Secretary-General welcomes signing of protocols on improvement

 

of humanitarian, security situations in darfur, sudan

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Note to Correspondents

USAID-sponsored Exhibit on Role of Women in Afghan Society opens today

An exhibit co-sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), entitled “Out of the Shadows:  The Role of Women in Afghan Society”, opens today and will be on display in the South Gallery of the General Assembly Visitors’ Lobby in New York until 1 December.

Note to Correspondents

New UN study on financing of Millennium Development Goals

 

to be launched at event on Monday, 15 November

 

A United Nations study on “New Sources of Development Finance:  Funding the Millennium Development Goals” is to be presented and launched next Monday, 15 November.

‘Unlearning Intolerance’:  Secretary-General to open seminar on Confronting

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

23^rd Meeting (AM)

fourth committee concludes debate on report concerning

 

Israeli practices in occupied territories

 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

40^th & 41^st Meetings (AM & PM)

SECURITY CONCERNS ARE MAJOR CHALLENGES TO HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS, THIRD COMMITTEE

TOLD, AS IT CONCLUDES DISCUSSION OF REFUGEE ISSUES

Committee Also Hears Introduction of 17 Draft Resolutions on Human Rights

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

40^th & 41^st Meetings (AM & PM)

SECURITY CONCERNS ARE MAJOR CHALLENGES TO HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS, THIRD COMMITTEE

TOLD, AS IT CONCLUDES DISCUSSION OF REFUGEE ISSUES

Committee Also Hears Introduction of 17 Draft Resolutions on Human Rights

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

31^st Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

UNITED NATIONS ASSESSES URANIUM MINE IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

GENEVA/NAIROBI/NEW YORK, 9 November (OCHA) -- A United Nations assessment at the Shinkolobwe Uranium Mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found high risks of mine collapse and potential chronic exposure to ionising radiation, and concluded that the mine must remain closed.  The assessment followed an earlier mine collapse in July 2004 that killed eight people.