HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS TO BRIEF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Note to Correspondents

HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS TO BRIEF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Special Rapporteur and Representatives of the Commission on Human Rights will be in New York to report to the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) from 8 to 12 November.  They will be available to correspondents for interviews.  This is the schedule of their statements to the Committee:

8 November

10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Kamal Hossain                       Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in Afghanistan

Nigel Rodley                        Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel,

inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

John Dugard                         Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in the Palestinian territories occupied

since 1967

3 p.m. - 6 p.m.

(In his absence, the statement by Roberto Garretón, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, will be delivered by Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Director, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York Office.)

Marie-Thérèse Aïssata Kéita-Bocoum  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in Burundi

Gerhart R. Baum                     Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in the Sudan

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9 November

10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Andreas Mavrommatis                 Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in Iraq

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro               Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in Myanmar

José Cutileiro                      Special Representative on the situation of

human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

3 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Abdelfattah Amor                    Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or

belief

Francis Deng                        Representative of the Secretary-General on the

protection of and assistance to internally

displaced persons

Jean Ziegler                        Special Rapporteur on the right to food

12 November

10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Maurice Copithorne                  Special Representative of the Commission on

Human Rights on the situation of human rights

in Iran

Peter Leuprecht                     Special Representative of the Secretary-

General for human rights in Cambodia

Hina Jilani                         Special Representative of the Secretary-

General on Human Rights Defenders

To arrange interviews with the Special Rapporteurs, please contact:  Edoardo Bellando, Development and Human Rights Section, Department of Public Information, tel. (212) 963-8275; E-mail: bellando@un.org.

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