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PRESS CONFERENCE BY COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS ON NEW IMPUNITY INDEX

30 April 2008
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS ON NEW IMPUNITY INDEX


Democratically-elected Governments were not doing enough to prosecute and punish those who murdered journalists, according to new findings released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists at a Headquarters press conference. 

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

1 May 2008
Spokesperson's Noon Briefing
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

 

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CANADA’S MINISTER FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS AND NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

1 May 2008
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CANADA’S MINISTER FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS AND NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT


Aboriginal rights in Canada were not ignored, but actually lauded and enshrined in the Constitution, the country’s Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, said today.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

2 May 2008
Spokesperson's Noon Briefing
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NEW SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO FOOD

2 May 2008
Press Conference
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NEW SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO FOOD


Olivier De Schutter, the newly appointed Special Rapporteur on the right to food, called today for the convening of a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the international community’s effort to address the world food crisis.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT

6 May 2008
Spokesperson's Noon Briefing
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT