United Nations – Selected Meetings Coverage and Press Releases [to 19 April 2014]

United Nations – Selected Meetings Coverage and Press Releases [to 19 April 2014]
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Meetings
Assistant Secretary-General Stresses Need to Uphold Human Rights Standards in Security Council Briefing on Ukraine Visits (16 April 2014)
Protest-related human rights violations in Ukraine must be urgently investigated and verified, and security forces must maintain public order in accordance with human rights standards, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović told the Security Council today.
SC/11358

Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2150 (2014), Security Council Calls for Recommitment to Fight against Genocide (16 April 2014)
Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, the Security Council condemned without reservation any denial of the genocide and urged member States to develop educational programmes to help prevent similar events.
SC/11356

Speakers Call for Practical Ways to Implement International Monetary Reform As Economic and Social Council Event with Bretton Woods Entities Concludes (15 April 2014)
Representatives from world financial institutions, the global private sectors and civil society took up the question of practical implementation of international monetary reform today, as the Economic and Social Council concluded its two-day special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
ECOSOC/6609

Illicit Financial Flows Reinforce Corruption, Deplete National Revenues, Warns Deputy Secretary-General during Meeting with Bretton Woods Entities (14 April 2014)
ECOSOC/6607

Press Releases
Secretary-General Says, in Message for World Malaria Day, that Disease Still Kills More than Half a Million People Annually (17 April 2014)
SG/SM/15786-OBV/1327

Human Consumption of Planet’s Resources Unsustainable, Secretary-General Says in Mother Earth Day Message (17 April 2014)
SG/SM/15785-ENV/DEV/1426-OBV/1326

At Genocide Commemoration Event, Secretary-General Pays Tribute to Victims, Praises Remarkable Resolve of Rwanda’s People (16 April 2014)
SG/SM/15782-AFR/2865

Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework Should Be Based on Evidence, Experience, Secretary-General Tells Briefing (16 April 2014)
SG/SM/15781-IHA/1337

Deputy Secretary-General Recalls, in Security Council Meeting, Collective Failure to ‘Recognize and Act’ on Warnings of Rwanda Genocide (16 April 2014)
DSG/SM/768-SC/11357-AFR/2863

Addressing Global Partnership Forum, Secretary-General Calls for Resolute Commitment to World’s Poorest People (15 April 2014)
SG/SM/15779-DEV/3081

Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Must Aim for ‘Transformative Change’, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Economic and Social Council Event (14 April 2014)
DSG/SM/767-ECOSOC/6608

Security Council Press Statement on Terrorist Attacks in Nigeria (14 April 2014)
SC/11352-AFR/2861

Secretary-General Welcomes Findings of Climate Change Panel, Urges All Countries to Reach Global Agreement in 2015 (14 April 2014)
SG/SM/15776-ENV/DEV/1425