Kevin M. Kennedy, Chief of the Emergency Liaison Branch of the Office of the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs, this morning briefed correspondents at Headquarters on the activities of a recent United Nations inter-agency mission to Solomon Islands.
The way to avoid abortions was to provide access to family planning contraceptive methods and to enable women actually to use those services, Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.
Family planning programmes have achieved considerable success in Peru, President Alberto Fujimori said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Part of the healing process for victims of torture was the end of impunity, which was this year's message for the second observance of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, said the Officer-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Elsa Stamatopoulou.
