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.

PRESS BRIEFING ON PREPARATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

The outcome of the World Summit for Sustainable Development would be a major statement of purpose rather than a laundry list of small programmes to be implemented, two officials involved in preparations for the Summit stated this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON WORLD MANDALA MONUMENT

The World Mandala Monument to be unveiled at United Nations Headquarters today was a symbol of the United Nations in that, for the first time ever and symbolically speaking, the boundaries between the 188 Member States had been dissolved, the artist Neil Tetkowsky told correspondents this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 

PRESS CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

PRESS BRIEFING BY ACTING SPECIAL ADVISER ON COLOMBIA

The armed actors in Colombia had to stop murdering, kidnapping, displacing and massacring the Colombian people, James LeMoyne, Acting Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Colombia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.