State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Europe
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Who will give what?
Money commitments made by northern leaders in Rio:
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Politics of punctuation
A comma gave rise to an argument over whether technology transfer should take place according to terms agreed upon at Rio or terms mutually agreed upon later
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Sands of controversy
Africa had several tense moments before it could get the desertification convention through
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Fish wars of an economic kind
In 1993, Newfoundland will see an international conference on fish stocks as a result of a dispute between Canada and Japan and the EC
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'It really riles me to see developing countries pushed into a corner'
Tough talking Malaysian negotiator Wen Lian Ting explains why the North's stand on forests is morally unjust and politically untenable
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G 7 plan against N fallout
EUROPE is getting increasingly worried about nuclear fallout from the erstwhile communist republics. The G-7 leaders are expected to endorse a multibillion-dollar plan to improve the safety of
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Saudi Arabia wants higher prices for oil
Faced with European proposals for higher taxes on oil, Saudi Arabia is signalling desperately that it wants higher prices. This makes a change from its earlier policy of restrained oil pricing. This
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Green Rio toric
Will the European Green parties' long agenda to change the world's environment have any takers?
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USA, Gulf say no to carbon tax, EC nods meekly
THIS fortnight the European Commission unveiled a plan, which its environment comissioner, Carlo Ripa di Meana, called "revolutionary" to staise a carbon dioxide emissions at their 1990
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Employment guarantee
USA, Japan and the European Community have together pledged a total of US $75 million to the establishment of an International Science and Technology Centre in Moscow which will provide