Reports

GA/SHC/3961 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Third Committee 32nd & 33rd Meetings (AM & PM) Say Civil, Political Rights Remain Focus, Even as Economic Rights Unfulfilled; Human Rights Cause Can Be Sustained in Developing Countries in Anti-Poverty Effort Concluding its three-day general discussion…

GA/SHC/3953 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Third Committee 16th & 17th Meetings (AM & PM) Hears from Some 55 More Speakers, as Three-Day Debate on Promotion, Protection of the Rights of the Child Concludes Capping its three-day discussion on the promotion and protection…

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Republic of South Africa Fredrik Reinfeldt Foreign Minister Government of Sweden Dear Ministerd, The joint European Union-South Africa Summit on September 11, 2009 in Kleinmond brings key western democracies together with a leading democracy in the global…

The Economic and Social Council this morning adopted three resolutions under its Operational Activities Segment, entitled "operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation", and adopted one resolution under its Humanitarian Affairs Segment, entitled "special economic, humanitarian and…

WOM/1723 Commission on the Status of Women Fifty-third Session 9th & 10th Meetings (AM & PM) United Nations Development Fund for Women Says Even in Nations With Quotas, It Will Take More Than 20 years for Women to Catch Up While…

In the run-up to International Women's Day, 8 March, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that the specific health-care needs of women are often ignored or insufficiently taken into account in war situations. "People wounded…

Prepared by GenCap Advisor with support of UN Inter Agency Gender Task Force oPt, January 2009 It is essential in times of humanitarian crises that the differential needs of the entire affected community are taken into account. And that in…

GA/SHC/3922 Culminating its discussion on child rights, in a meeting that fell on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, delegates to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today underlined the links between poverty, child…

SG/SM/10926 Following is the text of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's address to the League of Arab States in Riyadh, today, 28 March: I thank Your Majesty King Abdullah and the people of Saudi Arabia for hosting this gathering, and for…

WOM/1622 Commission on the Status of Women Fifty-first Session 13th Meeting* (PM) Members Adopt Provisional Agenda; Elect Chair, Other Officials of Bureau The Commission on the Status of Women concluded its fifty-first session today by approving four draft resolutions touching on the…