Background Release

United Nations Committee Monitoring Discrimination against Women

to meet at headquarters, 14 May – 1 June

 

Will Consider Reports by Mauritania , Mozambique,

Niger , Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Vanuatu

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM & PM Meetings

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS DEBATE ON ‘CIVILIZATIONS AND THE CHALLENGE FOR PEACE’;

FIRST DAY PANELS FOCUS ON RESPECT FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY, RELIGION

Secretary-General Tells Delegations Diversity a Virtue, Not a Threat;

Note to Correspondents

PANEL ON FAMILIES, PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

 

FIRST SESSION OF PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR 2010 NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

REVIEW CONFERENCE ENDS WITH ADOPTION OF REPORT

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in the afternoon of Wednesday, 2 May.

Background Release

UNITED NATIONS INDIGENOUS FORUM’S SIXTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 14-25 MAY;

RIGHTS TO LANDS, TERRITORIES, NATURAL RESOURCES FOCUS

 

Note to Correspondents

All roads film project celebrates indigenous cinema, photography on 14 May

as Part of sixth session of United Nations permanent forum

 

Statement by Bureau of Palestinian Rights Committee on appointment

 

of experts to Board of United Nations Register of Damage

 

CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM MEETS IN PRETORIA

 

Speakers Agree Role of Civil Society Central to Palestinian Cause:

Activists Urged to Mobilize, Pressure Governments to End Occupation

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Commission on Sustainable Development

Fifteenth Session

11^th & 12^th Meetings (AM, PM & Night)