Launch of the ILO report: “Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects” Under embargo until Monday, 14 November at 1 p.m. GMT – 2 p.m. Geneva time
Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy Janine Berg, lead author of the report
Press Stakeout by the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria
Press stakeout by Mr. Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, following the meeting of the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force.
The press stakeout will be webcast live on webtv.un.org. (Please note that the live stream may not be accessible on all mobile devices.)
UN/Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) Press Conference
UN / Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP)
Update on the humanitarian work of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus Nestoras Nestoroas, Greek Cypriot Member Gülden Plümer Küçük, Turkish Cypriot Member Paul-Henri Arni, Third Member (United Nations)
Press Conference requested by the Permanent Mission of the U.S.A.
The Eighth Review Conference of The Biological Weapons Convention
Thomas M. Countryman, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security (United States)
Information about the forthcoming seventh Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
COP7 will be held in New Delhi, India from 7-12 November 2016.
Dr Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the Convention Secretariat, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Press stakeoutby the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
The Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria informs you that the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force will convene tomorrow, Thursday 27 October 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The meeting will be followed by a press stakeout in Hall XIV, at 12:45 p.m., with U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and his Special Advisor, Mr. Jan Egeland. The press stakeout will be webcast live on webtv.un.org. (Please note that the live stream may not be accessible on all mobile devices.) The Ceasefire Task Force will also meet later in the afternoon at 3:00 p.m. No media opportunities will be available for this exercise.
WHO will launch its first Global Report on Access to Hepatitis C treatment, which reveals the latest numbers on access to treatment and shows what countries are doing to promote the treatment against Hepatitis C, despite massive challenges of high prices and drug availability.
Dr. Gottfried Hirnschall, Director, HIV/Global Hepatitis Programme, WHO Dr. Suzanne Hill, Director, Essential Medicines and Health Products, WHO Dr. Kadry Elsaeed, Executive Director, National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis, Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt Ms. Raquel Peck, CEO, World Hepatitis Alliance
Zika virus and related neurological complications
WHO and partners will issue the first quarterly update on the progress made so far in funding and implementing the Zika Strategic Response Plan, July 2016 to December 2017. The update is covering three main areas: the evolving public health landscape shaped by Zika virus; examples of the actions WHO and partners have taken to prepare for and respond to Zika and related neurological complications; and the forward-looking research agenda. Dr. Boris Pavlin, Acting Zika Virus Incident Manager, WHO Dr. Nathalie Broutet, Coordination of the WHO Zika Virus Research Agenda, WHO
The World Meteorological Organization releases its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on concentrations of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
Petteri Taalas, WMO Secretary-General Oksana Tarasova, Chief of Atmospheric Environment Research Division
