This page is background information, last updated in May 2002 and still available for reference. For the latest on the Special Session on Children, please go to the Special Session index.

NEWS FLASH

Wednesday, 15 May 2002

• The unofficial, unedited outcome document, A World Fit for Children

Friday, 10 May 2002

• Closing remarks to the General Assembly

• Governments 'Say Yes' as agreement is reached on global goals

• Gordon Brown UK Chancellor of the Exchequer on A World Fit for All Children

• Carol Bellamy introduces UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown

• Children Issue Statement To World Leaders at the UN

• UNICEF hails Peru President promise to children

• UNICEF-UNAIDS press conference on HIV/AIDS

• Media advisory on day's events. In Word format

Thursday, 9 May 2002

• Pollution-related diseases kill millions of children a year

• Press conference on child poverty reduction

• Press conference on the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

• Bellamy addresses GA Plenary

• Media advisory of day's events
  or download in Word

Wednesday, 8 May 2002

• Children's Forum Message
  Text of the message read to the General Assembly

• Daily satellite news feed scripts now translated in Arabic, French, and Spanish on-line

• Official statements, web casts

Tuesday, 7 May 2002

• Press conference, Wednesday, 10 a.m., Room 226, UN Secretariat, with two young delegates, Audrey Cheynut, 17, of the Princiapality of Monaco and Gabriela Azurduy Arrieta, 13., Bolivia who addressed the General Assembly

• Carol Bellamy on Children in war (7 May)
• Eliza, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Children in war (7 May)
• Jose, East Timor, on Children in war(7 May)
• Wilmot, Liberia, on Children in war (7 May)

Monday, 6 May

• World leaders descend on New York for the sake of children

Sunday, 5 May 2002

• Media Advisory 95 million pledges go to Mandala, Machel, and Mrs. Annan Tuesday

• Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks to the Children's Forum

• Executive Director Carol Bellamy addresses the Children's Forum