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The State of the UN

‘The State of the UN’ is an annual report of developments within the United Nations system. It summarizes the prominent issues that have emerged in the past year and presents an overview of ongoing work at the multilateral level. These back-issues are presented in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.

• State of the UN 2008, New York (pdf 245 kb)
  - Climate Change
  - Democratic Republic of Congo
  - Northern Uganda
  - The Peacebuilding Commission
  - FWCC Triennial
  - Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  - New QUNO Staff for New Year

• State of the UN 2007, New York (pdf 398 kb)
  - UN Peacekeeping at 50: Deployments Reach an All-Time High
  - The New Secretary General of the UN: Ban Ki-moon
  - Small Arms Light Weapons
  - The UN Supports a Chance for Peace in Northern Uganda
  - The Peace Building Commission

• State of the UN 2006, New York (pdf 134 kb)
  - QUNO Sponsors UN Panel on Forgotten Emergencies
  - From Community-based Projects to International Policy:
    QUNO Visits the Quaker Peace Network - Africa
  - New QUNO Committee
  - QUNO Changes 2006
  - Departure of QUNO's Director
  
  
• State of the UN 2005, New York (pdf 491 kb)
  - The Secretary General's High-Level Panels
  - Security Council & the Crisis in Northern Uganda
  - Small Arms
  - The fate of Prevention
  
  
• State of the UN 2004 (pdf 91kb)
  - Prominent Issues before the 58th Session of the UN General Assembly
  - Small Arms and Light Weapons: Funding a Consensus
  - The Security Council: Focus on Iraq
  - Conscientious Objection to Military Service
  - Prevention of Violent Conflict and the UN
  - The UN Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP)
  - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at the UN during 2003
  
  
• State of the UN 2003
  - Prominent Issues before the 57th Session of the UN General Assembly
  - A Year with Iraq
  - Small Arms: The Other Weapon of Mass Destruction
  - Millennium Development Goals: Walking the Talk into the Millennium
  - The International Year of Freshwater Builds Momentum for Water Concerns
  - New Indigenous Forum: Indigenous Rights in a Global Context
  - United Nations Reform: Inside and Outside the System
  
  
• State of the UN 2002**
  - The UN and September 11: Everything Has Changed… Or Has It?
  - A New Discussion on Race
  - Financing for Development: Opportunities Ahead
  - Disarmament Issues Take on New Urgency
  - Small Arms Conference Sets the Agenda
  - Major Advance for Indigenous Issues in the UN
  - Prevention: Slowed, Not Stalled
  
  
• State of the UN 2001**
  - The View From the Fifth Floor: Trends at the United Nations
  - The UN in the Aftermath of the Millennium Summit
  - The Changing Roles of the UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions
  - “Bundled” Security
  - Preventing Conflict, Responding to Crises

** N.B: The dates given above are the dates of publication for the State of the UN, in accordance with our new system of numbering. Confusion may arise because prior to 2003 this newsletter was titled with the date of the year gone by (the year under review), rather than the year in which it was published.