SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ACCESS TO SANITATION -- ONE OF MOST OVERLOOKED HUMAN NEEDS

 

-– IS CORE ISSUE OF HUMAN DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, ON LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 

STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS ON FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY

OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242 (1967) ADOPTION

 

The following statement was adopted today by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People meeting in New York:

Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

55^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS ‘DECADE OF RECOVERY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’

FOR COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY 1986 CHERNOBYL DISASTER

 

Security Council

5781^st Meeting* (AM & PM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL CREATION OF WORKING GROUP ON CIVILIAN

PROTECTION ‘INEVITABLE NEXT STEP’ TO GIVE PRACTICAL MEANING TO COMMITMENT

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN WORLD DAY MESSAGE, CALLS FOR RENEWED LEADERSHIP AGAINST AIDS;

 

SAYS ‘WITHOUT IT, WE WILL NEVER GET AHEAD OF THE EPIDEMIC’

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World AIDS Day, observed 1 December:

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

49^th & 50^th Meetings (AM & PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE COUNTRY-SPECIFIC TEXTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

DESPITE OPPOSITION LED BY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS ON NEW CHARTER;

 

SAYS ‘HISTORIC STEP’ TOWARDS CLOSER INTEGRATION, COOPERATION

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

305^th Meeting (PM)

UNITED NATIONS ‘READY AND WILLING’ TO HELP BANGLADESH RESPOND TO CYCLONE SIDR,

WITH ASSESSMENT TEAMS, MILLIONS FROM CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND

The following statement was issued Sunday, 18 November, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: