Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

44^th Meeting (PM)

THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXT CONDEMNING HOSTAGE-TAKING;

 

HEARS REPORT BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT

 

Support Expressed for Convention on Enforced Disappearances;

Sixty-first General Assembly

Fifth Committee

20^th Meeting (AM)

Sixty-first General Assembly

Plenary

51^st Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR END TO BLOODSHED IN SRI LANKA

 

This statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION

IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC NEAR SUDAN BORDER

 

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

United Nations Military, Police Deployment Reaches All-time High in October

United Nations peacekeeping deployment reached a historic high at the end of October, with 80,976 military and police personnel and some 15,000 civilians serving in peace operations around the world.

Launch of International

Human Solidarity Day

SPECIAL FUND TO AID WORLD’S POOR IS PROPOSED AT UNITED NATIONS CEREMONY

TO MARK LAUNCHING OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SOLIDARITY DAY

Lech Wałęsa of Poland Suggests Chance for ‘Ordinary Citizens of World’

Women’s Commission

60^th Anniversary

Round Table (PM)

 ‘NO TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN,’ SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL AS WOMEN’S COMMISSION MARKS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY

 

Sixty-first General Assembly

Second Committee

27^th & 28^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE PASSES DRAFT RESOLUTION CALLING ON ISRAEL NOT TO EXPLOIT,

DAMAGE OR DEPLETE NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS

 

UNITED NATIONS CONDEMNS INDISCRIMINATE USE OF FORCE IN SRI LANKA

NEW YORK, 9 November 2006 (OCHA) -- “Yesterday’s massive attack on civilians shows that force continues to be used indiscriminately in the conflict in Sri Lanka,” said Jan Egeland, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.