Solidarity — in particular between generations — was a critical element of global economic and social welfare, said participants at a Headquarters press conference today.
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With a much-watched referendum on the horizon in Southern Sudan, a “very tense” situation in Côte d’Ivoire and disputed presidential election results in Haiti, United Nations peacekeepers were working around the clock to prevent very real challenges from destabilizing hard-won gains achieved in their areas of operation, said Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy in his quarterly Headquarters press conference today.
The agreement that emerged from Cancún would not strengthen the Kyoto Protocol, but rather, it would replace it with a much weaker accord at a time when there was need for greater commitment from developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Bolivia’s Ambassador said today. Speaking at a Headquarters press conference, Pablo Solón said that what had been agreed in Cancún did not guarantee stabilization of the temperature at a limit that protected human life and nature.
While investments in malaria prevention and control had made major strides towards eradicating the disease, experts at a Headquarters press conference today said that progress remained fragile – and more remained to be done.
After engaging in the “most complex negotiation in the history of the world” delegates at last week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico successfully brokered key global agreements on mitigation, adaptation, deforestation, financing and technology transfer, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning Robert Orr said this afternoon.
The United Nations has launched an appeal for nearly $530 million in 2011 to help humanitarian groups operating in Somalia meet the basic needs of 2 million of the war-ravaged country’s most vulnerable people, officials of the world body said today at a Headquarters press conference.
At a Headquarters press conference today, top United Nations relief officials described their recent trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan to assess ongoing humanitarian operations and the future needs in those neighbouring South Asian nations, which have faced conflict, food shortages and floods.
Prompted by communications from citizens in the Republic of Korea, the International Criminal Court has launched a preliminary examination into whether forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have committed war crimes, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
The evolution of the rule of law in international relations would be at stake during the ninth Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, now underway at Headquarters, William Pace, Convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, said today.
Even with the lack of reparations, or even basic services for women victims of conflict-driven violence, justice for women was “still an afterthought”, Anne Marie Goetz, Chief Adviser on Governance, Peace and Security at the United Nations Development Fund for Women, said today.