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                              

HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS RACE TO DELIVER AID TO DARFUR AS RAINY SEASON APPROACHES

NEW YORK, 19 May (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) –- As the June rainy season approaches in Darfur, United Nations humanitarian agencies and their non-governmental organization (NGO) partners are racing to bring aid to people in need.

International Narcotics Control Board Elects

Professor Hamid Ghodse of Iran as President

(Reissued as received.)

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY CONVENTION

TO MEET AT UN HEADQUARTERS, 24 MAY – 4 JUNE

DESPITE UN’S ACHIEVEMENTS, JOB OF DECOLONIZATION REMAINS INCOMPLETE

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PACIFIC REGIONAL SEMINAR IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S PERSONAL ENVOY TO VISIT DEMOCRATIC

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 18 - 22 MAY

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Sixth Summit of leaders and heads of State of the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States (CENSAD), held in Bamako, Mali, from 15 to 16 May, which was read by Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa: