Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

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Press Conference

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PERU

30 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PERU

19990630

Family planning programmes have achieved considerable success in Peru, President Alberto Fujimori said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE

25 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE

19990625

Part of the healing process for victims of torture was the end of impunity, which was this year's message for the second observance of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, said the Officer-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Elsa Stamatopoulou.

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF WORKING GROUP ON INFORMATICS ON GLOBAL MEETING OF Y2K COORDINATORS

22 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHAIRMAN OF WORKING GROUP ON INFORMATICS ON GLOBAL MEETING OF Y2K COORDINATORS

19990622

So much emphasis had been placed on the Y2K threat to the financial sector in the past six months and the previous year that adequate attention had not been paid so far to shipping, health and other high-risk sectors, Ahmad Kamal, Chairman of the United Nations Working Group on Informatics, said at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO UN ACTIONS IN RWANDA

18 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO UN ACTIONS IN RWANDA

19990618

The independent inquiry into United Nations actions before and during the 1994 Rwanda genocide hoped to draw conclusions about why the event had occurred, who was responsible, and how lessons learned from it could prevent it from happening again, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CHILD SAFETY ON INTERNET

15 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CHILD SAFETY ON INTERNET

19990615

The use of the Internet for sexual abuse of children and paedophilia was a problem of international proportions touching every social class in all regions of the world, Homayra Sellier, president of Innocence in Danger, said this morning at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

PRESS BRIEFING ON DESERTIFICATION

15 June 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON DESERTIFICATION

19990615

Lena Poulsen, Technical Adviser in the Office to Combat Desertification and Drought of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) briefed correspondents at Headquarters today in preparation for the World Day to Combat Desertification, to be observed on 17 June.