The renowned Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, who has been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), was introduced to correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.
The United Nations needed a sound and predictable financial basis to carry out the many mandates given to it by the just-ended fifty-third session of the General Assembly, Ernst Sucharipa, Permanent Representative of Austria, said at a Headquarters press conference this morning.
There could not be human rights without women's rights, correspondents were told this afternoon in a press conference on the 1998 Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights to demand greater attention and resources to protect and promote women's human rights.
The Office of the Human Rights Commissioner needed more resources to support human rights mechanisms and treaty bodies and to be a catalyst for human rights initiatives, the High Commissioner, Mary Robinson, said at a Headquarters' press briefing this morning.
United Nations Human Rights Defenders Award winner Angelina Acheng Atyam of Uganda appealed this morning to the international press to expose the abduction and enslavement of Ugandan children by local rebel groups.
The Government of Mongolia was optimistic that Member States, including the five-nuclear-weapon States, would cooperate in strengthening its international security environment, thereby rendering its quest for nuclear-weapon-free status stronger and more credible, the Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations told a Headquarters press conference on Monday afternoon.
The General Assembly's Sixth Committee (Legal) completed its work for the fifty-third session yesterday afternoon, approving 12 resolutions and two decisions, all without a vote, Jargalsaikhany Enkhsaikhan (Mongolia), Chairman of the Committee said at a Headquarters press conference today.
