POP/807
13 July 2001

LAGGING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT FOR WOMEN AND POOR GENDER RELATIONS SEEN AS OBSTACLES TO FERTILITY DECLINE IN MANY POOR COUNTRIES

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT NETWORK TO MEET IN GENEVA

High-level Panel to Debate Forward-looking

Strategy to Create Employment for Young Men and Women

UN INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE, MADRID, 17-18 JULY,

PLUS UN/NGO MEETING IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, 19 JULY

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

108^th Meeting (AM)

CENTRAL ROLE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN DEALING WITH CONFLICTS STRESSED,

AS DEBATE ON SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REPORT IS CONCLUDED

ECOSOC HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN

ASSISTANCE FOR GROUPS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 12 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this afternoon continued with its consideration of special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance and held a panel discussion on emergency humanitarian assistance for groups with special needs.

HEADS OF UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AGENCIES ISSUE URGENT APPEAL

FOR INCREASED FUNDING, TO MAINTAIN ESSENTIAL SERVICES

United Nations Conference on the

Illicit Trade in Small Arms

7^th Meeting (AM)

SMALL ARMS CONFERENCE CONCLUDES HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT WITH CALLS

FOR ACTION ON SUPPLY, DEMAND SIDES OF PROLIFERATION ISSUE

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

Twenty-fifth Session   

520^th and 521^st Meetings (AM & PM)

GUINEA, RICH IN MATERIAL RESOURCES, IS SAID TO BATTLE TRADITIONS

IN EFFORT TO ACHIEVE IMPROVEMENTS IN LIVES OF WOMEN

Committee on Anti-Discrimination Convention Is Told Figures for Life

UN ENVIRONMENT CHIEF TELLS PARTIES TO FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE

LONG-TERM RESPONSE NEEDED TO CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Friday, 6 July.  He arrived in Zambia on the 8^th, after a rest stop in Europe.