The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Department of Public Information jointly launched a world map entitled "Women in Politics: 2000" at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has written to all Heads of State or Government inviting them to take the opportunity presented by the September Millennium Summit to sign and ratify or accede to multilateral conventions deposited with him, Hans Corell, Under Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, said at a press briefing today.
Reproductive and sexual health and rights were essential to womens equality and to the overall development and health of nations, a group of non-governmental organizations told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference held to call upon governments to face those issues head on.
South Africa had come to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly with the goal of building on the achievements of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and to address new challenges -- not to move back on those commitments, that countrys Minister for Public Service and Administration told correspondents this morning at Headquarters.
A consolidated emergency United Nations appeal for $378 million to help 13.4 million people affected by drought in the Horn of Africa was launched at a Headquarters press briefing today.
