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International Issues at the National Academies
Featured Reports
Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture
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Monitoring International Labor Standards: National Legal Frameworks, Summary of a Workshop
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Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective: Workshop Summary
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Web Features
 National Academies Press: International Problems, Policies and Issues Collection ~ read online free.
Realizing the Promise and Potential of African Agriculture ~ science and technology can stimulate African agriculture, says the second report from the InterAcademy Council.
Inventing a Better Future: A Strategy for Building Worldwide Capacities in Science and Technology ~ strong science and technology capacity a necessity for every nation, says the first report from the InterAcademy Council.
Web Extra: Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture ~ includes links to full report, press release and other resources.
National Academies Offices
Science and Technology for Sustainability Program ~ encourages the use of science and technology to achieve long term sustainable development -- increasing incomes, improving public health and sustaining critical natural systems.
Board on International Scientific Organizations ~ evaluates opportunities and barriers in collaborative international scientific research.
Board on Global Health ~ concerned with advancing the health of populations worldwide.
Coordinating Committee on Global Change ~ fosters stronger coordination and integration of National Academies activities related to global change science, technology and policy.
Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change ~ serves as a source of broad scientific expertise and judgment for setting agendas for research on human-environment interactions.
Committee on Human Rights ~ works on behalf of scientists, engineers and health professionals anywhere in the world who are unjustly detained or imprisoned for exercising their basic human rights.
Committee on International Security and Arms Control ~ engages influential scientists and policy analysts from key countries to develop ideas and strategies promoting new, cooperative approaches to security issues.
Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards ~ seeks to develop a sustainable system for monitoring compliance with core international labor standards.
Committee on Population ~ brings the knowledge and methods of the population sciences to bear on major issues of science and public policy.
Development, Security and Cooperation ~ examines technical and policy challenges facing developing, transitional, and advanced industrial societies.
International Visitors Office ~ provides useful information related to visas.
Office for Central Europe and Eurasia ~ provides grants to individual American specialists who plan to establish new research partnerships with their colleagues in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS).
National Academies Affiliations
InterAcademy Council ~ governed by a board of scientific academy presidents from 15 nations, the IAC organizes panels of scientists, engineers and medical experts worldwide to provide high quality advice to international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Bank.
InterAcademy Panel on International Issues ~ an association of over 90 national scientific academies, providing a forum for addressing issues of critical global importance and strengthening the public service contributions of scientific academies worldwide.
Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences ~ an international organization of national engineering and technological sciences academies, providing a forum for strengthening academies and promoting cooperative engineering and technological efforts throughout the world.
InterAcademy Medical Panel ~ an association of the world's medical academies or the medical divisions of science academies, committed to improving health around the world.
International Council for Science ~ comprises 101 multi-disciplinary National Scientific Members, Associates and Observers (scientific research councils or science academies) and 27 international, single-discipline Scientific Unions to provide a wide spectrum of scientific expertise enabling members to address major international, interdisciplinary issues.
International Human Rights Network ~ assists scientists and scholars around the world who are subjected to severe repression; promotes human rights and institutional commitment to human rights work among counterpart academies and scholarly societies worldwide.
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