Social issues

25 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4510

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE HEARS INTRODUCTION OF DRAFT TEXT ON OUTCOME OF FIRST SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

19990525 According to Draft, Assembly Would Adopt Global Poverty-reduction Target To Reduce by Half Number Living in Extreme Poverty by 2015

21 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4509

SECURITY AND PEACE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON OUTCOME OF 1995 SOCIAL SUMMIT TOLD

19990521 Committee Takes Up Enabling Environment, Resources And Cooperation for Social Development

20 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4507

STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES SHOULD INCLUDE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GOALS, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

19990520 Preparatory Committee for Special Session on Social Summit Outcome Takes Up Africa and Least Development Countries, Structural Adjustment Programmes

20 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4504/

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT DISCUSSES SUMMIT COMMITMENT ON POVERTY ERADICATION CORRECTION

19990520

On page 6 of Press Release SOC/4504 issued 19 May, the name of the representative of Syria should read:

ALI AL-KHALIL, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

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20 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4506

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT TAKES UP ISSUES OF INTEGRATION, EQUALITY, EDUCATION AND HEALTH

19990520 Poland's Representative Calls for International Instrument to Protect Family; Access to Primary Schooling, Protection of Migrant Workers Discussed

19 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4502/

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT BEGINS PRELIMINARY REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF SUMMIT'S OUTCOME

19990519 CORRECTION

On page 13 of Press Release SOC/4502 issued 18 May, the first paragraph of the speaker from Kazakhstan should read as follows:

19 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4505

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD ADOPT NEW ILO CONVENTION ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOUR, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD

19990519 Preparatory Committee for Special Session On World Social Summit Takes Up Subject of Employment

18 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4503

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT CONTINUES PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF SUMMIT OUTCOME

19990518 Thirty-Four Speakers Address Committee; Stress Need For International Cooperation in Globalization, Social Development

18 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4502

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT BEGINS PRELIMINARY REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF SUMMIT'S OUTCOME

19990518 Twenty-one Speakers Address Issues of External Debt, Global Financial Crisis, Social Policies and Effects of Globalization

17 May 1999

Press Release
SOC/4501

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON WORLD SOCIAL SUMMIT CONDUCTS HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE

19990517 Fourteen State Ministers Address Committee; Efforts To Eradicate Poverty, Promote Economic Growth Focus of Discussion