Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 The Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 And Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

24^th Meeting (PM)

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

489^th Meeting (PM)

LITERACY, HEALTH ACCESS, INCOME ACTIVITIES FOR RURAL WOMEN IN BURUNDI

AMONG ISSUES RAISED IN WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

Continues Consideration of Burundi's Initial Report

On Compliance with 1981 Women's Anti-Discrimination Convention

Committee on the Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

488^th Meeting (AM)

BURUNDI’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS IMPEDES PROTECTION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS,

                                                RD/903*

Committee on NGOs

773^rd Meeting (PM)

NGO COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS GIRLS INCORPORATED FOR ECOSOC CONSULTATIVE STATUS

The Committee on Non-governmental Organizations met this afternoon to continue its consideration of applications from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for consultative status with the Economic and Social Council which were deferred from its session in June 2000.

Committee on NGOs

772^nd Meeting (AM)

DISCUSSIONS ON NGO APPLICATIONS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

CONTINUE IN COMMITTEE ON NGOS

The Committee on Non-governmental Organizations met this morning to continue its consideration of applications from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) which were deferred from its session in June 2000.

Preparatory Committee for the

United Nations Conference on

 The Illicit Trade in Small Arms

 And Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

23^rd Meeting (AM)

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

487^th Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL ADVISER ON GENDER TELLS WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

CERTAIN GOALS REACHED, BUT EFFORTS MUST STILL BE INTENSIFIED

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME CONFIRMS URANIUM 236 FOUND

IN DEPLETED URANIUM PENETRATORS

GENEVA, 16 January (UNEP) -– Early laboratory results confirm that pieces of depleted uranium (DU) penetrators found at sites targeted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the 1999 Kosovo conflict contain Uranium 236, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported here today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 15 JANUARY CREATION

OF ‘EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY’

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