SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION DECISION TO ESTABLISH TARGETS

 

FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY, USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

 

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

AT ONE YEAR, $376 MILLION PROVIDED BY EMERGENCY FUND

 

NEW YORK, 9 March (OCHA) -- In the year since its official launch on 9 March 2006, $376.1 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has been used to provide life-saving humanitarian aid in 40 countries through 361 individual projects. 

Background Release

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO MEET IN NEW YORK, 12-30 MARCH

 

Experts to Review Reports of Madagascar, Chile, Barbados

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

AM Meeting

BOLD, CREATIVE STEPS THE WAY TO GENDER PARITY, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS

UNITED NATIONS MANAGERS IN REMARKS TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Observance of International

Women’s Day

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DESERVES DEADLY SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS AT SPECIAL EVENT TO OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

 

UNITED NATIONS MUST BE AT FOREFRONT OF EFFORTS TO CURB VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY

 

Security Council

5636^th Meeting (AM)

Security Council stresses importance of women’s equal participation,

full involvement in efforts to maintain peace, security

 

Presidential Statement Reaffirms Commitment to Resolution 1325 (2000);

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

PM Meeting

Sixty-first General Assembly

Informal Thematic Debate

Panel Discussion (AM)