With the annual DPI/NGO Conference, entitled “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”, taking place in Mexico City from 9 to 11 September, Eric Falt, Chair, Department of Public Information Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, stated that it is particularly fitting that the large majority of non-governmental organizations newly accepted today for association -- 43 – were based in Mexico.

22 December 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/657 PI/1871

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

RECORD NUMBER OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ENTER INTO PARTNERSHIP

WITH UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

 

5 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/656 PI/1856

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL DPI/NGO CONFERENCE CLOSES

 

Speakers Emphasize Continuing Relevance of Universal Declaration,

Importance of Speaking Out to Ensure Human Rights Implementation

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

5 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/653 PI/1853

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘ADDRESSING GROSS

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: PREVENTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY’

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

5 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/655 PI/1855

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Wrap-Up Press Conference for Sixty-First Annual DPI/NGO Conference, on theme

‘Reaffirming Human Rights for All:  The Universal Declaration at 60’

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

5 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/654 PI/1854

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS ROUND TABLE ON ‘HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Education and LEARNING as a way of life’

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

4 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/651 PI/1851

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘OVERCOMING DISCRIMINATION

TO REALIZE HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY FOR ALL’

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

4 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/652 PI/1852

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN SECURITY’

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

3 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/649 PI/1849

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

DPI/NGO CONFERENCE HOLDS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘UPHOLDING

 

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS’

 

Reaffirming Indivisibility of All Human Rights Essential in Defending Declaration

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

3 September 2008

Press ReleaseNGO/648/Rev.1* PI/1848/Rev.1*

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

‘Reaffirming Human Rights for all:  the universal declaration at 60’

 

THEME, AS ANNUAL DPI/NGO CONFERENCE OPENS

 

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)