United Nations dignitaries hail nobel peace prize winners

 

in special tribute to muhammad yunus, grameen bank

 

activist stresses need to ‘act outside the box’ as pioneers

in anti-poverty strategies address United Nations forum

 

To overcome poverty, people needed to “act outside the box”, in addition to thinking outside it, Kenyan anti-poverty activist Wahu Kaara said yesterday at a United Nations forum on poverty.

‘LET’S STEP FORWARD AND CLAIM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AS AFRICA’S CENTURY,’

 

AFRICA FALLING BEHIND IN RACE TO REACH ANTI-POVERTY GOALS BUT FOCUS, COMMITMENT

 

CAN TURN SITUATION AROUND, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO Africa DEVELOPMENT FORUM

 

Security Council

5566^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT DEMANDS RELEASE OF WOMEN, CHILDREN

BY LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY, EXPEDITIOUS CONCLUSION OF PEACE PROCESS

Stresses Importance of Respect for Cessation of Hostilities,

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN HAITI

 

Following is a statement to the press on the situation in Haiti, delivered today by Security Council President Jorge Voto-Bernales ( Peru):

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

46^th & 47^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Sixth Committee

22^nd Meeting (PM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

54^th & 55^th Meetings (AM & PM)

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, from Istanbul, Turkey, in the afternoon of Tuesday, 14 November.  He would address the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference the following morning.