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)

Committee on Information

Twenty-ninth Session

5^th 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

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’;

Committee on Elimination of

Discrimination against Women

774^th Meeting (AM)

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

ADOPTS AGENDA, WORK PROGRAMME

 

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Sixth Session

1^st & 2^nd 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.

 

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

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: