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Avian and Human Influenza Since 2003, a devastating epidemic of avian influenza has predominately affected poultry flocks in East Asia-particularly in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and China.For more information enter the UN Avian and Human Influenza web portal.

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Links

Global UN Links

United Nations Millennium Summit

UN Website Locator

Regional Organisations

ADB - Asian Development Bank

UNESCAP - UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific

Thailand Resources:

Royal Thai Government

Office of the Prime Minister

Department of Technical and Economical Cooperation

NESDB - National Economic and Social Development Board

Office of the Civil Service Commission

Civil Society Organisations

Portal for Thai NGOs

Portal for Thai NGOs

Private Sector

Thai Chamber of Commerce

Electricity Generating Public Co

Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand

Federation of Thai Industries (Thai)

Academia

Rajabhat Institute

King Prachadhipok's Institute

The Thailand Development Research Institute

Chulabhorn Research Institute

Kasetsart University

Development Partners

United States of America

Int'l Fed of Red Cross

Conventions of the UN System and other useful references:

Conventions and Declarations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)

International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (1966)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ( 1979)

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (General Assembly resolution 48/104 of 20 December 1993)

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)

Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)

UN Convention to Combat Desertification (1994)

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992)

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (1989) (or in cases when this has not been ratified, the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention of 1957 ).

Convention (1951) and Protocol (1967) relating to the Status of Refugees

Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961)

Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971)

United Nations Convention against the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)

United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols (2000)

United Nations Convention against Corruption (2003)

Additionally, for following relate to international labour instruments:

Forced Labour Convention (No. 29) (1930)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (No. 87) (1948)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No. 98) (1949)

Equal Remuneration Convention (No. 100) (1951)

Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (No. 105) (1957)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No. 111) (1958)

Minimum Age Convention (No. 138) (1973)

Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up (1998)

Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (No. 182) (1999)

International Conferences

World Summit for Children - New York 1990

World Conference on Environment and Development - RIO 1992

International Conference on Nutrition - Rome 1992

World Conference on Human Rights - Vienna 1993

International Conference on Population and Development - Cairo 1994

World Summit for Social Development - Copenhagen 1995

Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) - Beijing 1995

Ninth Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNCPCTO) - Cairo 1995

Second UN Conference on Human Settlements - Istanbul 1996

World Food Summit - Rome 1996

Ninth Session of the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD IX) - Medrand 1996

Amsterdam and Oslo Conferences on Child Labour (1997 )

General Assembly Twentieth Special Session
on the World Drug Problem (GAD) - New York 1998

World Conference on Education For All - Dakar 2000

World Conference for Women (Beijing +5, 2000)

Tenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

Millennium Summit - New York 2000

UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS - New York 2001

World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance - Durban 2001

Yokohama Conference on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - 2001

Istanbul+5: Reviewing and Appraising Progress Five Years After Habitat II - New York 2001

International Conference on Financing for Development - Monterrey 2002

UN Special Session on Children - New York 2002

World Food Summit: Five Years Later - Rome 2002

The World Summit on Sustainable Development - Johannesburg 2002

The World Summit on the Information Society, First Phase: Geneva, 10-12 December 2003

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