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.
Members of the United States Congress held a press conference at Headquarters this afternoon to discuss the significance of a national poll that indicates that a strong majority of women are concerned about United States foreign policy and believe that global problems make it necessary for the country to work closely with other States through institutions like the United Nations.
"Nations and leaders have come to recognize that it is imperative to address the gender dimension in their quest for solutions to a whole range of national problems", correspondents were told this morning, in an extensive background briefing on the upcoming General Assembly special session, at Headquarters 5 to 9 June, that will review global conditions for women.
Several officials from the United Nations Secretariat held a press conference this morning at Headquarters to present a new five-year progress report on the situation of women around the world. The report compiled and analysed data on conditions for women in the areas of health, human rights, politics, work, education and family.
