PRESS CONFERENCE

Press Conference on Indigenous Women defending Human Rights

Press Conference by Ambassador Carl Skau, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations, who will brief reporters on the upcoming UN Security Council retreat in Sweden.

Press Conference by Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for the Crimes Committed in Syria, established pursuant to resolution A/RES/71/248, and Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations. This Press Conference comes ahead of the first informal debate on the IIIM.

Press Briefing on indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources Speakers: Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples (Philippines) Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (Mali)

Press briefing by Mr. Panos Moumtzis, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis.

Briefing by Agnès Marcaillou, Director of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS); along with Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, (Germany was the number one donor to the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Mine Action in 2017) and Ambassador Mohammed Hussein Bahr Aluloom, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations (affected state) on the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

Press Briefing by Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of April.

Press Briefing by Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs.

Press conference by Mr. Federico Properzi, Chief Technical Adviser for UN Water, Mr. Henk WJ Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, and Ms. Lani Dolifka, Founder of Clean Water Here, on the World Water Day 2018

Press Briefing by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on the newly released IPU report on Women in parliament in 2017.