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Speakers Outline Government Policies to Narrow Gender Gap, Empower Rural Women as General Discussion of Commission’s Fifty-sixth Session Continues

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 35 min. de leitura

  Accounts of programmes and policies aimed at narrowing the gender gap and empowering rural women continued to dominate discussions as the Commission on the Status of Women continued its sixty-fifth annual session today. From women’s discussion groups scattered across remote plains to reserved seats on rural management boards, Government ministers and other high-ranking representatives […]

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Expert Panellists in Commission on Status of Women Highlight Ways for Governments to Ensure State Funding of Gender-Equality Goals

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 26 min. de leitura

  To ensure Government funding for women?s empowerment and gender equality, budget-makers must call on all ministries to identify their top gender-related priorities and teach staff how to mainstream them into sectoral budgets, State finance officials told the Commission on the Status of Women today, as it held an interactive panel discussion on that subject. […]

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Female Energy, Talent, Strength Represent Humankind’s Most Valuable Untapped Resource, Secretary-General Says in Message for International Women’s Day

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 2 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March: Gender equality and the empowerment of women are gaining ground worldwide.  There are more women Heads of State or Government than ever, and the highest proportion of women serving as Government ministers.  Women are exercising ever greater influence in […]

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International Community’s Inaction May Have Encouraged Brutal Suppression in Syria; ‘We Must Act, Urgently and in Concert,’ Secretary-General Tells General Assembly

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 7 min. de leitura

  Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s oral report to the General Assembly on the implementation of resolution 66/253, in New York on 2 March: I am making this report as requested by the General Assembly resolution A/RES/66/263 of 16 February.  Given the gravity of the situation, please be assured that we will keep you regularly […]

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Photo Exhibit on 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Opens at United Nations Headquarters 5 March

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 1 min. de leitura

  An exhibition of 160 photographs on the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and UNICEF?s emergency work will open with a formal ceremony on Monday, 5 March, in the Main Gallery of the Visitors? Lobby at 6 p.m. On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit eastern Japan, causing unprecedented levels of damage.  […]

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Press Conference on Report ?Women in Parliament in 2011?

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 5 min. de leitura

  With efforts ?creeping along too slowly? to boost the number of women politicians and deepen the level of women?s participation in political affairs, senior United Nations and parliamentary officials today made strong calls on Governments and political parties to demonstrate the will and courage to bring more women to the decision-making table, particularly in […]

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Press Conference by Security Council President on Work Programme for March

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• 3 de março de 2012
• 4 min. de leitura

  Challenges and opportunities in North Africa and the Middle East and the situations in Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan would be highlighted at the Security Council in March, the permanent representative of the United Kingdom, which holds the body?s rotating presidency for the month, told correspondents this afternoon. In addition to the monthly briefing on […]

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Anniversary of Revolution in Libya Celebrated Peacefully; Clear ?People Are Eager to Move Forward with the Transition to Democracy?, Security Council Told

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• 29 de fevereiro de 2012
• 9 min. de leitura

  UN?s Top Envoy Ian Martin Briefs, Says People Expect UN Support in Transition; Describes Progress on Elections, Security, Human Rights, Humanitarian Concerns Reporting the peaceful celebration of the first anniversary of the start of Libya?s revolution and progress in the country on elections, security, human rights and humanitarian concerns, the Secretary-General?s Special Representative for […]

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Security Council Appoints Hassan Bubacar Jallow Prosecutor of International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

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• 29 de fevereiro de 2012
• 2 min. de leitura

The Security Council, recalling its decision of 22 December 2010 to establish an International Residual Mechanism to ?continue the functions? of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in anticipation of completion of the courts? work, this morning appointed the Prosecutor of the ?Mechanism?, to begin his four-year term tomorrow, 1 March. […]

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Secretary-General Appoints Prosecutor, Judge to Special Tribunal for Lebanon

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• 29 de fevereiro de 2012
• 1 min. de leitura

  In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Security Council resolution 1757 (2007) on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and its Annex, as well as the Statute of the Special Tribunal attached thereto, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Norman Farrell of Canada as the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal […]