PRESS BRIEFING ON TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Civil society groups recognized that the primary responsibility for sustainable development rested with national governments, but the international community should deliver on its commitments to help put the world back on track, a representative of the non-governmental organization, SIDS/OASIS, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Barbados. 

NGO PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

As the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development was coming to a close, the real question to all governments was "Whose side are you on?" Remi Parmentier of Greenpeace International told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

Two working groups of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development had not completed their discussions and they would continue tonight, Committee Chairman Emil Salim (Indonesia) told correspondents at Headquarters this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Foreigners being expelled from Sweden, prison deaths in Georgia, and discrimination against the Roma in Hungary were the main concerns raised by the Human Rights Committee at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, as correspondents were briefed on the results of its recent session.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION ON UN NEWS SERVICE

The Interim Head of the Department of Public Information (DPI), Shashi Tharoor, today announced the launch of a United Nations news service that will deliver, via e-mail, breaking stories and reports of other developments from the United Nations system worldwide to subscribers throughout the world.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY NGO ADVOCACY GROUP

Representatives of the Non-Governmental Organization Advocacy Group this afternoon called for the world's governments to ensure that their promises of increased development assistance, announced last month in Monterrey, Mexico, would result in greater emphasis on the socio-economic and environmental needs of people -- and not in even more uncontrollable globalization.

PRESS BRIEFING ON COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

At a Headquarters press briefing this morning correspondents were told about developments in the thirty-fifth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which is taking place all of this week and scheduled for completion on Friday.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

Despite the promises of globalization, about half a billion people in South Asia suffered declines in income during the 1990s, according to a report -- Human Development in South Asia 2001 -- released at Headquarters today.

PRESS BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE