The United Nations enjoyed a substantial favourable public perception around the world, particularly among the young, according to results of a poll released at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
A new emergency operation for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea would enable the World Food Programme (WFP) to reach another 1.1 million children between the ages of 11 and 17, as well as 25 per cent of the elderly population in that country, the WFP Executive Director, Catherine Bertini, said today at a Headquarters press briefing.
At a Headquarters press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Jeb Brugmann, Secretary-General of the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, said that for tourism to survive and be sustained, it had to work with local communities or stakeholders who knew best what was needed to maintain the unique characteristics that made tourist destinations attractive.
The celebration of Earth Day 2000 would take place in April, a year from now, and start a process which would culminate in the observance of World Environment Day (5 June), Dennis Hayes, Chairman of Earth Day Network, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
Landmines must continue to be an international priority until all anti- personnel mines had been eliminated and their victims had reclaimed their lives, the Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations, Carlos Dos Santos, told a press briefing at Headquarters this morning.
The use and abuse of child soldiers was a destructive phenomenon that wrecked a child's life forever, and those who forced or conscripted children into battle had a "moral vacuum" at their core, correspondents were told this morning by the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Stephen Lewis, at a Headquarters press conference.
The emergency reproductive health kits sent by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to United Nations agencies on the "front lines" of the Kosovo refugee crisis contained more than just emergency contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies, the Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr. Nafis Sadik, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing Thursday afternoon.
