EXPERTON HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA ENDS VISIT TO JAPAN

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GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Vitit Muntarbhorn, issued the following statement in Tokyo on 3 March at the end of his visit to Japan which started on 24 February:

United Nations INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE

 

TO BE HELD AT PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA 8 - 9 MARCH

 

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GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene a United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 8 and 9 March 2005 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. 

Commission on Sustainable Development

Preparatory Meeting

10^th & 11^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Round-Up

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PREPARATORY MEETING CONCLUDES WEEK-LONG SESSION;

WILL FORWARD POLICY OPTIONS ON WATER, SANITATION, HOUSING TO COMMISSION

Proposed Measures Will Be

Focus of Commission Meeting in April

UNIDO, SANDOZ SPONSOR GLOBAL PARTNERS SYMPOSIUM AGAINST DISEASE, POVERTY

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VIENNA, 4 March (UNIDO) -- Some 80 participants and experts from all over the world and from several international organizations attended the Global Partners Symposium organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in cooperation with Sandoz.

Commission on the Status of Women

Forty-ninth Session

7^th & 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)

GENDER DISCRIMINATION’S DISASTROUS EFFECTS STARKLY ILLUSTRATED

BY HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC, WOMEN’S COMMISSION TOLD

Two Panel Discussions Explore Connections

Among Beijing Platform, Women’s Convention, Global Anti-Poverty Goals

UN Counter-Drugs Chief Calls on Private Sector

 

To Rebuild Regions Gutted by Drugs and Crime

 

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Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in London early in the morning of Tuesday, 1 March, where he addressed the London Conference in Support of the Palestinian Authority, convened by United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair.

UNODC, UNIDO JOIN FORCES TO FIGHT DRUG TRAFFICKING, IMPROVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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Note to Correspondents

HUMAN RIGHTS EXHIBITION OPENS AT HEADQUARTERS ON 4 MARCH

 

Note to Correspondents

‘EMPOWER WOMEN’ EXHIBITION TO OPEN AT UN HEADQUARTERS ON 4 MARCH

As the United Nations commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the First United Nations World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, the exhibition entitled “Empower Women:  30 Years of the United Nations Efforts to Promote Gender Equality” will open in the General Assembly Visitors’ Lobby on Friday, 4 March.