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SPECIAL MEETING OF STATES PARTIES ELECTS JUDGE TO FILL VACANCY ON INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA

SEA/1909

SPECIAL MEETING OF STATES PARTIES ELECTS JUDGE TO FILL VACANCY ON INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA

6 March 2009
Meetings CoverageSEA/1909
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Special Meeting of States Parties

to Law of Sea Convention

1st Meeting (AM)


SPECIAL MEETING OF STATES PARTIES ELECTS JUDGE TO FILL VACANCY


ON INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA

 

YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN CHOSEN TO BE SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SELECTION OF SECRETARIAT OFFICIALS FOR GLOBAL MODEL UN CONFERENCE

PI/1874

YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN CHOSEN TO BE SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SELECTION OF SECRETARIAT OFFICIALS FOR GLOBAL MODEL UN CONFERENCE

9 March 2009
Press ReleasePI/1874
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN CHOSEN TO BE SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SELECTION


OF SECRETARIAT OFFICIALS FOR GLOBAL MODEL UN CONFERENCE

 

GOVERNMENTS MUST FOCUS ON WOMEN AS ECONOMIC AGENTS DURING GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS IF THEIR DISPROPORTIONATE SUFFERING IS TO BE AVERTED, WOMEN’S COMMISSION HEARS

WOM/1721

GOVERNMENTS MUST FOCUS ON WOMEN AS ECONOMIC AGENTS DURING GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS IF THEIR DISPROPORTIONATE SUFFERING IS TO BE AVERTED, WOMEN’S COMMISSION HEARS

5 March 2009
Economic and Social CouncilWOM/1721
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on the Status of Women

Fifty-third Session

7th & 8th Meetings (AM & PM)

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ‘CANNOT BE TOLERATED’ IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BY ANY POLITICAL LEADER OR GOVERNMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT NEW YORK OBSERVANCE

SG/SM/12127-OBV/767-WOM/1720

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ‘CANNOT BE TOLERATED’ IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BY ANY POLITICAL LEADER OR GOVERNMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT NEW YORK OBSERVANCE

5 March 2009
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/12127
OBV/767
WOM/1720
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ‘CANNOT BE TOLERATED’ IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BY ANY POLITICAL


LEADER OR GOVERNMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT NEW YORK OBSERVANCE

 


Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on International Women’s Day in New York, 5 March:

AS ICC ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR SUDAN’S PRESIDENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS VITAL PEACEKEEPING, HUMANITARIAN WORK IN COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE

SG/SM/12123-AFR/1820-L/3140

AS ICC ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR SUDAN’S PRESIDENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS VITAL PEACEKEEPING, HUMANITARIAN WORK IN COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE

4 March 2009
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/12123
AFR/1820
L/3140
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

AS ICC ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR SUDAN’S PRESIDENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED


NATIONS VITAL PEACEKEEPING, HUMANITARIAN WORK IN COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

HEADQUARTERS TO HOST THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL UNIS-UN CONFERENCE ON 5-6 MARCH UNDER THEME ‘THE FOOD CRISIS: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE’

Note No. 6191

HEADQUARTERS TO HOST THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL UNIS-UN CONFERENCE ON 5-6 MARCH UNDER THEME ‘THE FOOD CRISIS: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE’

4 March 2009
Press ReleaseNote No. 6191
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Note to Correspondents


HEADQUARTERS TO HOST THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL UNIS-UN CONFERENCE ON 5-6 MARCH


UNDER THEME ‘THE FOOD CRISIS: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE’

 

HEADWAY MADE TO DEFEAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, BUT ENTRENCHED STEREOTYPES, CUSTOMS RISK ACHIEVEMENT OF MORE BALANCED GENDER RELATIONS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD

WOM/1716

HEADWAY MADE TO DEFEAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, BUT ENTRENCHED STEREOTYPES, CUSTOMS RISK ACHIEVEMENT OF MORE BALANCED GENDER RELATIONS, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD

 

Special Rapporteur Says Human Rights Council Underutilized by Women’s Rights

Defenders; Speakers Call for New ‘Socio-Cultural Consensus’ Between Women, Men

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