DAILY LIFE FOR MAJORITY OF WORLD’S WOMEN REMAINS DIFFICULT STRUGGLE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on International Women’s Day, which is observed 8 March:

Commission for Social Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 Second World Assembly on Ageing

1^st Meeting (AM)

Meeting of States Parties for

Convention on Rights of Child

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

STATES PARTIES TO 1989 CONVENTION ON RIGHTS OF CHILD ELECT

FIVE MEMBERS TO CONVENTION'S MONITORING BODY

Also Elect Chairperson, Three Vice-Chairs for Eighth Meeting

OUTER SPACE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE

CONCLUDES THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION IN VIENNA

Discusses Implementation of UNISPACE III Recommendations,

Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Earth and Space Debris

Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

93^rd Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES LIST OF CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPANTS

FOR JUNE HIV/AIDS SPECIAL SESSION

The General Assembly this afternoon approved a list of 112 civil society organizations seeking accreditation to its special session on HIV/AIDS and to its preparatory process.

Preparatory Committee for the

High-level International

 Intergovernmental Event on

 Financing for Development

5^th Meeting (PM)

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR DEVELOPMENT FINANCING EVENT CONCLUDES SESSION;

FINAL PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR ‘ISTANBUL +5’ CONCLUDES IN NAIROBI;

APPROVES DRAFT DECLARATION, DRAFT REPORT, ACCREDITATION PROCEDURES

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES ON DEATH

OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN CRICKET PLAYER

Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Australian cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman:

                                                            DSG/SM/122

Commission for Social Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 Second World Assembly on Ageing

2^nd Meeting (PM)

IN WAKE OF GREAT ADVANCES IN PROLONGING LIFE, RESPECT FOR LIFE HAS BEEN LOST,

PREPARATORY MEETING FOR SECOND AGEING ASSEMBLY TOLD