In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


24 April 2009
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY special representative on children and armed conflict


A senior United Nations child protection official today provided highlights from the Secretary-General’s latest annual report on children and armed conflict ahead of next week’s open Security Council debate on the topic.

22 April 2009
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA ON INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY


The primary cause of the twenty-first century should be the recognition of the rights of Mother Earth, Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma declared hours after the General Assembly passed a resolution designating 22 April as “International Mother Earth Day”.

22 April 2009
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SITUATION IN SRI LANKA

 


Representatives of four non-governmental organizations today called on the United Nations to speak out on the situation in northern Sri Lanka and urged the Security Council to take up the matter under the concept of “responsibility to protect”.

20 April 2009
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE on global financial crisis by civil society organizations


The best stimulus plan to address the global economic crisis was to invest in the poor, Roberto Bissio of Social Watch told correspondents today.