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Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, Closing Session, Boasts Record 112 Entities Granted Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council

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Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, Closing Session, Boasts Record 112 Entities Granted Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council

Wrapping up its 2011 regular session, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended special consultative status for 24 entities to the Economic and Social Council, boosting the session to a record 112 organizations that had been recommended for status, said the Committee’s Chairman.

Top United Nations Officials Stress Need to Invest in Advance Planning, Sound Prevention as General Assembly Holds First Debate on Reducing Disaster Risk

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Top United Nations Officials Stress Need to Invest in Advance Planning, Sound Prevention as General Assembly Holds First Debate on Reducing Disaster Risk

As the General Assembly convened its first-ever informal thematic debate on disaster risk reduction today, senior United Nations officials called urgently for investment in advanced planning and sound policies to help countries avert natural hazards that would cost more in human and financial terms than steps to prevent them or reduce their impact.

Remembering Holocaust, Secretary-General Pays Solemn Respect to Millions of Jews ‘Brutally and Systematically Murdered’, Celebrates Lives of Those Who Survived

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Remembering Holocaust, Secretary-General Pays Solemn Respect to Millions of Jews ‘Brutally and Systematically Murdered’, Celebrates Lives of Those Who Survived

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the ceremony for the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in New York today, 10 February:

Anti-Poverty Experts in Commission for Social Development Offer Ways to Keep Ranks of People without Adequate Food, Clothing, Shelter from Swelling

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Anti-Poverty Experts in Commission for Social Development Offer Ways to Keep Ranks of People without Adequate Food, Clothing, Shelter from Swelling

As Governments around the world mapped out strategies that would truly help reduce the ranks of hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty, the United Nations Commission for Social Development today heard four anti-poverty experts offer ways to keep the ranks of people living without adequate food, clothing and shelter from swelling.

Secretary-General, in Remarks to Security Council Debate, Cites Recent Events to Stress Interdependence of Peace, Security, Development

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Secretary-General, in Remarks to Security Council Debate, Cites Recent Events to Stress Interdependence of Peace, Security, Development

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council thematic debate on “Interlinkages between Peace, Security and Development”, in New York, today, 11 February:

Security Council Presidential Statement Stresses Need to Consider Economic, Social as well as Political Factors in Maintaining International Peace, Security

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Security Council Presidential Statement Stresses Need to Consider Economic, Social as well as Political Factors in Maintaining International Peace, Security

The Security Council stressed today the need to take into account the economic and social dimensions of conflict, in addition to the political factors of maintaining international peace and security, as more than 60 speakers, including Government ministers, the Secretary-General and a World Bank official, took part in a day-long debate.
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