Two General Assembly special sessions this month, which are aimed at advancing women's rights and promoting social development could serve as the springboard for new global action aimed at improving peoples lives everywhere, according to General Assembly President Theo-Ben Gurirab.
A debate over strategies to create jobs, reduce unemployment and promote workers rights will dominate the resumed negotiations that get under way today in preparation for the United Nations General Assembly special session on the follow- up to the 1995 World Summit for Social Development.
Kensaku Hogen Addresses Wide Range of Issues, Including Internet, Reoriented News Operations, Radio Pilot Project, Information Centres
CORRECTION
In Press Release PI/1243 of 1 May, the statement by the Chairmen of the Committee on Information beginning at the bottom of page 2 should read, as follows:
Concern over the widening gulf between the developed countries and the developing world amid rapid technological advances dominated the discussion this morning in the Committee on Information, as it continued its general debate on the reorientation of the activities of the Department of Public Information.
