UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS WARNS OF SUDAN DISASTER;

600,000 PEOPLE AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF STARVATION

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PREPARATORY COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT HOLDS

SEVENTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS 26 FEBRUARY - 9 MARCH

The Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court begins its two-week seventh session at United Nations Headquarters on Monday, 26 February to continue work on rules and practical arrangements for the effective operation of the future Court.

Commission for Social Development

Thirty-ninth Session

11^th Meeting (AM)

COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROVES RESOLUTION

ON VOLUNTEERING AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly

Resolution 51/210

21^st Meeting (PM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM CONCLUDES TWO-WEEK HEADQUARTERS SESSION;

CONTINUES CONSIDERATION OF DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION

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PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING TO MEET

AT HEADQUARTERS, 26 FEBRUARY - 2 MARCH

The Commission for Social Development, acting as the Preparatory Committee for the Second World Assembly on Ageing, will hold its first substantive session from 26 February to 2 March at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The convening of the Second World Assembly, which will be held from 8 to

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT WELCOMES

POPE JOHN PAUL II PRAYERS FOR END TO CHILD SOLDIERING

NEW YORK, 22 February (Office of the Special Representative) –- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu has welcomed an announcement by Pope John Paul II that he is devoting the month of February to prayers for an end to the exploitation of children in armed conflict.

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INTRODUCES LOGO

FOR WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

GENEVA, 23 February (UN Information Service) -- Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary-General of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, today introduced the official logo of the World Conference, which will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 7 September.

Commission for Social Development

Thirty-ninth Session

12^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CONCLUDES THIRTY-NINTH SESSION

Commission for Social Development

Thirty-ninth Session

10^th Meeting (AM)

DRAFT RESOLUTION ON VOLUNTEERING INTRODUCED IN COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The Commission for Social Development met this morning to hear the introduction of a draft resolution on “Volunteering and social development”.

Fifty-fifth General Assembly

Plenary

92^nd Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON TITLE AND ARRANGEMENTS

FOR JUNE 2001 SPECIAL SESSION ON HIV/AIDS

At a brief meeting this afternoon the General Assembly decided that its forthcoming June special session would be referred to as the "special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS".