In progress at UNHQ

INFORMATION COMMITTEE EMPHASIZES ESSENTIAL ROLE OF DPI IN ENSURING UNITED NATIONS VOICE HEARD CLEARLY, EFFECTIVELY, AS TWO-WEEK SESSION CONCLUDES

PI/1774
11 May 2007
General AssemblyPI/1774
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Committee on Information

Twenty-ninth Session

5th Meeting (PM)


INFORMATION COMMITTEE EMPHASIZES ESSENTIAL ROLE OF DPI IN ENSURING United Nations


VOICE HEARD CLEARLY, EFFECTIVELY, AS TWO-WEEK SESSION CONCLUDES


Under-Secretary-General Kiyo Akasaka Says Partnership with Committee

VIENNA SYMPOSIUM TO DISCUSS PRACTICAL MEASURES FOR IMPLEMENTING UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY

Note No. 6083
11 May 2007
Press ReleaseNote No. 6083
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Note to Correspondents


vienna symposium to discuss practical measures for implementing

 

United Nations global counter-terrorism strategy

 


Office on Drugs and Crime Hosts Forum to Chart Joint Actions, 17-18 May

GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON ‘CIVILIZATIONS AND THE CHALLENGE FOR PEACE’ CONCLUDES; ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS DIALOGUE ‘GATEWAY TO CHANGE’

GA/10591
11 May 2007
General AssemblyGA/10591
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM & PM Meetings


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


ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS DIALOGUE ‘GATEWAY TO CHANGE’

 


Second-Day Panels Focus on: ‘The Responsibility of the Media’;

WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE, OPENING THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION, ADOPTS AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME

WOM/1624
14 May 2007
General AssemblyWOM/1624
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

774th Meeting (AM)


WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE, OPENING THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION,


ADOPTS AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME

 

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DISTINCT CULTURES ERODE WITHOUT RESPECT FOR RIGHTS OVER LANDS, TERRITORIES, NATURAL RESOURCES, FORUM TOLD

HR/4917
14 May 2007
Economic and Social CouncilHR/4917
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Sixth Session

1st & 2nd Meetings (AM & PM)


INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DISTINCT CULTURES ERODE WITHOUT RESPECT FOR RIGHTS


OVER LANDS, TERRITORIES, NATURAL RESOURCES, FORUM TOLD

 

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM TO HOLD SEMINAR ON HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE PREVENTION, 14-18 MAY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

PI/1775
14 May 2007
Press ReleasePI/1775
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM TO HOLD SEMINAR


ON HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE PREVENTION, 14-18 MAY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

 

UNITED NATIONS MEETING, 17 MAY, TO SEEK CONNECTIVITY, ACCESS SOLUTIONS

PI/1776
14 May 2007
Press ReleasePI/1776
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

UNITED NATIONS MEETING, 17 MAY, TO SEEK CONNECTIVITY, ACCESS SOLUTIONS

 


Leaders from Government, the private sector and civil society will meet at the United Nations on Thursday, 17 May, to discuss which technological and financing solutions can best promote connectivity and access in emerging economies.

CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY ESSENTIAL FOR ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY

SG/SM/10994-ENV/DEV/939
14 May 2007
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10994
ENV/DEV/939
OBV/623
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY ESSENTIAL FOR ADAPTING TO CLIMATE


CHANGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, to be observed on 22 May: