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PRESS BRIEFING BY UN POPULATION FUND

The emergency reproductive health kits sent by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to United Nations agencies on the "front lines" of the Kosovo refugee crisis contained more than just emergency contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies, the Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr. Nafis Sadik, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing Thursday afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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PRESS BRIEFING ON EAST TIMOR

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PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF

The immediate health needs and psychological trauma of children were the focus of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at the moment, its Executive Director, Carol Bellamy, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning, following her recent visit with Kosovo refugees in Albania.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON RWANDA TRIBUNAL

The current events in Europe underscored the necessity of having international judicial machinery to hold those in command accountable for what happens on their watch, the Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Agwu Ukiwe Okali, said today during a Headquarters press conference.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON 'ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, 1999'

The economic crisis that had begun in the second half of 1997 in the South-East Asia region had turned out to be deeper and longer-lasting than had been foreseen, Asda Jayanama, Permanent Representative of Thailand, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE

The idea was to start the steps and sow the seeds for the abolition of war, to declare peace a human right and to design a culture of peace, not for a year or a decade, but forever, Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON REVIEW OF CAIRO PROGRAMME OF ACTION

At a Headquarters press conference this afternoon, the Women's Coalition for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) (Cairo, 1994) expressed disappointment that progress in the review process of the Programme of Action adopted in Cairo was being impeded by a few dissenting delegates.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNITED STATES-BASED NGOS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF CAIRO CONFERENCE OUTCOME

The largest-ever generation of young people -- a billion adolescents -- was about to enter the reproductive years, a demographer told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference sponsored by the United States this afternoon. Their behaviour would be very important in determining future population trends.