DPI/NGO BRIEFINGS

BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY 2002

24 January

Topic: Children and HIV/AIDS: Impact on the Girlchild

Location: Conference Room 5

Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon

Speakers:
Fernando Coimbra, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations
Amaya Gillespie, Senior Adviser for HIV/AIDS, Education Section, Programme Division, UNICEF
Mukarabe Makinto, Representative of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts at the United Nations

The briefing is organized in cooperation with the NGO Committee on the Status of Women.

Location: Conference Rooms 5 and 6

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 noon

Speakers:
Steven Rockefeller, Earth Charter Commissioner
Wangari Maathai, Founder, Green Belt Movement in Kenya,
Ambassador Patricia Durrant, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations
Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, UNEP (invited)

The pre-briefing programme (10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) will include remarks by Ajani Benjamin, Season for Nonviolence Moderator, Interfaith Center of New York, a performance entitled "Peacemakers" by the Children's Theatre and presentation of the Ark of Hope by artist Sally Linder

Please note: The renovation of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, the regular location for the DPI/NGO briefings, is expected to be completed by 1 March 2002. Briefings begin at 10:30 a.m. and end at 11:30 a.m. unless otherwise indicated.

Keep in touch. Check the DPI/NGO Section's web site at http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection or call our hotline at 212-963-6847 for information and any changes in our briefing programme.
E-mail address: dpingo@un.org. More information is available at our DPI/NGO Resource Centre, tel.: (212) 963-7233/4 or 963-7078;
fax: (212) 963-2819.

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