PRESS CONFERENCE BY OBSERVER FOR PALESTINE

Declaring the attempt by Israel to present a draft resolution on the situation of and assistance to Israeli children to the General Assembly’s Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) unwise, Nasser Al-Kidwa, Observer for Palestine, said that action constituted an attempt to abuse the title “children” to achieve political goals.

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW OF SEA TRIBUNAL

Judge L. Dolliver M. Nelson, President of the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, outlined features of the Tribunal and some of the cases over which it had special jurisdiction.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

“We are walking up the down escalator” in terms of eradicating violence against women, correspondents here told today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INVESTOR SUMMIT ON CLIMATE RISK

The financial implications and economic effects of climate change were addressed at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

Only 127 Member States had paid their United Nations regular budget assessments in full as of 31 October, Catherine Bertini, Under-Secretary-General for Management, said at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON 2004 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

PRESS BRIEFING ON GLOBAL EFFORT TO ELIMINATE POLIO

PRESS BRIEFING ON HUMANITARIAN DEMINING

Failure to deal with humanitarian demining would make reconstruction in post-conflict situations extremely difficult if not impossible, Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola), Security Council President for November, told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

Human rights defenders, who were in the front line in defending the right to fair trial and due process, were becoming more and more vulnerable, Hina Jilani, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR

Released political prisoners, who could serve as interlocutors and troubleshooters, should be seen as assets rather than nuisances, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.