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Preparatory Committee for United Nations Conference on Sustainable Developments Concludes by Adopting Decision Outlining Contents, Format of Outcome Document

• por Notícias
• 9 de março de 2011
• 24 min. de leitura

Institutional Framework, Next Steps Discussed in Interactive Debates To deliver on the singular promise of sustainable development and the gains made over the past 20 years in defining its three-pillared approach ? linking economic development, social development, and environmental protection ? the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development must shift the discussion from function to […]

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Secretary-General, Marking Anniversary of ?Women?s Empowerment Principles?, Urges More Businesses to Sign up, Help Shatter ?Iron Ceiling?

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• 9 de março de 2011
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the event marking the one-year anniversary of the Women?s Empowerment Principles in New York today, 9 March: A year ago today, we launched the ?Women?s Empowerment Principles ? Equality Means Business? because we knew it made sense.  Companies around the world agreed.  Executives from Brazil to India, […]

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Investing in Women, Girls ? Especially Education ? Drives Development, Makes Good Economic Sense, Deputy Secretary-General Tells International Women?s Day Forum

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• 9 de março de 2011
• 4 min. de leitura

Following are the closing remarks, as delivered by UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, to the event organized by the United Nations Office for Partnerships, and the Business Civic Leadership Center, on ?Investing in Women And Entrepreneurship:  Solutions To Addressing MDG 3?, yesterday, 8 March, in New York: I congratulate all the participants in this forum […]

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Secretary-General Reiterates Concern, Urges Release of Palestinian Prisoners Being Held In Israeli Detention Centres, in Message to Meeting on Question of Palestine

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• 8 de março de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine, delivered by Maxwell Gaylard, Deputy United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in Vienna, 7 March: It is my pleasure to […]

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Ahead of International Women’s Day, Experts Spotlight Need for Women to Take Greater Role in Forest Management

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• 8 de março de 2011
• 4 min. de leitura

  NEW YORK, 7 March (United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat) — With International Women’s Day set to be commemorated on 8 March, United Nations officials and experts form the Collaborative Partnership of Forests have seized the opportunity to stress that the world’s forests cannot be managed sustainably if women — the main users of […]

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Press Conference on Preparations for 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

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• 8 de março de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next June, would give the international community a unique opportunity to build a global economic development model aimed at improving people?s lives and ensuring social equity while reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcity, the event?s Secretary-General said today. ?Rio […]

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Press Conference on Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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• 8 de março de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was a “major breakthrough” in global environmental negotiations, correspondents were told today at a Headquarters press conference held after the new treaty was opened for signature. Charles Gbedemah, Senior Environmental Affairs Office in the Secretariat of the Convention on […]

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Preparatory Committee for United Nations Conference on Sustainable Developments Concludes by Adopting Decision Outlining Contents, Format of Outcome Document

• por Notícias
• 8 de março de 2011
• 24 min. de leitura

Institutional Framework, Next Steps Discussed in Interactive Debates To deliver on the singular promise of sustainable development and the gains made over the past 20 years in defining its three-pillared approach ? linking economic development, social development, and environmental protection ? the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development must shift the discussion from function to […]

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United Nations International Meeting on Question of Palestine, in Outcome Text, Stresses Need to ‘Internationalize’ Issue of Palestinian Political Prisoners

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• 8 de março de 2011
• 12 min. de leitura

  Exploring Link between Prisoners and Status of Political Process, Meeting Told Emphasis on Security Disadvantages Palestinians (Received from a UN Information Officer.) VIENNA, 8 March — The notion that delivering security would ultimately yield a Palestinian State actually excluded Palestinians from the political process, the International Meeting on the Question of Palestine heard today […]

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Nearly Three Years since Groundbreaking, Plan to Renovate United Nations Headquarters on Track for Completion within Reach of Approved Budget, Fifth Committee Told

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• 8 de março de 2011
• 25 min. de leitura

Executive Director of Capital Master Plan Offers Detailed Update; Committee Also Takes Up Compensation for Civil Service Commission, Budget Advisory Committee Nearly three years after its start in May 2008, the complex, multi-year overhaul of the historic United Nations Headquarters ? known as the Capital Master Plan ? was on track for completion between 2012 […]