Current projects [edit]Overall focus The WHO’s constitution states that its objective “is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health”. [16] WHO identifies its role as one of six main objectives:[17] providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed; * shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge; * setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation; * articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options; * providing technical support, catalyzing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and * monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
The 2012–2013 budget further identified thirteen areas among which funding was distributed. The right of workers to associate freely and bargain collectively; 2. The end of forced and compulsory labour; 3. The end of child labour; and 4. The end of unfair discrimination among workers. The ILO asserts that its members have an obligation to work towards fully respecting these principles, embodied in relevant ILO Conventions. The ILO Conventions which embody the fundamental principles have now been ratified by most member states.
The closing of World War II on August 15, 1945 liberated Koreans from thirty-six years of Japanese occupancy. Koreans were overjoyed by their new freedom, but soon faced harsh reality. This was not exceptional for many artists, intellects and publishers of post-war Korea, who collaborated without asking for monetary compensation. Despite the lack of material resources, art and literature began to thrive as a result of the heart-felt friendship of various artists and intellects, until the outbreak of the Korean War on June 25, 1950.
The Term Paper on Reasoning Behind U.S. Decision to Enter the Korean War
Introduction What determined the United States to enter the one of the costliest wars in the twentieth-century is a good topic for foreign policy study. There are several possible explanations as to why the United States participated in the war. The most important explanation is that the western world would be in a greater threat if North Korea won the war. Communist was considered as expansionism ...
This duration of time (Aug. 15, 1945 – Jun. 25, 1950) is known as the liberation space, a temporal space of blossoming post-World War Korean art and literature where the production of art was for art’s sake and conflicting ideologies could not hinder their friendship. Nor did poor material conditions deter their zeal for creating an artistic and intellectual space. Lacking sufficient printing and binding tools and advanced technologies, publications from the liberation space seem rather meager.
The paper quality is crude, printing and binding qualities are substandard, and preservation had been overlooked. However, the artistic quality of these publications displays the unprecedented uniqueness of the Korean literature of that particular period. The publications displayed in this exhibition are not only textual celebrations but also the pictorial expression of beauty by reputable artists of the era, not to mention the arduous labor many publishers put into each and every work.