PRESS BRIEFING ON GLOBAL PEACE GAMES 2001

A Global Peace Games 2001 for Children and Youth was formally launched at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon, with the organizers appealing for wider worldwide observance.

The event, to celebrate the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence (2001-2010), would be marked on 11 September and would feature

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE: WATER FOR AFRICA'S CITIES

PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HABITAT

As 1.2 billion people were without adequate shelter, the objective of the Habitat Agenda remained elusive, Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing today.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY PFIZER

PRESS CONFERENCE BY HASSAN FATHY INSTITUTE

Among the objectives of the Hassan Fathy Institute, a division of the International Construction Institute (ICI), was to mobilize trade union support around the world for the principles of the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in Istanbul in 1996, ICI President

John T. Joyce said this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY MAYOR OF BARCELONA

Cities worldwide were demanding greater political autonomy and financial capacity to reverse the rapid growth of urban poverty, Joan Clos, the Mayor of Barcelona, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference, on the eve of the General Assembly's Special Session on human settlements development.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON LAUNCH OF MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT

A press conference was held at Headquarters today on the occasion of the launch of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which was hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).  Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the event with a brief introductory statement.

PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ADEQUATE HOUSING

The draft declaration to be adopted by the General Assembly special session this week was a regression from the achievements made at the 1996 Habitat II in Istanbul, Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, said at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon.

HEADQUARTERS PRESS CONFERENCE BY INTERNATIONAL ROMANI UNION

At a historic meeting with Secretary-General of the United Nations

Kofi Annan, this morning, the International Romani Union had asked for a representation of the Roma Nation, which did not want to become a State, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS