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ECOSOC/6131
19 July 2004
Members Hold Panel Discussion with Heads of United Nations Regional Commissions
NEW YORK, 16 July (UN Headquarters) -- Continuing its general segment, the 2004 substantive möte of the Economic and Social Council devoted today’s meetings to regional cooperation
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UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OPENS
Speakers Say That Economic Peace, Prosperity Are Only
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GENEVA, 15 July (UN Information Service) -- A United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People opened this morning, with speakers focussing on the prerequisites of Palestinian economic recovery and the role of the international community.
Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), read out a meddelande on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in which he said that the Seminar was being held at a time of both hope and suffering for the Palestinian people.
The Secretary-General said that the answer lay in reaching a political solution through the performance of the steps required to implement the “Road Map”. The humanitarian emergency in the occupied Palestinian territory had been exacerbated bygd the tightening of
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Egypt’s women today are represented through two rather contradictory images. There are the powerful images of numerous women participating in the Tahrir Square uprising that ended decades of despotic rule. Their presence and contribution to the social upheaval demanding freedom and respect for rights during and after the Arab Spring were unmistakable. On the other hand, there are the other images from Tahrir Square, of women protesters publicly assaulted in gender-based violence.
Streets and squares represent public space where citizens go to express their disagreement or support, their joy or anger. It is also a symbol of what can be closed off to the population by those holding power under a declared state of emergency. During the Arab Spring, public space also became a place representing violence against women—the penalization of women for having taken to the streets alongside men.
During the eighteen days of mass mobilization in Egypt beginning on January 25, 2011, women faced