Background Release

SECOND SESSION OF COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS

 

OF MIGRANTS TO MEET IN GENEVA FROM 25 TO 29 APRIL

Committee to Discuss Methods of Work, Adopt Provisional

Guidelines for Submission of States Parties’ Initial Reports

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Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

 

THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION FROM 25 APRIL TO 13 MAY 2005

Reports of Zambia, China, Serbia and Montenegro, Norway to be Considered

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Fifty-Ninth General Assembly

Plenary

93^rd Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY AUTHORIZES BUDGET OF $595.5 MILLION FOR INITIAL

ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN SUDAN

Adopting Resolution Without a Vote, Assembly

Expresses Concern Over Financial Situation Regarding Peacekeeping

Commission on Sustainable Development

Thirteenth Session

15^th & 16^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SOLVING GLOBAL WATER CRISIS ‘MORAL IMPERATIVE’, ACCESS TO WATER HUMAN

RIGHT, MIKHAIL GORBACHEV TELLS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

On Second Day of Commission’s High-Level Segment,

Focus Remains on Turning Past Political Commitments into Action

arab regional disarmament symposium agrees that no state on its own

 

can fight problem of small arms, light weapons

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25,000 DISPLACED PERSONS AT RISK, AS MILITARY EFFORTS TO DISARM MILITIAS

IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BLOCK HUMANITARIAN ACCESS

FROM COWS TO KILOWATTS, BERRIES INTO BUSINESSES -- WINNERS OF FIRST SEED AWARDS ANNOUNCED

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NAIROBI/NEW YORK, 20 April (UNEP) -- An environmentally-friendly way of growing rice and a project to cultivate a highly versatile berry found at the roof of the world are among the winners of a new sustainable development award.

UN STANDARDS, NORMS PROVIDE STATES WITH VALUABLE GUIDELINES,

BEST PRACTICES, CRIME CONGRESS COMMITTEE 1 TOLD

 

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BANGKOK, 20 April -- There was clear agreement in Committee I of the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on the importance of continued work on United Nations standards and norms, the Chairman noted at the conclusion of today’s discussion.

UN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION BECOMING GLOBAL STANDARD FOR STRONG

ANTI-CORRUPTION REGIME, CRIME CONGRESS COMMITTEE II TOLD

Convention Expected to Enter into Force by End of 2005

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11TH UN CONGRESS ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

 

TO DISCUSS CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

 

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