PRESS CONFERENCE BY INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE

The United Nations Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Task Force hoped to be able to contribute to the reconstruction of Afghanistan, Pekka Torjanne, Executive Coordinator of the Task Force, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY DEPUTY EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will be seeking $61 million in extrabudgetary requirements, Carolyn McAskie, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, told correspondents today during the noon briefing at Headquarters.

PRESS BRIEFING BY WORLD BANK

Partnerships between corporations, governments and civil society in developing countries led to more lasting social programmes, and at the same time benefited business, a World Bank official told correspondents at Headquarters this morning.

NGO PRESS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In the months leading up to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would be calling on governments to focus on issues such as corporate accountability, economic terrorism and globalization, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs this afternoon. 

PRESS BRIEFING BY WORLD BANK

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN

At a Headquarters press conference this morning, a panel of women’s rights experts introduced a statement of solidarity with the women of Afghanistan, which will be formally adopted tomorrow by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, at the close of its current session.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Poverty alleviation could not be achieved without affordable clean energy, said Mohammed T. El-Ashry, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon sponsored by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WATER MANAGEMENT

A panel of resource conservation and development experts warned at a Headquarters press conference today that there was little chance of meeting the long-term development goals of the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development without ensuring safe water and sufficient sanitation.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON EVOLVING ROLE OF ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ECOTOURISM

Nature-based tourism was on the rise and so was a recognition of its value as a conservation and development tool, correspondents were told this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference held in connection with today’s launching of the International Year of Ecotourism 2002.