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UN drastically curtails women's conference for 12,000 people

by Associated Press
| March 2, 2020 12:30 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is drastically curtailing a conference that had been expected to bring up to 12,000 people from its 193 member nations to New York next week for a major women's conference because of the spread of COVID-19 virus.

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