Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

10^th Meeting (PM) 

NGO COMMITTEE HEARS GOVERNMENT COMPLAINTS ALLEGING ABUSE OF RIGHTS

AND PRIVILEGES BY SOME ORGANIZATIONS

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

9^th Meeting (AM)

NGO COMMITTEE CONSIDERS CASE OF FREEDOM HOUSE

The Committee on Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) this morning considered the case of Freedom House, a United States-based NGO, as it began its consideration of special reports and complaints by Governments.    

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

6^th Meeting (PM)

NGO COMMITTEE APPROVES TWO ORGANIZATIONS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, DEFERS ACTION ON TWO OTHERS

The penultimate paragraph of press release NGO/409 of 9 May 2001 should read as follows:

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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

CONCLUDES TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION

Issues Concluding Observations on Situation in Venezuela, Honduras,

Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Bolivia, and Togo

(Reissued as received.)

Background Release

THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN BRUSSELS, 14 - 20 MAY;

TO CONFRONT ECONOMIC ISOLATION OF ‘POOREST OF THE POOR’

Global policy-makers will confront the economic isolation and severe poverty of the world's 49 poorest countries at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will be convened in Brussels, Belgium, from 14 to 20 May.

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS WESTERN ASIAN STATES THEY CAN COUNT ON HIS SUPPORT

IN THEIR WORK FOR STABILITY, PROSPERITY AND PEACE

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-first session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered today in Beirut by ESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy:

Background Release

STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTION ON LAW OF SEA TO HOLD ELEVENTH MEETING

AT HEADQUARTERS, 14 - 18 MAY

To Consider Budget, Financial Regulations

And Elect New Member of International Tribunal for Law of Sea

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

8^th Meeting (PM)  

COMMITTEE ON NGOS APPROVES CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

FOR ONE ORGANIZATION, DEFERS TWO OTHER APPLICATIONS

Committee on NGOs

2001 Session

7^th Meeting (AM)

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE DEFERS THREE REQUESTS

Resumed Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

61^st Meeting (AM)

HUMAN RESOURCES PRACTICES AND PEACEKEEPING ADMINISTRATION DISCUSSED

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S FIFTH COMMITTEE

Human resources management and the annual audit of peacekeeping were the subjects of discussion in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this morning.