United Nations

Reaching the Unreachable, Securing Sustainable Development?s Promises Can Reverse Maternal Mortality Trends, Integrate Women in Green Economy, Commission Told

• por Notícias
• 1 de março de 2011
• 39 min. de leitura

Expert Panels in Women?s Commission ? on Gender Equality, Sustainable Development ? Prompt Lively Exchange with UN Women?s Chief Amid the ongoing tragedy of maternal mortality and morbidity, reaching the unreachable must be the goal of strategies to improve maternal health care, while securing the promises of sustainable development required that poor women be ?dealt […]

United Nations

Panel Discussions in Preparatory Meeting for Commission on Sustainable Development Address Need to Fill Transport Infrastructure Gaps, Manage Hazardous Chemicals

• por Notícias
• 1 de março de 2011
• 29 min. de leitura

Access to the most basic transport infrastructure was still lacking in many areas around the world, while changes were needed at all levels of society in the management of chemicals, participants said during today?s Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for the nineteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development. Transport and chemicals are two of the five […]

United Nations

United Nations Response to Violence against Civilians in Libya Sends Strong Message There Is ‘No Impunity? for Crimes against Humanity, Secretary-General Says

• por Notícias
• 1 de março de 2011
• 6 min. de leitura

  Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the General Assembly on Libya, today, 1 March, in New York: I welcome this opportunity to brief the General Assembly on the latest developments in Libya. We meet today on a crisis marked by ongoing violence, amid a growing humanitarian emergency and a political situation that […]

United Nations

Headquarters to Host Thirty-Fifth UNIS-UN Student Conference, 5-6 March, Under Theme ?The Web: Wiring our World?

• por Notícias
• 1 de março de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

The thirty-fifth annual UNIS-UN Conference will be held in the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations on 3 and 4 March.  Organized by students at the United Nations International School (UNIS), the Conference will host about 700 students, including more than 270 visitors from around the world.  This year?s theme is ?The Web:  Wiring our […]

United Nations

Activities of Secretary-General in Washington, D.C., 28 February – 1 March

• por Notícias
• 1 de março de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., at midday Monday, 28 February. His first appointment was a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House.  They discussed the need for an immediate end to the violence in Libya, the Middle East, North Africa, Côte d’Ivoire and Sudan, as well as United […]

United Nations

Press Conference on Work of International Criminal Court

• por Notícias
• 1 de março de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  A search committee is poised to launch a “rigorous” and “novel” selection process for the next top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, said officials close to the Court at a Headquarters press conference today. Briefing the press on heels of the Security Council’s first consensus referral of a country situation to the International […]

United Nations

Secretary-General, Presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon Issue Joint Communiqué Following Trilateral High-level Meeting at Headquarters

• por Notícias
• 28 de fevereiro de 2011
• 1 min. de leitura

  (Delayed in Transmission.) Following is the joint communiqué issued at the end of the trilateral High-Level Meeting of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of Equatorial Guinea and the President of Gabon at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 February: The President of Equatorial Guinea, His Excellency Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, […]

United Nations

Press Conference by Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on Libya

• por Notícias
• 28 de fevereiro de 2011
• 3 min. de leitura

  The United Nations top humanitarian official told reporters today that while the world body’s marquee relief agencies were ramping up activities in the eastern part of Libya and along the country’s southern and western borders, she was very concerned that fighting in and around Tripoli was preventing a tangible assessment of the humanitarian needs […]

United Nations

Press Conference on Partnering with Philanthropies to Promote Education for All

• por Notícias
• 28 de fevereiro de 2011
• 4 min. de leitura

Stressing the urgent need to extend basic schooling to all children, representatives of the United Nations and civil society organizations this afternoon welcomed over $16 million of private-sector grants and appealed for greater use of the resources and expertise of business to reach international goals in education. ?Partnering with business leaders and civil society is […]

United Nations

Fragile, Uneven Global Recovery Threatens Progress, Under-Secretary-General Tells Commission on Sustainable Development

• por Notícias
• 28 de fevereiro de 2011
• 44 min. de leitura

  Panel Discussion Focuses on Policy Options, Implementation Challenges Facing Small Island Developing States The challenges presented by a fragile and uneven global economic recovery continued to threaten progress towards sustainable development, Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, told the Commission on Sustainable Development today. At the opening of the week-long Intergovernmental Preparatory […]