Council Opens 2000 Session, High-level Segment, With Focus on Role of Information Technology in Global Economy
Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchettes address today at Headquarters at the High-level Segment of the Economic and Social Council on Information and Communication Technologies and Development:
Following is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on the signature by President William Clinton of the United States of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
The Secretary-General left Warsaw by plane for Budapest in the afternoon of Wednesday, 28 June.
Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annans remarks yesterday at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany:
Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annans statement today at the official opening of the Headquarters Building of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany:
NEW YORK, 3 July (UNFPA) - Reproductive health and rights are lifetime concerns that are essential to womens empowerment and gender equality. A new publication from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) explains why.
Final Document Calls for Halving Extreme Poverty and Achieving Free and Universal Primary Education by 2015; Reduction of Trade Barriers
GENEVA, 1 July (UN Information Service) -- Agreement was reached on a wide array of initiatives to reduce poverty and spur job growth in the global economy at the United Nations General Assembly special session on social development that ended today in Geneva.
