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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
22 July 2016
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration.Syria
Jens Laerke, for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), informed the press that on 21 July, an inter-agency convoy had delivered assistance to 32,000 people in the hard-to-reach town of Qalaat al-Madiq in Hama Governorate. This had been the…
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COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES SIXTY-FOURTH SESSION
22 July 2016
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of the Philippines, Myanmar, France, Albania, Turkey, Uruguay, Mali and Trinidad and Tobago
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded its sixty-fourth session this afternoon, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the Philippines, Myanmar, France, Albania, Turkey, Uruguay, Mali and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Committee’s concluding…
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Near Verbatim transcript of stakeout by UN Senior Adviser Jan Egeland
21 July 2016
Press Conferences
Geneva, 21 July 2016
Jan Egeland (JE).: We have now been working in the Humanitarian Taskforce of the ISSG since mid-February, about five months. When we take stock after this first half year, this year, we see that we [the UN] have now reached 1 million people, in hard to reach areas and in besieged areas. We have reached 400,000 of the 590,000 people inside the besieged areas, at least once in the course of these five months.
We have had 76 air drops to Deir ez-Zor, the air lifts to Qamishly in Hasakah is now working well, there has been 16 airlift operations.
Altogether…
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WMO Press Conference
21 July 2016
Press Conference Announcement
David Carlson, Director, World Climate Research Programme Omar Baddour, WMO Senior Scientist
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WMO Press Conference
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(Alarming) State of the Climate in the first six months of 2016
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5 years ago
Press stakeout by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
21 July 2016
Press Conference Announcement
The press stakeout will be webcast live on webtv.un.org.
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Press stakeout by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
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Mr. Jan Egeland, Senior Advisor to the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, will speak to the press following this morning's meeting of the Humanitarian…
5 years ago
WHO Press Conference
20 July 2016
Press Conference Announcement
Dr. Stefan Wiktor, Team Lead, Global Hepatitis Programme, WHO
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WHO Press Conference
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Hepatitis infection affects 400 million people worldwide – over 10 times the number of people infected with HIV. Globally, about 1.4 million people die each year from hepatitis. What WHO is doing to raise awareness and help countries fight the disease?…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
19 July 2016
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Nigeria
Sarah Crowe, for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that an estimated quarter of a million children in Borno State, north east Nigeria, were facing severe malnourishment and risking…
5 years 1 month ago
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONSIDERS THE REPORTS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
18 July 2016
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fourth to seventh periodic reports of Trinidad and Tobago on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Introducing the report via a video link from Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Webster-Roy, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister (Gender and Child Affairs), said that since the ratification in 1990, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination…
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ILO Press Conference
18 July 2016
Press Conference Announcement
Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy Marva Corley, Senior ILO Economist
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ILO Press Conference
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Launch of ILO report: "Assessment of labour provisions in trade and investment agreements"
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5 years 1 month ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
15 July 2016
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Trade Organization. Syria: Civilians Trapped
Rupert Colville, for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), voiced the alarm about the increasingly desperate situation of at least 200,000 civilians trapped in three towns in Syria where attacking forces had been making…
