OCHA 20th Anniversary & Row6.com Launch to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, Dec. 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to celebrate OCHA's 20th Anniversary and the launch of Row6.

In honor of the occasion Baroness Amos, UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Actresses Angela Bassett and Lynn Collins alongside Supermodel Yogi Cameron and philanthropist Topaz Green will officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET

Contact:

Dana Supnick

(646) 580-1494

(917) 575-8095

dana@lz-mg.com

Jeanette Zinno

(646) 580.3634

jeanette@lz-mg.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Close, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market close of your choice.

About OCHA's 20th Anniversary

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) French: Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires, is a United Nations body formed in December 1991 by General Assembly Resolution 46/182. The resolution was designed to strengthen the UN's response to complex emergencies and natural disasters by creating the Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA), and replacing the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator, which had been formed in 1972. In 1998, due to reorganization, DHA merged into the OCHA and was designed to be the UN focal point on major disasters.

Its mandate was also expanded to include the coordination of humanitarian response, policy development and humanitarian advocacy. It is a sitting observer of the United Nations Development Group.

OCHA is therefore an inter-agency body, serving UN agencies and NGOs in the humanitarian domain. Its main product is the Consolidated Appeals Process, an advocacy and planning tool to deliver humanitarian assistance together in a given emergency.

About Row6:

Row6 is a place where people from around the world can express their true selves, connect and share on a deeper level by giving and receiving a helping hand.

 

A site where you leave your social packaging at the door. Set aside race, color, creed, age, religion and sexual orientation and physicality. The British novelist E M Forster famously said 'only connect'. He was right. While misunderstanding and strife dominate our world and its politics, there is an urgent need for understanding and connection - on a human level, as one human race.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,500 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX first North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). 

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