UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OPENS

Speakers Say That Economic Peace, Prosperity Are Only

Way Forward; Stress Need for Integrated Economic Aspect to ‘Road Map’

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ECOSOC ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON COORDINATION OF UN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

AS IT CONCLUDES HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SEGMENT

Text Addresses Humanitarian Developments,

Challenges; Transition from Relief to Development

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ECOSOC CONTINUES GENERAL DISCUSSION UNDER ITS HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS SEGMENT

Importance of Increased, Balanced Funding for Humanitarian Assistance Stressed;

Praise for Incorporation of HIV/AIDS Programming in Humanitarian Strategies Voiced

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LIBERIA:  GREAT HUMANITARIAN NEEDS REMAIN THOUGH MONROVIA RELATIVELY CALM

KABUL HOSPITAL REBUILT BY UNFPA NOW PROVIDES LIFESAVING OBSTETRIC CARE

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KABUL, 14 July (UNFPA) -- Mothers and infants in north-west Kabul have a far better chance of surviving childbirth, following the inauguration today of a modern hospital rebuilt and refurbished with support from the Government of Italy and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

624^th & 625^th Meetings (AM & PM)

ACKNOWLEDGING NEW ZEALAND’S IMPRESSIVE LEGISLATION, ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN IN POSITIONS

OF POWER, ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CAUTIONS AGAINST COMPLACENCY

Secretary-General Kofi Annan left Switzerland in the evening of Monday, 7 July, and arrived in Maputo, Mozambique at midday on Tuesday, where he was due to attend the African Union Summit and hold meetings in the margins with a number of African leaders.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS AGAIN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALAN JARA

ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF KIDNAPPING IN COLOMBIA

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

ESCWA POST-WAR MEETING ON IRAQ CONCLUDES; CALLS FOR A STRONGER UN ROLE

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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS SEVENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Hears Statement by Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights

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GENEVA, 14 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, started this morning its four-week summer session by hearing a statement by the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand