Press Conference by the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA)
Briefing on the situation in West Africa, including in Mali. While in Geneva on the occasion of the eighteenth session of the Follow-up Committee, tasked with monitoring the implementation of the Greentree Agreement relating to the Bakassi Peninsula, Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for West Africa will brief the media on the situation in West Africa, including the situation in Mali.
Geneva International Discussions - 19th round: Press Conference by the Co-Chairs
Geneva International Discussions - 19th round: Press Conference by the Co-Chairs Philippe Lefort, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia Antti Turunen, United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions and the Joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism Pádraig Murphy, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus
Launch of the UNECE/FAO North American Forest Sector Outlook Study 2006-2030 Jeff Prestemon, Research Forester, US Forest Service, and main author David Ellul, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECE/FAO Forestry & Timber Section
Press briefing with Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, President of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the conclusion of the 19th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council
World TB Day briefing. Tuberculosis (TB) often goes undiagnosed in children because they lack access to health services - or because the health workers who care for them are unprepared to recognize the signs and symptoms of TB in this age group. On the occasion of the release of No more crying, no more dying: towards zero TB deaths in children, World Health Organization ( WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership will speak to the urgent need to confront this hidden epidemic and new approaches to addressing it. Dr Malgosia Grzemska, Coordinator, WHO Stop TB Department Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, Team Leader for Communications and Spokesperson, Stop TB Partnership
Launch of global campaign: End immigration detention of children and release of new report "Captured Childhood" Jeroen Van Hove, Coordinator for the Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children Pia Oberoi, Migration Advisor, UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Report: Situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire; Country visits; Discussion of his vision of the mandate on Côte d’Ivoire and future work. Mr. Doudou Diène, Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire
Launch of "Disaster Risk Reduction: Spending where it should count" which examines the inadequacy of funding for disaster risk reduction in international aid. Copies of the report will be available for the press. Margareta Wahlstrom, UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction Jan Kellett, Programme Leader, Development Initiatives
