PRESS CONFERENCE

Press Briefing on the upcoming ‘Play it Out’ Concert to beat plastic pollution

Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General of Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN); Elifuraha Laltaika, Executive Director of the Association for law and advocacy for pastoralists (ALAPA) and a law lecturer of Tumaini University Makumira (Arusha, Tanzania); and Mordecai Ogada, Co-author of "The Big Conservation Lie: The Untold Story of Wildlife Conservation in Kenya", speaks at the press briefing by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Conservation and Human Rights.

Jorge Arreaza, Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, briefs press.

Cristiana Pasca-Palmer, UN Assistant Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity; Anne Nuorgam, Chair of the 18th Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Henrietta Marrie, Associate Professor, Office of Indigenous Engagement at Central Queensland University Cairns, Australia, speak at the press conference on the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Maria do Valle Ribeiro, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, briefs press.

Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Mozambique, briefs reporters on the humanitarian situation and ongoing relief efforts since Cyclone Idai.

Secretary-General António Guterres; María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly; and Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, speak at the press briefing to launch the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Statement on the State of the Global Climate 2018 and an update on Extreme Weather in 2019.

Margaret Flowers, politician and activist from the United States; Bahman Azad, Secretary of the United States Peace Council; Kevin Zeese, lawyer and political activist; and Sara Flounders, political writer speak at a press briefing sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations.

Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, brief journalists on their recent visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as guests at the noon briefing.

Samia Melki, Tunisian activist and politician; Hibaaq Osman, Founder of Karama; Sandie Hannah, Programs Officer at Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development; Brigitte Chelebian, Founder of Justice Without Frontiers; Ayat Mneina, Founder of Shabab Libya; and Huda Shafig, Co-founder of Gesr Center for Development, Sudan; brief press on the women, peace and security agenda in the Arab region.