Launch of the annual ILO report on the situation of workers in the Occupied Arab Territories. - Kari Tapiola, Head of the ILO mission - Nada al Nashif, ILO Regional Director for the Arab States
Trade and Development: a Central Issue for Rio +20 Publication of "The Road to Rio+20: For a development-led green economy" - 3rd report in a series Guillermo Valles - UNCTAD - Director - International Trade Division Lucas Assunçao - UNCTAD - Chief, Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch, UNCTAD - International Trade Division
Press briefing under embargo: Launch of the ILO-UNEP Report on green economy entitled "Working towards sustainable development: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy". Mr. Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General Mr. Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director (via video conference from Nairobi)
Press briefing on World No Tobacco Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) selected "tobacco industry interference" as the theme of the 2012 World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Thursday, 31 May. The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health. More information on: http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2012/announcement/en/index.html Douglas Bettcher, Director, Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO Armando Peruga. Programme Manager, Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO
Stakeout by Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Deputy Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for the crisis in Syria, after he briefs the Security Council.
1) World Health Assembly work. 2) Reaching MDGs 4 & 5: making the world accountable for the health of women and children. A background media briefing will be held at 12h00 – 12h25 (CET) to update on MDGs 4 and 5 and related initiatives aimed to strengthen accountability for women’s and children’s health in the poorest countries of the world. • Dr Flavia Bustreo, WHO Assistant Director General Family, Women's and Children's Health • Dr Richard Horton, Chair of the independent Expert Working Group (iERG) • Dr Kisito Daoh, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Sierra Leone.
Global Polio Eradication Initiative Press conference on the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Emergency Action Plan, focusing on the emergency efforts countries and partners are making to complete the eradication of polio.
