PRESS CONFERENCE

Monthly press briefing by First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy.

Briefing by Dr. César Núñez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, on World AIDS Day, 1 December on the theme: End Inequalities. End AIDS. End pandemics.

Press Conference by Kalliopi Mingeirou, Chief of the Ending Violence Against Women section, UN Women, along with Papa Seck, Chief of the Research and Data section, UN Women on a new report entitled "Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19".

Virtual press briefing by UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, on his recent official visit to the United States.

Briefing by Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN Cho Huy, Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance Catherine Pollard, and Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support Atul Khare, on the 2021 Seoul UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting to be held from the 7th to the 8th of December.

UN Women Executive Director Sima Sami Bahous, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner, and Ambassador of the European Union delegation to the United Nations Olof Skoog, brief reporters on the launch the Spotlight Initiative's impact report for 2020-2021, 'Rising to the challenge'.

Briefing on the launch of the School Meals Coalition by Jukka Salovaara, Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations, along with Olivier Richard, Head of the Sustainable Development Unit at the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations.

Briefing by Police Adviser and Director of the UN Police Division Luís Carrilho, along with Police Commissioner of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) Mody Berethe, and Police Commissioner of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) Violet Lusala, on the UN Police Week events.

Danilo Türk, president of Club de Madrid and former President of Slovenia, and Yves Leterme, member of Club de Madrid and former Prime Minister of Belgium, brief the press on Club de Madrid’s latest activities and its contributions to the Secretary-General’s Report, “Our Common Agenda”.

Press Conference by Nicholas Koumjian, Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, on the current situation in Myanmar.