Background Release

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO MEET IN NEW YORK, 12-30 MARCH

 

Experts to Review Reports of Madagascar, Chile, Barbados

BOLD, CREATIVE STEPS THE WAY TO GENDER PARITY, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS

UNITED NATIONS MANAGERS IN REMARKS TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Commission on the Status of Women

Fifty-first Session

13^th Meeting* (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION DECISION TO ESTABLISH TARGETS

 

FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY, USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

 

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

AT ONE YEAR, $376 MILLION PROVIDED BY EMERGENCY FUND

 

NEW YORK, 9 March (OCHA) -- In the year since its official launch on 9 March 2006, $376.1 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has been used to provide life-saving humanitarian aid in 40 countries through 361 individual projects. 

Security Council

5637^th Meeting (AM)

GREAT LAKES STATES MUST TAKE ‘OWNERSHIP’ OF IMPLEMENTING HISTORIC

NAIROBI SECURITY PACT, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

 

Special Representative Ibrahima Fall Briefs; Says Council

WORLD IS WATCHING, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

IN MESSAGE URGING IT TO PROMOTE OBJECTIVE, UNIVERSAL APPROACH

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the opening of the fourth session of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva today, 12 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES RELEASE OF DETAINED, BEATEN ZIMBABWE OPPOSITION LEADERS

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

Human Rights Committee

Eighty-ninth Session

2424^th & 2425^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Sixth Committee

24^th Meeting (AM)

FOCUS OF DISCUSSION IS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AT UNITED NATIONS AS LEGAL COMMITTEE BEGINS CURRENT SESSION

Working Group Deliberations to Be Held

During 10-Day Session Scheduled to Conclude on 23 March