COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER-REDUCTION STRATEGIES CALLED FOR AT HEADQUARTERS FORUM

un bodies call for immediate action to ensure achievement

 

of goals set out in millennium summit

 

In Joint Statement, Agency Heads Welcome Millennium Project Report

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 18 January (IFAD) -- Three Rome-based UN agencies today called for immediate action by developed and developing countries to ensure that the goals of the 2000 Millennium Summit are achieved.

SMALL ISLAND NATIONS SEEK STRONGER INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

 

AT UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE IN MAURITIUS

 

international migration expanding, but absence of well crafted

 

policies bedevils its positive aspects

 

NEW YORK, 29 November -- An orderly, controlled migration of persons across borders benefits both sending and receiving countries on the whole, a United Nations report released today finds.  However, migration’s positive aspects intertwine with the difficulties it poses in a complex pattern.

Launch of the International Year

of Microcredit 2005

microfinance can help poor people move beyond day-to-day survival, says

 

Secretary-General at launch of international year of microcredit

Speakers Underline Huge Potential

For Microfinance Growth, Note Remaining Challenges

UN LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF MICROCREDIT 2005

 

2004 UN Pledging Conferences

member states pledge contributions at 2004 pledging conferences

for development activities, world food programme

 

Member States announced their pledges at this morning’s 2004 Pledging Conference for Development Activities and 2004 United Nations/Food and Agriculture (FAO) Pledging Conference for the World Food Programme (WFP).

FINANCIAL INDUSTRY LEADERS JOIN PATRON GROUP TO ADVISE

 

ON INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF MICROCREDIT

 

Affirm Commitment to Building Inclusive

Financial Sectors to Serve Poor, Low-Income People

(Reissued as received.)

‘Decentralization:  The new dimension of peace, democracy and development’

to be addressed at Florence meeting 17-21 September

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL:  PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS RISING TO NEW HIGH

NEW YORK, 7 September (UN Department of Public Information) -- The number and scope of UN peace operations are approaching what may become their highest levels ever, improving prospects for conflict resolution, but also stretching thin the capacities of the system, Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported to the General Assembly today.