Launch of the "Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012". Under embargo until Monday, 21 May at 23:00 GMT. Mr. José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Executive Director of the ILO Employment Sector Mr. Ekkehard Ernst - Chief of ILO Employment Trends
Presentation of the WHO World Health Statistics 2012 World Health Statistics series is WHO's annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States. WHO presents World Health Statistics 2012 as an integral part of its ongoing efforts to provide enhanced access to high-quality data on core measures of population health and national health systems. Speakers: Ties Boerma, Director, Health Statistics and Information Systems, WHO Colin Mathers, Coordinator, Mortality and Burden of Disease, WHO
Press briefing on the World Health Assembly 21-26 May 2012. The Sixty-fifth (65th) session of the World Health Assembly will take place in Geneva during 21–26 May 2012 inclusive. At this session, the World Health Assembly will discuss a number of public health issues such as Millennium Development Goals, noncommunicable diseases, mental disorders, nutrition and many other issues. Dr Andrew Cassels, Director, Strategy. WHO Dr Douglas Bettcher , Director, Free Tobacco Initiative and Director a.i. Chronic Diseases and health promotion, WHO. Dr Zafar Mirza, Coordinator, Public Health, Intellectual property and Innovation, WHO. Dr Chris Maher, Chief, Strategy and Surge Support for Polio Eradication, WHO.
Release of latest UNITAID progress report: Five years of innovation; Innovative financing’s role in global health and medicines access Denis Broun, Executive Director, UNITAID Khalil Elouardighi, Head of Advocacy, Coalition Plus (NGO), former Executive Board member, UNITAID
UNESCAP's Publication - Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2012 - Pursuing Shared Prosperity in an Era of Turbulence and High Commodity Prices (Embargoed until 10 May 2012 at 05:00 a.m. GMT) Alfredo Calcagno, Head, Macroeconomic and Development Policies Branch - Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD
The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for the crisis in Syria, Mr. Kofi Annan, will speak to the press at a stakeout this afternoon at around 5:30 p.m.
Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees Antonio Guterres, UNHCR High Commissioner Manuel Bessler, Vice-Director, Delegate for humanitarian aid and head of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation H.E. Dr. Jamaher Anwary, Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, Afghanistan H.E. Engineer Shaukat Ullah, Minister of States and Frontier Regions, Pakistan H.E. Mr. Seyed Mohammad Reza Sajjadi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On 23 April 2012, the partners of the Measles Initiative will announce the outcomes of a decade-long effort to reduce measles deaths globally, based on new data to be published in next week’s Lancet. The partners will also announce a new global plan to jointly tackle both measles and rubella. Please note that the press conference and the media materials to be distributed there are under embargo until Tuesday 24 April 2012 at 00.01 ( London Time), 1.00 a.m. (Geneva time). Dr Peter Strebel, Group Leader, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and biologicals. WHO, Geneva
Launch of the 2011 Global Overview of Internal Displacement report Speakers: Kate Halff, Head, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) Elisabeth Rasmusson, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
