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The thirteenth plenary meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee was held in Sāo Paulo, Brazil, from June 7 to 16, 1954. Senor Garibaldi Dantas (Brazil) was Chairman of the meeting. Representatives from 25 member governments and observers from 15 other governments and from three international organizations were in attendance. The Committee heard reports from its officers and a review of the world cotton situation and statements on the cotton situation in various countries. Seventeen resolutions were adopted. The first five related to the financial affairs of the Committee including the budget for 1954–1955; others: 1) asked the Secretariat to make preliminary inquiries of technical and research bodies regarding comparative information on fiber properties of commercial cotton; 2) suggested that governments should consider action to encourage an increase in world consumption of cotton; 3) asked governments to submit information regarding the results of technological research on the properties and utilization of cotton and the organization and financing of agencies conducting such research; 4) invited the attention of national and international organizations to the fact that the most effective and lasting way of increasing cotton consumption was to raise the standard of living in underdeveloped areas; 5) asked the Secretariat to secure information on new and improved products of and uses for cotton; 6) asked governments to consider an international cotton welfare program outlined in a report on expanding world cotton consumption; and 7) asked the Secretariat to continue providing information on the use of synthetic fibers.

"Few would quibble with the idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus strain has caused a crisis that affects just about everybody on the planet. As lawyers active in the field of international law, our reading and teaching, writing and thinking, law-making and adjudication have been profoundly affected. These nineteen essays, individually and as a group offer a range of reactions and insights, touching on the impact on international law in its present incarnation and in a broader historic context, a snapshot on the state of thinking about international law. They offer a reminder too, as Benedict Kingsbury tells us, of the wisdom of others, of the Maori insight about our propensity to walk backwards into the future with our eyes on the past"--

Im Dezember 2008 stehen wichtige Schritte der internationalen Klimapolitik bevor, die einerseits die Gestaltung der Klimaschutzmaßnahmen in Europa und andererseits ein Folgeabkommen des Kyoto-Protokolls nach 2012 betreffen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Stand der internationalen Klimapolitik.

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) held its 50th session in Montreal from September 13 to December 16, 1963.

Gestützt auf einige bislang unveröffentlichte Quellen schildert die Verfasserin die Bemühungen des Zentralrats der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation (IAA), die in den Trade Unions organisierten englischen Arbeiter für die Ziele der IAA zu gewinnen. Der Zentralrat versuchte nicht nur, den Anschluß einzelner Unions, sondern vor allem der lokalen Dachorganisationen zu erreichen, was auch in einigen Fällen gelang. Die IAA hatte sich bei den Trade Unions einen guten Ruf erworben, da sie diese im Kampf gegen den Einsatz von im Ausland angeheuerten Streikbrechern wirkungsvoll unterstützte. Die Verfasserin plädiert dafür, die pauschale Bewertung der Führer der Trade Unions als "reformistisch" zugunsten eines differenzierteren Urteils aufzugeben. (ES)