INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM OPENS IN RIO DE JANEIRO

 

RIO DE JANEIRO, 12 November –- The second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum opened today in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on the themes of critical Internet resources, access, diversity, openness, security and Internet for development.

Secretary-General, in statement with chile’s president, sounds new climate change

 

warning as he describes vanishing glaciers, melting WESTERN ice shelf

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fifth Committee

17^th Meeting (AM)

BUDGET COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPORT OF UNITED NATIONS JOINT STAFF PENSION BOARD

Financing for Women’s Institute, Construction

At Economic Commission for Africa among Other Issues

Sixty-second General Assembly

Second Committee

Panel Discussion (PM)

THEME OF SOCIAL COHESION INTIMATELY LINKED WITH UNITED NATIONS WORK WORLDWIDE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT

 

UNITED NATIONS, LE MÉMORIAL DE LA SHOAH TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

ON HOLOCAUST AWARENESS, GENOCIDE PREVENTION

 

Sixty-second General Assembly

Third Committee

41^st & 42^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Third Committee Asks Assembly TO designate international year

for human rights learning

Red Cross Cautions against Preferential Treatment

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday, 7 November.

Sixty-second General Assembly

Fourth Committee

20^th Meeting (AM)

FOURTH COMMITTEE MEMBERS SEEK TO REINFORCE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AGENCY

FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES, AS ‘SAFETY NET’ AMID DETERIORATING SITUATION

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN ATTACK

The following Security Council press statement on the 6 November attack in Afghanistan was delivered today by Council President Marty Natalegawa ( Indonesia):