WMO provisional statement on the status of the global climate in 2015, and release of five-year report on the climate from 2011-2015
Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General Omar Baddour, Report coordinator
UNAIDS to release new report to get countries on the Fast-Track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Ahead of World AIDS Day 2015, UNAIDS is launching a new report detailing how countries can reach the 22 million people still being left behind in the response to HIV. In 2015, record numbers of people had access to antiretroviral therapy and the numbers of people newly infected and dying of AIDS-related illnesses have reduced since the peak of the epidemic. However, 22 million people still do not have access to treatment, most of whom do not know they have the virus. The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, will release Focus on location and population: on the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030 on Tuesday, 24 November, at the United Nations in Geneva. The report gives more than 50 examples of communities, cities and countries that are using innovative approaches to reach more people with life-changing HIV services and end their epidemics. The report outlines what needs to be done to end AIDS as part of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, including a five-year Fast-Track approach to put countries on track to achieve their goals. Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS
The Least Developed Countries Report 2015 : Transforming Rural Economies
(Under embargo until 5.00 a.m. GMT, on Wednesday, 25 November 2015) Mukhisa Kituyi, UNCTAD Secretary-General Taffere Tesfachew, Director, Division on Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes, UNCTAD
From COP1 to COP21: Weather-related disasters 1995-2015
Margareta Wahlstrom, Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Debarati Guha-Sapir, Professor, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
From 8 to 10 December 2015, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is bringing together representatives of nearly every Government in the world, Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders, and partner organizations in Geneva for the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, where States parties to the Geneva Conventions and humanitarian partners will undertake joint commitments with the Movement on pressing humanitarian issues.
This year, among the main topics that will be discussed include: migration, sexual and gender based violence, humanitarian financing, climate change, Ebola, and respect for International Humanitarian Law. The Movement’s leaders and technical specialists will also discuss specific contexts such as the humanitarian situation in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan etc., and the recovery in Nepal and the Philippines, etc. Benoit Matsha-Carpentier, Senior Media Officer, IFRC
WHO preparations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-21) in Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015
WHO experts will brief journalists on how climate change impacts health and what actions countries can take to improve public health. They will also present 15 new Climate and Health Country Profiles, which were produced in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCC). Dr Maria Neira, Director, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, WHO Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Scientist and team leader, Climate change, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, WHO
The humanitarian situation in the Sahel, the impact of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, and the situation in and around Mali.
Mr. Toby Lanzer, Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel
Launch of the ILO's “Key Indicators of the Labour Market” (KILM)
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL MONDAY, 16 NOVEMBER at 21:00 GMT (22:00 GENEVA TIME) Rafael Diez de Medina, Director of the ILO’s Department of Statistics Steven Kapsos, Head, Data Production and Analysis Unit at the ILO Department of Statistics