Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Global Information and Communications Technology Community Meets at United Nations to Ready Millennium Development Goals Enabler for 21 September Unveiling

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Global Information and Communications Technology Community Meets at United Nations to Ready Millennium Development Goals Enabler for 21 September Unveiling

More than 140 leaders in development applications of information and communications technologies (ICT) met today at the United Nations to fine tune an online tool that will be launched during the upcoming High-Level Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York on 21 September 2010.

States Parties to Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Open Three Day Headquarters Session, Elect New Members to Monitoring Body

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States Parties to Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Open Three Day Headquarters Session, Elect New Members to Monitoring Body

The third Conference of States Parties of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities opened today amid calls to equally include disabled persons in community life, health and education systems, and to effectively fill planning and execution gaps in Government strategies that often fell short of addressing their needs, especially in times of conflict or natural disaster.

As States Parties to Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Continue Session, Round Tables Address Right to Education, Living in the Community

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As States Parties to Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Continue Session, Round Tables Address Right to Education, Living in the Community

Equal access to education — with accommodating teachers, understanding students and a supportive administration — coupled with respect for the right of disabled persons to choose where and with whom they lived were vital elements for realizing the full spectrum of human rights, the third Conference of States Parties of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was told today, in two round table discussions concerning those issues.

Secretary-General, in Vienna, Says New Academy Responds to World’s Growing Sense of Outrage, Injustice against Corruption, ‘Will Help Build Culture of Integrity’

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Secretary-General, in Vienna, Says New Academy Responds to World’s Growing Sense of Outrage, Injustice against Corruption, ‘Will Help Build Culture of Integrity’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the inaugural Conference of the International Anti-Corruption Academy, in Vienna, 2 September:
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