1) Philippines: Operation Update • Walter Cotte, Under-Secretary General, Program Services, IFRC, who is just coming back from the Philippines, will be giving an operation update on the situation and on the IFRC response to the disaster. 2) Syria Crisis: Launch of the IFRC revised appeals • Simon Eccleshall, Head, Disaster Crisis and Management, IFRC will give an operation update and details of the revised appeals.
Launch of the Information Economy Report 2013 - The Cloud economy and developing countries (Embargoed 3 December 2013 at 5 p.m. GMT) Mukhisa Kituyi, UNCTAD Secretary-General Anne Miroux, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD Torbjörn Fredriksson, Chief, ICT Analysis Section, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD
Global Launch: Landmine Monitor Report 2013 Ms Kerstin Vignard, Chief of Operations, UNIDIR (Welcome and Introduction) Mr. Mark Hiznay, Senior Researcher, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch and ban policy editor for Landmine Monitor 2013 (Overview of Report Findings) Jeff Abramson, Program Manager, Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, ICBL-CMC and final editor for Landmine Monitor 2013 (Overview of Report Findings) Ms. Kasia Derlicka-Rosenbauer, Director, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) (Closing remarks) Also available for questions: Ms. Kathryn Millett, Norwegian People’s Aid and mine action editor for Landmine Monitor 2013 Loren Persi, ICBL-CMC, victim assistance co-editor for Landmine Monitor 2013
WHO issues new guidance for treating children with severe acute malnutrition. The World Health Organization will release new treatment guidelines for the almost 20 million children under-five worldwide who have severe acute malnutrition. The new guidelines supersede those issued by WHO in 1999.[ ] Francesco Branca, Director, Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO. Nigel Campbell Rollins, Scientist, Department of Mother, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health, WHO.
Embargoed press briefing ahead of the release of UNHCR’s report “The future of Syria: Refugee Children in Crisis”. The report , based on interviews with over 270 Syrian refugee children in Jordan and Lebanon, looks at the challenges they face on a daily basis. Volker Turk, Director of International Protection for the United Nations refugee agency.
HIV/AIDS – 2015 and beyond : Press conference marking World AIDS Day 2013 with Geneva-based organizations · Sascha Moore - Communications & Mobilisation, Groupe SIDA Geneve · Dr Gundo Weller - Coordinator, HIV/AIDS Department, WHO · Philip O’Brien - Vice President, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation · Mariangela Simao - Director, Rights, Gender, Prevention and Community Mobilization Department, UNAIDS
