PRESS BRIEFING ON DEATH OF SECURITY OFFICER

A senior officer of the United Nations Safety and Security Service was found dead this morning in the Organization’s third floor express lounge with a gunshot wound to the head, United Nations Security Chief Michael McCann told correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY OBSERVER FOR PALESTINE

Declaring the attempt by Israel to present a draft resolution on the situation of and assistance to Israeli children to the General Assembly’s Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) unwise, Nasser Al-Kidwa, Observer for Palestine, said that action constituted an attempt to abuse the title “children” to achieve political goals.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ISRAEL

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

“We are walking up the down escalator” in terms of eradicating violence against women, correspondents here told today at a Headquarters press conference.

PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW OF SEA TRIBUNAL

Judge L. Dolliver M. Nelson, President of the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, outlined features of the Tribunal and some of the cases over which it had special jurisdiction.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INVESTOR SUMMIT ON CLIMATE RISK

The financial implications and economic effects of climate change were addressed at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

Only 127 Member States had paid their United Nations regular budget assessments in full as of 31 October, Catherine Bertini, Under-Secretary-General for Management, said at Headquarters this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING ON 2004 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

PRESS BRIEFING ON GLOBAL EFFORT TO ELIMINATE POLIO

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

Human rights defenders, who were in the front line in defending the right to fair trial and due process, were becoming more and more vulnerable, Hina Jilani, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.