Launch of IOM’s World Migration Report, under strict embargo until 27 October 2015, 10 a.m.
“World Migration Report 2015: Migrants and Cities: New Partnerships to Manage Mobility” June J. H. Lee, Editor-in-Chief, WMR 2015 Lorenzo Guadagno, Manager, Migrants in Countries in Crisis Capacity Building Programme, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Briefing on outcomes and recommendations of the meeting of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, held this week.
The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which was established to advise WHO on policies and strategies for immunization, met on 20-22 October 20-22 to review the best available scientific evidence on development and use of vaccines including those for use against Ebola virus, poliovirus and malaria. http://www.who.int/immunization/policy/sage/SAGE_draft_agenda_oct2015.pdf?ua=1 Professor Jon S. Abramson – Chair of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization
Press briefing on the recent cholera outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean and African Regions.
WHO is currently responding to multiple cholera outbreaks and warns that cases could spike if control measures are not intensified. Cholera cases have been reported in Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr Dominique Legros, Cholera focal point, Department for Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO Dr William Augusto Perea Caro, Coordinator, Department for Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO
Launch of most comprehensive report to date on best interventions for reducing health risks from short lived climate pollutants Black carbon, ozone and methane – frequently described as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) - not only produce a strong global warming effect, they contribute significantly to the more than 7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution
Maria Neira, WHO Director, Department of Public, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health Carlos Dora, WHO Coordinator, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health Noah Scovronick, lead author and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Science, Technology and Environment Program (STEP), Princeton University Helena Molin Valdés, Head, Secretariat of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC)
Briefing on the outcomes of the 133rd IPU Assembly.
Adoption of resolution on democracy in the digital era and the threat to privacy and individual freedoms. Questions on other outcomes of the IPU Assembly. Birgitta Jonsdottir- Icelandic MP and co-rapporteur of resolution on Democracy in the digital era - and a former IPU human rights case when US authorities ordered Twitter to turn over all information on her account and personal détails. She was the co-producer of video released by Wikileaks in 2009 showing US soldiers shooting civilians in Baghdad. Jemini Pandya, Spokesperson, IPU
ITU World Radiocommunication Conference, 2-27 November 2015 (preceded by Radiocommunication Assembly, 26-30 October 2015)
François Rancy, Director of ITU Radiocommunication Bureau
Press Conference by the UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson
The United Nations Deputy Secretary‑General, Jan Eliasson, will be in Geneva next Thursday to deliver the keynote address at the Global Consultation Meeting on the World Humanitarian Summit.
The Deputy Secretary‑General will hold a press conference to discuss the World Humanitarian Summit and his just concluded tour of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey.
Launch of the International Trade Centre’s new flagship report ‘SME Competitiveness Outlook: Connect, Compete, Change for Inclusive Growth’.
In this first edition, focus is on the role small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play in facilitating inclusive economic growth. Arancha González – Executive Director of ITC Marion Jansen - Chief Economist of ITC (Author of the report) Axel M. Addy – Minister of Commerce and Industry, Liberia
