Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

In progress at UNHQ

Economic issues

ECOSOC/6124

ECOSOC CALLS ON FUNCTIONAL COMMISSIONS TO TAKE ADDITIONAL STEPS TO INTEGRATE GENDER PERSPECTIVES INTO THEIR WORK

07/07/2004
Press Release
ECOSOC/6124


Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

27th & 28th Meetings (AM & PM)


ECOSOC CALLS ON FUNCTIONAL COMMISSIONS TO TAKE ADDITIONAL STEPS


TO INTEGRATE GENDER PERSPECTIVES INTO THEIR WORK


Coordination Segment Suspended Pending Negotiations on Rural

Development Draft; Operational Activities Segment Begins with Panel Discussion

ECOSOC/6122

COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES –- GENDER MAINSTREAMING, PROMOTING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT -- NEEDED TO ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY, ECOSOC TOLD

02/07/2004
Press Release
ECOSOC/6122


Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

24th & 25th Meetings (AM & PM)


COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES –- GENDER MAINSTREAMING, PROMOTING WOMEN’S


EMPOWERMENT -- NEEDED TO ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY, ECOSOC TOLD


Reviews System-Wide Effort To Mainstream

Gender Perspective into UN Policies, Programmes

ECOSOC/6120

AMID UNPRECEDENTED PROSPERITY, WORLD’S POOR MORE VULNERABLE THAN EVER, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TOLD, AS HIGH-LEVEL DEBATE CONTINUES

30/06/2004
Press Release
ECOSOC/6120


Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

20th & 21st Meetings (AM & PM)


AMID UNPRECEDENTED PROSPERITY, WORLD’S POOR MORE VULNERABLE THAN EVER,


ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TOLD, AS HIGH-LEVEL DEBATE CONTINUES


Speakers from Poorest Countries Press for More Concrete

International Support, including Access to Global Markets, Debt Relief

ECOSOC/6118-PI/1595

WORLD’S 50 POOREST COUNTRIES MAIN BATTLEGROUND WHERE GLOBAL ANTI-POVERTY GOALS WILL BE WON OR LOST

28/06/2004
Press Release
ECOSOC/6118
PI/1595

World’s 50 poorest countries main battleground where


global anti-poverty Goals will be won or lost


NEW YORK, 28 June -- The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) takes up the cause of the 50 countries with the world’s most vulnerable economies at a high-level session opening today, and addressed by President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin.