Economic and Social Council

Special High-level Meeting

 with Bretton Woods institutions

6^th Meeting (AM)

STABLE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT,

FOURTH JOINT ECOSOC-BRETTON WOODS MEETING TOLD

Economic and Social Council

Resumed 2001 Organizational Session

5^th Meeting (PM)

Economic and Social Council

Resumed 2001 Organizational Session

4^th Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL REQUESTS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ESTABLISH

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE

Economic and Social Council

2001 Organizational Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSAL

FOR INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE

Economic and Social Council                           ECOSOC/5938

2001 Organizational Session                           31 January 2001

2^nd Meeting (PM)

ECOSOC DECIDES ON ITS 2001 PROGRAMME OF WORK,

AND THEME FOR ITS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT

                                                            ECOSOC/5995

Press Release
ECOSOC/5936

ESTABLISHMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS INQUIRY COMMISSION FOR PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES ENDORSED BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Press Release
ECOSOC/5935

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL MEETS TO DISCUSS ‘ELIMINATING HUNGER IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM’

Presentations Made by Heads of FAO, IFAD and WFP; Deputy Secretary General, Council and General Assembly Presidents Also Speak

The Economic and Social Council met this morning to hold an unprecedented discussion of the subject of “Eliminating Hunger in the New Millennium”.

Press Release
ECOSOC/5933
PI/1288

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL BUREAU MEETS AT HEAD OF STATE LEVEL, PROMOTES PROPOSAL FOR UNITED NATIONS ‘DIGITAL TASK FORCE’

Press Release
ECOSOC/5932

UN ESTABLISHES PERMANENT FORUM FOR INDIGENOUS ISSUES

The United Nations Economic and Social Council today adopted by consensus a resolution to establish a Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues -- an unprecedented event in the international community. Today's action was the latest step in a long process initiated in 1993, when the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights first proposed such a forum.