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PRESS CONFERENCE BY UNFPA GOODWILL AMBASSADOR, GERI HALLIWELL -- 'GINGER SPICE' OF SPICE GIRLS

Newly appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Geri Halliwell (a.k.a. "Ginger Spice" of the Spice Girls) told a United Nations press conference this morning that she had long been known as the "evangelist of women's empowerment". She had always been outspoken and had fought for the underdog, she said.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR OF UNDP SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ELIMINATION UNIT

The deepening economic crisis and poor prospects for world growth were a severe setback for poverty reduction efforts, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, entitled Overcoming Human Poverty, which was released today.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN

Professor Amartya Sen, the Indian philosopher and economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, yesterday (14 October), said at a Headquarters press conference yesterday afternoon that globalization could be a major force for prosperity if adequately backed by good national policy.

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PRESS BRIEFING ON 1998 LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES REPORT

The 1998 Least Developed Countries Report, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), was introduced at a Headquarters press briefing this morning by the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, John Ruggie.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY PROSECUTOR OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was not determined by the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Tribunal's Prosecutor Louise Arbour said at a Headquarters briefing this afternoon.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDP

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND

Mikko Kuustonen, the Finnish singer and songwriter, was introduced this morning by the Deputy Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a briefing announcing his recent appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.

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PRESS BRIEFING BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

The financial state of the United Nations was precarious and that forced it to resort to financial practices that were imprudent, said the Under-Secretary-General for Management, Joseph Connor, during a Headquarters press briefing today.

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PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER OF GREECE

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PRESS BRIEFING ON IMPACT OF AIDS EPIDEMIC ON CHILDREN