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GA/9717

GROWING AWARENESS MOST PRESSING WOMEN’S PROBLEMS LACK SOLUTIONS, CUBA TELLS ‘WOMEN 2000’ GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION

Cites ‘Feminization’ of Poverty, North/South Technological Gap, As 18 More Speakers Address Implementation of 1995 Beijing Action Plan

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GA/9718

UNSCEAR FOCUSES ON CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REPORT

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GA/9719

TWENTY-THIRD SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION CONTINUES REVIEW OF PROGRESS MADE SINCE FOURTH WORLD SUMMIT ON WOMEN

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GA/9714

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS FIVE-DAY ‘WOMEN 2000’ SPECIAL SESSION, WITH FOCUS ON GENDER EQUALITY, DEVELOPMENT, PEACE

Secretary-General Says ‘Future of This Planet Depends on Women’

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GA/9716

PERSISTENCE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SHOULD BE MATTER BOTH OF SHAME AND CONCERN, ‘BEIJING + 5’ SPECIAL ASSEMBLY SESSION TOLD

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GA/9713
WOM/1198

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ‘WOMEN 2000’, AT HEADQUARTERS, 5–9 JUNE, TO REVIEW PROGRESS SINCE 1995 BEIJING WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

The General Assembly special session, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century", also known as Beijing + 5, will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 5 to 9 June.

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GA/9712

MILLENNIUM FORUM ADOPTS FINAL DECLARATION, ACTION PLAN AGENDA

Capping Week-long NGO Deliberations, Document Articulates Civil-Society Vision for UN in Twenty-first Century

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GA/9711

ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TWO PROTOCOLS ON RIGHTS OF CHILD: CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT; SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Decides to Convene Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, Adopts Decolonization Committee Report on Peacekeeping Review

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GA/9709

LEARN TO 'GOVERN BETTER TOGETHER', SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARTICIPANTS AT MILLENNIUM FORUM

Speakers at Forum, Scheduled for 22-26 May, Stress Need for NGOs to Help Redress Balance between Winners, Losers

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GA/9708

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AGENDA ITEM ON HIV/AIDS

The inclusion of a General Assembly agenda item on HIV/AIDS was recommended this afternoon by the Assembly’s General Committee.