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- Commission for Social Development, forty-fifth session
New York,
7 - 16 February 2007
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-seventh session
New York, 15 January - 2 February 2007
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, 44th session
Geneva,
15 January - 2 February 2007
- Fifty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women
New York 26 February - 9 March 2007
- Committee against Torture, Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 38th session
Geneva, 7-26 May 2007
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On Migrants Day, UN calls on States to ratify treaty protecting their rights
18 December 2006 – The United Nations today marked International Migrant’s Day with fervent appeals for the vast majority of States who have not yet done so to adhere to the treaty that seeks to protect the rights of the estimated 195 million people around the world who have left their homelands in search of better lives.
UN forum on Palestinian rights adopts declaration urging new system to protect civilians
17 December 2006 – A United Nations forum on Palestinian rights meeting in Malaysia has adopted a Declaration decrying recent deaths in the Middle East and calling for a new system to protect civilians there.
Marking human solidarity day, UN officials stress collective responsibility to help poor
15 December 2006 – The world has a collective responsibility to alleviate the plight of the poorest people, and to promote economic development and break the cycle that traps so many people in poverty by devising more innovative solutions, United Nations officials said today as they observed the first International Human Solidarity Day.
Lebanon: UN peacekeeping force tops 11,000
15 December 2006 – The enhanced United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Lebanon this summer to monitor the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hizbollah now totals surpasses 11,000 troops from 23 countries, less than 4,000 below its mandated maximum strength.
UN development agency aims to sharpen focus on global goals, increase transparency
15 December 2006 – The United Nations development agency is working towards bringing more focus to its efforts to reach global development goals, respond better to emergencies – based partly on lessons learned from the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – and raise its transparency level up to wider UN standards, a senior official said today.
Survivors of deadly Philippine typhoons need $46 million in aid – UN appeal
15 December 2006 – The United Nations today appealed for $46 million to meet urgent relief and early recovery needs over the next 12 months for the most vulnerable people in the Philippines among the millions affected by the four deadly typhoons that have hit the country since September, causing massive destruction through landslides and widespread flooding.
2006 on track to be 6th warmest year on record, UN meteorological agency reports
15 December 2006 – The year 2006 is currently estimated to be the sixth warmest on record with prolonged drought in some regions, heavy rainfall and flooding in others and deadly typhoons in south-east Asia, according to the latest update by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature is currently estimated to be 0.42 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14C (57.2 degrees fahrenheit), according to records maintained by WMO members.
Globalization threatens farm animal gene pool and future food security, UN warns
15 December 2006 – Around 20 per cent of domestic animal breeds are at risk of extinction, with a breed lost each month, due to a globalization of livestock markets that favours high-output breeds over a multiple gene pool that could be vital for future food security, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.
Annan’s legacy as Secretary-General hailed by UN Assembly as successor is sworn in
14 December 2006 – Standing and applauding, the 192-member United Nations General Assembly today paid a thunderous and prolonged tribute to Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the end of his 10-year tenure before swearing in his successor Ban Ki-moon, who takes over as the world’s top diplomat on 1 January.
International Criminal Court prosecutor says first Darfur cases are almost ready
14 December 2006 – The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the Security Council today that he is almost ready to bring cases about some of the worst war crimes committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur during the past three years.
Special days
International Human Solidarity Day (20 December)
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation (19 December) International Migrants Day (18 December)
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