Delegates Adopt ‘Omnibus’ Text, Elect Bureau for Next Session by Acclamation As it concluded its ninth session this afternoon, the United Nations Forum on Forests strongly urged the international community to use the International Year of Forests, 2011, to raise awareness of the diverse benefits of woodlands to human life and to accelerate their […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Muscat, Oman, during the night of 18 January. On Wednesday morning, he visited the Ancient Treasure Ships and Great Oman Voyage Exhibition, which was organized by the National Geographic Society. Soon after that, he visited the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, which is associated […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, in the evening of 16 January. They were the guests a few hours later of Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Chief Executive Officer of the Masdar Corporation and Deputy Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, at […]
The Commission for Social Development will review global efforts to eradicate poverty when it meets at United Nations Headquarters from 9 to 18 February. Five years prior to the target date for halving the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day, Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals, the Commission?s forty-ninth session will […]
Participants also Hold Dialogue with Collaborative Partnership on Forests As part of the ninth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, more than 30 ministerial-level participants today committed themselves to better highlighting the vital role of forests in addressing complex challenges of economic and social development ? in particular at the highest levels of […]
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro?s remarks at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim on 1 February: I am deeply moved and humbled to be standing in Auschwitz, where millions of men, women and children were brutally and systematically murdered during the Holocaust. I am honoured to be here with survivors who had the good fortune […]
In a move hailed as an important first step towards the protection of children in Afghanistan, that country?s Government recently signed a landmark agreement to release children from the national security forces, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, said today at a Headquarters press conference. Ms. Coomaraswamy said she […]
Leading environmental activists lauded today the Rwandan Government’s plan to restore all of the steadily recovering Central African nation’s lost forest lands and boost national development as a far-sighted move that should be replicated by other Governments. “This really is a good news story,” said Stewart Maginnis, Director of Environment and Development of the […]
The International Year of Forests was launched at United Nations Headquarters in New York on a day when ice, rain and snow were blanketing the region, yet the point of the observance was to heighten awareness of the value of forests in people?s lives and to galvanize action for forests around the world, correspondents […]
Members also Recommend Reclassification of Four Groups The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended eight organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and postponed consideration of 19 applications. In other action, the Committee recommended that one non-governmental organization be reclassified as having special consultative status and that three organizations be […]
