In progress at UNHQ

UNITED NATIONS MUST BE AT FOREFRONT OF EFFORTS TO CURB VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY

SG/SM/10903-OBV/610-WOM/1620
8 March 2007
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10903
OBV/610
WOM/1620
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

UNITED NATIONS MUST BE AT FOREFRONT OF EFFORTS TO CURB VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN,


SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DESERVES DEADLY SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT SPECIAL EVENT TO OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

OBV/609-WOM/1619
8 March 2007
Meetings CoverageOBV/609
WOM/1619
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Observance of International

Women’s Day


VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DESERVES DEADLY SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, SECRETARY-GENERAL


SAYS AT SPECIAL EVENT TO OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

 

AS SESSION ENDS, COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN APPROVES TEXTS ON PALESTINIAN WOMEN, PROTECTION FROM HIV/AIDS, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, FORCED MARRIAGE

WOM/1622
9 March 2007
Economic and Social CouncilWOM/1622
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on the Status of Women

Fifty-first Session

13th Meeting* (PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION DECISION TO ESTABLISH TARGETS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY, USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

SG/SM/10904-ENV/DEV/916
9 March 2007
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10904
ENV/DEV/916
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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

IHA/1253
9 March 2007
Press ReleaseIHA/1253
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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. 

GREAT LAKES STATES MUST TAKE ‘OWNERSHIP’ OF IMPLEMENTING HISTORIC NAIROBI SECURITY PACT, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

SC/8968
9 March 2007
Security CouncilSC/8968
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Security Council

5637th Meeting (AM)


GREAT LAKES STATES MUST TAKE ‘OWNERSHIP’ OF IMPLEMENTING HISTORIC


NAIROBI SECURITY PACT, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

 


Special Representative Ibrahima Fall Briefs; Says Council

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE’S DILIGENCE, SERIOUSNESS MAKE IT ‘MODEL’ FOR OTHERS, REFORM BEING APPROACHED CAUTIOUSLY, SAYS CHAIRMAN, AS SESSION OPENS

HR/CT/682
12 March 2007
General AssemblyHR/CT/682
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Human Rights Committee

Eighty-ninth Session

2424th & 2425th Meetings (AM & PM)