Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues                       

Third Session                                              

PAcific Seminar on Decolonization Concludes with Recommendations for increased

cooperation with UN system, public awareness campaigns on Self-Determination

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

Secretary-General ‘STRONGLY CONDEMNS’ KILLING OF PALESTINIAN

DEMONSTRATORS IN SOUTHERN GAZA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Security Council                                           

Security Council                                           

Committee on NGOs                                          

 

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON OCCUPIED TERRITORIES “HORRIFIED” AT ISRAELI ACTION IN GAZA

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 19 May (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, John Dugard, today made the following statement:

PERMANENT FORUM SPEAKERS STRESS NEED TO ENSURE ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE FOR INDIGENOUS

PEOPLES, INCORPORATE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE INTO HEALTH SYSTEMS

Asking what good would come of achieving respect for indigenous peoples’ human rights without ensuring that indigenous communities were healthy enough to enjoy those rights, the Permanent Forum’s focal point on health this morning suggested health be considered the first priority of the body’s work.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly