The aim of an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was to ensure the quality of its future reports, the co-chair of the scientific institute charged with that task said today.
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The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was ready to resume full responsibility for security in the earthquake-devastated country, as non-Mission troops began withdrawing, the top United Nations official there said at a Headquarters press conference today.
There was no doubt that policing was the same all over the world, requiring the treatment of everybody with respect, dignity and in accordance with their human rights during every contact, top police official Ann-Marie Orler said at Headquarters today.
United Nations officials announced today the planned launch of the seven-step “Women’s Empowerment Principles” at a conference with international business leaders, where organizers are expected to present the latest research on gender equality and business performance.
Calling for the speedy establishment of a United Nations-backed mechanism to monitor and investigate laws discriminating on the basis of gender, the head of the global civil society organization Equality Now said at Headquarters today that ensuring equality before the law would go a long way towards ending the legal discrimination that still condemned so many women worldwide to poverty and continuous abuse.
Having suffered an earthquake of “historical proportions”, Chile was returning to normality though it faced huge reconstruction needs, Heraldo Muñoz, the country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said at a Headquarters press conference today. “Chile’s standing up; we’re recuperating slowly,” said Mr. Muñoz, who was joined by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Partnerships.
Starting today, travellers in the United States purchasing tickets, booking a hotel room or renting a car online can save a child from malaria with five clicks of the mouse, organizers of the new micro-contribution initiative “MASSIVEGOOD” said today.
Ahead of International Women’s Day, commemorated annually on 8 March, the United Nations top adviser on gender issues said today that the occasion provided an opportunity to celebrate women’s advancement since the adoption of the landmark 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, and emphasize the need for continued vigilance to help all countries promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Women office-holders were making steady progress in the political arena, but not nearly enough, said Anders B. Johnsson, Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), at the launch of a poster-sized map entitled “The World Map of Women in Politics 2010”, issued by the IPU today alongside findings from a recent survey on progress and setbacks of women in parliament.
The flexibility shown so far in intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform was reason for optimism that the process would go forward, the delegate chairing the process said at Headquarters today.