An analysis of traffic accidents and children: the case of Uruguay

This issue of the FAL Bulletin deals with road safe ty and its impact on children by examining data collected on road safe ty in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay by the Gonzalo Rodríguez Foundation wi thin the framework of its EDU-CAR Road Safety Plan for Children.

The international division of industrial labour and the core-periphery concept

Includes bibliography

Report on the activities conducted by the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE) - Population Division of ECLAC during the period 2012-2013

Includes bibliography.

An outline of the Latin American Population Documentation Service (DOCPAL); a request to the Information Science Division of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada

Includes bibliography

DOCPAL country population documentation development (the next phase of the DOCPAL project presently funded under IDRC Grant No 3-P-75-0101); a request to the Information Science Division of the IDRC, Ottawa, Canada

El proyecto para el desarrollo de las capacidades de los paises en el area de documentacion en poblacion constituye la segunda fase de las actividades del DOCPAL (1978-1980) y tiene como objetivos centrales: a).ayudar a las instituciones comprometidas en actividades de poblacion, en alrededor de 4 paises anualmente, a mejorar sus capacidades e infraestructura; b).posibilitar a aquellos paises mejor dotados para que se constituyan en centros miembros de DOCPAL; c).mejorar, extender y continuar la entrega de servicios de nivel regional a los paises; d).mejorar y mantener los sistemas computarizados de procesamiento de la informacion. La descripcion detallada de estas actividades constituye el fundamento para la solicitud de fondos al IDRC durante el periodo senalado

Computer applications in the Transport and Communications Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Presenta la experiencia de la Division de Transportes y Comunicaciones en el uso de computadores para aplicaciones substantivas. Examina los sistemas aplicados - codigo de puertos, ISIS, TRANDIS, COMPA -; el uso de procesamiento de textos en la preparacion de documentos de investigacion e informes y en la correspondencia, y entrega algunas consideraciones con respecto al uso de los microcomputadores.

Typology of instruments of public environmental international law

At the second meeting of the focal points appointed by the Governments of the signatory countries of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 16 and 17 April 2013, a decision was made to form working groups to advance towards the creation of a regional instrument. Thus, a working group on access rights and the regional instrument was formed for the purpose of gaining more in-depth knowledge on access rights in order to make a proposal on the nature and scope of the application of a regional instrument. At its first meeting, the working group determined that a study describing the different types of international instruments would be useful in helping it achieve its objective. This report explores the different types of instruments that are used in public international law, with an emphasis on the instruments that are relevant to Principle 10. The report has three chapters, which are as follows. The first chapter analyses the term “international instrument” and discusses the distinction between binding and non-binding legal instruments, illustrated with examples. The second chapter describes the function of implementation and compliance mechanisms in an international instrument, providing examples of these mechanisms. The third chapter presents the multilateral and regional instruments relevant to access rights regarding information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.