According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, around 125, 000 ethnic Serbs who fled the 1991 – 1995 conflict are registered as having returned to Croatia, of whom around 55, 000 remain permanently.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, China's per capita food availability and consumption have increased, and average per capita food availability has grown from less than 1700 kcal in 1960 to 2570 kcal per day in 1995.

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) secretariat, the overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture.

According to a recent United Nations report, more than 84 percent of Eritreans who have sought asylum around the world have been recognized as refugees deserving asylum status.

According to a 55-page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

According to a report by the United Nations, the Taliban and other militants were responsible for 76 % of civilian casualties in 2009, 75 % in 2010 and 80 % in 2011.

According to United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, East Jerusalem is part of the occupied territories.

According to the definition established in a 1932 convention signed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden ( registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series 199-1933 ), the northern boundary between Kattegat and Skagerrak is found at the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the southern boundary towards Oresund is found at the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania.

( see video ) According to a 55-page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

According to the British, who had been awarded a League of Nations mandate over Iraq in 1920 and therefore represented Iraq in its foreign affairs, Mosul belonged to Iraq ; on the other hand, the new Turkish republic claimed the province as part of its historic heartland.

According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920: " draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League ... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations ,"

According to a separate estimate by the United Nations, Earth ’ s population exceeded 7 billion in October 2011, a milestone that offers unprecedented challenges and opportunities to all of humanity, according to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

According to the United Nations convention, there is no distinction between the terms racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination, and superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and that there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere.

The UN does not define “ racism ”; however, it does define “ racial discrimination ”: According to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

According to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi foreign policy is focused on co-operation with the Gulf states, the unity of the Arab world, solidarity with Muslim countries, and support for the United Nations ( UN ).

According to an October 23, 2003 United Nations report, the smuggling and exportation of coltan has helped fuel the war in the Congo, a crisis that has resulted in approximately 5. 4 million deaths since 1998 – making it the world ’ s deadliest documented conflict since World War II.

According to the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne, Turkey ceded all its claims to these two countries, which had been organized as League of Nations mandates under the governing responsibility of Britain and France, respectively.

According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 75 % of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010 and 80 % in 2011.

According to official sources from the United Nations, the percentage of people below the national poverty line has decreased during the presidency of Hugo Chávez, from 48. 1 % in 2002 to 28 % in 2008.

According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contribute on a " massive scale " to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Madagascar is currently responsible for the vast majority of the world's Bourbon vanilla production and 58 % of the world total vanilla fruit production.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.

According to the United Nations, Yemen ’ s population in 2005 was 27. 3 percent urban and 72. 7 percent rural ; population density was 40 persons per square kilometer.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to Merriam-Webster and the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word " molecule " derives from the Latin " moles " or small unit of mass.

According to Grove Music Online, the term " pop music " " originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced ...".

According to Grove Music Online, " Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures ".

According to Garowe Online, to bolster the region's justice system, numerous new prosecutors, judges and other court personnel as well as additional prison guards were hired and trained.

According to Heritage Online, nearly 65 % of the total seminaries ( Madrasah ) in Pakistan are run by Deobandis, 25 % by the Barelvis, 6 % by the Ahle Hadith and 3 % by various Shia organizations.

According to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article " Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment ?," published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Sevier County has the highest rate of online pornography usage in the United States.

According to the Handbook of Texas Online referencing Oscar Haas, History of New Braunfels and Comal County, Texas, 1844-1946 ( Austin: Steck, 1968 ), Bulverde was settled in 1850 and called Pieper Settlement, after Anton Pieper.

According to Martin Donell Kohout of The Handbook of Texas Online:

According to the Handbook of Texas Online, "... at times they appear colored as they twinkle in the distance.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the old system of delivering mail was referred to as snail mail in 1983 as a comparison to electronic mail ( email ) begun in 1982.

According to Nielsen Online, NBCNews. com has risen above Yahoo!

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word coward came into English from the Old French word coart ( modern French couard ), a combination of the word for " tail " ( Modern French queue, Latin cauda ) and an agent noun suffix.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word infrastructure has been used in English since at least 1927, originally meaning " The installations that form the basis for any operation or system ".

According to Britannica Online, " In feudal Japan sumptuary laws were passed with a frequency and minuteness of scope that had no parallel in the history of the Western world.

According to Dorine C. Andrews, author of Audience-Specific Online Community Design there are three parts to building an online community: starting the online community, encouraging early online interaction, and moving to a self-sustaining interactive environment.

According to and article published in Volume 21, Issue 5, of the European Management Journal titled Learning in Online Forums, they conducted a series of researches about online learning, and they found that while strong online learning is a bit more difficult to form, it is still quite conducive to educational learning.

According to The Handbook of Texas Online, the Chronicle generally represented very conservative political views during the 1950s:

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the first recorded use of the term zero tolerance was in 1972.

According to the American Bar Association outline on Online Transaction Management, the primary points of US Federal and State statutes enacted regarding digital signatures has been to " prevent conflicting and overly burdensome local regulation and to establish that electronic writings satisfy the traditional requirements associated with paper documents.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word was first used to describe having permission from authorities in the 1530s.

According to Asia Times Online, one important mission of NRO satellites is the tracking of non-US submarines on patrol or on training missions in the world's oceans and seas.

According to Times Online, two senior figures in the process that chose zur Hausen also had strong links with AstraZeneca.

According to The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, " the Zeno affair remains one of the most preposterous and at the same time one of the most successful fabrications in the history of exploration.