles of the COVID-19 crisis and the challenges and opportunities it presents for development policy and multilateralism. The oublication addresses, among other issues new ways of designing the relationship between governments and private actors that puts public interest at the centre.

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Published June, 2020
By United Nations: International Narcotics Control Board
Publisher: United Nations
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Provides up-to-date comprehensive statistics as well as assessments of annual medical and scientific requirements concerning psychotropic substances; the various levels of consumption of groups of the substances, and also the prohibitions and restrictions relative to their export and import.

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Published May, 2020
By United Nations: International Narcotics Control Board
Publisher: United Nations
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Provides a comprehensive account of the global drug situation, analyses trends in drug abuse and drug trafficking and suggests necessary remedial action. Divided into four parts, it covers drugs and corruption, functioning of the international drug control system, analysis of the world situation and a set of recommendations to governments.

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Published February, 2020
By United Nations: Economic Commission for Europe and United Nations Publications
Publisher: United Nations
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THE PEP Partnerships provide a means by which member States and other stakeholders can work together in greater depth on specific issues and develop tools, methods and other resources to support policy implementation. This publication takes stock of the work done by the Partnerships, and the results achieved.

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Published February, 2020
By United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher: United Nations
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Highlights estimates of the prevalence of individual contraceptive methods based on the World Contraceptive Use 2019 (which draws from 1,247 surveys for 195 countries or areas of the world) and additional tabulations obtained from microdata sets and survey reports.

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Published December, 2019
By United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher: United Nations
Rating:
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This booklet is based on the Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2019, which includes estimates at the global, regional and country level of contraceptive prevalence, unmet need for family planning and SDG indicator 3.7.1 "Proportion of women who have their need for family planning satisfied by modern methods".

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