WORKING GROUP ON ARBITRARY DETENTION TO MEET IN GENEVA

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 21 May (UN Information Service) –- The United Nations Working Group on arbitrary detention will hold its thirty-ninth session from 24 to 28 May at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES THIRTY-SECOND SESSION

Considered Reports of CzechRepublic, Monaco,

Croatia, Germany, Chile, New Zealand and Bulgaria

(Reissued as received.)

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues                       

Third Session                                              

Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF Spain PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo, the new Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Disarmament workshops address issues of transparEncy,

small arms in ‘Nairobi declaration’ countries

Women in Front Line in Quest for Sustainable Development

New Book, Women and the Environment, Calls for Greater

Recognition of Women’s Role in Conservation, Poverty Eradication

(Reissued as received.)

NEW YORK/NAIROBI, 20 May (UNEP) -- Women are the world's great unsung conservationists, often outpacing men in their knowledge and nurturing of domestic and wild plants and animals.

United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

 

Concludes Thirteenth Session in Vienna

WITH RETURN OF PEACE, TIME HAD COMEFORMANORIVER UNION COUNTRIES

TO ACCELERATE DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONAKRY SUMMIT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Summit of Heads of State of the Mano River Union, delivered today in Conakry, Guinea, by Daudi Ngelautwa Mwakawago, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone and Chief of Mission: