INSARAG (International Search and Rescue Advisory Group): Haiti, lessons learned (INSARAG is a global network of more than 80 countries and disaster response organisations under the UN umbrella. INSARAG deals with urban search and rescue (USAR) related issues.) Ambassador Toni Frisch, Chairman, INSARAG Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, Director of Civil Protection, Government of Haiti Rudolf Müller, Chief, Emergency Services Branch, OCHA Geneva Timothy Callaghan, Chairman, INSARAG Americas
Subject / Sujet : Global study on secret detention linked to counter-terrorism Speakers / Orateurs : Martin Scheinin -- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; Manfred Nowak -- the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Subject / Sujet : Press conference on the Human Rights Council Panel of Trafficking Survivors “Giving Voice to the Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking” Conférence de presse relative au panel du Conseil des droits de l'homme dédié aux victimes de la traite des personnes, "La parole aux victimes et aux survivants de la traite des personnes" Speakers / Orateurs : n Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, UN Human Rights Deputy High Commissioner / Mme Kyung-wha Kang, Haut-Commissaire ajoint de l'ONU aux droits de l'homme n Ms. Charlotte AWINO, who was 14 when she was abducted in 1996 from her boarding school in Uganda by the Lord’s Resistance Army and held as a sex slave for 8 years / Mlle Charlotte AWINO, enlevée dans son école en Ouganda en 1996, à l'âge de 14 ans, par l'Armée de résistance du Seigneur, a été retenue pendant 8 ans comme esclave sexuelle n Mr. Kumar RAMJALI, who was recruited in Nepal in 2004 by a Jordanian company to work overseas / M. Kumar RAMJALI a été recruté en 2004 au Népal, par une compagnie jordanienne, pour travailler à l'étranger n Ms. Kikka CERPA, who went the U.S. from Venezuela in 1992. A man she thought of as a boyfriend convinced her to follow him to New York / Mlle Kikka CERPA a quitté le Vénézuela en 1992 pour se rendre aux Etats-Unis. Un homme qu'elle considérait comme son petit ami l'avait en effet convaincue de le suivre à New York n Ms. Jana KOHUT, who was born in Bosnia, lived in Croatia, and was trafficked for sexual exploitation in neighboring Slovenia / Mlle Jana KOHUT, originaire de Bosnie, vivait en Croatie lorsqu'elle a été victime de la traite des personnes et transférée en Slovénie voisine à des fins d'exploitation sexuelle
Launch of WHO/IARC’s GLOBOCAN 2008: the reference open-access cancer resource for the global scientist and the media. Dr. David Forman, Head, Cancer Information Section, IARC Dr. Freddy Bray, Scientist, Cancer Information Section, IARC Mr. Jacques Ferlay, Scientist, Cancer Information Section, IARC
99th ILO International Labour Conference Agenda (2-18 June) Kari Tapiola, Executive Director, Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Sector
Responding to Society's needs for Climate Services: Briefing on the process of the Global Framework for Climate Services Jan Egeland of Norway and Mahmoud Abu-Zeid of Egypt, Co-chairs of the High Level Task Force Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of WMO (TBC) at the end of the second meeting of the High level Task Force (24-26 May).
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, Chair of the international Health Regulations (IHR) Review Committee will brief the press following the report of the first meeting of the IHR Review Committee to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly.
Presentation of the 2010 Technology and Innovation Report (embargoed 19/05/2010 at 5 p.m. GMT) - Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD - Anne Miroux, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD - Mongi Hamdi, Head of Science, Technology and ICT Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD