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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STARTS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH INDEPENDENT EXPERTS ON SAFE DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION AND ON EXTREME POVERTY
15 September 2010
Meeting Summaries
Concludes Interactive Debate on Human Rights and International Solidarity and on Dumping of Toxic Waste
The Human Rights Council this afternoon started its clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation and the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty. It also concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international…
10 years 11 months ago
Press Conference by the Independent Expert (Water and Sanitation)
15 September 2010
Press Conference Announcement
Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation Service Delivery Catarina de Albuquerque, Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe water and sanitation
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Press Conference by the Independent Expert (Water and Sanitation)
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10 years 11 months ago
WIPO Press Conference
15 September 2010
Press Conference Announcement
Release of report "World Intellectual Property Indicators 2010" Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General
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WIPO Press Conference
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United Nations Office at Geneva
10 years 11 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
14 September 2010
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Population Fund, the World Intellectual Property, the Global Fund, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the GAVI Alliance and the International Federation of the Red Cross.…
10 years 11 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ADOPTS ANNUAL REPORT AND DISCUSSES HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON DISARMAMENT
14 September 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted its annual report to the General Assembly and discussed the upcoming high-level meeting on disarmament that will take place on 24 September in New York on revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations.
At the beginning of this morning’s meeting, Ambassador Anatole Fabien Marie Nkou of Cameroon, President of the Conference, said that the Conference was now in a position to adopt the 2010 report of the Conference on Disarmament.…
10 years 11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT
14 September 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning opened its agenda item on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, and heard the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict present her report, which was followed by an interactive dialogue in which speakers welcomed the progress made during the last year in the protection of children in armed conflict and the attention accorded by the…
10 years 11 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DEBATE ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY AND ON MERCENARIES
14 September 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive debate with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, and the Chair of the Working Group on mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination.
Gulnara Shahinian, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, said equality and human dignity were the basic values underlying all human rights. There was perhaps no greater…
10 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS REPORT OF ANGOLA
14 September 2010
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today examined the combined second through fourth periodic reports of Angola on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Introducing the report, Maria da Luz do Rosaria Cirilo de Sa Magalhaes, Deputy Minister of Social Assistance of Angola, said Angola had made major progress in terms of social development, notably thanks to the strategic plan aimed at safeguarding children’s issues which was at the top of the national agenda. For example, by decree No 20/07 of 20 April, the Angolan…
10 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD CONSIDERS REPORT OF GUATEMALA (in French only)
14 September 2010
Meeting Summaries
Le Comité des droits de l'enfant a examiné aujourd'hui le rapport périodique du Guatemala sur les mesures prises par ce pays en application de la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant.
Présentant le rapport de son pays, Mme Ruth Del Valle, Présidente de la Commission présidentielle de coordination de la politique de l'exécutif en matière de droits de l'homme (COPREDEH), a rappelé que le Guatemala est essentiellement rural, sa population est jeune et le taux de pauvreté élevé. En dépit de ces conditions, le Guatemala a enregistré des progrès…
10 years 11 months ago
Press Conference by the SRSG for Children & Armed Conflict
14 September 2010
Press Conference Announcement
Special Representative's presentation of her Report to the Human Rights Council and of the newly launched Working Paper "The Rights and Guarantees of Internally Displaced Children in Armed Conflict". Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict
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Press Conference by the SRSG for Children & Armed Conflict
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