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part Part I WHO's mandate, governance and programmes -- chapter 1 Mandate, structure and partners -- chapter 2 Strategy and programmes -- part Part II Global outbreaks and pandemics -- chapter 3 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARs) and the avian influenza -- chapter 4 The H1N1 flu pandemic crisis and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) -- chapter 5 The fight against Ebola -- chapter 6 Fighting Zika -- part Part III Communicable diseases: control, elimination or eradication? -- chapter 7 Fighting malaria -- chapter 8 The eradication of smallpox -- chapter 9 The Onchocerciasis Control Programmes -- chapter 10 The eradication of polio -- chapter 11 The global fight against AIDS -- chapter 12 Fighting tuberculosis -- part PART IV Fighting non- communicable diseases -- chapter 13 Access to essential medicines -- chapter 14 Nutrition issues -- chapter 15 Fighting tobacco and alcohol.

"The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and criticisms of its management of pandemics such as the H1N1 flu case and the outbreak of Ebola, with a new Director-General at its helm, it is an ideal time to review the WHo's past and current achievements including on-going operations and reported failures. Whilst time is given to recurrent attacks on WHO performance, it is balanced by also highlighting the WHo's leadership, its member states, and its influence on other actors, NGOs and business. As such, this study reviews the WHo's actions in the most visible programmes such as SARS, H1N1, Ebola and also smallpox, malaria, onchocerciasis, polio and AIDS. The author also discusses the desirable balance between operational and normative functions and proposals for reform of the Organization."--Provided by publisher.

"This perceptive book highlights the need for cooperation between major organisations - whether intergovernmental, commercial or nongovernmental - to ensure developing countries have access to affordable medicines and vaccines, in spite of their different mandates and interests. Yves Beigbeder reviews specific areas of international public health issues and programmes from the vantage point of one particular intergovernmental organisation - the World Health Organisation. He includes studies on the value and risks of public-private partnerships, the access of poor populations to essential drugs and the fight against malaria and tuberculosis and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Further chapters focus on polio eradication, onchocerciasis control, alliances for vaccines and immunization, the promotion of breastfeeding, and the struggle against the tobacco industry."--Provided by publisher.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter 1. French Democracy and Justice -- Chapter 2. French Colonialism -- Chapter 3. The French Vietnam War (19461954) -- Chapter 4. Madagascar: Revolt and Repression 19471948 -- Chapter 5. French Algeria: the Dirty War (19541962) -- Chapter 6. Vichys Regime, Legislation and Justice -- Chapter 7. Post-Liberation Myth, Purge and Trials -- Chapter 8. From Barbie to Papon -- Chapter 9. The Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals -- Chapter 10. The Genocide in Rwanda -- Chapter 11. Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia -- Chapter 12. The International Criminal Court -- Chapter 13. Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Index.

Evidence shows that national justice has been slow, ineffective or unwilling to judge major political and military leaders responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity on a large scale. Hence the justification for international criminal justice. This book reviews the achievements and limitations of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the creation of mixed national/international courts: the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Cambodia Tribunal. The major, unexpected and promising judiciary innovation is however the creation of the International Criminal Court in 1998, supported by the UN, European Union members and other countries, effectively promoted by NGOs, but strongly opposed by the USA. The Court will have to show that it is a fair and valuable instrument in fighting impunity at the international level. Not a legal treatise, this book combines historical, legal and political elements in a highly readable text on the development of international criminal justice, which should be of interest to both the academic community, international organisations and concerned observers

International monitoring of plebiscites, referenda and national elections has given a guarantee to the populations and the countries directly involved, and to the international community, that the people themselves have been able to exercise freely their right to self-determination through these processes. By focusing international attention on an internal electoral process, international monitoring may deter fraud by government, armed forces or electoral authorities. It shows international support for democracy and elections, as well as for human rights. While the international monitoring of elections does not guarantee that a dictatorship will evolve peacefully into a pluralist democracy, free and periodic elections are an essential prerequisite to the creation and maintenance of democracy, which is itself a prerequisite for the protection and promotion of human rights. The United Nations and other international organizations and groups are openly supporting the world's evolution towards democracy. This book will be of great use for those who are actively involved in international monitoring as well as for researchers in the field of democracy and human rights