At a Headquarters press briefing today, representatives from the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies demonstrated the use of a computer language -- known as the Universal Networking Language (UNL) -- for multilingual communication on the Internet.
The Chief of the Emergency Liaison Branch of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Kevin Kennedy briefed correspondents at Headquarters this afternoon on his mission to Angola to assess humanitarian needs. He was joined by the Deputy Director of the Emergency Response Division of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Frank O'Donnell.
Even as the global environmental crisis was deepening, people were taking more notice and wanted more "hands-on" involvement, Ian Kiernan, the winner of the 1998 Sasakawa Environment Prize, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
The President of the Friends of the United Nations, Noel Brown, briefed correspondents at Headquarters Monday, to mark the International Day Of Tolerance and honour the recipients of the first Global Tolerance Award.
"Anyone on the ground will tell you this is the worst natural disaster to hit Central America in two centuries", a spokesman for the World Food Programme (WFP), Abby Spring, said during a Headquarters briefing upon her return from a week-long mission to Nicaragua in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.
