PRESS BRIEFING ON WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

 

The nature of international migration was changing, with growing numbers of women migrating on their own rather than as family members as in the past, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

Press BRIEFING ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations was not engaged in war -– it was engaged in trying to create peace, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.  The role of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) was to create security and defend civilians.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

The month of March would be a lively month for the Security Council, as it would be meeting practically every day, the current Council President, Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg (Brazil) told correspondents this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCEON WOMEN’S RIGHTS BY EQUALITY NOW

 

With profound concern, Equality Now was marking the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which found discriminatory laws still in force around the world, actress Meryl Streep, a member of the women’s rights group, said this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the United Nations.

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.