PRESS CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL YOUTH SUMMIT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE on United Nations global youth leadership forum

Young people would be the builders of Africa’s future, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal said this morning, noting that he was participating in the first United Nations Youth Leadership Summit because he was “a big champion of youth around the world”.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNESCO ON ‘EDUCATION FOR ALL GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT’

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WOMEN AND PEACE AND SECURITY

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO FOOD

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON PROTECTING

 

HUMAN RIGHTS WHILE COUNTERING TERRORISM

 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON AFRICA AIDS ORPHAN PROJECT

Tomiko Abe, Director of the Stop AIDS Organization, announced the launch of the African AIDS Orphan Soccer Project at a Headquarters press conference today sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Japan.  “We believe that even one football can give a dream to orphans,” said Ms. Abe.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ADVISER ON ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN

PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED NATIONS REPRESENTATIVE ON TORTURE CONVENTION

PRESS CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The human rights situation in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea was extremely grim, particularly for women, children and the disabled, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Special Rapporteur on that issue, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.