Press BRIEFING BY INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD

 

The International Narcotics Control Board was concerned about the growing percentage of opium being processed into heroin within Afghanistan, member Melvin Levitsky said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

Press briefing by UNICEF

 

The United Nations Children's Fund’s two highest ranking officials declared today that rape and the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls was not collateral damage, but a war crime for which perpetrators could be tried under international law, although few ever were.

PRESS BRIEFING ON REVIEW OF 1995 BEIJING WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

Ahead of next week’s 10-year review and appraisal of progress in achieving gender equality since the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women, and the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000”, a panel of senior United Nations women’s rights officials today stressed that violence against women, across-the-board discrimination and lack of education and employment opportunities remained key challenges.

PRESS BRIEFING ON WORLD POPULATION TRENDS

 

Although pressured by distinct trends in fertility, mortality, and the continuing spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the world’s population was expected to increase by 2.6 billion over the next 45 years, from about 6.5 billion today to 9.1 billion by 2050, with almost all growth occurring on the less developed regions, according to the United Nations top population monitoring official.

Press briefing on Hiv/aids and un workplace

 

For the first time in United Nations history, the world body has launched a system-wide staff training programme dealing with one of the most pressing issues of the day -- HIV/AIDS and the workplace.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON UNFPA PROJECT TO TREAT OBSTETRIC FISTULA IN NIGERIA

“Fistula Fortnight”, the largest-ever United Nations-led surgical effort to provide care for women living with obstetric fistula, has opened in Nigeria -- thought to have one of the world’s highest rates of the heartbreaking injury of childbearing -- with nearly 50 women treated by a team of volunteer doctors and fistula experts yesterday.

PRESS BRIEFING ON DARFUR BY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

 

PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT

PRESS CONFERENCE BY ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA

 

With a mid-term assessment of global efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals just months away and with many of the world’s richest countries pledging to help Africa accelerate growth and make lasting gains against poverty, the head of the United Nations Economic Commission for that troubled continent today previewed an upcoming study on the impact of HIV/AIDS on key areas of governance and economic development.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL LOUISE FRECHETTE