Reproductive and sexual health and rights were essential to womens equality and to the overall development and health of nations, a group of non-governmental organizations told correspondents this afternoon at a Headquarters press conference held to call upon governments to face those issues head on.
A consolidated emergency United Nations appeal for $378 million to help 13.4 million people affected by drought in the Horn of Africa was launched at a Headquarters press briefing today.
US Women Connect began as merely an "idea" -- a way to "connect" women in the United States to one another and to the larger global women's movement following the outcome of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Kit Cosby, the Baha'i United States Office and US Women Connect Board Member, told correspondents today at a Headquarters press conference.
South Africa had come to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly with the goal of building on the achievements of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and to address new challenges -- not to move back on those commitments, that countrys Minister for Public Service and Administration told correspondents this morning at Headquarters.
