Economic issues

Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

24^th & 25^th 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

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2004 Substantive Session                                   

Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

20^th & 21^st 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

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2004 Substantive Session                                   

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.

Economic and Social Council

2004 Substantive Session

16^th & 17^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FOR WORLD’S POOREST, UN ACTION CAN MEAN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH,

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL TOLD, AS HEADQUARTERS SESSION OPENS

High-Level Segment Aims at Mobilizing Resources for Implementing

2001 Brussels Programme of Action for 50 Least Developed Countries

Background Release                                         

Economic and Social Council to hold annual session in new york, 28 june – 23 july

High-Level Segment to Focus on Resource Mobilization for Poverty

Global Compact                                             

Investment houses endorse assessing businesses on social, environmental

performance, at united nations Global Compact Summit

Stock Exchanges Also Join Compact

Economic and Social Council

2004 Organizational Session

15^th Meeting (PM)

Economic and Social Council fills vacancies on subsidiary bodies