Also Hears Reports from Subsidiary Bodies Dealing With Development Policy, Human Settlements, World Food Security With dramatic socio-economic and geographic stresses increasing urban poverty and slowing efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the Economic and Social Council today adopted eight consensus decisions that envisioned a world in which economic progress, social advancement and […]
Experts Question Absence of National Human Rights Body, Early Marriages, Continuation of Honour Killings, Impact of Headscarf Ban on School Dropout Rates With amendments to the country?s Constitution, the enactment of a new Penal Code and the creation of the Committee on the Equal Rights and Opportunities within the Turkish Grand Assembly, Turkey had […]
Council Also Dissolves International Research and Training Institute For the Advancement of Women, Taking Step towards Operationalizing ?UN Women? Expressing deep concern about the grave situation of Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, resulting from Israeli occupation, the Economic and Social Council adopted a text today urging continued international attention to […]
Experts Worry Lack of Comprehensive Federal-level Legislation to Address Violence against Women Makes Systemized, Minimal Standards Tough to Sustain In today?s meeting of the Women?s Anti-Discrimination Committee, Australia heralded the notable strides it had made through advocacy, policy, legislation and national strategies to empower women, asserting that it rated well against international measures of success, […]
Qatar Wins Praise for Mediating Role between Horn of Africa Neighbours Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe today commended recent steps by the Governments of Eritrea and Djibouti to negotiate a settlement, with Qatar acting as mediator, to the border dispute between them, which erupted into conflict in March 2008. ?The Government of […]
The following Security Council press statement on Eritrea/Somalia was read out today by Council President U. Joy Ogwu ( Nigeria): In accordance with paragraph 5 of resolution 1916 (2010) on Somalia, the Security Council has conducted its 120-day review of the effects of the measures set out in that paragraph, based on all available […]
On 19 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the four entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks at the International Conference on Afghanistan, in Kabul, today, 20 July: Thank you for your commitment and very perceptive discussions today that took place for the future of Afghanistan. And I also would like to express on behalf of all of us our deepest appreciation and […]
In keynote Address, Deputy Secretary-General Highlights Clear Links between Peace and Achievement of Millennium Development Goals In any country, the devastating legacy of conflict ? death, disease, population displacement and capital flight ? could erase hard-won development gains and States emerging from such situations must manage myriad and often competing priorities in order to […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Informal Ministerial Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Almaty on 16-17 July, delivered by Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE): I am pleased to convey greetings to this Informal Ministerial Meeting […]
